This is from Bill and Melissa Bowerman, Co-owner of Nike. shows off the Holy Grail found in her late father’s home was the very waffle iron that revolutionize the way we run, walk, and everything in between. You see, the rusted contraption wasn’t just any waffle iron, but the one that created the very first Waffle Sole for Nike. More with this story after the jump…
Melissa’s late father was none other than Bill Bowerman, famed University of Oregon track coach and the co-founder of Nike. Once thought gone along with the rest of household trash, at least that’s what Barbara Bowerman, Bill’s wife, told them. The relic is now promptly on display at Nike’s Global Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, along with one of the original “waffle sole†Nike running sneaker, all unveiled last Monday, just 2 days before what was Bill Bowerman’s 100th birthday.via: The Oregonian
Little known fact about Bowerman… he fought in WWII in the 10th Mountain Division (aka The Ski Troops). My father served in the same group.