How crazy were Jordan shoes in the 80s?

[Hov]

I remember everyone being hype over J's, being hype when seeing classmates with em, probably people getting robbed over em etc...but I was 3rd/4th grade in 91, and people I knew was just as hyped over Reebok Pumps as Jordans..I woudl've taken the pumps anyday...

But the first real WOW! Frenzy I had ever seen was them White/Black Patent Leathers in 96 - that was the real game changer in my eyes. I had never seen anything like it, and people wanted to riot over those. Ever since that release, I remember that everytime Jordan dropped a shoe, it was a major, major deal - and they never really lived up to the patent leathers, but the hype kept them going, and his brand has been really living off 20 damn years off old releases lol.

I am not a sneakerhead, but an old head, and I think those Jordan 11 Concords changed life forever.

 

[airmax95fan]

I remember those Forces. Weren't they the ones you had a little nozzle that you used to pump them in the back?

Pump on the side, air release on the back.

 

[Art Barr]

when me and my father copped the ones upon release date downtown brooklyn at V.I.M.S. they were $63.00 with tax which was UNHEARD of b. coppin 45 dollar adidas was considered an extravagance so this was outrageous. and we were not swimmin in bread at all but my father understood how much i loved mike (though magic was my favorite, still) and dreamed about them shoes. i knew every intimate detail and got him hype too. so i got the red and black and he bought himself the red, white and blacks. they came with two pairs of shoelaces, both red and black. but my strange father decided he was going to put both of them laces in his joints at the same time and it looked weird as fukk but i ain't say shyt lol

i was an extremely well behaved little nerdy/square nikka but when i walked into school rockin them shyts with the matching le tigre and run dmc lee denims? shorties were on me b plus i was fielding questions from my homeboys about everything air jordan related. i even started jumping and nikkas swore my vertical increased. i was gassed

nobody tried to rob me because of who my cousins were. thank god. i've been about them J's ever since basically

this is a real account.

the pricing is ACCURRATE and besides me.
this is the only other time i have seen the real price of the one's quoted accurately.

props.


art barr

jordan did not develop the stigma of being Jordana till the jordan ii.
the Jordan iii became as popular as it did. as it entered into more big box retail outlets. Such as jc penny. Which is how i got numerous pairs of Jordan iii's from the sky Jordan softback iii to the black and white ele print iii air jordan.

back then, a doctor prescribed me Jordan iii's.
I had to buy the ii's myself.
when child world ran out of the last few dead stock dust tan USs flagg, I had saved up to finally get.
eons after it was first released.
the sky Jordan soft back iii's were higher in price than the original sky Jordan's i's at thirty five dollars. I believe they were now adult Jordan one price point of sixty five. Plus the sky Jordan i size went from I believe you needed a six to get air Jordan's. On the two i believe if i remember right they down to a five.
on the three. The air Jordan size was a seven.
when the air Jordan was a six and five previously. So now i went from wearing air Jordan's back to the sky Jordan iii with the soft back air jordan.
I still remember feeling so jipped.
then later on way way after the three's came out arrived in jc penny.
so you could get the white or black three's deadstock way way after the fact.
so that became my place to get three's but they never were on sale in jc penny and originally. All they ever got was the three, and la gears for a long ass time.

I had like four pairs of three's on a whim and almost got tired of them.
I remember having the cement four's and jc penny still had deadstock iii's on deck.


art barr

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

I had the original Nike Air Pippens they were $160 at Footlocker

these aren’t the original pippens, still a classic dope shoe though.

 

[Rob's al Ghul]

My first pair of Js was the black 5s. Mayne, you couldn't tell a young knuckleheaded brother anything back then...I knew I was flossing.

That reflective metallic silver and the shark toothed midsole...

