indy
3 posts
Mar 28, 2009
11:24 PM
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also does any one recall the beep line you could call time and temp and talk to someone for 5-10sec and get their number
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tlturbo
91 posts
Mar 29, 2009
6:41 AM
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Indy - I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing but back around 1968(+-) occasionally when you would call someone and get a busy signal, in between the busy signal beeps, you could talk to others that were on there. You had to learn how to talk in between the beeps. I think we finally figured out HOW to do it on purpose because I remember doing it, maybe it was the time/weather thing you mentioned. I actually got a gals phone number from there and called her so we could have a regular conversation. After a while, we decided to meet and it turned out to be a GOOD relationship. So we invented on-line personals way back then HA HA
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indy
4 posts
Mar 29, 2009
8:24 PM
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tlturbo your right we are talking about the same thingglad to see im not theonly person that remembers that and yes it was the time-weather line
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Becky73
91 posts
Mar 30, 2009
11:49 AM
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I remember the time/temp line but can't recall being able to talk to anyone on it. Wow.
I DO remember party lines and how much trouble they could get you into. I didn't know it in the beginning, but my parents were on a party line with some neighbors of ours - including boys from my class who used to lurk on the line just waiting for me to call my girlfriends. They got a big kick out of knowing our "secrets" until we figured it out. One time they concocted an elaborate ruse to make it sound like they were inviting prostitutes to their home while their parents were out. I didn't buy into it, but it was funny. Only my Mother wasn't amused and told his parents what he was doing. He didn't speak to me for forever. Ha!
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Jeff
3 posts
Mar 30, 2009
4:55 PM
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Indy, did you know that Fairport Elementary has been torn down? Nothing but grass and one large tree left. I have a photo showing the front of the school in the 70s with that little tree in front as a sapling.
The Auburndale Apartments that were nearby are also all gone.
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SeeDavid
201 posts
Mar 31, 2009
9:45 AM
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Indy: Annarinos go to our Church. They also still bottle that wonderful sauce of theirs. They sell it in local drug stores, etc., along with their salad dressing. mmmmm, had it last night.... ~Cindi
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SeeDavid
202 posts
Mar 31, 2009
9:49 AM
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Grandma had a party line until 1995. We didn't realize it, but she and the other folks had shared it since 1962...both "parties" moved to Huber in '62 on one of the first streets. She still had that black dial phone on the wall when she passed away. I miss those dials..don't you guys? daddadadadaa....~Cindi
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bigbob
77 posts
Apr 06, 2009
10:26 AM
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Jeff, i went to Fairport in 1965=66. My wife went to Fair port at the same time but two grades behind me. We met for the first time in Vandalia when i was home on leave from the Army. I remember a little store down the street from the school where we would buy candy. My wife lived in Auburndale and i lived behind there on Otterbien in the apartments there. They probly are gone also and i know its pretty dangerous arround there now. I had a lot of fun when i lived there.
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Jeff
4 posts
Apr 06, 2009
12:21 PM
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Bigbob:
I was in 5th grade that year. My sister was in 2nd grade. What's your wife's first name?
My teacher was Miss Hayes, a sister of one of the marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Actually two of his sisters taught there. I did some research a year or so ago after seeing 'Flags of Our Fathers' but found no mention of his sisters.
There was a little shop with candy at a trailer park just west of the school.
And yeah, it's a very dangerous area anymore.
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southparkerik
11 posts
Apr 10, 2009
11:22 PM
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been off line for a few months.i've missed this site so much.getting caught up with everything being posted since gone.does anyone heard of a band from dayton called crystal rain.also where was a red barn on brown st.love this site
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SeeDavid
206 posts
Apr 11, 2009
5:46 AM
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southparkerik: There is a web site called "Buckeye Beat" It has all the bands from Ohio in there. Dave has used it several times, If I am correct, "alabama" sent us the info.
