I went for a walk in the cold and explored some old spots. I also got some flash photography in a tunnel spot. Reminded me of the old night-flick days. The Kwiz piece is from mid-1990s and still running. The 4th from last picture you can still see the old Kwiz tag on the top mentioned in a previous post. ( https://wordpress.com/post/richmondindgraffiti.com/1100 )

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Scans from the early 2000s. The Pore outline was done in the late 90s, I imagine. Underneath the Sufr fill-in from 2001 are outlines by Pore and Das. They both had outlines in the old piano factory. Above the Nuro piece is a Sum tag.

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In 2007, I was shooting only film, and didn’t have a working digital camera. On a rainy day I caught a character outline on a hopper by Kwiz, circa mid 1990s. Being the local graffiti nerd I am, I was very stoked. I’m not sure if many freights were painted in Richmond during the early/mid 90s, but maybe a few. This one was probably painted by convenience, and looks like it was kind of rushed. A block away, there used to be a tag in red that might have been during the same time frame. (It’s barely visible in the last photo, underneath the word “BOX”.) [Update: 1/7/26, I published one of these photos in a zine (Racoon in the Sewer) in 2007. I was living in Bloomington, IN at the time and may have flicked it during a holiday or visit back home.]

Here is a grainy scan of a Sufr piece from 2002. It was painted over a Neon/Neko piece which was over one of the first Sufr pieces ever (You can see parts of the “S” and “R” underneath it). Above the piece you can see Kwiz outline in red, which I have cropped to highlight. This piece was across from the “Skills Flow Like Ink” piece. ( https://wordpress.com/post/richmondindgraffiti.com/402 )

I’ve also included a scan from a negative of an early Sufr character done in 2000 with extra roller buff paint in the same tunnel over some White Zombie graffiti, and there is part of a Neko tag in the bottom right corner. I found this shot while digging through negatives on a roll I thought I lost.

My wife and I visited the Boston area last summer for a vacation. Here are a few rail shots from the trip, mostly of trash-trains near the Framingham yard. I’ve always liked these east coast trash trains, and it did in fact smell of hot garbage at this spot. My idea of a great vacation memory.

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This small building is visible from the bridge above, especially if riding a school bus. My freshman year in gym class, we actually took field trips to the bowling alley to bowl (That’s for a whole other blog). I used to look down from the bus and see a piece that read Blow JOB. The wall has been buffed a couple times, once every twenty years it seems, but in this photo from 2016 you can kind of still see the Kwiz piece underneath the scratcher graffiti. The wall was half-assed-ly painted over again recently. One of the buildings never got painted over, and there is still an old Anx piece on it. I recall in the late 90s underneath it was a tiny Kwiz piece and a Jasta tag.

In 2003 or 2004 I saved up for my first digital camera. I bought it as a secondary camera to my film camera, since it took time to get photos back from the developer. It was a Sony point-&-shoot and was 3 megapixels. Here are some early digital photos of freights shot in 2004. Don’t get me wrong, I love film, but I like these because it gives you an idea of what things actually looked like (in 3 megapixels) without film grain.

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One of the most nostalgic spots in town for me, is the historic Starr-Gennett factory site. There is only one building remaining today, which has been preserved and turned into an indoor/outdoor venue by the City of Richmond. The building that I loved the most was the 6 story concrete warehouse completed in 1920 and demolished in 2001. It was covered in graffiti on the inside. I took a decent amount of photos there in the late 90s’/early 2000s, but regrettably none of them have survived. Every now and then photos of it will pop up online, but it’s pretty rare. The photo below was taken by Chuck Wonsik sometime in the early 90s. Mr. Wonsik passed away in 2019, and the photo was given to Donald Harrison, owner of Block Head Records in Richmond. Thank you, Donald. On this photo you can see a very early Kwiz piece with a character in a beanie. I vividly remember seeing this piece still there in the late 90s covered by ivy.

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https://mrlinfo.org/history/lostrichmond/starrpiano.htm

https://www.waynet.org/nonprofit/gennett.htm

https://www.starrgennett.org/

There is a lot of rail history in Richmond, and at one time we had a large PRR yard. It lasted through all the mergers and was abandoned in the early 1980s, according to the book “Pennsylvania Railroad Lines West, V. 1”. Most of the rails were removed years ago and the area is over grown, but there are still some old buildings remaining. One of them is tucked away and slowly falling apart. I’ve been taking photos of it for a long time.

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I took a lot of long walks this spring during the shutdown. Here’s some of the photos from that time period.

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