JeffN
134 posts
May 22, 2008
1:01 PM
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Amvet ... I remember when I was very little, I has a stuffed Cecil the sea monster. I wish I still had it.
Summers with Reds baseball were the best. I remember crying when the Reds lost to the Orioles in the '70 series. In those days, World Series games were played only in the afternoon ... my fourth-grade teacher, Mrs. Morgan at Saville Elementary, loved the Reds and would pull a cart with a TV into the room so we could watch. It was great.
Johnny Bench was my hero. I actually got to meet and interview him years later here in kentucky. He's a very nice person. I remember his home run off Dave Giusti to tie Game 5 of the NLCS against Pittsburgh in 1972 ... then George Foster scored on a wild pitch to win it.
Of course, the '75 and '76 teams were maybe the best in baseball history.
What wonderful memories!
I love taking my little boy to the Great American Ballpark. It's a great stadium ... but I still miss Riverfront ... and I definitely miss winning baseball in Cinci!
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alabama
6 posts
May 22, 2008
4:51 PM
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Steve K - I am so glad I found someone who knew Dave Angi.He was a real sweet guy. Even though I graduated from Xenia High School I ran around in Dayton in the 1960's and 1970's. I did go to Carroll for my freshman year. I was looking at some signatures in my yearbook and another name that popped up was Mike Sullivan. He also played in Dave's band. Anybody out there remember a band I believe called Rush at that time?
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redrover98
3 posts
May 22, 2008
6:56 PM
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To Amvet17: I think Beany and Cecil were a couple of years before my time. I do remember stopping at the walk up Dairy Queen in Belmont (I think it is still there)and buying a Mr Misty on my way home from Immaculate Conception School almost every school day. When I got home, my brother and sisters and I would watch an hour's worth of The Three Stooges.
The original Immaculate Conception Church was on the corner of Smithville and Watervliet. It was pink on the outside. I know because my sister kept a piece of the building when they tore it down.
As far as Beany and Cecil, a friend of my is a big fan and I found these clips on youtube for her a few months ago. I hope you enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOxNtOMTpSo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1qM2LgD-fk
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redrover98
4 posts
May 22, 2008
7:45 PM
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My favorite Belmont story of all time... About 10 years ago my sister and I returned to Belmont after about 30 years for my cousin's wedding. We spent one afternoon trying to find our bearings in the old neighborhood. I was surprised to see that although many things had changed, many had not. For example I noticed that the electric buses still ran through Belmont.
I tried to find my old barber shop, Fred's, which to the best of my knowledge was somewhere nesr the corner of Smithville and Watervliet. Unfortunatey, on that corner stood a large Walgreen's Drug store. I figured that my barber had died and the building had been sold off years before.
Then after turning the corner I noticed a familiar site. A sign that said "Fred's" in front of a barbershop just like I remembered. It was a quiet Saturday and we noticed a middle-aged man with red hair sitting in a barber chair reading the paper. To my amazement, the shop looked EXACTLY as I remembered it 30 years earlier. The same barber chairs, the same hair vacuum, even the same comb displays from the sixties in the window. In fact everything was as I remembered it except the location. I figured that after 30 years my compass was a little messed up.
My sister and I went into the store and I appologized for interrupting the gentleman. I said "Sorry for the interruption but I have a few questions. I could have sworn this shop used to be closer to the corner." He said "It did." I said "When I was a kid I used to get my haircut here and I am very pleased to see that you kept things the way they were when you bought this shop from the original owner." He said "I am Fred, the original owner, and I have been cutting hair here for 50 years." he said "A few years ago Walgreens offered to buy me out. One of the conditions was that I could build a new store next door. I liked the old shop so much I had them build the new store using the same blueprints. When it was finished we just moved everything over to the new location."
It turns out Fred not only cut my hair, he cut my brother's, father's, and my uncle's hair. This was the highlight of my trip back to Dayton.
THANKS FRED!!!
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longgone
3 posts
May 23, 2008
1:50 PM
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Someome mentioned the old Kresge's at Town and Country. There was a sporting goods store about three stores down, but I can't remember the name. Bucky's or something like that, or maybe that's not evn close. They sold lots of models and all the little knicknacks you needed.
Southtown 75 and sneaking three guys in the trunk so they could get in for free.
All the Huber apartments behind Town and Country where we'd go to trick or treat because you could hit four apartemnts in a minute. One guy used to tie the door handles of the upstairs apartments together with a rope and bank on the doors, only to have the occupants discover they were stuck. Halloween prank.
The Living Room, a big bar on the north side, and the Caverns, which was open for a short time up on the north side.
The Music Box, a record shop in the back of Town and Country, and Gallagher's pharmacy, in the shopping center next to Town and Country, which had a soda fountain where we'd get phosphates. It was next to Grants.
