They drained the lake in a Staunton city park on Dec. 31, 1951, and authorities spent the first hours of 1952 using rakes and shovels to...

As a military man, Dwight Eisenhower could appreciate the value of a dependable road. While serving as Allied commander in Europe during...

Sometime in early 1951, Richmond numbers kingpin Harry Donovan must have figured his act needed cleaning up right quick, before the boom...

June 17, 1951: The Richmond Times-Dispatch publishes the first of two big Sunday stories that peek behind the curtain of the numbers...

During America’s massive middle-class expansion in the years following the Second World War, the city of Richmond briefly led the nation...

There was a time when horse racing ranked with baseball and boxing among the nation’s most popular sports. In the 1930s and '40s, there...

Abe Plisco was one of the out-of-town gangsters who reporters spotted at Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery during the 1938 funeral of...

On a Monday in January 1938, organized crime bosses converged on Richmond, Virginia to bury one of their own: Carroll Peyton “Nubby”...

The popular marketing slogan “greatest thing since sliced bread” traces its origins back to 1930, when a part-time inventor in Missouri...

Prohibition is when we first meet Leo Seay of Richmond, who many years later would serve as a top lieutenant in Harry Donovan’s numbers...

On May 7, 1937, the entertainment page of The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that the Loew's movie palace at Sixth and Grace Streets...

As the United States grappled with the economic and social fallout following the Great Depression, Prohibition and its eventual repeal,...

Halloween in 1916 in Richmond was frightening beyond just the “hundreds of kiddies and light-hearted grown-ups” who “threw cares to the...

It is widely believed that the numbers game started in New York's Harlem neighborhood in the 1920s, quickly spreading to other Black and...

In the decades between The Roaring Twenties and JFK's New Frontier, Virginia's capital city underwent a dramatic transformation from a...