I'm so old that....

1. My first run was in Converse All-Star High Tops.  Two miles, the standard high school cross country distance.
2. I remember the 1964 Phillies blowing their post-season chances.
3. One track we ran on in high school was a 330 yard cinder beauty and another was grass.
4. The phones in the dorms at East Halls were in the hallway, one for every four rooms.
5. Beaver Stadium was still an open horse-shoe with a track when I saw my first football game there.
6. I could make a big dent in my next term's tuition fee by painting houses in the summer, and still run 8 miles in the morning and 8 miles at night. (No young whipper-snapper should attempt this today!) Documentation available upon request.
7. My first Nikes were obviously hand-made, and quite poorly also.  I loved them anyway.
8. McDonalds were counter service only and hamburgers were 15 cents.  We had to drive 20 miles to New Cumberland to partake.  I always finagled my sister's fries.
9. I once owned a Leisure Suit and platform shoes. No photos are available.
10. Pittsburgh still made actual steel.  So did Allentown, for that matter.
11. We actually discussed the possibility that Derek Clayton's Marathon world record may never be broken.  He discussed blood in his urine after the effort, which made everyone quite queasy. 
12. Televisions still had vacuum tubes and took minutes to warm up.  That's how the habit of leaving them on all the time began. Technicians often made house calls to fix TVs which were "on the fritz".  This often took several trips, as the tubes were often not in stock.
13. Land-line phones were on a "party-line".  Often, all your neighbors knew everything you talked about and to whom you talked.  900-lines didn't exist.
14. Only one guy made football prognostications and he was a criminal.
15. "Over-distance" runs for the PSU runners were 3 miles. (Source is a Horace Ashenfelter interview)
16. The Empire State Building was the world's tallest and was built in less than 1/20th the time of the new World Trade Tower Building.  Everyone threw a penny off the observation deck to keep the urban legend alive.
17. Everyone else on my first cross country team regularly took salt tablets to guard against "side stitches".  I have no idea who dreamed that one up.  I somehow knew better.
18. I once bought bee pollen from Gary Fanelli.
19. I once ran 35 miles from York to Gettyburg while my brother drove ahead to give me ERG  (Electrolyte Replacement with Glucose) every 5 miles. The head of the Bon-Ton Stores saw me at the square in Gettysburg and still to this day doesn't believe I had run from York.  (Marathon distance in 3:03!).  Those were the days.
20. No stores were ever open on Sunday.   When I lived in Amish Country, the stores actually closed at 4:00 PM on Saturday so they could prepare for Sunday!
21. Shoe stores regularly x-rayed your feet in shoes to see if they fit.  The machines delivered very high doses to the feet and high doses to the groins of the children viewed.  Shoe store employees were the only documented victims of the machines, however.  My feet were only in it once.