Name tag given to Sherman Poppen, "the grandfather of snowboarding"
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Name tag given to Sherman Poppen, "the grandfather of snowboarding." Sherman Poppen, inventor of the snurfer, a predecessor of the modern snowboard needed a distraction for his two little girls on Christmas day in 1965. The kids were restless and his pregnant wife, Nancy, needed a break so Poppen took them outside to play in the Wisconsin snow. Bored with sledding, Poppen bound two children’s water skis together, tied a rope to the front and the Snurfer was born. Nancy combined the words “snow and surf” for the moniker “snurf” and pretty soon Poppen was building snurfers for all of the neighborhood kids.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Snowboarding
label: level of sport
content: recreational
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2015.0028.04
label: accession number
content: 2015.0028
label: catalog number
content: 2015.0028.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge, snowboarding
label: Object Name
content: name tag
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 1 1/4 in; 7.62 cm x 3.175 cm