Wham-O has been dishing up California fun for 75 years

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The company sold balls that could bounce over houses, flying discs that looked like UFOs, flexible foam boards for beach acrobatics and a slippery waterslide that somehow worked on lawns. But for one 11-year-old boy, playing with these toys was not enough. He needed to know more. When school was out, Todd Richards and a friend would bike over to the Wham-O factory in Pasadena, California, which churned out those toys and a lot more. There, he went on dumpster-dive treasure hunts. Advertisement “We’d find all kinds of cool stuff,” Richards said. “Tubing that would stretch from one side of...