The End Of An Era - Eastbay, One Of The Most Iconic And Influential Parts Of Our Childhood, Is Reportedly Closing Down

What the hell man? This isn't even that fair of a warning. End of the month is literally end of the week. There's no heads up. No chance to relive one of the greatest moments we could have as kids. Circling the shit you want in the magazine for Christmas/your birthday. This was a page that was littered with circles: 

I can promise that no one asked for more different basketball shorts than 12-year old me. UNLV? No problem. Random Mizzou? Sure. Black shorts looked sweet. Stanford? Shout out Brevin Knight. The point is Eastbay had everything. Jerseys, shorts, every sport and arguably most important? 

Sneakers.

Not even *just* sneakers. It was basketball sneakers. It was cleats. It was regular sneakers. It was everything important kids could ask for. Eastbay is as iconic as iconic gets, especially this time of the year. I don't want to be around people who didn't take a pen of some sort and circle hundreds of things in each magazine that you wanted. 

The three most anticipated magazines of our (35-year old) childhood:

1. Sable Playboy

2. Eastbay Christmas time

3. SI Swimsuit Issue

It does feel fitting to go out like this though. They don't want a retirement tour. They just want people to circle shit, dream about opening up the entire Eastbay magazine and go about business. RIPIP to a legend.