Paragon Sports was the spot where you copped all your official high end hiking gear. Paragon wasn’t the type spot you could steam thru. You would have had to be the illest booster of ALL TIME to rack ta Paragon. If you tell me you used to boost up there you lose all credibility to me. The 10th Floor of Lord & Taylor was an easier rack.
One of the points of status for a street kid in NYC was to be able to copp some shit from a store like Paragon. This is where you bought your K-Swiss, or your New Balance. Having a shopping bag from Paragon was on some level like Saks 5th Ave. Niggas from the hood didn’t go to Paragon, they went to Modell’s or V.I.M.’s or the local Army+Navy spot. Paragon was my spot since I copped my OG 40 Belows from there in 1987.
I had some bread from my nickel and dime late night white dealing in the downtown clubs. Let me not minimize the cash I had at the time since it was several hundred bucks. I was going to Paragon on a mission to blow my grip. The shit that I was hot for at the time was time immortalized. The hottest watch in the game was the Tag-Heuer ‘Formula 1’.
Tag had the sporty style and Swiss movement of the slickest watches but the pricepoint that allowed a regular nigga to live large. Paragon had a sale on the timepieces too. If I had another chance at this moment I would have copped two(2) watches. As a comic collector I was always fond of doubling up so that I always had a mint condition item to rock out for a special occasion.
I was on my way to Paragon on Monday after I got back from a weekend visiting my shorty at Morgan State. Things in B’More didn’t work out for me as I had planned. When I finally got back to Queens my life had changed irreparably. I wasn’t going to be copping a watch. I was lucky just to be alive. Chasing this lifestyle just almost got me merc’ked. You wanna hear the story?
Ahhh Morgan girls. I loved them…for the most part.
Damn….flucking around in BodyMore, MD will fluck your summer up. I wanna hear the story.
word, lets hear that tale
I wanna hear it too. Since I live in Baltimore and used to stay by Morgan State this would be dope.
D! Please feed the internets what we need – hit us with that truth.
tag-heuer is that shit. a really well made watch. u got good timin. ha HA!
well, im funny to ME…
Yeah, let us hear this story DP!
Is this the story that I think it is? Please change the names to protect the slightly guilty.
Give up the goods yo! [Plays Ghostface’s “Camay” in the interim.]
please do tell.
Didn’t you post that story a couple of years ago? I would read it again if you did, so please, tell it anyway…. Just feels like i read this story.. Peace and Love Piiiimpin
Paragon…Ellesse suits, Fila, Fred Perry jackets…
and the park right down the block to go floss in…
Spill it.
please do tell Dallas…
was in the bennaton gang yet again?
Let’s hear the story! Paragon was the spot for the Prince joints and Head. Have any memories about the Fila store in Trump? Scandanavian Ski Shop? Ever order stuff(or you might have went if you were in MD)from Holabird Sports? I saved up and ordered some Sergio Tacchini high tops…they were damn trash! I can see why that tennis chick sued to get out of her shoe contract with them a ways back. You prob had the suits fly guy.
Yeah we need that story fam.
“You would have had to be the illest booster of ALL TIME to rack ta Paragon. If you tell me you used to boost up there you lose all credibility to me. The 10th Floor of Lord & Taylor was an easier rack.”
^ LoL! Word is bond!
* remembers all the times walking into Paragon while someone was cuffed on the way out *
NO DOUBT MY DUDE !!! PARAGON WAS THE SHIT BACK IN THE DAY …. THAT WAS MY CRACK SPOT FOR THE NORTHFACE AND ROOF OF THE WORLD COATS BACK IN THE DAY WITH WOOLRICH HAT … DON’T FORGET ABOUT TENT AND TRAILS… NOT SURE IF THEY ARE STILL AROUND … BLAST FROM THE PAST !!! BIG UP ….
go on…
Internets what up? Big up the OGs (roof of the world coats! scandanavian ski shop). I miss this old city
fuck paragon!! tree lovin ass bastards…STOP FOLLOWING ME!!!
and that story better not be on no dry snitching nucca!! But tell it anyway…..
Man this is coming from a 17 year old with the mind of an OG who reads your blog religiously! Post the story! Wat chu waitin on?
you did the story before i’m sure. i remember your stories but tell it again grand dad lol. also fuck tag i’m dropping the cash on omega’s. those watches are strong ,heavy and stylish. you could put it over your knuckles crack a fool in the face and it will be good.
also my brother worked in paragon in the late 80’s to early 90’s him and his boys stole from that spot all the time. he kept lil bro fresh
I remember catching a pair of white/yellow and grey Bo Jacksons, the ones they recently retro’d at Paragon for 30 bucks in like 99.. I haven’t been there in a minute. Good post.