Today’s impossible task: who invented the first beach ball that has a globe (i.e., map of the earth) printed on it? Or, slightly less impossible: When did these things first come to market? 1990? 1980? 1960?
Ummmm, Michael Palin maybe?
samclem
September 26, 2007, 11:42am
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A 1953 US newspaper story:
Plastic World Globe Is Good Beach Ball, Too
Just to get you started.
Fan-tastic! Thanks, Sam. Just what I was looking for. I had hoped they appeared before 1960. (I’m working on a short story.)
There’s also this famous scene from The Great Dictator (1940).
