Growing up, Larry Robinson yearned to be an elevator man, just like the guys operating the lifts in the old-style department stores he loved as a child. He fulfilled that dream—sort of. The other day, he took me on a tour of where he works, and to get there we climbed aboard a 1931 elevator.

When she was presented with the Lindsay Burn Wortham cup, Ginny Wortham fought back tears. Moments later, when she was asked what it meant to receive the trophy that bears her mother’s name, she could no longer contain her tears. “It means a lot that it’s named after my mom,“ Wortham said. Lindsay Burn Wortham won the city tennis championship three times and was runner-up four times.

Richmond is giving Byrd Park’s Fountain Lake a makeover. Construction started recently on a concession building that will replace the park’s “old tin Pepsi stand” and provide, for the first time, public restrooms, said John R. Pope Jr., director of the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities. The $407,000 project is expected to be finished in mid-July. Brooks & Co. of Richmond is the contractor.