What was the First Cool Sneaker you Had? [Archive]

King Hippos Bandaid

03-06-2007, 11:45 AM

My Parents were cheap until  the 7th Grade  (1989),, My twin Bro and I went to a place in Jersey called the Dollar Shoe Outlet, but one cheap pair of Snekaers, get One for a Dollar. in  1990 after all the Abuse from Friends we finaly  were thrown a Bone I purchased the Air Jordan V<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="46" style="border-collapse: collapse" id="AutoNumber2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="813" height="14"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="100%" align="center"><a onclick="javascript:loadProGallery(64);"></a><a onclick="javascript:loadProGallery(64);"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby4LR0u1F8gIBLlOjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN 0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=13fkf4o9q/EXP=1173300305/**http%3A//www.wrhs.net/webdesignprojects_spring2004/eek_final_project/air%2520jordan%25205.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="110" /> What was your First Cool Sneaker you Purchased in 70s  80s

Don Stugots

03-06-2007, 11:52 AM

8th grade, 1987.  all black reebok high tops.  it was my first pair of sneakers that werent converse all stars or decks.

riverofpiss

03-06-2007, 12:06 PM

Air Jordans in 5th grade.  I mowed lawns for a month and a half just to get them cuz my parents would never spend $100 on a pair of shoes.  Once I started to want nice clothes I realized that I would have to work to buy the clothes I wanted because my Dad was never going to budge on that issue.

Planty

03-06-2007, 12:06 PM

My favorite was a nice new pot. Everyone else thought that it was hot.

ChimneyFish

03-06-2007, 12:10 PM

Air Jordan V'sLace locksSee- through solesHell yeeaahs!!!!<img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/aj5_blk_sil_red.jpg" border="0" width="150" height="120" />

sailor

03-06-2007, 12:11 PM

none.  always cheap sneakers.  now, i've only worn adidas gazelles for the past 15 years or so.

Doctor Z

03-06-2007, 12:23 PM

Got myself the Jordan VII's in 3rd grade:<img src="http://www.onesweetpair.com/nikemenpics/103-0400_IMG.JPG" border="0" alt="side" title="side" width="300" height="200" /><img src="http://www.onesweetpair.com/nikemenpics/104-0407_IMG.JPG" border="0" alt="sole" title="sole" width="300" height="200" />Life was good.

reillyluck

03-06-2007, 12:25 PM

i thought horsepants started this thread.  damn it!!! http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/gooney_sailor/adidas1.jpg

reillyluck

03-06-2007, 12:26 PM

fezhaspeaked wrote: My Parents were cheap until  the 7th Grade  (1989),, My twin Bro and I went to a place in Jersey called the Dollar Shoe Outlet, but one cheap pair of Snekaers, get One for a Dollar. in  1990 after all the Abuse from Friends we finaly  were thrown a Bone I purchased the Air Jordan V<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="46" style="border-collapse: collapse" id="AutoNumber2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="813" height="14"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="100%" align="center"><a onclick="*loadProGallery(64);"></a><a onclick="*loadProGallery(64);"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby4LR0u1F8gIBLlOjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN 0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=13fkf4o9q/EXP=1173300305/**http%3A//www.wrhs.net/webdesignprojects_spring2004/eek_final_project/air%2520jordan%25205.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="110" /> What was your First Cool Sneaker you Purchased in 70s  80s Ha! im wearing these right now!! Retro V  rock!!!!!

DoubleJ

03-06-2007, 12:29 PM

If by cool you mean expensive, then ...<img src="http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k295/jjc435/pump.jpg" border="0" width="250" height="209" />

TooLowBrow

03-06-2007, 12:31 PM

<img src="http://fashiontribes.typepad.com/main/images/vanspurple.jpg" border="0" />Just like Spicoli

shittyhambrgers

03-06-2007, 12:32 PM

<img src="http://www.mountainbikeheaven.com/images/spnsrtags/9airwalk.gif" border="0" width="120" height="100" /> airwalks.

