Sherm Poppen invented the Snurfer in Muskegon in 1965 by fastening skis together as a toy for his daughters, helping launch what became modern snowboarding. The downtown sculpture called The Turning Point shows a child riding a Snurfer above a modern snowboarder.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Roadside America