Living history: Charlottesville restaurants we miss (and those we’ll go on loving forever)

Memory palace
“Mostly only students would go [to the Virginian] and very few women. The 32-ounce beer (called a bumper) cost 40 cents and a 16-ounce glass was 20 cents. Boiled eggs sat on the bar and cost a nickel. The dog mascots, Seal and later Beta, would hang out and the students would take a hamburger and put it in the bottom of a pail and fill it with beer. The dogs would both drink the beer down to the level where they could get the hamburger and usually get drunk.”—Ed Roseberry, Charlottesville. Photo courtesy Phil Larkum