RIP Walter Frederick ‘Fred’ Morrison (1920 – 2010)
Posted on March 8, 2010
You have never heard of Fred Morrison, but you have undoubtedly been touched by him in one way or another. Morrison’s entrepreneurial life began innocuously, throwing a popcorn tin lid around with his best gal on the California beaches. Quickly discovering that cake tins fly better and faster, Morrison parleyed this knowledge into a little business called “Flyin’ Cake Pans”, selling his wares to passerbyes on the Santa Monica Beach.
WWII saw him in the pilot’s seat of a P-47 Thunderbird over Italy, where he was shot down and was a POW for 48 days. Back in the USA, he took some aerodynamic knowledge he had garnered, and sketched out a design for the “Whirlo-Way”, the first plastic flying disc. An investor paid for the first mould, and it was gangbusters from there. In 1955, he settled with a final style, the “Pluto Platter”, which is considered to be the pater familias of all flying discs made since.
Morrison died in his home on Tuesday of old age. He is survived by his 3 children.
Anecdotal evidence has it that Morrison was a stand up guy. His product is credited with the religion “Frisbeeism”, the belief that when you die, your soul goes spinning up onto some old lady’s roof. I suck at anything Frisbee related, but I cannot recall my childhood and college life without it being tainted by Frisbees.
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a proper obit