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Large crowds were reported at several malls, including Links of London Sale , Northwest and Greenspoint, where eager shoppers stood in line for hours to buy the latest style of Jordan's shoe, dubbed Air Jordan 11 Retro "Cool Gray," which went on sale here Thursday morning.Basketball legend Michael Jordan has long since retired. The signature Nike shoe carrying his name is older than some star players in the NBA. Despite the years gone by, the luster apparently hasn't been lost on the footwear that His Airness made fashionable in the mid-1980s. Hundreds of people showed up outside Houston shopping malls Thursday hours before dawn, braving long lines and unruly patrons to get their hands (and feet) on the latest incarnation of the much-coveted shoe. Large crowds were reported at several malls, including Deerbrook, Northwest and Greenspoint, where eager shoppers stood in line for hours to buy the latest style of Jordan's shoe, dubbed Air Jordan 11 Retro "Cool Gray," which went on sale here Thursday morning. Shoppers said Links of London Charms paid about a cool $180 per pair. Some shoe devotees said they began lining up outside the malls about 7 p.m. Wednesday. Police were dispatched to several malls to help monitor the large turnout. At Deerbrook Mall along U.S. 59 in Humble crowds were mostly cooperative, but some people became impatient at times as they pushed and shoved while standing in line, police said. Officers had been monitoring the swelling throngs since about 10 p.m. Wednesday. By 5 a.m. Thursday nearly 300 people were gathered outside the mall's several entrances. Some of those doorways were damaged when the crowds shoved against them, said workers who were repairing the doors. "It's Christmas madness," said Corey Seymour, 35, who said he came to the mall with his family to buy the footwear. "I think the shoes are great," said 28-year-old Javis Scott. "I want a pair. I have to have a pair." Scott said he had been waiting for the mall to open since about 5 a.m. After Links of London Black Friendship Bracelet mall opened, shoppers at several athletic shoe stores stood in long lines patiently to be allowed inside. They grinned, chatted on cell phones and eyed lucky patrons who came out of the store clutching the Jordans. "It feels good," said Janee Hawkins, 20, who bought six pair of shoes for herself and her family. "I love shoes." Her friend Ashley Broomfield, 15, agreed. "We've got everything we need," she said. "We're happy.""I only work for the money so that one day I will be able to buy a place back in County Durham, " she insisted. "If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, I think the Queen would be quite pleased." Nor did the sun put its hat on for the bandstand's official reopening, on September 12, after a [pounds]216,000 refurbishment. "Most of the houses round here just have yards, " said Yvonne Richardson, who leads the Friends of North Lodge Park. "For many of us this is our back garden. We've spent a fruitless, frightless night with the Spirit Seekers at Middlesbrough Town Hall, finished second in the world's oldest annual domino drive, in Thirsk - "Links of London Black friendship Valentine Bracelet there was a waiting list, it was a dead man's shoes job, the Thirsk domino dinner, " someone said - joined a 104th birthday party in Wensleydale for the bright-twinkling Dorothy Walker and helped, closer to home, to celebrate the centenary of Timothy Hackworth primary school, in Shildon, reminiscing with Anne Dockray, the head.