I remember the Red Barn on Brown!! You all know, we had great childhoods and teen years here, didn't we?
Band people - ??? ~Cindi
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Becky73
95 posts
Apr 20, 2009
3:00 PM
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Hey JeffN I think the Frickers in Huber Heights burned down. We had one of our 35 reunion events for Meadowdale High School there and last year and a few months later it burned to the ground. Pretty sure it was Huber Heights - south of Downtown Dayton. I know, crazy. Anyway, I am for going where ever SeeDavid can find us a Parkmoor dinner.
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JeffN
190 posts
Apr 21, 2009
1:25 PM
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turbo ... I remember the speed shop at Spin-Kemp, and I have early recollections of Throckmorton's. I got a lot of toys there when I was little! I think it was down at the end, and later it became the speed shop. I think I know the big white house you're talking about on Burkhardt. Becky ... maybe I was wrong about where the Fricker's was located ... there's a thread on the Parkmoor dinner. I'm waitingword on when the next one will be held!
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Keugene48
30 posts
Apr 21, 2009
6:07 PM
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Becky, it was the Fricker's on State Route 741 that burned down last September, the day after the wind storm. I heard rumors that it was caused by a candle left burning but someone driving by the evening of the big wind saw power lines sparking on the roof.
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tlturbo
97 posts
Apr 27, 2009
4:57 AM
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Yeah, I knew what the Henry J was but had trouble remembering the El Morocco.
Gas class WAS the big deal in Ohio in the 60's. My first hot car was a sky blue 61 Pontiac that "Ohio George" Montgomery built. He was called the King of the Gassers. I actually talked to him a few months ago and he still has the local shop. We reminised and he even remembered building the car I had. That was the first car that I hung out with at N Main Parkmore, Frisches on Keowee, Country Kitchen and Airways Parkmore. Actually the only time I got beat in that car was a 66 Marina Blue Chevy Nova SS there at Airways Parkmore. Traded it about 67 on a silver 66 427 vette conv.
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tlturbo
98 posts
Apr 29, 2009
5:05 AM
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Remember Ester Price Candy?
Does anyone know if they had a son who was a car nut - especially Jaguars? I hung out with a guy who had a car restoration shop with his dad in Beavercreek around 69-71 and I swear I remember his name was Rick Price and he was their son. In 70 or 71 he dated a girl in Xenia who had a early 70's Plum Crazy Dodge Challenger.
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Keugene48
31 posts
Apr 30, 2009
7:39 AM
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My family moved to a house a couple of blocks from the Esther Price Wayne Ave store and factory in 1964. My brothers and I (and later my daughters and I) would buy little bags of candy that they sold for 75 cents. We would then walk around Woodland cemetery and look at the grave stones and statues and feed stale bread to the fish and ducks.
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RickD
1 post
Apr 30, 2009
10:03 AM
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Went to kindergarten at Fairport 1955, Assumption Elementary for 8 years, and Fairview class of 1968. Grew up on Kipling Dr at what was supposed to be the corner of Lanewood, but the street never went through and finally the city put in a sidewalk there (they cut down two huge buckeye trees for it) so I ended up in the middle of the block. Went back for my 40th HS reunion last July. Big success, Thanks to Dan B. My street didn't look too bad but Kings Highway looked sad. Saw DeerPark trailer park. It looked like a fire swept through it, and yes Fairport is just a field. Used to shop at Mac's Market, in the fifties I would walk there to buy my dad a pack of Camels with a quarter and have a penny left for candy. Had a great friend in Auburndale Gardens, Joe R., lost him in Viet Nam '68 ( maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that, no one else has). Got a Davy Crockett Hat, watch, and wallet in mid 50's, lost the wallet on a vacation trip to Lake Erie. Don't know what every happened to the hat etc. Remember lots of kids, 26 in a 6 house area. No fences so our back yards connected for playing. If I got in trouble at the neighbors I would end up in the corner (or what ever) at their house as easily as my own. No one sued anyone over it.
