We had Labs and Goldens. Tireless Frisby artists.

Are you certain, dr. bill? My data indicates that the frisbee throwing orignated in the mid-1940's, at Yale, and the name "Frisbee" was trademarked in 1959. Were the frisbies you recall made of plastic, or metal?

From the book I've cited before, by Charles Panati: In the 1870s William Russell Frisbie opened a bakery [in Bridgeport, Connecticut] that carried a line of homemade pies in circular tin pans. Bridgeport historians do not know if children in Frisbie's day tossed empty tins for amusement, but sailing the pans did become a popular diversion among student at Yale University in the mid-1940's. The school's New Haven campus was not far from the Bridgeport pie factory. The campus fad might have died out had it not been for a Californian, Walter Frederick Morrison, with an interest in flying saucers, hoping to capitalize on America's UFO mania [in the 1950's].

Panati lists as his source: "An interesting book of fact and speculation of the origin and gevelopment of the Frisbee is Frisbee, Stancil Johnson, 1975, Workman Publishing."

An on-line source is http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2CB62A8; scroll down to the part near the end that will have color highlights.