{"id":4648,"date":"2023-02-27T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T13:56:43","slug":"a-peoples-history-of-wdcv-history-of-the-pop-up-record-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/wdcvfm\/2023\/02\/a-peoples-history-of-wdcv-history-of-the-pop-up-record-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"A People\u2019s History of WDCV- History of the Pop Up Record Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every so often the Pop Up Record Shop appears in the HUB and it is a sight of beauty for all music lovers. But it didn’t just happen. It was planned. Curated. WDCV has made a years long bond and connection with our friend Dennis to bring music to the Dickinson masses.  But here is how it all came to be. <\/p>\n

Summer 2013:<\/h3>\n

Our WDCV’s advisor’s husband found a yard sale off the beaten path that was something from a strange fairy tale. An abandoned fake western town on the outskirts of Carlisle repurposed to hold old store fixtures, hundreds of mannequins, and records. Thousands and thousands of records. Bizarre. Beautiful. <\/p>\n

\"Pre-Orientation<\/a>August 2014:<\/h3>\n

WDCV partners with the Media Center for a Pre-Orientation program. Carlisle Uncut: Stories off the Beaten Path<\/a> <\/em>was a series of stories produced by first year students during the Campus Media Pre-Orientation program.  10 students arrived on a Sunday, interviewed people on Monday, edited on a Tuesday and aired their stories on WDCV by Wednesday morning.  It was a fast paced introduction to audio journalism, storytelling and learning about their new home of Carlisle through the eyes of the individuals who live here. WDCV set up 5 stories that we thought needed to be told and set these students out on adventures. One story took them to an abandoned fake western town on the outskirts of Carlisle….<\/p>\n

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The Mannequin Man of Carlisle<\/a><\/h3>\n

Have you ever stumbled upon a business, house or some other strange place that makes you ponder, “how did I not know this place existed before?”.  Carlisle has a few of these and one of them is a strange wonderland filled with thousands of records, mannequins and store fixtures for sale in an abandoned fake old western town.  It sounds too strange to be true, but that’s what makes this such a great story.