Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

As those obituaries recount, it was one of JanSport’s hiking backpacks, with a few key modifications, that ultimately became a required accessory for nearly every student (and for a lot of ...

JanSport backpacks grew out of the heady, creative days of the 1960s and ’70s counterculture in the Pacific Northwest. McCory, who until the early 1980s had the surname Pletz, was a student at ...

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JanSport backpacks grew out of the heady, creative days of the 1960s and ’70s counterculture in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. McCory, who until the early 1980s had the surname Pletz, was a student ...