International Flying Association Volume 1 Number 2 $4.00 Celestial Pastry It's Hot! 1st Custom 40 Mold Frisby knows Frisbee® fi(Jll IJI$C HD 61 Brand that The Production Pole Hole® Eagle List with an X Evolves VOLUME 1, NUMBER 2 From the Director Welcome to the second issue of the IFDCA newsletter. As in our last issue IFDCA is dedicated to promoting we have continued to try to highlight discs that most collectors are interested flying disc collecting throughout in i.e. Antique, Ultimate, Freestyle, Golf, mini discs etc. In our attempt to do this the world. we have found it difficult to cover so many discs and allow enough space to write Editorial Offices an informative in-depth article. Also we have found it hard to do all the IFDCA investigative reporting on a disc on a timely basis. So, in the future we may report c/o Disc Flights, Inc. on one collective aspect of a disc and do other articles on the same disc later after P.O. Box 470794 more investigation. Tulsa, OK 74147-0794 As in the last issue we have used our extensive library to help find articles of Membership Rates interest on collecting or on certain discs to report on. It is imperative that we $10.00 annually ( 4 issues) receive more articles from some of you that have specialized in collecting a Article Submission certain field of disc(s), i.e. Pros, Super Pros, Fastbacks, 40 molds, etc. This will Deadline for next issue - February 28 help us gain an extensive in-depth article on certain discs of interest. We don't pretend to know it all and need the members to help us as they can. Thanks to Director I Editor Rick Neil those who have helped thus far! If some of you would rather, we can call you Assoc. Dir./ Editor Bob Morton at your convenience and do a telephone recorded interview to get the information Assoc. Dir./ Editor Steve Ward Contributing Editors Ralph Williamson to form an article. Whichever you choose, we are willing to do it. So drop us a Donn Blake line or call us and let us know. Darrell Lynn I talked with John Houck about targeting the 1994 PDGA World Disc Golf Championships to hold our first annual Auction & Swap Meet. John was delighted to help out. For those that can plan now to attend we will hold a sanctioned auction and trading session at the Swap Meet, August 2, 1994 during Table of Contents the championships at Port Arthur, Texas. So if you have items for sale an ell or trade bring them to Port Arthur. More details on how the meet wiii be set up and 3 Contests auction times will be covered in upcoming issues. 4 Collecting by Category 5 Early History & Dates 6 Sky Pie "Sky's the Limit" 7 Valley of the Sun Collectively yours, 8 Collector's Showcase 10 Wbam-O's HDX 61 10 The First Custom 40 Mold 12 The Eagle Evolves 13 Brand it with an X Rick Neil 14 Frisbey Knows Frisbee® 15 Membership Form Club Newsletter Editors Feel Free to reprint any article of If you find mistakes in this publication, please interest with the exception of consider that they are there for a purpose. We Ralph Williamson's. Contact publish something for everyone, and some people Ralph on this matter at (206)364-9808 are always looking for mistakes!!! Cover Photo Grandstaff Portrait Studios Tulsa, OK 2 E Help us name our Collector's Newsletter! Submit in writing your suggestions for the name of this publication. The winning entry will be selected by the IFDCA staff. IFDCA staff and family members are ineligible. Winner will receive a collectable disc valued at $25.00. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •' • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • e • NOTE: • • • • We are still receiving entries for the "Name our Newsletter" contest and will continue to do so • • untilliehmery ?H, 1994. The winning entry will debut with our first is ue of 1994, so keep sending • • • • !YlQy 51) those entries in! • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • It's a Caption Contest Send in your captions for this photograph. The winner will receive a special collectable disc valued $15.00. Send: and to: ADDRESS SUGGESTION IFDCA CONTEST CITY/STATE/ZIP or P.O. Box 470794 TELEPHONE# CAPTION Tulsa, OK 74147-0794 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • NOTE: • • • Everyone who sends in a sugge tion for the newsletter : : and the photo, but does not win, will be put in a drawing for a special collector's disc. : •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 Flying Disc Collecting by Category by Ralph Williamson WHAM-0 DISCS (*1) EVENT DISCS (*5) GOLF DISCS ANTIQUES OTHER CATEGORillS (*5) All American Can-Am Series AMFVoit Atlantis Holy Toledo Bottle Caps All Star Circular Skies Brand-X Copar Brand-X Fastbacks (*2) Club Logos Destiny Flying Saucer (Mon·ison) Collect by Color Flying