View full sizeCourtesy of NikeThe original waffle iron that inspired Bill Bowerman to create Nike's "waffle sole," thought to be lost forever, was unearthed last year near Bowerman's home in Coburg, near Eugene. Bowerman, the former Oregon track coach and nike air max co-founder, mistakenly glued together the iron's metal plates and apparently disposed of them separately. They have not been recovered.
For the Nike empire, it started with a waffle iron.
Nike co-founder and former Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman used the waffle iron to create what would become a revolutionary sole, and for years this waffle iron was thought to be lost forever.
The Oregonian's Rachel Bachman has the fascinating report on the discovery of Nike's Holy Grail.
For many OregonLive,
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-- duckly:
My Grandfather sold that Coburg property to Bill Bowerman and we have always enjoyed hearing how Bill used the garage and his waffle iron to start the Nike empire. I remember the property as a very young kid and can imagine the scene. Pretty neat.
-- Bill Freeman:
... I wrote my dissertation on WJB (1972), and while doing research found a letter sent to the UO AD many years ago from an OSU alum. Bowerman was going door to door raising money for the UO athletic dept. At one house, the guy said he wouldn't give, because he was an OSU alum. That guy wrote a letter to the UO AD saying Bowerman wouldn't leave until he had signed a pledge to make a donation to the OSU athletic dept. The writer said Oregon (the state) needs more coaches like that.
In another aside, I directed the combined events at the Oly Trials at UO in 1972, 1976 & 1980. In all cases my officiating crew was from OSU, because Bowerman felt that the Trials were an Oregon (state) event, and he felt the OSU officials deserved a reward for their years of service to OSU track.
Fossil was founded by the Hoover family, Bowerman's mother's family.
-- Mike:
Great story Rachel, It really peaked my interest since I have been a past president of a historical society in the state. I can remember some of my finds during the early years before it became illegal to dig at old 1850s vintage cabin sites at old mining towns in Southern Oregon. On one of my digs I unearthed an 1853 32 caliber Remington that was so rusty that I almost left it at the site. When I returned to my home I took it to a local sporting goods store owner that I knew quite well, and after his brief research which identified the rusty relic, I asked him if he would have brought it in. "Heck yeah, was his reply, this baby took two hydraulic cylinders (both missing) that you had to reload each hydraulic cylinder with powder wadding and ball."
The point being, even if the waffle iron was rusty, it is still an important artifact and definitely worthy of a couple thousand words of excitement and disposition of. This story would be worthy of "Treasure magazine" Rachel. Give it a go.
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