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JanSport backpacks were invented by a guy out of Seattle named Murray Pletz. Pletz started JanSport after he won a contest sponsored by the Alcoa aluminum company for his design of an aluminum flexible-frame backpack.

Pletz teamed up with his cousian Skip Yowell, and founded JanSport in 1967.

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