JanSport unveils the Heritage Series Backpacks
Posted by on March 23, 2010
Born during the summer of love, hippies rejoice as JanSport brings back its well-remembered classics
The year was 1967, the Summer of Love. The Summer three Seattle college grads were looking to avoid the confines of nine-to-five jobs: Skip, an outdoor enthusiast; Murray, an engineer; and Jan, a seamstress. Murray had won an award for an aluminum frame pack design and told Jan if she created a pack that sold, he’d marry her and name the company after her. She did. It did. And JanSport was born.