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JeffN
195 posts
Apr 30, 2009
10:43 AM
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My mom took me to the Esther Price Store at Airway Shopping Center from the time it opened in 1965 or so. I still go there whenever I'm in Dayton to get a box of those Opera Cremes!
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RickD
2 posts
May 01, 2009
7:45 AM
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Anybody else go to Trotwood Swimming Pool during the 60's. A bunch of Fairview HS kids went there. Great hang out but freezing cold water. Remember a folk singing poetry reading coffee shop called the Alley Door (NO not the Side Door) in an alley down town on the West side of Main st between 1st and 2nd. Was open around 1966 67 ?
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tlturbo
99 posts
May 01, 2009
8:57 AM
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I remember a place called the Lemon Tree somewhere east of down town. They had Folk singers, etc. It was next to a WaterBed store and I was so amazed by them. Was that out on Wayne maybe?
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maxed out
82 posts
May 01, 2009
10:06 AM
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tlturbo, I remember the Lemon Tree, I think it was close to the Art Theater on Wayne. I remember taking a girl on a date to the Lemon Tree. It was our first date and I wanted so much to impress her, but I had the worst cold. I was coughing and sneezing all night. I stuck it out , but the date wasn't a big hit.
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Becky73
96 posts
May 01, 2009
7:47 PM
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RickD - I went to Trotwood swimming pool at times. There was also another one, a little closer to my Forest Park plaza area that I went to too. This was always with my Mother, so I was too young to just "hang out". I remember one guy from Meadowdale who wouldn't go to some of the pools because they were segregated. Stupid me didn't even notice.
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Becky73
97 posts
May 01, 2009
7:50 PM
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JeffN - you want to show your kids an 8 track tape player? You are welcome to tour my basement where you will find ----- a whole lot of junk and my husband's 8 track/ stereo turntable. In our garage is a 67 Mustang which still runs. Our middle daughter recently brought the guy she was dating here so he could see the 8 track ( which he had never heard of ) and for a ride in the Mustang. Good Grief.
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Doug68
16 posts
May 02, 2009
9:46 AM
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I'm probably wrong about this, but it seems as if many are confusing the Lion's Den with the Golden Lion. The LD was on Wilmington and the GL was in Forrest Park Plaza. The GL later become the Jammer (I think).
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Doug68
17 posts
May 02, 2009
10:27 AM
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Ames Theater on N. Main St. brings back to me many memories. One movie I saw there and was enamored with was "The Angry Red Planet." I made the mistake buying the DVD recently and wondered, "How in the world did I sit thru this?" Must have been that I was 9 years old. Later graduated to "The Ipcress File" and "Funeral in Berlin" shown at "the Ames." Those are still great movies.
Does anyone remember the Shiloh Nook (small restaurant)on N. Main St. across from the Shiloh Drug Store? I believe that the Shiloh Club was in that area, too (where Heroes and Legends is now).
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JohnC
68 posts
May 04, 2009
12:29 PM
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RickD-
That would have been me who posted the Zappa story; and yes, it is true. He grew up on his parents' turkey farm. It was actually just the other side of Germantown. I remember back in the 70's or 80's Playboy magazine used to do an annual music issue and the joke used to be that the reason Zappa's music was so unusual was that "after all those years on his parents' turkey farm, he couldn't get the turkey s**t out of his head". That's a quote right out of the magazine. You can't make this stuff up. My older brother went to school with Rick Zehrig (Derringer) and he says he can remember going to see Zappa and the "original" Mothers play in downtown Cincinnati at one of the hole in the wall music clubs. A bit before my time, but I still dig FZ's music. He still rocks even today-much better than the crap these kids listen to. I was at the market the other day checking out and the two kids sacking groceries in the next lane were talking about a Ted Nugent concert the previous weekend (Ted lives here in Texas) and how cool it was. I told them I had seen Ted in concert too...back in 1973. That really shut them up.
