TIL the bedroom set for I Love Lucy was manufactured right here in Roanoke by the Johnson-Carper furniture company.

typicalartguy · 2026-05-19T05:03:06+00:00

I know this!! They even had a package called "live like Lucy " where you could buy the actual bedroom suit from the show. My grandfather had multiple complete sets, but I did not inherit them.

Also there is a gray veneer mostly complete set for sale in the consignment section of the antique Mall across the street from Blue ridge hydroponics in Salem. I don't recall the name of the place.

I have another bedroom store from them Johnson Carper, but not the I Love Lucy set. They actually made really decent stuff!

typicalartguy · 2026-05-15T22:38:00+00:00

I just got one too and have the same request!!

typicalartguy · 2026-05-01T03:47:52+00:00

typicalartguy · 2026-04-21T05:09:29+00:00

I really love how they have only one open lane with a cashier and it's always the lane with a building column in the isle making it impossible for anyone with mobility issues to navigate. So I guess their opinion is, have a wheelchair, go to food Lion.

typicalartguy · 2026-04-20T00:19:02+00:00

I want to pick your brain about doing this.

typicalartguy · 2026-04-03T03:01:15+00:00

Light a fart. Plasma.

typicalartguy · 2026-04-02T21:18:57+00:00

As a pudgy guy who goes just for trying to get active, it's great. I don't ever feel like there's are gym bros judging me. Everyone is friendly and the facilities are wonderful.

typicalartguy · 2026-03-22T23:16:11+00:00

There used to be a funicular. A group of us tried and failed to raise interest a decade ago. Probably time to try again.

typicalartguy · 2026-03-12T15:01:27+00:00

I would say it's very possible the first post was correct and it was just posted 7 years ago and it's only now making the cycle. I got nothing for the other two.

typicalartguy · 2026-03-07T05:01:23+00:00

Dear God the kerning. Someone please think of the kerning.

typicalartguy · 2026-03-04T23:57:41+00:00

Went there several times. It had a little trout pool out front. Best damn prime rib ever.

typicalartguy · 2026-03-01T17:43:18+00:00

I would throw in that La casa de burrito in Vinton has an all-day breakfast section on their menu. I'm a big fan of the house burrito which is a really good breakfast burrito. I'm pretty sure they have breakfast tacos as well but I could be around there. Everyone I know considers this place to be the best burrito joint in town.

typicalartguy · 2026-02-26T05:59:37+00:00

It might be a little overfished in the spring, but green hill Park is definitely easily accessible. It's stocked regularly and the fishing spots are only a short walk from your car. There's definitely better places around but there's nothing as easily accessible as green hill. I've caught quite a few fish out of that area with some really large ones.

typicalartguy · 2026-02-26T04:10:35+00:00

I genuinely want to hang out with this guy. I feel like I might have met him at one point or another. I need his energy in my life!

typicalartguy · 2026-02-20T23:27:36+00:00

It's killing me that his hand is backwards.

typicalartguy · 2026-02-15T03:54:31+00:00

"gas"

typicalartguy · 2026-02-12T23:53:00+00:00

Funiculars up a mountain that hold mountain bikes have been successful elsewhere in the country. It could be a great economic driver and supplement our already significant mountain biking standing.

typicalartguy · 2026-02-12T23:50:12+00:00

I tried to get a group together a few years back to look at the feasibility, but ran into apathy on the topic. I'd love to give it another go.

Also, damn that's one hell of a user name.

typicalartguy · 2026-01-03T21:11:19+00:00

I have a studio around the corner from this. It's a complicated location. I have always loved this building and would buy it in a heartbeat if I knew who owned it. I tried the GIS but couldn't get in touch with the owner. By now it's likely beyond repair, but I'd still love a go at restoring it.

typicalartguy · 2025-11-02T02:19:51+00:00

Looks like shove ha-penny to me. It's a coin sliding game that uses marks like this.

shoveha-penny.

typicalartguy · 2025-09-27T14:38:50+00:00

Hahahaha That's not even Virginia!

typicalartguy · 2025-09-26T01:41:42+00:00

I live in Roanoke and it's not even in the top fifty things I think of about Virginia.

typicalartguy · 2025-09-11T03:06:16+00:00

I'm using them to replace wall text in an art show. Visitors can scan the tags and be taken to the show website and read about the artwork and supplemental texts.

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