Jujubees2

03-06-2007, 12:38 PM

<img src="http://www.chucksconnection.com/articles/optwhite15.jpg" border="0" width="297" height="200" />Only wore Chuck T.s (they only came in black and white) until senior year in high school when I got a pair of green leather Cons.

PapaBear

03-06-2007, 12:39 PM

The only place in town that had them was the Army & Navy Store (now called A & N).<img src="http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/all_star_hi_red.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="160" />Those pump things didn't exist when I was a kid.

sailor

03-06-2007, 12:42 PM

reillyluck wrote: i thought horsepants started this thread. damn it!!! <img src="http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/gooney_sailor/adidas1.jpg" border="0" />   nah, theses:<img src="http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l25/madrigalq/gaz.jpg" border="0" width="400" height="173" /> WAY better.

BLZBUBBA

03-06-2007, 12:45 PM

I was a really shitty kid.  Those Adidas Superstars bring back memories.  When the originals came out I was in Junior High.  I had to have a pair.  Pleaded with the parents.  They gave me the $$ to get them.  A friend worked at a sporting goods store.  He stole a pair...and I paid him half the value and pocketed the difference.  Still wearing the Superstars.  Just bought a pair with genuine imitation snakeskin stripes. 

domino92683

03-06-2007, 12:46 PM

PapaBear wrote: The only place in town that had them was the Army & Navy Store (now called A & N).<img src="http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/all_star_hi_red.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="160" />Those pump things didn't exist when I was a kid. i had these b4 they were cool again....i felt like a loser in the 90s with chuck T's no1 had them

King Hippos Bandaid

03-06-2007, 12:58 PM

reillyluck wrote: fezhaspeaked wrote: My Parents were cheap until  the 7th Grade  (1989),, My twin Bro and I went to a place in Jersey called the Dollar Shoe Outlet, but one cheap pair of Snekaers, get One for a Dollar. in  1990 after all the Abuse from Friends we finaly  were thrown a Bone I purchased the Air Jordan V<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" height="46" style="border-collapse: collapse" id="AutoNumber2"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" width="813" height="14"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" width="100%" align="center"><a onclick="*loadProGallery(64);"></a><a onclick="*loadProGallery(64);"></a></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9iby4LR0u1F8gIBLlOjzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NDgyNWN 0BHNlYwNwcm9m/SIG=13fkf4o9q/EXP=1173300305/**http%3A//www.wrhs.net/webdesignprojects_spring2004/eek_final_project/air%2520jordan%25205.jpg" border="0" width="175" height="110" /> What was your First Cool Sneaker you Purchased in 70s  80s Ha! im wearing these right now!! Retro V  rock!!!!!Very Cool  , wish I could hold on  a Sneaker,   I mud all my sneakers up

Marc with a c

03-06-2007, 01:00 PM

i've never not had cool sneakers

PapaBear

03-06-2007, 01:25 PM

domino92683 wrote: PapaBear wrote: The only place in town that had them was the Army & Navy Store (now called A & N).<img src="http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/all_star_hi_red.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="160" />Those pump things didn't exist when I was a kid. i had these b4 they were cool again....i felt like a loser in the 90s with chuck T's no1 had themI had them in the early 70's. Cool hadn't been invented yet.

narc

03-06-2007, 01:32 PM

My parents refused to buy me Air Jordans when they were popular (like 3rd or 4th grade). But I don't know if anyone else remembers Regulators which were black (they only came in one color) and also inflated. They were also  expensive although much less so than Air Jordans, and we were able to compromise on those. I remember them only as an average shoe.

Team_Ramrod

03-06-2007, 01:39 PM

I think the first pair of cool shoes I had were British Knights. If I'm correct, MC Hammer was in all the ads.A few years later I got my first (and only) pair of Nike Pumps. Nowadays I put my kids in the best shoes possible. Not only for cool but for comfort and support.

Don Stugots

03-06-2007, 01:47 PM

domino92683 wrote: PapaBear wrote: The only place in town that had them was the Army & Navy Store (now called A & N).<img src="http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/all_star_hi_red.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="160" />Those pump things didn't exist when I was a kid. i had these b4 they were cool again....i felt like a loser in the 90s with chuck T's no1 had them at one point i had (2) the real high top one, they looked like wrestling boots.  one pair was blue with yellow inside the other pair was dark blue denim with red W/black flannel inside.  i was cooler than cool.