And remember Rick: "Watch out where the huskies go..."
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JohnC
69 posts
May 04, 2009
12:35 PM
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BTW-did somebody say the Frickers in Moraine had burned down? I was just home at Christmas and could swear it was there.
Anybody remember who brought the buffalo wing craze to the Dayton area? No, it wasn't Frickers. It was a place called L.C. Wing Company. The "L.C" stood for Linda and Carol, the owners. Their wings were MUCH better than Frickers. They weren't as greasy and they had the authentic "New York" Buffalo taste. They also served fresh cut curly fries that were the best I ever ate. Frickers pretty much put them out of business, though, when they moved in just down the street in Moraine.
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RickD
4 posts
May 04, 2009
1:35 PM
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JohnC. - Great story about Zappa. It's amazing how much you don't hear about in your hometown area while growing up. I was lucky enough to see him at UD arena in the 70's and I'm still not over it. I saw Rick and the Raiders a few times at Forest Park. At the time they were one of the better dance bands that came there. Never saw them again after they changed their name and had their hit. I've read all of the names for the Dance Club at Forest Park but don't remember any name before the Caverns. We just called it "goin to Forest Park." It really gets confusing over time.
And I do remember: Since that song I no longer eat any snow.
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RickD
8 posts
May 04, 2009
3:32 PM
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Posted this message on "Ask A History Question" Miracle Lane section of this site but since the last posting was Oct 08 I thought I would try to revive the discussion of Miracle Lane Shopping Center. Now you're in my neighborhood. I had forgotten all about the Whistle Stop Pop Shop and Duff's Smorgasbord. (thanks dlm). The Metropolitan at the opposite end from Bettman's seemed so sophisticated to me as a kid. Was it Bettman's before Gray's Drug store or the other way around. Right in the middle was a Woolworth's and a furniture store next to that (toward the drug store, I think). Between the Five and Dime and the Met I seem to remember a State Store (before liquor was sold everywhere). In the smaller section on the East side was a photo shop, Friedman's Portraits, I think, and a shoe store. Down below on Prescott was a barber shop that had a coin operated massage chair. The post office at Shaftsbury and Prescott is now a church.
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SeeDavid
219 posts
May 05, 2009
9:33 PM
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Rick D Thank you for clarifying and helping me to catalogue my old albums correctly. I didn't know whether to put Cheech and Chong in the Iditarod category or Frank in the Alaskan category. Thank you so much. I remember the tune and everything. Cheech and Chong was from the album with the car and the inside pull out places (you know from where I am coming). This Frank Zappa thing has gotten under my skin. I must research.
Sign up for the chicken. ~Cindi
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JohnC
72 posts
May 06, 2009
4:47 AM
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RickD and Cindi-
"Watch out where the huskies go, and don't you eat that yellow snow..." is the line.
RickD's right on the Ralph the dog skit-it's off the first Cheech and Chong album; the yellow one. I remember my dad, who hated anything I played on the stereo, laughed so hard his sides hurt listening to that C&C album. The Ralph and Herbie bit was his favorite track. Talk about bringing back classic memories...
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JohnC
73 posts
May 06, 2009
5:00 AM
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Cindi-
If you're researching FZ's music (especially "Apostrophe" which was his breakout into the mainstream if you want to call it that) you will likely enjoy "Saint Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast", "Father Oblivion", "Cosmic Debris" and of course, the classic "Stinkfoot". All examples of FZ's rather genius wierdness. The guy was really talented and even did a couple of albums with full orchestra backup. "Yellow Snow" is a song about an Eskimo named Nanook and some stictly commercial fur trapper whippin' on the head of his favorite baby seal with a lead filled snow shoe. Be prepared though-Zappa's lyric's take some getting used to for those that haven't experienced them.
