Talk:Oregon Hill

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PoV[edit]

im from oregon hill and what said is totally un true and it is a shame that people try to hold us to racism, that was the past. so befor you try to jusdge learn and come see oregon hill for your self

I removed the part of the article you were referring to. It was POV and original research, neither of which are appropriate for a Wikipedia article. Lachatdelarue (talk) 19:44, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Map?[edit]

Could someone add a map of Oregon Hill for those of us unfamilair with its location? Thanks, Hu Gadarn 04:31, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'll see if I can find something appropriate. I am actually thinking about working with a large map and creating a "boundries" type of map for the Richmond Neighborhoods page. If I get around to doing this, I'll go around to all of the neighborhoods and add respective maps to all of their individual pages. --Sometimes 22:53, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Self-serving restaurant reviews[edit]

By the way, thanks for keeping the self-serving restaurant reviews out of Wikipedia. If folks wants to comment on such establishments there are other places (online) to do this. Thanks again, Hu Gadarn 04:36, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No problem. I actually liked the establishments mentioned, but they don't belong here. --Sometimes 22:50, 11 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

~SELF SERVING~

I remember Carter's Store, which sold penny candy. Padow's was there and Texas...not to mention the Chuck Wagon. People had lives here. Families. Maybe not the middle class life most dreamed of, that's because the REAL middle class life-HARD WORKING-was on Oregon Hill(what some might say is socialism) was minus the capitalism. It WAS hard working families. It WAS unlocked front doors. It WAS your Mama knowing what you did, before you knew. It WAS a place I wish I could provide for my children. I can NOT think of another place, and I have been around the world, to equal the amount of security I got from living there. Where I could let my child walk down the street and get an ice cream, and not think "who might grab her?" You will never see another place like it.People fought for years to keep out VCU. GO NORTH VCU was seen on many bumper stickers. If you think that your ignorant thoughts(and thats all they were since you had nothing to do with OH)warranted the destruction of this way of life which hurt noone but the jerks who thought they could tread on someones land with their heads held high..somehow even in their rumps..then you are wrong...but...like the ignorance you thought so many had on the Hill had...you have it now, and a note from Micheal Moore. Only difference is...nobody on Oregon Hill would've told you they knew more about how to NOT be ignorant. +1 for OH.

Vandalism[edit]

I just removed some stupid stuff from this page. I know a little about Oregon Hill, but not enough to give a good history on it. The one thing I do know is that someone was just putting junk into this article.

Yeah- vandalism renewed by you! Don't know but a little...but hey! You have an opinion on things... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.152.22 (talk) 06:53, 14 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

State Prison[edit]

Oregon Hill earned its work class/ white trash reputation especially in the early 1980s when the state prison across the street began executing prisoners again. The late 1970s had been a time of quiet on the Hill as the supreme court required all death row prisoners to be commuted to life sentence prisoners or re-tried under new rules. In the early 1980s, the first of the condemned prisoners under the new system came up for execution. Television crews began covering protests in opposition to execution outside the prison, which is directly across the street from Oregon Hill. Residents of the Hill "organized" and began holding their own counter-protests for the television crews, featuring Confederate Battle flags and various drunken shout-outs that no one could actually confirm as English, but we got the idea generally. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.168.132 (talk) 23:34, 27 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]