The Michael Berry Show is sponsored by the Frisbee. A man by the

name of Walter Morrison and his future wife Lucille had fun tossing a popcorn can lit around after a

Thanksgiving Day dinner in 1937. So much fun that Walter and Lucille

while they just kept tossing stuff around. One day they were tossing a cake pan around on the beach near Los Angeles when they were offered 25 cents for their pan. That got Walter's wheels turning because you could buy a cake pan for five cents and if people on the beach were willing to pay a quarter for it, well, there was a business.

The Morrison's continued this business until World War II when Walter served in the Army Air Force

flying P47s but then later was a prisoner of war. After the war Morrison sat down

and he sketched a design for a new aerodynamics

improved flying disc that he called the Whirlow Way. He named it after a very

famous racehorse at the time. He and business partner Warren

Francioni began producing the first plastic disc in 1948. They changed the name

from Whirlaway to Flying Saucer after reports of a UFO sighting. Let's fast forward to 19... to plastic model that he called the Pluto Platter. He sold the rights to his Pluto

Platter to Wammo on January 23rd, 1957. In June of 57,

Wamo changed the name from Pluto Platter to Frisbee after learning that college students

were calling the Pluto Platter by that name, which was derived from the Connecticut-based

manufacturer Frisbee Pie Company, a supplier of pies to Yale University,

where students there had started a campus craze tossing empty Pie Tin stamped with the company's

logo.

Whammo promoted Frisbee as a new sport and sales increased.

61 years after Walter and Lucille first threw that popcorn lid around on a Thanksgiving day,

the Frisbee was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998.

What the Frisbee?

A Frisbee's fun.

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