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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(Courtesy of General Mills)
There Wasn’t an Athlete on the Front of the Box until 1958
In 1958, after dipping into alliances with “The Mickey Mouse Club” and “The Lone Ranger” to market Wheaties to children, the cereal returned athletes to the forefront, putting two-time Olympic gold medalist Bob Richards on the front of the box, a first. Richards, who won gold medals in the pole vault at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, also became the first traveling spokesman for the cereal.
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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