BTW-Keugene-thanks for the Frickers clarification. I must have been asleep at the wheel when I drove past... or listening to a Zappa CD.
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Bill68
54 posts
May 06, 2009
3:35 PM
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Cindi, a "Henry J." was made by the Kaiser-Frasier Company and some version of it was sold through Sears. Some guy in my neighborhood had one in the early 60s but I don't think it ever ran.
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RickD
15 posts
May 08, 2009
12:00 PM
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In 1966 I helped open the restaurant on the mezzanine of Elder-Beerman's on Siebenthaler as a busboy with Tom. Miss Spivey was the Hostess, a beautiful woman who was formerly a model for Thal's and Donenfeld's downtown (I think). Mrs Brown ran the kitchen. The dinning room had great soft booths. Either walked from school (Fairview HS) or from home cutting across Miami Valley Country Club until I started driving a light blue '62 Mercury Meteor with three on the tree shifting. When the Dayton Mall opened Tom and I went to that Beerman's restaurant there for a few days to help get it started. Seemed like really hard work but better than the kitchen.
Rhino Club on Ludlow - 1967 I worked there as Maitre d' for about two months. I was in way over my head, I was much too immature for the position. The hamburgers they served were ground steaks. Delicious. If you ordered a sirloin burger they pulled a sirloin out of the frig, ground and cooked it to order. I wasn't allowed in the bar section downstairs, I was too young.
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SeeDavid
224 posts
May 09, 2009
12:40 PM
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John C: Wasn't every Eskimo when we were kids called "Nanook" by our Dad's??? even Candadians as I recall, This was not a negative thing, either guys, I just remember it that way, how about you??? ~Cindi NOT Dave
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mlweaver
1 post
May 11, 2009
5:55 PM
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Anybody remember these?
The Coca-Cola "Hi-Fi" Club on W.I.N.G.
The Rising Generation on Channel 7.
The Rolling Stone Concert at Hara.
The Side Door.
The LT Club.
The Dimond Club.
Sonny Flaharty and the Mark V.
Green Lyte Sunday
The Excellents
The Caverns (a club under Forest Park Plaza)
Cruising Parkmoor on N. Main and Frisch's in Trotwood.
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samstone
5 posts
May 11, 2009
7:38 PM
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RickD, It was Forest Park Arena before it was the Caverns. Rick and the Raiders were like the house band. I saw Simon and Garfunkel there. I remember I was dissapointed that they wore blue jeans to perform. LOL.
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southparkerik
15 posts
May 12, 2009
12:13 AM
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thinking of forest park.the green stamps at krogers and gas stations like the sinclair on riverside drive,there was a store @ forest park you turn them in for stuff
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Curt Dalton
112 posts
May 12, 2009
4:05 AM
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Yes, I remember the place. It was a Top Value Stamps and they had that pink and white square covered metal sign that stood outside of the store. In my head it was at least 4 feet tall, but I was a little young so I may be remembering it wrong. There was an auction held there that we used to go to when I was a kid. I think there was also a library in the basement. This would have been around 1972 or 73?
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tlturbo
100 posts
May 12, 2009
6:39 AM
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MLWEAVER
LT Club, Diamondclub, Parkmoor at Forest Park, the clubs in the back of Forest Park, Frisches on Keowee, Lions Den on Wilmington, Country Kitchen were my homes away from home from about 1967 to Jan 1972.
Do a search on here and find all the discussions about them - mentioned lots of times.
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Amvet17
5 posts
May 12, 2009
10:22 AM
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Hi Gang....just saw on the MSNBC web regarding celebraties who passed away this year. Of course, you all remember, Al Lewis, a.k.a., Uncle Al....here's what was posted on the site:
2009 In Memoriam
Al Lewis, who was known as "Uncle Al" on a long-running children's television show that aired nationally beginning in the 1950s, died Feb. 28, 2009, of natural causes. He was 84. He's shown in character with Bobby Bunny in April 1960.
