For nearly 80 years, Casper’s Famous Hot Dogs has been a fixture on the corner of Macdonald Avenue and Civic Center in Richmond. The name is about to change. Almost everything else will stay exactly the same.
Corky Booze, a former Richmond city councilmember, has purchased Casper’s Famous Hot Dogs at 2530 Macdonald Avenue and plans to reopen it as Corky’s Famous Hot Dogs, keeping the staff, vendors, menu, and mid-century orange decor that have made the Civic Center neighborhood institution a fixture of Richmond life for nearly eight decades.
“My main goal is not to change this stuff in Richmond,” Booze said. “The Richmond citizens deserve something in a place like this.”
Casper’s has occupied the corner of Macdonald Avenue and Civic Center since around 1947, becoming one of the last outposts of a regional hot dog chain…