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“Though it is not currently on display, California’s Surfing Heritage & Culture Center donated the board in 2015.”
“While he wasn’t a competitive person, he loved bringing people together to witness great wave riding.”
““It’s one of the ones that he had personally given to the heritage center, and then they gifted it to us,” says Jane Rogers, a curator of the sports collection at the museum, which houses numerous surfing-related artifacts.”
“At this point, Tom and Marchia Morey put all the boards together in their kitchen in Carlsbad, California.”
“He was supposed to be honored at the Silver Surfer Awards in November of that year.”
““There’s a lot more competition [on the market] today because Moorey [bodyboards] are sort of on the high end of that type of watercraft, but they still do extremely well.”
“By the 1950s, he became a jazz musician, and in 1957, he earned a degree in mathematics from the University of Southern California.”
“He was always looking for new ways to ride the waves aside from a typical stand-up surfboard.”
“He sealed the board using a Honolulu newspaper, which is how he remembered the date of his invention: July 7, 1971.”
“How the Boogie Board Became One of Summer’s Most Popular Toys Fifty-five years ago, surfer Tom Morey cut a piece of polyethylene foam with a carving knife and created a wave-riding board with a low barrier of entry Jess Daninhirsch | Reporting Intern, Museums August 12, 2026 1:02 p.m.”
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