Wham-O has had a rough time financially, too. Sales fell sharply from their peak, but were still hovering around $80 million as of 2005, according to public documents and company statements. Since ...

The company sold balls that could bounce over houses, flying discs that looked like UFOs, flexible foam boards for beach acrobatics and a slippery water slide that somehow worked on lawns. But for one ...

On January 23, 1957, machines at the Wham-O toy company roll out the first batch of their aerodynamic plastic discs—now known to millions of fans all over the world as Frisbees. The story of the ...

For those not familiar, Frisbee is actually a proper noun. The product's story began in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where ...

The company sold balls that could bounce over houses, flying discs that looked like UFOs, flexible foam boards for beach acrobatics and a slippery water slide that somehow worked on lawns. But for one ...

Wham-O president Todd Richards at the company's office on March 10, in Carson, California. The company sold balls that could bounce over houses, flying discs that looked like UFOs, flexible foam ...

The origins of the frisbee date back to 1871 at William Frisbie’s “Frisbie Pie Company.” ...

Balls, hoops, slingshots are some of the oldest known toys. Also some of the simplest. No batteries, computer skills or assembly required. But make them out of sturdy polyethylene, color them boldly, ...

John Hinnen always wanted to make things. A born tinkerer, the son of Illinois spent the better part of his 20s designing toys and novelties in his parents’ garage. He created a line of greeting cards ...

Richard Knerr, 82, co-founder of Wham-O Inc., which unleashed the granddaddy of American fads, the Hula Hoop, on the world a half-century ago along with another enduring leisure icon, the Frisbee, ...

Frat-house frolics became a national obsession when Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of California began producing the Pluto Platter — soon renamed the Frisbee — on this day in history, Jan. 23, 1957. "The ...