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Dee65
7 posts
May 23, 2008
3:35 PM
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More Belmont info. I belive although not positive that Fred's barber shop was or maybe still is next to Marian's Dance Studio started by Marian Volk and now run by her daughter Ann who I went to Immaculate with. I was also
under the impression that Fred or Freds and Marian were
husband and wife.
Does anywone remember Mr Zell of the Belmont library and the
library before the addition? Sister MaryLou and Sister Virginia at Immaculate, The old convent is slowly deteriorating. I live in Miamisburg now but I still love
Immaculate.
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Martha Hardcastle
10 posts
May 24, 2008
11:11 AM
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I don't know if anyone has mentioned the AMherst prefix, which was 26. My dad worked at Walton Oil and Heating on Gettysburg Avenue and the number was AMherst-3-2681. Weird the stuff we remember!
My husband lived on South Snyder Road in Jefferson Twp. and his was TEmple5-5555 or 835-5555. What a great number!
Martha
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WB8IMY
1 post
May 24, 2008
11:48 AM
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Does anyone remember the jet fighter aircraft that used to be at Island Park? What type of aircraft was it and when was it removed?
When I was in kindergarten I managed to slam the bridge of my nose into a portion of the wing. I still have the scar today, 47 years later.
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historymom
9 posts
May 25, 2008
7:45 PM
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Uncle Orrie was Joe Rockhold! Thanks!! I don't think I ever knew that.
You are all bringing back great memories.
There was also a Kresge's in the Rike's Kettering shopping center. We used to walk there in the summer and buy hot dogs. It caught on fire one night and they ended up having a big "fire sale" because everything was smoke damaged.
Woolworth's in the Van Buren Shopping Center was a great place too. I remember they had "shop in air conditioned comfort" on the doors. I sure miss those stores.
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redrover98
5 posts
May 26, 2008
5:46 PM
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I remember going to the the Rike's fire sales! There were tables and tables of toys and other stuff. My Dad bought me a green plastic jet fighter plane.
Speaking of planes... I remember during 1968 and 1969 watching the seemingly endless line of C-130 transport planes flying over the playground of Immaculate Conception School as they landed at Wright Pat. They flew so low and looked huge.
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SeeDavid
1 post
May 26, 2008
8:29 PM
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Soes anyone remember the "MARY HYATT" dance studio downtown? We had our recitals at Memorial Hall.
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JackZ
13 posts
May 27, 2008
12:05 PM
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OMG! Talk about some history! I grew up in Belmont back in the early sixties. My Dad still lives at 501 Watervliet Avenue. Here are some memories I have of "downtown" Belmont.
1) Krogers had a store two blocks up the street. Across the street before there was an ice cream store which later became a Lawson's. Remember Lawsons?
2) Further up the street there was the movie theater (Cinema East) that ended up being burned down and across the parking lot was the Treasure Chest toy store. Across the street Mom used to take us to get shoes at Max's.
3) Clark's pharmacy was just across Morse Avenue and I remember almost getting run over by a bulldozer while they were constructing their parking lot in back!
4) We went to church up at Immaculate Conception which was pretty close to the corner of Smithville. There was no air-conditioning back in those days and that place got hot!
Seemed like they were always taking kids out in the summer who fainted from the heat!
Further down the street past Smithville you had the Parkmoor and the bowling alley.
Good memories!
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JohnC
20 posts
May 27, 2008
1:30 PM
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Forogt to mention in the last post:
If anyone's interested, all of the episodes of the old Sky King TV series can be ordered on-line from the Experimental Aviation Museum in Oshkosh, WI. You can find them by doing a Google search under "EAA Oshkosh".
More useless trivia: Beany and Cecil's nemesis was named Dishonest John, aka "DJ". Captain of their ship was Captain Huffnpuff. I remember my mom and dad buying me a Beany Cap Copter when I was tyke. Pretty cool, too. It launched a propeller type thing with a secret compartment for storing secret messages. Hey JeffN-they also made a talking stuffed Beany figure, too. Big $$$ if you have one in good shape.
I remember bugging my mom to take me to Baynham's shoe store in Town & Country Shopping Center to get a pair of PF Flyers -"The Magical Shoe" so that I could get a top secret Johnny Quest decoder ring and join the Johnny Quest Adventure Club. I alo remeber back in about 1968 there was a toy shop called Treasure Chest Toys in the back of Town and Country (behind the Metropolitan clothing store)where I bought my first Hot Wheels car with my allowance. Still have it, but it's a bit worse for wear.
Anyone ever go out to Kilkare Speedway for the Saturday afternoon drag races? I spent a few weekends (and burned up a few sets of tires) there during the summers back in 1973 and 1974.
