Everything in the 90’s was PEAK.. fashion, movies, music, women, no social media, its depressing vividly rememering in the 90’s and seeing how things are now
EastBay and Crutchfield catalogs bro, no phones or online shit. call some homies and then go to the swap meet/flea market pick up some blackouts for the headlights in the car, maybe new head unit or amp, have the Bass Mechanix vol 17 CD for your system... Dogg the flea market/swap meet had EVERYTHING back in the 90s, u could get a haircut up in there, git tatted, git food, buy bongs, random shit like lamps n rugs, any home decorations, and bootleg EVERYthing 🤣lol "Yo I got CDs, DVDs I got party favors got incense wassup watchu need? I got the Dogg food 4 sure!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 only on saturdays n sundays tho. which was wack AF.
@@eatassonthefirstdate your comment got me lmao😂 because your telling the truth you just had to be there do you remember a sneaker store called just for feet that's where I used to get alot of my sneakers at
@@JahMike202 Dogg, I had so many stacks of Eastbay, Crutchfield, and CCS (it's a skateboarding distributor company, biggest in America lol) catalogs it wasn't even fckkin funny bro
The problem is all the kids and young adults want to wear the fashion from the 80’s and 90’s it’s why all the retro releases get bought up quick. They know most of the new releases in kicks today suck. They say the technology in shoes is better today yet we see way more athletes especially in basketball getting hurt. Rolling their ankles wearing those low top basketball shoes. 🤦🏼♂️
The best times was When every city had their own style/swag/look. And we could tell who’s from who by how they dress. That’s the era I missed. Now everyone dressed alike and do the same shit smfh. I miss the 90’s early 00’s man.
90s was the last generation of culture being able to think and be original in your style. The peak of the best time to be alive. 2000s everything started to decline. I would say after 08 it started crumbling. It had a lil run following the wayne and ross era but it just dont feel the same anymore.
I watched an interview with Fat Joe and he said that he used to do tours through the small towns and cities just so he could go to the mom and pop stores and look through their dead stock back in the late 90s early 00s. He said it lead to him making special trips throughout the country just to go to these mom and pop places when they were closing so he could see what he could find and he found plenty. They hype beast effected the sneaker game in some negative ways for sure.
That’s exactly how it was. I was a teen in the mid 90’s. The internet made everything too hype for everyone. There was no such thing as “as back dooring” no one had sneaker collections to look at on a shelf in there room we just wore the shoes lol no one was all that hype on em. Like people liked em yes but not like today where people pay 1,500 for a pair of Chinese made Nikes. Us old heads still laugh at that shit
I’ve been sayin this the sneaker game is full of a bunch of nerds price gouging they got no clue what it meant to go out and find the heat nobody else had.
Nobody is Gonna give this guy his flowers now? Not jock riding at all I just recognize good product. This is A true Sneaker Lover…Dude I’m glad the algorithm brought me to your page. First Video. Half way through and I’m here writing. This Page is going to be a COIN. Never change up stay in this realm. This is GREAT content. 🎉🎉🎉
Liked and subbed. I keep telling my boys this same thing. I think some of the major companies should just stop introducing so many new models. Instead reach back in the archive and focus on bringing back the OGs. There should be no reason for some of these guys to even have their own signature shoes nowadays. Pay homage and update the tech on old models so the new gen can rock them on court. The buzz would be crazyyyy all over again!
That’s the thing in the 90’s. The internet no one understood what it was going to become. In 1994. There was no social media so there wasn’t all this artificial hype. The days of going to the shoe store having them bring your size out, lace them up and try them on is loooong over. I never would’ve thought a shoe as simple as a dunk would have to be a raffle entry to buy. If you didn’t get tot grow up in the 90’s and experience it in, at least, your teens like I did I feel bad for yall. It was way better than today. Than the 2000’s any of that. That’s why the 90’s have such nostalgia feeling for people who didn’t even get to grow up in that time. It was different. Cell phones were only carried by the rich. I didn’t know any kids with a cell. We had pagers. But pagers were super cheap. Not knowing where everyone was the whole time was great. I remember I would leave the house at 16 on a Saturday at 10am and if I wasn’t gonna be home by midnight I needed to call. We were the last free generation. Like I said you don’t know. If you were born in the 90’s your experience isn’t the same as someone who was a teen in the mid 90’s. We still partied at drive in movie theaters. We chilled at the mall. Picked up on chicks there. I feel like kids today don’t even hang out anywhere. I have a 18 year old and they barely hang out with friends. Like once every week. When I was 18 I was never home except to shower and sleep. We were constantly on the go. We’d literally have nothing to do for the day and be like hey let’s go to San Francisco right now and just hit the 5 and spend the day in the SCO smoking backwood blunts on the beach. Now everything is over the top social media has kinda ruined that. It makes people go wild for that viral fame. We used to live in the moment. We bought a shoe cause we liked it. We wore stussy cause we liked it we wore fuct cause we liked it. Not because it was on some rappers social media. Not because it was a trend, street wear wasn’t a trend because you had to know about it. It wasn’t on everyone’s social media page. Like supreme in the 90’s was just a skate shop. It was cool but it wasn’t what it is today. It’s Been made lame. It’s owned by corporate hacks and mock people who buy it by putting the supreme name on whatever just to prove losers will buy it. Like supreme on a brick or crowbar. So yes this shoe store in the pic was just like how it was in California whether you went to the foot locker at the mall or mom and pop shop. I never once saw a long line or an instant “sold out” Jordan in the mall in the 90’s. You could always just walk in and get what was there until it was actually sold out. And that took a while. There wasn’t this whole “back dooring” people didn’t buy sneakers to inflate the price and treat em like they’re stocks. People didn’t just put them on the shelf and brag about what shoes they have. If you have a sneaker collection you wore em to the ground why you think you don’t see a huge amount of old shoes. Because we wore them and showed em off like your suppose to.
