The 11 Things You Didn’t Know About Wheaties
Wheaties has been around for nearly 90 years, but when did they start putting athletes on the cover?
- By Jim Morrison
- Smithsonian.com, August 17, 2012
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The First Wheaties Cover Model Wasn’t Even Real
The first character to be featured wasn't an athlete or even a real person. It was Jack Armstrong, the "All American boy" and star of a fictional radio show sponsored by Wheaties that began in 1933. In the stories, Armstrong was a popular athlete at Hudson High School who traveled the world plunging into one adventure after another, recovering lost uranium, rescuing passengers from a sinking ship and being trapped in a cave of mummies.
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Comments (1)
but no one eats wheaties, if anything people just buys it as memorabilia, I'm assuming.
Posted by name requred on October 8,2012 | 08:01 PM