Swift taylor wrote:
Tiger "empherus" ?? can't remember the name , they were white , with blue and gold stripes, early 80's. I remember getting a pair of the air max 1 , when they came out .
Tiger "Epirus"
http://www.premierboutique.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/asics-gel-epirus-H413n.0150-white-navy.jpgfirst pair I remember were also the best I ever owned.
Adidas Kingstons.
Kangaroo leather, super comfortable designed for the 1966 Commonwelath Games I believe - in Kingston Jamaica. I'd buy them now if they made them
White with black stripes.
Adidas Antelope (1960's). White leather with blue and red stripes.
Then...Adidas Country. White leather, green stripes.
Nike 'Cub' (name?) White canvas, blue swoosh. Very similar to the Onitsuka Tiger 'Cub' shoe (like the Marathon, only upper is canvas)
Purchased from Blue Ribbon Sports in 1972 or 1973. I still have these and I hardly wore them. Would like to sell them.
Nike 'Marathon.. Red nylon, white swoosh, very similar to the Onitsuka Tiger Marathon shoe. '72 or '73.
Nike Cortez. White leather, red swoosh. Like the Tiger Cortez.
but why wrote:
1980s Nike Cortez I think or one of the still relatively early generation waffles
so popular back then that Nike actually brought back the retro style for awhile recently and sold out
I also ran in Nike Cortez in the late 1970s. I think my next shoe was an Asics Tiger shoe that was so flexible it would bend almost halfway back or forward.
I had no need for motion control at 160 pounds and age 20.
adidas Vienna (1970). Then the Tiger Marathon (1972). First spike was the adidas Racer (1973), a black suede with pink stripes (same ones worn by Mike Boit in the 1972 Olympic 800 meter final). Note that "adidas" is always lower-case, never using a capital A.
Not sure if they were the Adidas country or the super novas but Gary Muhrcke used to drive around Long Island and sell shoes to many of the high school track teams before he opened his super runners stores.
Haha, my mom did the same thing, "You'll grow into them!!". I think the actual first pair of running shoes were ASICS Californians in 79(??). I actually preferred running in my everyday tennis shoe Pumas, felt and ran faster. Of course, we used to run in cutoff jeans sometimes in the summer, but that is another thread.
Similar STORY wrote:
The shoes were also 3 sized too large so i could "grow into them".
Holy cow! I would have been better off running in my leather dress shoes. I used to run the 800 and would trip just about 4x per lap.
1985 Nike Terra Trainers. They matched my Members Only jacket.
I bought my first pair in 1977. I can remember what they look like, but I don't remember the brand. Nike, perhaps?
I do remember these, though: Etonic Street Fighters:
http://www.defynewyork.com/2011/03/30/etonic-street-fighter-running-shoe-1979/
I put a lot of miles on them. I wore them for training, with very heavy, rigid plastic orthotics crafted by Thomas McGuigan of Trenton. When I visited him several decades later for a new fitting and reminded him of those old orthotics, he said, "Oh, I stopped making them with that stuff a long time ago. It turned out to be cancer-causing." But they worked. A least 1/4" thick and rock solid. Drop them on the floor and they would clack loudly, like heavy polystyrene.
I'd race in Nike Elites, and I had three or four pairs of those. Great racing shoes!
this and this wrote:
Adidas Antelope (1960's). White leather with blue and red stripes.
Then...Adidas Country. White leather, green stripes.
Nike 'Cub' (name?) White canvas, blue swoosh. Very similar to the Onitsuka Tiger 'Cub' shoe (like the Marathon, only upper is canvas)
Purchased from Blue Ribbon Sports in 1972 or 1973. I still have these and I hardly wore them. Would like to sell them.
Nike 'Marathon.. Red nylon, white swoosh, very similar to the Onitsuka Tiger Marathon shoe. '72 or '73.
Nike Cortez. White leather, red swoosh. Like the Tiger Cortez.
By chance, do you have a pic of this shoe? I'm curious if it's the same one I had. I didn't know the name.
nike air skylon triax from late 1990s. I recall they were very similar to current Nike Frees.
1984, New Balance. They were like $130.00. Crazy expensive for the day. They were pretty awesome, hhowever..
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Swift taylor wrote:Tiger "empherus" ?? can't remember the name , they were white , with blue and gold stripes, early 80's. I remember getting a pair of the air max 1 , when they came out .
Tiger "Epirus"
http://www.premierboutique.com/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/asics-gel-epirus-H413n.0150-white-navy.jpg
yes! those.
Fat CaliDog wrote:
Haha, my mom did the same thing, "You'll grow into them!!".
I think the actual first pair of running shoes were ASICS Californians in 79(??). I actually preferred running in my everyday tennis shoe Pumas, felt and ran faster. Of course, we used to run in cutoff jeans sometimes in the summer, but that is another thread.
Similar STORY wrote:The shoes were also 3 sized too large so i could "grow into them".
Holy cow! I would have been better off running in my leather dress shoes. I used to run the 800 and would trip just about 4x per lap.
i also ran in adidas gazelles. i remember my milestone was when i could run continuously for 20 minutes, timed on my $6 casio watch.
43sfcd wrote:
Not sure if they were first but i had some Adidas (I think) that had some mesh around the midsole or at least on the exposed sides of the midsole. Very strange but I did like them. I was like 10 maybe and they may have been hand-me-downs.
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If they were white with red stripes they were the Oregons. If they were light gray with blue stripes they were the Bostons. The Bostons were the racing version of the Oregons.
I had numerous pairs of both. I loved them. The only adidas shoes I ever liked.
A brand that I think has long gone under: Turntec. They were dark blue and heavy as bricks. Was around 1988.
Selection of running shoes was pretty poor in Northern Saskatchewan so I got whatever came in at the local department store.
My first running shoes were Nike Air something (I think Pegasus) in 1987.
The coolest shoes I own were a pair of shoes owned and worn by John Landy. If you saw these shoes, you would have a new found respect for how fast he ran in them.
1976 - New Balance 320
https://www.endclothing.com/blog/new-balance-re-releaeses-the-320-online-now/
basghetti? wrote:
Sure. A royal blue pair of Tigers like the ones on Jim Fixx's famous book jacket. Anyone recall the model name?
http://www.albersheims.com/ItemImages/000002/2209b_lg.jpeg
Those are the Onitsuka Tiger Marathon. They came in blue and red. I went through 2 pairs of those (red) until the Brooks Vanguard came out. I recently saw a schmuck trying to sell a pair of Tiger Marathons on ebay for $300.00