26 year old here The 90's Mcdonald's happy meal toys sports collection are nostalgic af no tech get good grades less probs now people are entitled because of social media.
@@cadimarucut7724 no doubt best shoes they ever made, both of em, but the one pair it has a toe cap piece that reminds me of the Jordan 11s they're hard AF still to this day extremely hard bodied. u seen they brought back The Penny's too? not the foamposites but the actual Penny's with the air max and the penny logo, the blue n white with black accents was raw, they brought back the Ken Griffey Max's, bro, they got all the 90s heat, Reebok with the Pumps like 3 different Pumps... the one pair of Pumps almost reminds me of Jordan 4s yo! u could skate them joints!
Something told me clicking on this video was gonna make my day. Love the insight and the trip down memory lane. In 90 I was 13 and my sneaker that summer was the Reebok blacktop for $70 and I got the in black with white stripes, I wore them for the last week of school and had all eyes on my feet lol. I was definitely a fire time in footwear, I’m from NJ and at that time the Ewings had the streets on smash. And you bro for this
Damn i missed those days when i used to walked in at any stores and walked out with a pair of j’s without joining any shitty draw or app which thank god it doesn’t exist back then. Thanks for showing the good ol days.
Nike is becoming a recycling brand nothing new to be excited about only the frustration of the price increase with cheap material with no support foot comfort.
You barely expert though. Born in 90, that means you were the Pokémon prequel loving millennial generation lol you really got to experience the 90’s if you were gen x.
Best Era! Clearly Nike peak era. Originality, Music, Fashion, Movies, Sports, etc. Every region had their unique own style. You could literally find heat even at dept. stores like Dillard, big lots, jc pennys. My mom bought me the air zoom “The Glove” flight on sale there . This era is never coming back lmao. The internet made everything over saturated.
Having a father that was a sporting goods salesman from 1974-2018... I've seen the evolution of the entire game. It's so sad to see now. Apps.. lines..my first pair of forces was 84...60 dollars for Highs..Jordan's...65...I had the luxury of getting them at cost once he moved stores. But watching this video and seeing the wall of shoes took me back. It wasn't all about Jordan's. Everything was great..Lotto, Diadora, Reebok, Adidas, trainers, tennis, and gazelles. The sneaker game from 84-99 was peak. Great video... took me back.
Some of the small towns in the south had heat man. In Charleston, SC we had so many mom and pop and small to mid-sized retailers with constant heat. Even our military bases had fire in the exchange stores back in the 90s.
Well damn. I’m from the lower state and I literally just typed that we don’t have hardly any mom and pop shops lol 😂…. Guess I need to drive up a lil bit. I’m always going to Augusta, GA. Thanks for this info.
@dmlny My pops copped me Dark Charcoal 9’s from the PX (Post Exchange) back in ‘93. I was 11 and never will forget that feeling. Then when I was 15 and had my first job and bought my first pair of all white and black uptown’s for $60 each. Then the rest was history. Been in the sneaker game since. It’s most def not same anymore. 90’s will forever reign supreme
@@dmlny if I’m most mistaking they couldn’t charge more than $100 for them back then in the 90’s. When I graduated and I served in the military (Marine Corp) that’s when I was hip to the no tax surcharge on any military installation. So I would cop because it was a sleeper spot while everyone went to regular foot stores. They still to this day drop retros in the PX. It’s different now and they raffle them off so you know how that goes being that people have picked up on it.
A perfect example of the relationship that you're describing that the neighborhood would have with the mom and pop store is depicted in the film Hoop Dreams when one of the lead prospects goes into the store with his guys and cop some gear and the cashier gives him a discount since he buys a few items at once, and he knows him.
Damn, I miss the 90's it was hard decisions buying sneakers then. Now, I go sneaker shopping and can barely find 3 I actually like/want I just usually buy the 1 in all colorways I like.