Crippler

03-06-2007, 02:10 PM

Original series Air Jordans, North Carolina baby blue version...which were hysterically out of place on a short, slow, white 5th grader.

weekapaugjz

03-06-2007, 02:55 PM

i was always making my mom buy me the cool new shoes, i was a brat.  i think fourth grade set it off for me when i got the air huaraches.  i thought i was the coolest kid around when i got those shoes.  i always remember having nikes and reeboks growing up but these were my first "cool" sneakers.http://www.fridayeve.com/gallery/sketchbook/1991_huarache.jpg

sr71blackbird

03-06-2007, 03:16 PM

high fly

03-06-2007, 04:03 PM

"What was the First Cool Sneaker you Had?"Red pair of Keds.After that, the next big leap was going to the black Chuck Taylors.

bigredd

03-06-2007, 04:10 PM

1986...Purple, gold and white Majic fuckin Johnson Converse. My Mom bought them for me in the summer but wouldn't let me wear the fuckers until school started. I swear those fuckers weighed 3 pounds each. Sweet.

TheMojoPin

03-06-2007, 04:14 PM

British Knights, when I was like 12.  They probably were dorky as hell, but it was the one time I got what I thought was the ultimate shoe.BK, BABY.

mattphitz

03-06-2007, 04:14 PM

"What was the First Cool Sneaker you Had?"Reebock pumps, where you pumped the little basketball on the tongue.  Those were pretty damned cool.

FUNKMAN

03-06-2007, 04:25 PM

We had a grocery store, it was Finast and then became C-Town. They had them large cages that would hold the bouncy balls. Well they had a large cage with what looked like a million pair of "skips" in it. Not sure how old I was but my Dad made me buy a red pair with three black stripes down the side and I know I was crying the blues and embarrassed as all heck.My fisrt pair of the 'cool' sneaks was Pro-Keds. I remember the label on the back of the heel and I believe a red and blue rubber stripe on the label with the name. From then on it was Converse and Pumas.

sr71blackbird

03-06-2007, 04:59 PM

Chigworthy

03-06-2007, 05:13 PM

I had the David Robinson pumps.  Before that it was a long line of shitty shoes.  All though the skaters always liked the 15 dollar Airwalks my mom used to get me.  Too bad they weren't the kids that seemed to wield all of that "Lord of the Flies" power.<img src="http://i1.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/8f/aa/460b_1.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="300" />The fact that I felt like I had "made it" by owning these atrocities brings great shame and douche chills upon me.

Gaia

03-06-2007, 05:16 PM

My parents never had much money, but finally, in 7th grade, I got a motherfuckin' pair of LA GEAR sneakers!!!!!  I was so excited, turns out I got made fun of anyway by this stupid bitch in the cafeteria who said they were knockoff's and didnt look real. Now you know why I hated school and why I hate kids.  <img src="http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n53/rfgaia/lagear.jpg" border="0" width="116" height="76" />

This message was edited by Gaia on 3-6-07 @ 9:20 PM

Friday

03-06-2007, 05:20 PM

White LA Gear high tops with a side buckle and sparkly laces..wheeeeeee

LilLibra

03-06-2007, 05:29 PM

Black LA Gear hightops with black, pink and silver glitter shoelaces. I wore them everywhere, any chance I got.

torker

03-06-2007, 05:32 PM

PapaBear wrote: The only place in town that had them was the Army & Navy Store (now called A & N).<img src="http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/all_star_hi_red.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="160" />Those pump things didn't exist when I was a kid.Mine were blue with some red laces. Bad sneakers were called skippies, and the cost a dollar ninety-nine.

