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Monday, January 19, 2015

Is this Bruce Springsteen in Richmond in 1972?

This image is the cover of Bruce Springsteen bootleg of a concert he and his band gave in Richmond at the Richmond Arena on March 17 1972.

IS this Richmond? Maybe E. Grace St. in downtown Richmond? Can someone help?!?!?!

I found it at this site.

http://plumdusty.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html

This is the back image of the bootleg record:

- Ray

3 comments:

Ray B. said...: Does not appear to be Richmond - might just be NYC. Here's a color view showing taller buildings:

http://maclen.altervista.org/TEUC_front.jpg

too bad, would love to see an image of Springsteen in Richmond

- Ray B.; January 20, 2015 at 2:40 PM
Christine said...: http://brucebase.wikispaces.com/1972-09-04+-+MAX%27S+KANSAS+CITY,+NEW+YORK+CITY,+NY

Too bad.; January 21, 2015 at 6:28 PM
CNB30 said...: That's in NYC, Manhattan's SoHo (Which has turned into an over-gentrified chain mess) at Spring and Wooster Streets. Simply recognized the buildings in the background

Here it is today:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.724055,-74.0012362,3a,90y,184.29h,110.29t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxeow8Y-pi5FXWwzod_lL6A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656; March 23, 2016 at 11:54 PM

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Contributors:

Ray Bonis:

Ray worked at VCU Libraries' James Branch Cabell Library from 1989 until 2021. He is the co-author of Virginia Commonwealth University (2006) and Greetings from Richmond (2009) - an architectural history of the city.

Selden Richardson:

Architectural historian and author of Built By Blacks: African American Architecture and Neighborhoods in Richmond, Virginia (2006), The Tri-State Gang in Richmond: Murder and Robbery in the Great Depression. (2012), and Richmond Murder & Mayhem (2023)

On History:

"The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today...The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow."
-- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962) from his "Autobiography of an Historian," An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).

Key Dates in Richmond History
(more to follow)

1737 – William Mayo laid out the original street plan for the town of Richmond on land provided by William Byrd II.

1742 – Chartered as a town

1780 – Virginia’s state capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.

1782 – Incorporated as a city.

1788 - Virginia State Capitol building completed.

1860-1865 – Serves as capital of the Confederate States of America.

1910 - Manchester, the city located just south of the James, is consolidated with Richmond.

1949 - Oliver Hill (1907-2007) elected to City Council, first African American since Reconstruction.

1968 - Virginia Commonwealth University created by the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and Richmond Professional Institute.

1977 - Henry Marsh elected as first African American mayor of Richmond.

2009 – Shockoe Examiner founded.