You made Hella points. Don't nobody remember jordans 4-6 coming in leather instead of suede for kids which was me at the time. I remember my local JC penny had some "Sky Jordan" joints. Remember the Uptempos wit one side Air Bubble that was only like 89.99? When you first touched the early 90s everybody was rocking the Flight 89s and the Force 5s. Athletes Foot had that 🔥. I was just a shorty but I was a staple in the store for my entire life. Until they closed that mall in 01. 88-98 was really unmatched
no doubt, Penny Hardaways, the Maxs not the Foamposites. they re issued the Griffey Air Max I know you remember them joints. in 97 they made the Jumpmans they came out between the 12s n 13s if in not mistaken!?!?;?!? the Jumpmans outsold the 12s if I remember correctly, that was like 7th grade year. then Reebok dropped The Answer the Iverson that has the toe cap piece like Jordan 11s had, them Iverson was so dope yo! Mom sees price
@@eatassonthefirstdate I still got a few clean pairs of those The Question 1s. Matter fact we only initially got the white and red and the white and blue but when shoes had to match jerseys I wore a new pair in then 99 state championship. The traction wasn't hitting for anything tho. The Jordan Vindicates and then those first 3 pairs of team Jordan's was straight. Then about the time the 15s-17s came out it was a crime to wear them unless maybe they were just some hooping shoes. I loved the Omni pumps, the challenge techs l, trainer max 91s, huaraches, air max sc, air max 95-97, before the gloves that zipped up we use to rick the gary Payton with the buckle on the side the Nike zoom GPs. I really liked the original 11 lows. Then we got to the swingman which was just as amazing as the jumpman for baseball players and fashion. They only did what 2 pairs maybe 3? It was such a vibe, you remember the head nod at the mall, like yea I see you!!! The nod of approval lol. Cb94s, the 92 barkleys from the Olympics but the home black, purple and orange was one of my favorite elementary shoes. Fab five barkleys. Air Raids. Nike max sensation Cwebb joints were crazy. This could just go on and on for days post after post
What’s crazy is you could get a lot of this fly gear at JC Penney of all places. ACG, flights, J’s. I had a cousin who worked there in the early 90’s and would get us the hookup on returns. Now the whole shoe scene reminds me of folks chasing Beanie Babies back in the day.
Yo this is probably one of the illest videos I ever seen on RU-vid you painted a picture that brought me all the way back to the 90s very good work bro
They still can't wear it right. They can't style it. It's like people just wear stuff just because it's a brand name or hyped. They are not wearing grant Hill filas, fila stackhouse, Reebok, etc
@@GoodfellaNellYoungstas will wear what their favorite celebrity is rocking. If today’s celebrities weren’t rocking J’s then they wouldn’t give a fuck about them… which would be good for the real heads that actually have love for the shoes.
I swear u just threw me in a time machine! Totally correct about da mom and pop stores! Colorways, all dat, plus they had the whole get up..... definitely went to school with da kids ....i was born in 83 so i was blessed to WATCH EVERYTHING come out! Blessings 👑🙏🏾...Preciate it fam!
I literally subscribed to this the first few seconds, I just knew it had some forgotten gems that a lot of people overlooked…90s was the most epic era to be alive and I’m glad I experienced it!!i thought I’ve been collecting heat for years but it looks Iike im no where close to this guys knowledge!!! Fire video bro and big RESPECT!!!
🤯💪🏽💯. Etonics were in Miami also. Born in 82 I had the snake skin BK’s in the 80’s living in Minneapolis. Moved to Miami in the 90’s Etonics, low top huaraches, Reebok Pumps, Pipen flights with a air unit…….🤯. The nostalgia was unreal. These were the first times bright colors like like neons, were visible on apparel.
I remember when them Grant Hills n Stackhouses were 🔥 I got some crispy retro Hill 1s n 2s I still pull out on occasion. Nike needs to retro a bunch of them kicks. Them Diamond Turf joints wit the strap retro next year in 2025. Instant cop. I grabbed them white n blue Penny 2s this year when they dropped n still love em!
90s was the best time for EVERYTHING - sneakers, music, tv, basketball… I always tell people that when I die I want to be reincarnated & wake up in ‘91: Mikes first ‘chip, Fab Five, Jodeci, Uptown Comedy Club, NYG wins the Super Bowl, the list goes on & on
I may have just found a very real sneaker channel 🙏🏆 This presentation and tone hit me like NONE out there on RU-vid..p.s...You video broken into segments would blow up on Instagram Reels 💥🔥
That wall! This was right before the golden era of kicks - uptempo, penny, zoom, webber, foams, 10's, 11s, pippen Rodman, griffiy, Barkley - all came out with the next 2-3 years
The Good things were the were no Sneaker resellers. You didnt have to worry about some corny kid from the burbs who can't dress buying up all the inventory and then reselling sneakers at a ridiculous markup. The quality and material has declined. Sneaker designs were better back then. Sneakers were designed to be worn with clothes. Today's sneakers are more about revolutionary designs and comfort. They were real leather too. They weren't as comfortable though. . I think there's way more models available today with the internet. They are just ugly and not an option.😄 Adidas alone has 764 pairs of adidas in size 14 to choose from on their website.
I remember going to the smaller NYC stores to get heat in the 90’s because the places around me had nothing. One time, I came back with the Air Diamond Fury ‘96 in Freshwater and the school went crazy. Man were those some good times.
I was the little kid with the bad shoes staring at all these sneakers everyday at Champs. Of course like every other Brotha that couldn’t afford them, I copped them all as an adult.
