Did you know that the name of one of the most popular toys in the world was inspired by a group of kids playing around with pie tins in Connecticut in the 1950's?

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William Russel Frisbie started the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport in 1871, and each of his pie tins were branded with his last name. Pie tins last a long time, I think I still have a few from the Pie Plate in Waterbury from the 1980's. Well, it took nearly 80 years of children tossing around old Frisbie pie plates for that moment of inspiration to strike.

Exactly 68 years ago today, January 23, 1957, the Wham-O Pluto Platter, a flying disc mass produced on an assembly line, went into production. According to todayincthistory.com, shortly after the Pluto Platters started to be introduced to the public, a couple of Wham-O employees on a trip through Connecticut noticed children tossing empty pie plates to each other while yelling out 'Frisbie' when the pie plate flew off course.

The employees went back to Wham-O with this knowledge, and after a redesign and refinement, re-introduced the Wham-O Pluto Platter as a 'Frisbee'. Why the 'EE' instead of the 'IE'? Potential lawsuits. Wham-O sold hundreds of millions of them before selling the rights to the product to Mattel in the 1990's. Frisbee golf, one of the most popular flying disc sports to this day, started showing up in Texas and Georgia in the early 1960's. There are plenty of disc golf courses in Connecticut today, here's a list from idisc.com.

Rich Is Better! Connecticut's 50 Wealthiest Neighborhoods 2024

You might have heard the saying, "I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better." While I've only experienced one side of that equation and it's not the more favorable, I still find the wealth in Connecticut intriguing. If you share my curiosity, you'll be interested to explore the 50 wealthiest neighborhoods in Connecticut. This isn't a general list of towns but a curated selection of the top 50 richest neighborhoods in the Nutmeg State, as identified by Forbes.

Note: This list covers neighborhoods ranked from 10 to 1, plus a few additional ones in the Greater-Danbury area. You can find the full list from 50 to 1 at the bottom of this article.

Gallery Credit: Lou Milano

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