Dan 'Hampton

03-07-2007, 12:56 PM

<img src="http://stevesgallery.com/files/PB161372.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="300" /> Black Chuck Taylors.  Not because they were cool but there was a Converse outlet where we used to vacation in the summer, they were cheap there, and we were poor.  Now it's all about my Puma Californias.

drjoek

03-07-2007, 01:03 PM

There were no cool sneakers when I was a kid. I was a Chuck T guy like everyone else. However We were able to get colored laces for an extra $.25 Lace em up in blue or green or red. We all wanted to be cool like Clyde Frazier

Rockvillejoe

03-07-2007, 01:07 PM

after years of begging my mother i got converse chuck taylor black high tops, $10 in the 8th grade, until then, cheap rip off sears "jeepers", looked like chucks until you saw the small black label on the rear heel. i was always walking backwards so nobody could see the jeepers label. in addition, big ass silver square buckled black belts and black wing tip shoes were happenin, too.

Rockvillejoe

03-07-2007, 01:09 PM

dschef wrote: <img src="http://stevesgallery.com/files/PB161372.JPG" border="0" width="400" height="300" /> Black Chuck Taylors.  Not because they were cool but there was a Converse outlet where we used to vacation in the summer, they were cheap there, and we were poor.  Now it's all about my Puma Californias. the round label is a little different then it was in '68, but this shot does bring me back to oscar robinson and otis redding.

J.Clints

03-07-2007, 01:13 PM

ChimneyFish wrote: Air Jordan V'sLace locksSee- through solesHell yeeaahs!!!!<img src="http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/aj5_blk_sil_red.jpg" border="0" width="150" height="120" />I had these too. I awalys had Jordans. Once I Started working I had every pair. I would Skip school to buy them. Loved these shoes. I wish they made them like these still.

DonInNC

03-07-2007, 01:24 PM

1979 - White Nike high tops. Except they were canvas. Think Chuck T's with the Nike logo. They got dirty the first week of school. My mother washed them. They were ruined. But I was stuck with them until Christmas.

Bellyfullasnot

03-07-2007, 01:55 PM

White Pony high tops.  The coolest shoe was a Jaws shark tooth model from Buster Brown (mid 70's).  It had a shark tooth in the laces.  Kids get cool stuff.

TjM

03-07-2007, 01:58 PM

Chuck T's .............never bothered with anything else

Hottub

03-07-2007, 02:02 PM

I wore by blue Chuck's today.Tomorrow I may wear the red.

Marc with a c

03-07-2007, 02:04 PM

Hottub wrote: I wore by blue Chuck's today.Tomorrow I may wear the red.why not do both at the same time hottubby brewster

PapaBear

03-07-2007, 02:08 PM

Marc with a c wrote: Hottub wrote: I wore by blue Chuck's today.Tomorrow I may wear the red.why not do both at the same time hottubby brewster<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002B15X8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" width="326" height="475" />

Bill From Yorktown

03-07-2007, 02:08 PM

PapaBear wrote: The only place in town that had them was the Army & Navy Store (now called A & N).<img src="http://www.pickyourshoes.com/images/shoes/all_star_hi_red.jpg" border="0" width="200" height="160" />Those pump things didn't exist when I was a kid.PAPABEAR!  I had the same ones - they were so obnoxious they were cool, daddeo.  My fav.  

This message was edited by Bill From Yorktown on 3-7-07 @ 6:09 PM

davidb72

03-07-2007, 04:27 PM

I think it was 1988 or so and I had these red and white Diadora high tops with this velcro thing that connected to the tongue. Then I saw "Do the right thing" and yelled at anybody that scuffed my sneakers. I also had a friend that would say "Them shits is broke!"

high fly

03-10-2007, 11:10 PM

The progression for me went,Red ball KedsWhite Converse high-tops White Converse low-quartersBlack Converse low-quarters Then the "designer" sneaks came into vogue and which my parents wouldn't buy ecause they were like, 5 bucks a pair. We wore Converse in P.E.Adidas black with white stripesPumasNikesConverse in orange, then lime greenReeboksthen I settled in for quite a while with red Adidas Gazelles. I liked-em so much and they were so hard to find I bought 3 pair.Since then I've gone back and forth between the Pumas and the Adidas.   