 

[General Mills]

this is a real account.

the pricing is ACCURRATE and besides me.
this is the only other time i have seen the real price of the one's quoted accurately.

props.


art barr

jordan did not develop the stigma of being Jordana till the jordan ii.
the Jordan iii became as popular as it did. as it entered into more big box retail outlets. Such as jc penny. Which is how i got numerous pairs of Jordan iii's from the sky Jordan softback iii to the black and white ele print iii air jordan.

back then, a doctor prescribed me Jordan iii's.
I had to buy the ii's myself.
when child world ran out of the last few dead stock dust tan USs flagg, I had saved up to finally get.
eons after it was first released.
the sky Jordan soft back iii's were higher in price than the original sky Jordan's i's at thirty five dollars. I believe they were now adult Jordan one price point of sixty five. Plus the sky Jordan i size went from I believe you needed a six to get air Jordan's. On the two i believe if i remember right they down to a five.
on the three. The air Jordan size was a seven.
when the air Jordan was a six and five previously. So now i went from wearing air Jordan's back to the sky Jordan iii with the soft back air jordan.
I still remember feeling so jipped.
then later on way way after the three's came out arrived in jc penny.
so you could get the white or black three's deadstock way way after the fact.
so that became my place to get three's but they never were on sale in jc penny and originally. All they ever got was the three, and la gears for a long ass time.

I had like four pairs of three's on a whim and almost got tired of them.
I remember having the cement four's and jc penny still had deadstock iii's on deck.


art barr

PROLIFIC POSTING!



Jezuz Krist that was a bar

 

[Art Barr]

PROLIFIC POSTING!



Jezuz Krist that was a bar

they don't make shyt that great anymore for a kid.
back then all you needed was fifty for a millennium falcon.
Then it doubled and you needed that hunid dollars.
when a hunid was the price point for all dope shyt.
you Could get a uss flag, the goat toy.
or a pair of jordan ii's with italian cowskin thick leather.

nikkaz are deprived now.

they got no heroes, no music, no toys etc.

I would hate to be a kid now.

no gi joe on, no star wars worth a cot damn, voltron is literally gay. Who ever made that decision over st Sony needs to be murdered and jailed for selling pedo shyt to kids under the host property license. No robotech and learning your unfocused friends gon die and you with them.
if you don't focus on what the deal is.

this shyt huff as fukk now.

being a kid now is probably like living in communism.
it would suck to be a kid now.


art barr

 

[General Mills]

they don't make shyt that great anymore for a kid.
back then all you needed was fifty for a millennium falcon.
Then it doubled and you needed that hunid dollars.
when a hunid was the price point for all dope shyt.
you Could get a uss flag, the goat toy.
or a pair of jordan ii's with italian cowskin thick leather.

nikkaz are deprived now.

they got no heroes, no music, no toys etc.

I would hate to be a kid now.

no gi joe on, no star wars worth a cot damn, voltron is literally gay. Who ever made that decision over st Sony needs to be murdered and jailed for selling pedo shyt to kids under the host property license. No robotech and learning your unfocused friends gon die and you with them.
if you don't focus on what the deal is.

this shyt huff as fukk now.

being a kid now is probably like living in communism.
it would suck to be a kid now.


art barr

We had the best toys breh

I remember my neighbor stunting on us when he his moms copped him Soundwave. We were He also had Buzzsaw and Ravage. My jealousy was at a all time high. I did some shameful shyt. He used to leave them in his backyard sometimes. He NEVER let us play with them. Would only allow us to look. So I hopped his backyard and stole them shyts. Kept them in my room and told no one. Not even my lil brother cause he had a propensity for running his damn mouth.



My all time fav toy was the die cast Voltron. Bish weighed damn near 20 pounds. During a hardcore steel cage bedroom wrestling match one of my cousins got bashed in the head with the black lion. He was leaking crazy. By rights he should have got stitches but we just poured peroxide on that cut and bandaided him up. Breh still got the scar. It lowkey has his hairline crooked as fukk now.

When the Jordans prices started creeping up over one hundred I told my pops I wanted the threes. You would have thought I slapped him in the face the way he looked at his oldest son. He copped me the Akeem Olajuwon Etonics instead. I was a stan of Akeem ( that was how his name was spelled back then ) but Jordans were another level.

Those Etonics had good ankle support but the cushioning was non existent. shyts was like hooping in concrete blocks.

 

[Art Barr]

We had the best toys breh

I remember my neighbor stunting on us when he his moms copped him Soundwave. We were He also had Buzzsaw and Ravage. My jealousy was at a all time high. I did some shameful shyt. He used to leave them in his backyard sometimes. He NEVER let us play with them. Would only allow us to look. So I hopped his backyard and stole them shyts. Kept them in my room and told no one. Not even my lil brother cause he had a propensity for running his damn mouth.



