“We rolled it out, and it was just like a rocket,” E. Bryant Crutchfield once said of his invention, the Trapper Keeper. Crutchfield died recently at 85, according to multiple reports.

Following years of declining sales, Mead pulled the Trapper Keeper from the market in 2002. By then Mr. Crutchfield had long since left the company, which in 2012 merged with Acco Brands.

E. Bryant Crutchfield, the inventor of the Trapper Keeper, died on Sunday at a hospice center in Marietta, Georgia. He was 85. Crutchfield, born in Greenville, Alabama, was the first in his family ...

CHANG: The Trapper Keeper launched in 1978, and its popularity exploded in the 1980s. But it stayed relevant even into a new millennium when "South Park" aired a Terminator-themed episode about it.

In the best news that we've heard all week (better than The Pizza Bed), Mead has announced that our beloved Trapper Keeper from the '90s (okay, maybe '80s too) is coming back to life.

CHANG: The Trapper Keeper launched in 1978, and its popularity exploded in the 1980s. But it stayed relevant even into a new millennium when "South Park" aired a Terminator-themed episode about it.

CHANG: The Trapper Keeper launched in 1978, and its popularity exploded in the 1980s. But it stayed relevant even into a new millennium when "South Park" aired a Terminator-themed episode about it.

Mia Christopher, Jane Kim, Mie Horlyck Morgensen, and Lana Williams don't know each other — some of them only meeting while installing their group show, Trapper Keeper, at the Oakland gallery, City ...