Burton snowboards were first invented by Jake Burton Carpenter in 1977 in Burlington, Vermont, when he built a snowboard based on the Snurfer, a snow surfer invented in 1965. The first Burton ...
Mike Olson made his first snowboard at Sylvester Middle School in Burien as a project for his shop class. Back then -- 1977 -- the industry didn't really exist, he said. "I was trying to make projects ...