Fan Tales

February 8, 2011

1973 tape of Springsteen on WGOE

This music and interview recording was made in 1973 at Alpha Audio. It was created to play on WGOE's AM airwaves ...

December 28, 2010

Time-Warping

Mar. 1, 1980: Larry Rohr rides up the aisle to celebrate, as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” broke the record of ...

December 6, 2010

It Paid to Advertise

When the doorway into show business suddenly opened for me I entered gladly. At the time I had a job selling janito ...

May 7, 2010

VHS class: Richmond’s Old West End

The following information was provided by Jennifer M. Guild with the Virginia Historical Society: Richmond's Old West ...

May 4, 2010

Living in the moment: May 1970

May 9, 1970 The blistering heat added to the growing sense in the air that anything could happen. Before the progra ...

February 11, 2010

Biograph Times: The Devils & the Details

This piece has been slightly rewritten (again). Go here for the most recent version. ...

January 18, 2010

Eric E: Jukebox of Americana

Eric E. Stanley, known as "Eric E" to his fans and "Rick" to some of his friends, died in 2003. The year before Rick ...

January 12, 2010

Texas-Wisconsin Border Cafe videos (1999)

The Texas-Wisconsin Border Café was a popular Fan District watering hole, a quirky saloon that served Tequila, Pabst Bl ...

November 29, 2009

City’s anti-show biz history

Richmond's decades-long campaign to stifle show biz was documented in this article, which was printed in the Richmond Ne ...

November 20, 2009

April 27, 1974: Riot at City Stadium

On Saturday afternoon William & Mary and Richmond will play what will likely be the last college football game at UR ...

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