My all time fav toy was the die cast Voltron. Bish weighed damn near 20 pounds. During a hardcore steel cage bedroom wrestling match one of my cousins got bashed in the head with the black lion. He was leaking crazy. By rights he should have got stitches but we just poured peroxide on that cut and bandaided him up. Breh still got the scar. It lowkey has his hairline crooked as fukk now.

When the Jordans prices started creeping up over one hundred I told my pops I wanted the threes. You would have thought I slapped him in the face the way he looked at his oldest son. He copped me the Akeem Olajuwon Etonics instead. I was a stan of Akeem ( that was how his name was spelled back then ) but Jordans were another level.

Those Etonics had good ankle support but the cushioning was non existent. shyts was like hooping in concrete blocks.

I know your life.
I stole secret wars spiderman.
I paid the homies like twenty bucks for the whole chuck norris set.
including the car.
which he stole from zayre.

I paid the same homie for those great bootleg ninja toys from back in the day. Where they had a whole line in the bootleg store. This was before Sunman was at the bootleg store. This series Of ninjas i had were like the villain to chuck norris but better.
I am sure he stole those. Yet i would have never had them because by the time i found out where this store was myself. They sold out of the ninjas, and had bootlegs like Sunman and wonder bread he man.
my moms never paid attention like that and let her friends pick up all the pieces of every damn thing. So she never noticed a damn thing. Pops, too.
my bff's mom and his aunt and g-moms bought my toys for Xmas and bday out the sears
catalog.
so my parents just never paid attention to a dAmn thing.
so when it came time for them to do sumfin. Other parents made my parents look like bs. Especially since this was before crack and before the divorce gen.
so, this was when black America was secure.
so it made no sense.
for any parent to lean on others but my parents were corporate So they did on everything.
except this one time.
they needed to be on point.
this is voltron.

voltron,... Drew the line in the sand.
my pops botched voltron so bad.

I don't think i ever forgave him.
as i could have bought it myself.
yet he said he would get it for me and he never delivered like black return of jedi luke Skywalker. That to this day i still remember him returning.
from an out of town trip with the sold out jedi black suit luke.
from like Pennsylvania.
or wherever he went on business that time as a six year old.
remember it like yesterday. I don't even remember getting bespin luke vivid like that. When i loved bespin luke way more than jedi luke.
pops used to come through. Not this time and he botched and bungled voltron like no other. Plus he hated stores that were not big box. So, I believe he was like sheit..i ain't paying no hundred dollars to this nonreputable store. As Chicago was different then and it had mom and pop send off electronic stores. the real go lion was in the Japanese store.
on seventy first across the street from Walgreens. As kids my pops educated us on not to frequent.
so given that dynamic, I believe he botched voltron.
being apprehensive to paying that much money to the neighborhood mom and pops Chinese bootleg store.
like literally this was the real voltron.
the real metal die cast voltron from Japan.
the real go lion.
that shot missles from the Chinese bootleg store. Which originally was the only one with voltron. There was no matchbox voltron yet. All there was, was the real Japanese toy from the Japanese import store. Which was viewed as bootleg.
yet, it was a high end store. Along with the other real high end doll store on seventy first back then.
this was the real go lion.
with the shooting rockets weapons and accessories. I mean every weapon on every episode of voltron and all the firing missiles worked and snapped on. Plus the lion weapons, blazing sword, blazing star, the blazing mini swords etc.
it is the holy grail toy.
other than the original expensive Scott Bernard robotech transforming cycle.
or the uss flag.

pops botched so bad.

first he ain't even get me the go lion.
as parent or Ybe just my parents.
just did not really pay attention like they needed to.
when i tell you.
he gave me the worst xmas's from not beinG focused ever

pops got me the worst toy ever.



the three robot voltron.


I wanted to kill his ass.

then to top it off.
it was like you did not listen.
you bullshytted for six months since the summer.
when i could have got this shyt myself.
plus you played in your ass for six months.
when i could have bought the shyt myself.
so I got my money and went to go get the voltron myself.
no beuno,....
of course.......
so I had to wait till the matchbox split set dropped.
then had to call around everywhere to find the three box set to form voltron.
I bought the yellow and green lion set myself.
which if i remember right was like twenty five for the yellow and green safety hazard matchbox split up revenue grab box set.
Plus found the blazing sword and ninja star pack separately for like twenty bucks back then.
it took me a whole year of calling around to find the red and blue lion.
it was not till like my bday two years later.
did my pops find a black lion and I could form voltron.

then to top if off.
he fukked up the nes too.
nikka bought me a sega master system.

I remembered then to never if i had kids to not pay full attention to everything.
no mistakes, no flodge'n.


thanks, pop.
I learned not to botch shyt as a parent.
all because you fukked up buying voltron and the nes.


worst xmas's ever.....

be better than poppa bar, people.
pay attention to your kids.
paying amenities is not child care.
you supposed to be doing that.
caring for your child in every way is childcare.


art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I was a youngin’ in the 90s but I do remember MFers getting killed, robbed, stabbed, jumped over starter jackets and Jordan’s.

pretty sure Chicago Public Schools banned; in particular, the bred 11s in 95/96

do you remember towel coats?
what about used and damaged.
were you old enough for troop?
were you old enough for task force jackets?
were you old enough for the triple fat goose?



art barr

 

[manyfaces]

We had the best toys breh

I remember my neighbor stunting on us when he his moms copped him Soundwave. We were He also had Buzzsaw and Ravage. My jealousy was at a all time high. I did some shameful shyt. He used to leave them in his backyard sometimes. He NEVER let us play with them. Would only allow us to look. So I hopped his backyard and stole them shyts. Kept them in my room and told no one. Not even my lil brother cause he had a propensity for running his damn mouth.



My all time fav toy was the die cast Voltron. Bish weighed damn near 20 pounds. During a hardcore steel cage bedroom wrestling match one of my cousins got bashed in the head with the black lion. He was leaking crazy. By rights he should have got stitches but we just poured peroxide on that cut and bandaided him up. Breh still got the scar. It lowkey has his hairline crooked as fukk now.

When the Jordans prices started creeping up over one hundred I told my pops I wanted the threes. You would have thought I slapped him in the face the way he looked at his oldest son. He copped me the Akeem Olajuwon Etonics instead. I was a stan of Akeem ( that was how his name was spelled back then ) but Jordans were another level.

Those Etonics had good ankle support but the cushioning was non existent. shyts was like hooping in concrete blocks.

I remember that heavy ass Voltron. I had the black lion but they never got me any of the others. But that was cool cause if you were gonna have just 1 then the black lion was the one. And I can even trustee to your soundwave story. I've definitely had a not too proud moment as a kid like that. shyt, nikkas got me the same way. Look up and a toy straight disappeared. I searched my Granny's house for damn near 10 years for my MASK motorcycle that turned into a helicopter. It wasn't until I was a grown ass man that I had to accept that somebody got me for that shyt.

 

[General Mills]

I know your life.
I stole secret wars spiderman.
I paid the homies like twenty bucks for the whole chuck norris set.
including the car.
which he stole from zayre.

I paid the same homie for those great bootleg ninja toys from back in the day. Where they had a whole line in the bootleg store. This was before Sunman was at the bootleg store. This series Of ninjas i had were like the villain to chuck norris but better.
I am sure he stole those. Yet i would have never had them because by the time i found out where this store was myself. They sold out of the ninjas, and had bootlegs like Sunman and wonder bread he man.
my moms never paid attention like that and let her friends pick up all the pieces of every damn thing. So she never noticed a damn thing. Pops, too.

voltron,... Drew the line in the sand.
my pops botched voltron so bad.

I don't think i ever forgave him.
as i could have bought it myself.
yet he said he would get it for me and he never delivered like black return of jedi luke Skywalker. That to this day i still remember him returning from an out of town trip with the sold out luke from like Pennsylvania or wherever he went on business that time as a six year old.
remember it like yesterday. I don't even remember getting bespin luke vivid like that. When i loved bespin luke way more than jedi luke but pops used to come through. Not this time and he botched and bungled voltron like no other. Plus he hated stores that were not big box. So, I believe he was like sheit..i ain't paying no hundred dollars to this nonreputable store. As Chicago was different then and it had mom and pop send off electronic stores. the real go lion was in the Japanese store on seventy first across the street from Walgreens. As kids my pops educated us on not to frequent.
so given that dynamic, I believe he botched voltron.
being apprehensive to paying that much money to the neighborhood mom and pops Chinese bootleg store.
like literally this was the real voltron.
the real metal die cast voltron from Japan.
the real go lion.
that shot missles from the Chinese bootleg store. Which originally was the only one with voltron. There was no matchbox voltron yet. All there was, was the real Japanese toy from fbe Japanese import store. Which sas viewed as bootleg but it was a high end store. Along with the other real high end doll store on seventy first back then.
this was the real go lion.
with the shooting rockets weapons and accessories. I mean every weapon on every episode of voltron and all the firing missiles worked and snapped on. Plus the lion weapons, blazing sword, blazing star, the blazing mini swords etc.
it is the holy grail toy.
other than the original expensive Scott Bernard robotech transforming cycle.
or the uss flag.

