In the 1980s this record store on the 900 block W. Grace St. near VCU, opposite of the old Village Cafe location, sold records, cassettes, posters, T-Shirts, and some smoking paraphernalia. Frankly, it had little of any of those things. Some how they seemed to stay open most of the 1980s despite the few people that went into the store. This image is from 1987. The VCU police department is now located in this building.
- Ray
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I did work in that record store in the 80,s in basement where they had a silk screen to do shirts and basement was full of smoking items
As a frequent customer of this store in the 80's, my understanding was that the police were always trying to shut it down because they sold smoking items. This was quite rare at the time. It's interesting that the location is now a police station.
ran around some with a few deadheads from midlothian in the 80s in college. Remember them bringing back "tokemasters" then "smokemasters" which were strait tube heavy accrylic bongs. remeber a "US Bong" too, which was a little cheaper; and a few dead bootleg records. they talked about this place constantly. I know at USC the concept of a "head shop" didn't exist, you had to mail order anything. Long time ago!
I worked there in the late 70's Early 80's. The police never tried to shut it down, a couple of them worked there on the weekends. LOL
Was a great place to work in High School and College. Ahhh memories!
The headgear carried the place after a while, not much profit in LP's back then, especially when Peaches and the big stores opened.
And Disco...
Awesome.. I first went there in 89-90, I was a sophomore at Freeman and yes they sold the “TM” ‘s 12, 18 and 21 inchers. So awesome to see this picture and read the comments of folks who worked there..freakin awesome man!! Hard to believe that they sold paraphernalia back in really conservative 80’s Richmond.
Sharing this information to my instagram page since I recently learned about the funk band “Edge of Daybreak.” In brief they were inmates of the Powhatan Correctional Center, and Bohannon’s (then?) owner Milton Hogue who paid to have their work recorded (according to the Wikipedia article on the band citing Vice & the Atlantic) and distributed. Thank you for all your work here on the Shockoe Examiner, Ray!
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