{"id":16621,"date":"2010-02-12T09:54:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T09:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legaladvantage.net\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2024-01-17T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:56:12","slug":"father-of-the-modern-frisbee-inventor-fred-morrison-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legaladvantage.net\/2010\/02\/father-of-the-modern-frisbee-inventor-fred-morrison-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"16621\" class=\"elementor elementor-16621\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b09bceb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b09bceb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9859f3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a9859f3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-xl\">Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-42dd5e5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"42dd5e5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-content\"><p>Since its official purchase by Wham-O in 1957 over 200 million \u201cWHAM-O Frisbee Pluto Platter Flying Saucer\u201d have been sold, now more commonly known as Frisbee\u2019s. Beginning as an activity that gained popularity during the Great Depression, Walter Fredrick \u201cFred\u201d Morrison and his initial investor Warren Franscioni began creating the first plastic \u201cFlying Saucer.\u201d<\/p><p>As most savvy inventors would do, they took advantage of the social climate and the nation\u2019s obsession with the Roswell incident and renamed their toy to capitalize on UFO\u2019s and Flying Saucers. Due to lack of proper demonstration space, they moved from selling them inside booths in Woolworth and Disneyland, to events and festivals in the great outdoors. The public had never used a disk like this, and after much speculation on its legitimacy began learning how to throw them.<\/p><p>Fred continued on to mass produce the plastic discs with his wife in Los Angeles and sold them under the name \u201cPlutto Platter,\u201d later to be acquired by WHAM-O. It is probably safe to say that all Americans today have thrown a Frisbee, some even too much, and it is important to note how much this inventor has shaped the world as we live it today.<\/p><p>Fred Morrison \u2013 January 23, 1920 \u2013 February 9, 2010<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies Since its official purchase by Wham-O in 1957 over 200 million \u201cWHAM-O Frisbee Pluto Platter Flying Saucer\u201d have been sold, now more commonly known as Frisbee\u2019s. Beginning as an activity that gained popularity during the Great Depression, Walter Fredrick \u201cFred\u201d Morrison and his initial investor Warren [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies - Legal Advantage<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/legaladvantage.net\/2010\/02\/father-of-the-modern-frisbee-inventor-fred-morrison-dies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies - Legal Advantage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Father of the Modern Frisbee, Inventor Fred Morrison Dies Since its official purchase by Wham-O in 1957 over 200 million \u201cWHAM-O Frisbee Pluto Platter Flying Saucer\u201d have been sold, now more commonly known as Frisbee\u2019s. 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