This message was edited by high fly on 3-11-07 @ 4:15 AM

sr71blackbird

03-11-2007, 03:22 AM

This is kind of strange, but I do not know where else to go.  I went to a Catholic grade school, and had to wear the uniform and shoes, not sneakers.  In the mid 70's, this new kind of shoe/sneaker came out and it was essentially a sneaker, that looked like a shoe.  they may have called them casual shoes or something.  They were brown and we were able to get away with wearing them and the teachers didnt notice then (before this, if you wore sneakers to school, you would get in trouble).  I think Puma made them, but I am not 100% sure.  Does this seem familar to anyone?

hedges

03-11-2007, 04:06 PM

This discussion reminds me of something kind of interesting. Remember the checkerboard Vans that were popular in around '82. Well I was in D.C. and going to junior high at the time, and kids would take normal white sneakers and "checkerboard" them with ball-point pens. It was cool then. I guess there weren't Vans around.

Me, I always liked the Pumas.

cougarjake13

03-11-2007, 04:09 PM

probably some kind of nike

ralphbxny

03-16-2007, 07:20 AM

Air Jordans black and red.

Knowledged_one

03-16-2007, 07:27 AM

I had the original Jordans when i was younger and they were bad assI also bought my nephew a pair of adult size 8 LeBron James 1st Shoe from NIKE and he is only 4.  My brother took them and got them sealed in a vaccuum type bag so that when he is older he will have an original pair of LeBrons sneakers while everyone else has newer shoes and he will be retro

runnerkid

05-25-2007, 06:14 PM

The 2 pairs of Adidas spikes in this pick I saved up for. The Tech LD (green) and the Tech MD (soft blue). I was so stoked when i got them.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e265/runnerkid/DSCN2495.jpg

I also used to buy an extra pair of running shoes...of the ones I really liked and just saved them. I am sitting on tons of them now.

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e265/runnerkid/CIMG1163.jpg

scottinnj

06-22-2007, 09:49 PM

My school was too cheap to pay for insurance for Football, so we played soccer. So when it was rainy, we practiced indoors. So I got a pair of Patricks and they were the best fitting sneaker ever.

I think this is what they looked like.

http://i121.photobucket.com/albums/o217/themarshal/sprtSoccerPatrick_Maracana_Indoor-r.jpg

scottinnj

06-22-2007, 09:51 PM

waltermitty

06-22-2007, 09:55 PM

http://www.top-trendy.com/images/Reebok%20Mens%20ATR%20Pump%20Torchm1.jpg

Don Stugots

06-22-2007, 10:04 PM

shit, i forgot i had a pair of puma baskets and puma KATS. i hated both and went back to my All Stars.

IamPixie

06-22-2007, 10:06 PM

i thought horsepants started this thread.  damn it!!! http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/gooney_sailor/adidas1.jpg

I have these exact sneakers now and I love them. But I'll always love my chuck taylors.

ToddEVF

06-23-2007, 02:27 AM

had to be the BK Lights. the original shoe with the annoying flashing lights whenever you took a step

buzzard

07-10-2007, 01:42 PM

I may be dating myself,however I am a cheap date...mine were PF Flyers...gosh, I'm old!

carsonogin

07-31-2007, 12:06 PM

I thought these were the shit when I was a lad.

http://sneakers.pair.com/l/roos-6n.jpg

Now I'm old and have a pair of Heely's.

Snoogans

07-31-2007, 12:13 PM

http://www.tportal.hr/2005/06/03/0030007.19.jpg

http://www.rollerquad.net/images/pump/battleground/pump.jpg

Can't remember which ones I had first, but both of them were pretty nasty.

envirogator

07-31-2007, 12:23 PM

anybody remember Pony brand shoes...8th grade we all got them for basketball....white on white, high tops. thought we were soooooo fucking cool.

Snoogans

07-31-2007, 12:35 PM

i had the Rodman's when they first came out, too. Also, the Puma discs which were awful

King Hippos Bandaid

07-31-2007, 01:25 PM

Hey its one of my first Threads, good to see ya resurface

I remember the Day when my foot was too big for Kid Sized Jordans, my Parents were trying to stuff the shoe on my foot, cheap bastards

I know it was $80 more, but act like adults

:king: