words_Jordan Hagedorn
The sneaker craze over the last decade has been insane (in a good way). The industry has grown a ton and we have the awesome shoe brands, talented players and loyal sports/sneaker fans everywhere to thank for that. Another piece to that puzzle has undoubtedly been the Eastbay catalog. Among many other things, Eastbay’s Jordan selection and the variety of colors always baffled me as a kid, and still does to this day! So lets take a stroll down Eastbay Memory Lane and have a look at the hoops catalog from 10 years ago. The cover featured a massive dunk by a guy that is “VERTICALLY INSANE.” The back cover has a nice pair of Nike Air Max Plus that look like an Olympic-esque colorway.
As we move to Page 3 we see a solid Reebok collection. This is where the color variety comes into play. 15 colors of the Reebok Question! It’s nice to think back to Iverson’s prime…
Page 9 was amazing. As you see it has a bunch of AJ XV in mids, lows and mocs along with some classy $225 Jordan boots, the original Super Freak and the Trunner. But most of all, the retros caught my eye. The icy Air Jordan V Laney and White/Silver colorways and the biggest gem of this catalog, the wrong sample Air Jordan VI with the Infared midsole. The actual VI that was shipped to customers of course had the dominantly black midsole with the Infared accents, making this minor error a beauty.
How insane is it to see those Laneys and VIs? for 120! And I remember them getting cheaper.
All those OG Questions. *drool*
All those Questions look great, and the Team Answer III’s and all available in my size(hint to RBK increase the size run on the new retro’s a little 😉 )
Prices to dream about, and how about them Super Freak’s, I completely missed those, very funky shoe though.
If I could go back in time (that has to be a song) I would buy both of those Vs. I remember passing on them back then because they sat for too long. Why didn’t I buy them when they were on sale????
Yeah, the Superfreaks were an underrated Team Release. That was back when I felt the Jordan Team releases were almost as interesting as the Air Jordan releases.
My favorite Question of all time was the one up front. The low with the blue suede toe. Had em…beat em into the ground…want another pair.
The good old days! I wish I knew about Eastbay at that time.
Iverson gear was what was in, that’s how you know it was a while ago! haha
It’s amazing to see certain shoes that look to have a FSR still available.
I miss those days.
Dahm! all those Questions!!
Wow 10 years gone by already since Laneys and Infra’s.
Thanks for posting, would love to see similar flash backs in the future too
STIVALE!!!!!!
I remember these days, its funny that if i go in my basement i might have a catalog dated that far back, can i get a few thousand for that lol.. i love the topic here thats cool to go way back every once and a while.. The price tags have me going crazy though, but even back then that was considered alot of money for sneakers.
You gotta be kidding!!! Those aren’t normal infrareds they got, those are sample infrareds the red runs the sole and they had Laney 5s, I wish I wasn’t 7 years old in 2000.