Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye.. and science
(Photo / CNN) Sat, 3 Jul 2021, 10:03AM
If you were a kid raised anytime between the 1930s and the 1970s or raised by someone who was raised then chances are good that you grew up with the idea that spinach was a muscle builder par excellence.
We owe that notion to a comic-strip cartoonist named Elzie Crisler Segar, who created a character that he based on a rough-edged, hard-drinking local from his Illinois hometown. Segar christened the character Popeye, a sailor who debuted in a strip in 1929.
By 1933, when he began to appear as one of the lead characters in an animated cartoon series called Thimble Theatre, Popeye was getting instant strength from spinach.
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Small towns across the country looking to brand their community have learned the importance of recalling hometown heroes.
In Illinois, Eureka celebrates the fact that movie actor and former president Ronald Reagan attended college there while Springfield has long been identified as the home of Abraham Lincoln.
Famous authors are also recalled. Hannibal, Mo. has developed its tourism campaign as the boyhood home of Mark Twain.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of “The Little House on the Prairie” series, is honored in five different states with museums or little-house replicas. You can find places to visit in Mansfield, Mo., Walnut Grove, Minn., Pepin, Wis., De Smet, S.D. and Independence, Kan. Towns like Chester in southern Illinois, where Elzie Crisler Segar was raised, honor the comic-strip artist s creation, Popeye, with statues all over town of Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto and the whole gang.
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