“Pluto Platter” Inventor, Walter Morrison, Dies

What the hell is a Pluto Platter? That’s what Walter called the Frisbee before it was named the Frisbee. The more I think about it, I like Pluto Platter better. Cool name.

From Yahoo:

According to Kennedy, Morrison and his future wife, Lu, used to toss a tin cake pan on the beach in California. The idea grew as Morrison considered ways to make the cake pans fly better and after serving as a pilot in World War II, Morrison began manufacturing his flying discs in 1948.

He would hawk the discs at local fairs and eventually attracted Wham-O Manufacturing, the company that bought the rights to Morrison’s plastic discs.

Kennedy says Wham-O adopted the name “Frisbee” because that’s what college students in New England were calling the Pluto Platters. The name came from the Frisbie Pie Co., a local bakery whose empty tins were tossed like the soon-to-be Frisbee.

I’m gonna start having to call “disc golf” something else. “Pluto platter golf” maybe?

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