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Saturday Yard Sale On Pine Street

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From Craigslist ad:

This Saturday September 28, 2013 9 am on – 325 S. Pine Street in Oregon Hill between Idlewood and Albemarle and just one block off of Belvidere Street. We will have vinyl records, cds, other music/pop culture related items, books including 50’s/60’s sci-fi and other pulps, late 19th Century Poetry books, Art and Craft books and original artwork, lots of ephemera as well as small collectibles. Not your typical yard sale, lots of oddities and unusual items. Hope to see you then.

This is Vinyl Conflict

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The One Way Richmond blog has a recent post that profiles Oregon Hill record store Vinyl Conflict:

One of my favorite record stores/local businesses is Vinyl Conflict Record Store in glorious Oregon Hill. This store has defied all the odds by approaching quite soon mind you, their 5th Anniversary. This store is the quintessential hardcore-punk-metal vinyl record store with other accessories related to these genres for your purchasing pleasure.
There has been many benchmark phenomena’s to happen in Richmond in the past five years, and Vinyl Conflict is certainly one of them. This shop is Richmond, Virginia. Everyone is welcomed, and every type of person shops, hangs out, or lingers out front of the shop, which if you think about it, this would be better than any sociology class over at VCU.
I hadn’t met current owner Bobby Egger officially, but I wanted to. His hard work and dedication to live music or pressed music hasn’t gone unnoticed by me, not by a long shot.
I finally got the chance when I barnstormed my way up into 324 S. Pine St. I’m kidding, I called first. Bobby was very accommodating, and I did a more off the hip interview with him. We just talked about the store and local music scene as if we were shooting the breeze or shit for that matter – nothing formal, which is why I had such a ball talking with Bobby. I picked his brain as if I were a woodpecker. This guy is not only very informative, intelligent, and driven – he, and Vinyl Conflict, are a major piece, and I do mean major piece, to the puzzle that is the best music scene in the world.

Click here for interview and more…

RRFP Flea Market This Saturday

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This Saturday, from 9am to 4pm, there will be a yard sale on the 300 bock of S. Pine Street. A portion of the proceeds will be going to the Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project (RRFP).

From the FaceBook event page:

This is an invitation to all RRFP bowling teams and supporters to come out and hock their wares in support of abortion access in VA. Bring a table and your crafts, cupcakes, BAT merch, clothes, knick knacks, records, anything at all you think you can sell, and plenty of cash for change. If you’re selling stuff with a percentage going to the RRFP, please let folks know what that percentage is. We’ve got the space in front of 3 Oregon Hill houses on a beautiful spring day, so come on out and invite your friends!

Oregon Hill Featured In ‘Deleted Scenes’ On ‘Lincoln’ DVD

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The movie ‘Lincoln’ continues to spark conversation. While many Oregon Hill residents were delighted to see their neighbor Silver Persinger portray a statesman in the Congressional scenes of the movie ‘Lincoln’ (including clips seen during the televised Academy Awards), some were were surprised to see the neighborhood itself featured in the ‘Deleted Scenes’ portion of the recently-released, best-selling ‘Lincoln’ DVD.

Oregon Hill resident Silver Persinger as Congressman listening to Tommy Lee Jones as Thaddeus Stevens

The 2 1/2 minute scene happens outside of 324 S. Pine Street (where Vinyl Conflict record store is today). In it, Union spies are briefly exchanging information on the sidewalk before entering the storefront/house structure, which in the movie represents a bordello. Of course, in real life, 324 S. Pine Street has had an interesting history as a dry-goods store.

In the ‘Director’s Commentary’, Spielberg does not say too much about the scene, other than it was a relatively quick shot at night. Along with the Bread Riot scene, and Lincoln looking over the captured Tredeger Iron Works, the Pine Street scene was not considered vital to the plot and cut. In the DVD liner notes, there is mention that these cut scenes might be recycled for the upcoming bio-pic “Jeff Davis”.

Article On Condemned Pine Street House

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From article in this morning’s Times Dispatch:

While a single dilapidated property can drag down values in a neighborhood, in many cases it wouldn’t be quite as literal as what’s happening to W. Thomas Wiles’ two-story row house at 418½ S. Pine St. in Richmond’s Oregon Hill community.
The condemned end unit next door, which shares a wall, roof and porch with Wiles’ property, has been vacant since late 2004, crumbling into ruin and pulling his house along with it, said Wiles, who keeps a binder full of code violations that the neighboring owner, believed to live in Maryland, has racked up with the city.
Despite eight years of phone calls and emails, he has been unable to get the city to do anything about the house besides tabulating code violations and tacking up bright-orange condemnation notices that have made it tough for Wiles to sell or rent his property.

There is also a related gallery of photos.