"I would imagine 'I wish I had enough money to bring that back to life,'" Canada recalled. "'That is beautiful architecture. Why doesn't someone see it?'"
"They started with the Eggleston Hotel back in the 1930s to the 1950s on Second and Leigh," Sherita McGowan said. "And from there that was the grandfather of the original owner of Croaker Spot."
In 2023 Virginia and the Richmond area said goodbye to bright lights in business and civic life, politics and the arts, as well as storied high school and college coaches.