Grants from the annual Richmond Christmas Mother Fund are once again available for nonprofit groups. Funds help those in need during the holidays with donations of food, toys and transportation or other services.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch has sponsored the Richmond Christmas Mother program and annual holiday fund drive since 1935. This year’s Christmas Mother is Mary Jane Hogue.
The Times-Dispatch is partnering with the United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg to provide the holiday grants. To be eligible, a group must be a nonprofit 501©(3) that serves residents of Greater Richmond.
Religious institutions are eligible only if participation in any program supported by the Christmas Mother Fund benefits the greater community and is not limited by religious affiliation.
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Eligible organizations can apply to the Richmond Christmas Mother Fund between Aug. 25 and Sept. 26 by 5 p.m. Grantees will be notified of their acceptance by Friday, Oct. 31.
Apply at bit.ly/christmasmother24.
To donate to the fund, visit go.richmond.com/christmasmother or make checks payable to Richmond Christmas Mother, P.O. Box 25864, Richmond, VA 23260.
9 photos of vintage Richmond-area restaurants from our archives
Liquor by the drink - Hotel John Marshall, Captain's Grill. Fred Runyan, left and Paul D. Bailey, are the first to be served cocktails with their meals, in the Captain's Grill. The waiter is James Smith.
In May 1978, this train caboose traveled by truck along West Broad Street in Richmond was headed for the old Clover Room restaurant, which new owner John Dankos was remodeling into Stanley Stegmeyer’s Hodgepodge Restaurant. Its eclectic decor was to include two cabooses that would seat 16 diners each.
In December 1968, the first licenses since 1916 for the legal sale of mixed liquors by the drink in Richmond were issued. Here, Cornelius T. Rogers mixed a drink at the Hotel John Marshall’s Captain’s Grill restaurant while bartender Richard Kelley watched.
In March 1943, teenagers visited the newly reopened Main Street Station Dining Room in Richmond, which was closed for a month to allow for remodeling required by the city. During that period, the Red Cross stepped in to supply food to World War II servicemen passing through the terminal.
In June 1943, the restaurant at a Peoples Drug Store in Richmond was bustling. The chain was founded in 1905 in Alexandria, and by 1943, there were six locations in the Richmond area, plus one in Petersburg. Many of them had lunch counters.
This December 1973 photo shows the front counter in Roaring Twenties, a new restaurant and nightclub on state Route 10 in the Hopewell area. It was designed to resemble a 1920s speakeasy, with features including an antique cash register, a diving girl and even a dining table from Al Capone’s Florida home.
In April 1970, the Bronze Gateway, a new restaurant at Byrd Field in Henrico County, was about to open. The facility was on the airport terminal’s first floor, and its upper levels had glass walls overlooking the ramp area. A more casual snack bar was on the first level.
The Robin Inn opened in the Fan in 1964.
In the 1970’s, The Village Cafe had glasses, dishes and fake food on the ceiling for an ‘eclectic’ atmosphere. Pictured here in 1977.