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mipa
1 post
May 13, 2009
4:40 PM
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I remember
Big time wrestling at Memorial Hall in the early 50's.
The Forum next to the Village Inn on Siebenthaler.
The Forest Park amusement park and the race track nearby it.
Lakeside amusement park in West Dayton where every Tuesday in the summer was nickle night.
The RKO movie houses: Colonial, Keith, and the State.
Sandy's hamburger stand was the creation of Vick Cassano. he also had a fish and chips called London Bobby.
Gallagher Drug Stores.
A dj in the 50's on WONE named Howard Malcomb.
I went to Franklin Elementary School on Fifth & Findlay and Wilbur Wright High School on Huffman hill.
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thomas6
1 post
May 19, 2009
2:34 PM
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i was raised in shawen acres,and loved it there,i remember going downtown to rike's and looking at all te window displays,going to the ames theatre on main going somewhere downtown to see chief don eagle wrestle,and for the life of me still can't remember where,near brown st.though.mc crorys for those lunchmeat subs,and just cruising though the arcade,had no money to speak of well actually none to speak of...buying cigarettes for about .15 cent,actually shoplifting them i was from shawen acres,going to hara arena ice skating,and after all these years seeing on the bus on a sign,in kinda big letters,and because i was from shawen acres did'nt understand for years was..coloreds to the rear.......anyway i was hoping to get in touch with others who lived there,or people who made sure we had a birthday present or christmas presents it was all good
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Becky73
103 posts
May 19, 2009
10:34 PM
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I just passed Shawen Acres a couple of days ago. It is still there, but not called that anymore. We had a few kids from there be sent to our elementary school ( Shoup Mill ) a few miles away. I remember feeling badly for the kids from there because I knew they weren't with their parents for whatever reason. I am glad to hear from someone who had good memories from there. You only hear about the horror stories.
Oh, and a few months back we were discussing Cassanos pizza places and someone thought the one on Main St. near Forest Park plaza was still open. Well, it might have been then but it sure isn't now. Looks like an empty shell just like most of that area where I grew up. Sad.
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SeeDavid
236 posts
May 20, 2009
8:05 AM
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Thomas: Many of us know it wasn't "all good" at Shawen Acres. I went there to "visit". My parents taught me a good lesson in that. I made good friends there also. Back then when we were "kids" there was nothing we knew (as children) to do to help, other than if our parents were wise enough to teach us to "give what we were fortunate to have been given" back to our "classmates and friends" at Shawen Acres. I was lucky to have family who appreciated what you all went through and also to show me empathy so that I did want to share what I had with the kids there. I know there were many of our parents who would have made it all wonderful for you every day. Vless you and I hope your life has been good. Bless any of you who grew up there.
Shawen Acres is still a wonderful looking piece of architecture in Dayton. ~Cindi
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Pushall
1 post
May 20, 2009
12:09 PM
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Does anyone remember where Figidaire Park was located?
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tlturbo
102 posts
May 20, 2009
3:02 PM
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Who did the big park across Dorothy Lane from Rikes Kettering belong to? Had a lake and everything. Is it gone too?
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driver62
173 posts
May 23, 2009
12:02 PM
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Southparkeric - I think you're right about the drive-ins in the Dayton area. I know there's one in Springfield that's still open but I can't remember the name.
I spent a lot of time at the North Star and the Salem as the Salem was less than a mile from where I lived. The North Star is now a shopping center and most of the Salem lot is still empty. The back part of the Salem is now a Kroger store and a few other places. The screen and concession stand are long gone.
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tlturbo
106 posts
May 23, 2009
12:22 PM
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My main theater hang outs were Belmont, the one at I-75 near the Dayton Mall in Centerville, one on Dixie (the one N I think) and one out near Stebbins. Went to Skyborn in Fairborn occasionally - it is still there but I think recently closed down.
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