Well shut my mouth! Maybe Gene Prater wasn't the first to patent tubular aluminum showshoes after all (see previous post). We couldn't find his patent, but we did find one to Fred Merrifield in 1976, from Bellevue Washington. Unless there is an earlier one, this may be the first. Thanks to Eric Nicholson for the find! (He's got a better database than I do, not fair!).
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