pops botched so bad.

first he ain't even get me the go lion.
as parent or Ybe just my parents.
just did not really pay attention like they needed to.
when i tell you.
he gave me the worst xmas's from not beinG focused ever

pops got me the worst toy ever.

the three robot voltron.


I wanted to kill his ass.

then to top it off.
it was like you did not listen.
you bullshytted for six months since the summer.
when i could have got this shyt myself.
plus you played in your ass for six months.
when i could have bought the shyt myself.
so I got my money and went to go get the voltron myself.
no beuno,....
of course.......
so I had to wait till the matchbox split set dropped.
then had to call around everywhere to find the three box set to form voltron.
I bought the yellow and green lion set myself.
which if i remember right was like twenty five for the yellow and green safety hazard matchbox split up revenue grab box set.
Plus found the blazing sword and ninja star pack separately for like twenty bucks back then.
it took me a whole year of calling around to find the red and blue lion.
it was not till like my bday two years later.
did my pops find a black lion and I could form voltron.

then to top if off.
he fukked up the nes too.
nikka bought me a sega master system.

I remembered then to never if i had kids to not pay full attention to everything.
no mistakes, no flodge'n.


thanks, pop.
I learned not to botch shyt as a parent.
all because you fukked up buying voltron and the nes.


worst xmas's ever.....

be better than poppa bar, people.
pay attention to your kids.
paying amenities is not child care.
you supposed to be doing that.
caring for your child in every way is childcare.


art barr

Barr is the only nikka on this site who can out 80's nostalgia me.


When you said your pops came home with the three robot Voltron I lost it You was right about the original real voltron toys that shot every missile and had the blazing sword and all.


The only thing I disagree with is that you took a L by getting the Sega instead of a NES. We have had this argument before about the systems and I lost so I will not bring it up again.

 

[Art Barr]

Barr is the only nikka on this site who can out 80's nostalgia me.


When you said your pops came home with the three robot Voltron I lost it You was right about the original real voltron toys that shot every missile and had the blazing sword and all.


The only thing I disagree with is that you took a L by getting the Sega instead of a NES. We have had this argument before about the systems and I lost so I will not bring it up again.

I stop believe'n in anything pops said after that shyt.
that shyt started the rebel, to rebel.

yeah, alright became my go to.

Like yeah alright.
equals, i ain't believe'n you.
you gon botch this shyt.
so i might as well go start trying to be the best at that on my own.

You can write and program computer code nikka and work giant turbine warp drive computers.
yet you can't even get the nes and voltron right.

plus you hate rap,....

ol wnua soft jazz ass nikka.

me and pops was never the same after that shyt.
it was not till he stole my nwa and pops got pulled over in Ohio.
listening to fukk the police going to bmore. Did he gain his shine back.

I stole my nwa tape back.
then got in trouble for taste of chocolate and he took nwa back and that huff ass bdk album. That whole wrinkle in time the heroes were breakin my heart. Pops, kane, no nes, no voltron. All back to back to back.

thank the lord for robotech, and gi joe always being the savior then.

pops could get that gi joe playset sticker on the joe tank life right, tho.
never forget.
pops pulled out the mini flathead screwdriver.
to put on all my decals on every gi joe vehicle tho.
so I knew he knew about attention to extreme detail. That is why i was pissed at his ass.
for that lazy ass botch. He just did not try.
I gave his ass hell for years.




art barr

 

[BXKingPin82]

these aren’t the original pippens, still a classic dope shoe though.

these are the ones I have now.

these are the original EXCLUSIVE Pippen joints right???

 

[General Mills]

these are the ones I have now.

these are the original EXCLUSIVE Pippen joints right???

I always thought these were the 1st Pippens

The ones with the zig zag design