Wham-O Inc. is putting a new spin on the Frisbee, the flying disks that have twirled through parks, hovered above playgrounds and wafted in the ocean air for nearly 50 years. Backed by a major ...

Finding a Frisbee on the beach? It's a discovery that can feel as common, and as local, as coming across an interesting shell or bit of kelp, at least around Southern California. After all, Wham-O, ...

The Wham-O Frisbee turns 50 this year, just a few years after the Lancaster friends hit their half-century mark. Both were enamored with the early Wham-O and have embraced each evolution of it since.

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 ...