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Rifle Volley For J.E.B. Stuart’s Birthday In Hollywood Cemetery
This Saturday between the hours of 11:00 am and Noon there will be rifle volley for the J.E.B. Stuart birthday ceremony in Hollywood Cemetery.
A Hill View
From 700 block of S. Laurel in the early ’80’s.
Photo courtesy of William Pickett.
‘Making The Lap’
Here’s a historic photo to warm you up this winter day.
Elite athletes chugging warm beers in the Monroe Park cruiser race. They had to chug a beer, do a lap or two, chug another beer, repeat until the beer is gone.
Photo and description from William Pickett.
Penitentiary Marker Dedication On January 23rd
Redlining
Here’s an old redlining map, courtesy of Mapping Inequality, which shows Oregon Hill and Randolph in the worst hazardous category.
Shredding The Parkway
1989. Courtesy of William Pickett.
New ‘Oregon Hill Terribles’ Patches
John Murden at Church Hill People’s News has a post on this–
Clara Cline at The Wild Wander has these fantastic Boy Gangs of Richmond patches available. Pick’em up at this weekend’s Richmond Craft Mafia Handmade Holiday event.
The names are taken from Charles Wallace’s The Boy Gangs of Richmond in the Dear Old Days: A Page of the City’s Lesser History, an out-of-print history of the city’s rapscallion youth by Charles M. Wallace from 1938.
Snowy Van
William Pickett’s van in front of 718 S. Laurel Street in ’84.
Snake Season Is Over
Rubber Snakes, Oregon Hill, Richmond, VA (1990), courtesy of the Bill Altice collection.