Topic: Wham-O Inc.

Wham-O Printable Coupons

Wham-o Printable Coupons are for discounts at retailers which sell Wham-o toys, including Slip N Slide in all its variations as well as the Ski Doo and the Sea Doo. These stores include membership retailers such as Costco and Sam's Club ...

Wham-O Coupons

Wham-O Coupons are store discount coupons that can be used to save money when buying Wham-o products including the Sea Doo, the Ski Doo, Boogie Boards, and all the various Slip N slide contraptions for the back yard. Other popular Wham-o products ...

How the frisbee got its name

The Frisbee got its name due to its relationship to the Frisbee Baking Company that started in 1870 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The Frisbee ,or as it was then known, the Flyin Saucer, has a slope and the Frisbee slopes in slightly, this ...

Losing Weight Hula Hooping

It is said that the first version of what is today know as a hula hoop was a large hoop made out of grapevines. Sometime about 1000 BC children in Egypt were the first to realize the joy of playing with what ...
Fred Morrison Fred Morrison invented the Frisbee after passersby showed interest in the flying discs he and his girlfriend tossed around at the beach in California. The Original Flying Disc Before the Frisbee, Fred Morrison first tossed around a tin popcorn lid ...

What is a Hula Hoop®?

Hula Hoop® is a trademark toy of the California-based Wham-O company— The Hula Hoop® was developed by Wham-O founders, Arthur “Spud” Melin and Richard Knerr based on a concept from Australia.The use of hoops as toys and exercise equipment goes back ...

An Eclectic Evolution

By James F Cotter Sometimes inventing something can be a protracted affair.   William Russell Frisbie founded the Frisbie Baking  Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut  in 1871.  Frisbie's pies came in tin pie plates with the name of the bakery on the bottom ...