OT--JanSport Founder passes away...

[paredown]

Maybe a PNW thing, but there was a lot of stuff going on in the late '60s/early '70s to change the way that we hiked, climbed, stayed dry and rode bikes--and Murray McCory (who was a recent industrial design grad from U of Washington) started JanSport in 1967 with his Mom, Dad and his soon-to-be wife Jan.

A garage start-up to a major company with one of the first aluminum frame packs, and the first good small backpack that got launched in the UW bookstore and became a thing...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/b...smid=url-share

[charliedid]

The entire American outdoor industry owes a lot to those folks.

RIP Murray

[72gmc]

The UW Bookstore also owes a lot to those folks! As do I, and my back. It's nice to think about the heyday of that bookstore--these days it's hollowed out by ecommerce.

RIP.

[SlowPokePete]

I've still got my Jansport D3 backpack from the 1970's when, as a kid in Port Chester, NY Boy Scout Troop 11, we went to Colorado and spent two weeks backpacking in the Rocky Mountains.

I was only around 11 or 12 years old.

SPP