California Travel Tips
Being Tall in California
Published on: December 28, 2016
By C. MacDonald
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
When I was young I’d answer, “If I could grow tall enough, I’d like to be a San Francisco Warrior basketball player.” Although I never played for the Warriors, I did manage to play college basketball with a 6’10” guy who became the NBA’s first slam dunk champion.
Being tall is not all it’s cut out to be. There’s the awkward process of getting there. An old joke about someone who is so uncoordinated he can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, fit me like a “T” in high school when I shot up 8 inches from 5’6″ to 6’2″ in a year. I ended up growing a few more inches after that. Read about being tall…>
- The tallest man, Robert Pershing Wadlow from Alton, Illinois in 1940 stood 8 ft 11.1 in
- Tallest woman = 8 ft 1.75 in
- Shortest man = 21.5 inches
- Shortest woman = 24.7″
- Average American: man = 5 ft 9.5 in | woman = 5 ft 3.75 in
- California King bed = 84″ or 7 feet
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