Tom Morey, Surfer Who Invented The Boogie Board, Dies At 86
However, Mr. Morey didn't get rich from the Boogie Board. He sold his organization at some point in 1977 or 1978 to Kransco, a toy producer, for a dubious moderate aggregate and got no sovereignties.
Mr Morey was philosophical with regards to his lost bonus. 토토사이트
"Let's assume I had sold this for a billion dollars," he told The Los Angeles Times in 2003. "l'm as yet going to be staying here in my swimsuit. I'm not going to eat anything else than I'm eating."
Thomas Hugh Morey was brought into the world on Aug. 15, 1935, in Detroit, to Howard and Grace Morey. His dad was a realtor, his mom a homemaker. A family move to Laguna Beach, Calif., when Tom was youthful acquainted him with the Pacific Ocean and surfboarding.
Enlisting at the University of Southern California, he began as a music major however acquired his four year certification in science in 1957. While still in school, he and a cohort, Bob Tierney, made the Fantopper, a shapeable, honeycomb paper cap. They sold 100,000 of them (some to Joan Collins and Red Skelton), and the cap was included in a main story in Parade magazine that suggested the conversation starter, "Will paper caps become a trend?"
Mr Morey joined Douglas Aircraft in the last part of the 1950s after a spell in the Army. At Douglas he had some expertise in composite materials (which he definitely knew about from his initial surfboard making) however left quite a long while later to open a surf shop and construct custom surfboards in Ventura, Calif. He coordinated the Tom Morey Invitational riding competition in Ventura in 1965; it's accepted to be the game's first prize-cash contest.
After the offer of his Boogie Board business, Mr. Morey kept on chipping away at surfboard advancements while playing drums with a band at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel on Hawaii's enormous island. In 1985, requiring cash, he moved to Washington State, where he accepted a position with Boeing and got back to working with composite materials.