Frisbie Pies Pie Bakery. William Frisbie started a small pie baking operation at 147 Kossuth Street in 1871. He and his partner, Charles Eckler, established a large delivery route in the Bridgeport area on which they eventually sold over 300 pies a day. Frisbie's son, Joseph, took over the operation after his father's death in 1903, and greatly expanded the company. By 1915, the company's Kossuth Street facility had grown to a three-story factory. Frisbie pies were well known throughout the Northeast, with Frisbie plants located in Hartford, New Haven, and Poughkeepsie. Both residents and workers from other factories remember stopping by Frisbie's East Side factory to buy "broken pies" for a nickle. People passing by the Kossuth Street facility also remember seeing company employees engaged in a favorite break time activity: the workers tossed pies tins to each other in the factory parking lot. Local school children picked up on this game and made it into a sport. The game eventually spread to the Yale University campus where it became know as "Frisbie." Students tossing pie tins to each other would call out "Frisbie" as a warning that people passing by should duck. In the 1950's, Wham-O of California designed the now well known plastic disc version of the game and change its name to "Frisbee."