Ring Discathon Disc Golf Association Flying Saucer (Wham-0) Collect by Mfg. Flying Saucer (*3) Distance Discraft Frisbie Pie Tin Collect by Mold# HDX Freestyle Dynamic Hasbro Glo (*4) CPI Horseshoe Set (*2) Golf Innova-Champion Horseshoe Set (CPI) Engine-Driven Mars Platter (*3) Guts (*2) Lightning Horseshoe Set (Wham-0) Floppy (Cloth) Master IFT (*2) Wham-0 Lil' Abner (Pipco) Flying Ring Mini K-9 Magic Saucer Foreign (*6) Moonlighter (*4) MTA Mars Platter Giant Saucer Tosser Pluto Platter (*3) PDGA Worlds Mystery Y Inflatable Pro (*2) Rose Bowl (WFC) Oreo Keds Rips linger Tournament (*2) Pluto Platter (Amer. Trends) Lighted Models Sailing Satellite (*3) TRC Pluto Platter(Wharn- Minis Signature Models Ultimate 0) Moonlighter (*4) Super Pro Sailing Satellite Signature Sky Pie Sun Saucer Space Saucer T-Birds Speedy Whistle Twirl-A-Boom Zalar (*1) Most Wham-0 discs have several mold numbers, i.e. a Pro may be mold 1, 4, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 91 , etc. (*2) Early models are antique. (*3) Antique (*4) Moonlighter is the same as glo. (*5) These are the main categories but there are many more. (*6) Collecting foreign discs will probably be the most popular collecting category of the future. 4 Early History and IIUportant Dates to Help the Collector By Ralph Williamson 1947 Fred Morrison carves world's first plastic disc form a solid block of tenite plastic. 1948 First molded plastic disc, the Arcuate Vane model is made. Rich Kner and Spud Meline found Wham-0. Lil' Abner Pipco Crab appears. 1951 Morrison makes second disc, the American Trends Pluto Platter. 1957 First Wham-0 Pluto Platter appears. 1958 Fred Morrison awarded Patent# 183,626 for his "Flyin" Saucer. 1964 Professional Model Frisbee® introduced. 1967 CPI makes Saucer Tosser. First mini Frisbee® introduced. 1968 Master Frisbee® developed. 1969 Moonlighter Frisbee® developed. 1971 All American Frisbee® appears. Fastback Frisbee® appears. 1972 CPI introduces the All Star model. 1973 Wham-0 introduces the Super Pro. 1974 First World Frisbee® Championships (WFC) at Rose Bowl. Victor Malafronte and Jo Cahow are Co-Champions. 1976 The DGA/Wham-0 Night Flyer appears. 1978 The DGA/Wham-0 Midnight Flyer is introduced. 1979 The Brand-X Golf Disc appears. The AMF Voit Golf Disc is made. 1980 Destiny introduces the Puppy golf disc. 1982 First World PDGA Championship, won by Harold Duvall. 1983 Champion produces its first golf disc, the Eagle. Discraft produces its first golf disc, the Sky Streak. 1984 Innova-Champion comes out with its first golf disc, the Aviar. Lightning produces its first golf disc, the P-38 Lightning. Dynamic Discs introduces the Super Puppy. 5 he kyPi " he Sky's the Limit'' By Ralph Williamson Collecting flying discs can have pin-offs such as collecting related items like T- birts, caps, disc event flyers, WFC Rosebowl Schedules, poster , and in my case, the Sky Pie mold. Tbi 400-pound solid steel mold its on two planks in my garage. The mold was given to me in 1987 by its owner Steve Hammett of Mount Vernon, Washington with the understanding Lhat I never u e it to produce more Sky Pies. You will probably not specialize in collecting flying disc molds unless you are the son of Superman and own a sturdy tractor- hauler. The Sky Pie Mold The Sky Pie was produced by the Hall Manufacturing Company ofLos Angeles, California beginning about 1957. Detailed instruction on how to play the Sky Pie Game were furnished with each disc. I have everal copies of the instructions. As your interest in collecting grow and space runs out, you may want to start specializing in one of the disc sports events such as disc golf. It's fun to collect periodicals like the PDGA's Disc Golfer Magazine, Rick Rothstein' Disc Golf News, Tom Schlueter's Disc Golf Journal, Rick Neil's International Flying Disc Collector's Association Newsletter and the various Disc Golf Club Newsletters offered by many clubs across the country. In addition, several other periodicals are available on Guts, Freestyle, Ultimate etc. Between 1974 and 1981, Wham-0 made a great contribution to world disc sports by sponsoring the World Frisbee® Championships (WFC) in Pasadena's Rose Bowl. My collection includes all the WFC program schedules except for 1974. Someday I'll get a "74" program from Victor Malafronte or Jo Cahow and my collection will be complete. Since there are still some holes in my collection, I am ometimes asked by people what th e missing discs are. Although I have yet to own an American Trends Pluto Platter (the manufacturing rights of which. were sold to Wham-0) by Fred Morrison, someday I will because there are several out there. But the disc I would cherish the most is theMotrison original hand-carved tenite disc.