All you Johnny Bench / Big Red Machine fans: remember Rose/Bench Lincoln Mercury on South Dixie next to the original Stengers Ford? Pete and Johnny would show up on weekends and sign autographs (for free!). I have my ball glove that I use to this day with Petey's signature on it. You'd never see that today, sadly. That was back when the sports superstars actually cared more about the fans and the game than the almighty dollar. Baseball stars actually worked for their pay and they bulked up on hot dogs and beer, not steroids. It was a different world back then. As I remember, Johnny Bench used to own a restaurant in Cincy called "Johnny Bench's Home Plate" where the seats were shaped like catchers' mitts and the steaks were great.
It's a bit outside of Dayton, but I'm sure lots of people from Dayton took their prom dates to the Windjammer restaurant on I-75 down toward Cincy. It looked like a big sailing ship from the outside and had killer steaks. The Ramada Inn across the highway had a bar on the seventh floor called "Corvette's" and there was a 50's era Corvette attached to the side of the building looking like it had crashed into the seventh floor.
What a hoot growing up in Dayton and southwest Ohio!
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maxed out
1 post
May 29, 2008
2:17 PM
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I'm a newby here. I graduated from Xenia High School in 1967. I worked and played in Dayton in my younger years.I now live in south Florida, but still love the memories I have.
I remember driving from Xenia to Dayton, I think it was either Smithville Rd. or Woodman Dr. for this great new place to eat, ,It was called Arby's. I loved it.
Remember Bob Shreve, Big Jim Quinn & Steve Kirk on WING. Does anybody remember the famous joke Steve Kirk always told. "It's The Plumber"
There was a nightclub in Xenia called The Blue Moon, later named the Castaways. I'm not sure sure of the spelling but there were a few great Dayton bands. The Mark V, and the Pictorian Skiffel.
Rinks Bargain Barn. What were those guys names that advertised it.
Oh yeah!.. I used to watch Ruth Lyons 50-50 club with mom. I had crushes on Miriam Spellman & Bonnie Lou. Then Bob Braun came along. He was selling beds here in Florida on TV. I think he has passed away.
Xenia had a Frisch's also, we had to watch out for the cop "NORM" when we cruised. Always loved Cassano's pizza. Cut in little squares and so salty. , Yum.
There was this little wooden shack that was falling down outside of Xenia that made Maple Syrup. I remember touring it when I was in elementary school. We got to taste the pure sap from the tree, All sugar.
I remember people bringing mercury into school and we would all play with it ,and stick our fingers in it. ,Now they would evacuate the whole school. I think they over do it now from the mercury & asbestos, There is nothing wrong with me, "Watch out for that flying pig".
I always went to Kil-Kare at least once a month. Remember Sox & Martin? I think they were a local team.
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southparkerik
10 posts
May 29, 2008
3:22 PM
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i belive the cassano's by forest park on n.main still has a pizza oven.does anyone know how big of a chain it was,i remember finding a cassano's in a k-mart strip mall in hannibal,mo near a motel i was staying at circa. 1977.i think they had stores in florida also.i remember the hot rods at the frisch's on keowee.for a breif period there was a roy rodgers roast beef next door and one of the first ponderosa's down the street.it's kind of sad riding on keowee now.
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maxed out
2 posts
May 29, 2008
3:34 PM
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I believe Cassano's was only in Ohio. If Florida had one I would take a drive
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maxed out
3 posts
May 29, 2008
3:36 PM
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I believe it was Roy Rogers... I know for sure... I had a crush on Dale Evans, and Annie Oakley, And Wonder Woman, And Samantha, and I dream of Jeannie, and Kathy Lee Crosby, and Heather Locklear, and Reba, and all of the others.
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redrover98
6 posts
May 29, 2008
7:13 PM
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I seem to remember a lot of jingles...
"The Truth is in the Taste at Vic Cassano's Pizza King."
"K-A-H-N=S KAHNS" (hot dogs)
"Na na na na it's time for Malcolm.
Na na na na do do dee do.
Na na na na it's time for Malcolm, for Malcolm, for
Malcolm...Clubhouse 22."
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alabama
7 posts
May 30, 2008
9:45 AM
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Hi maxed out. I graduated from Xenia High School in 1969. I knew several people from your class. I remember "NORM" at Frisch's. I mainly hung out in Dayton because all my friends were from there. I did go the Blue Moon and also there was the Big X and the fishers net. Do you remember any of those? I mainly went to the Hullabaloo in Xenia.
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JeffN
137 posts
May 30, 2008
9:53 AM
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Cassano's did some major expanding in the early 80s. I know they had a little restaurant in the Fayette Mall in Lexington, Ky. I don't know if they ever made it so far south as Florida. I think that expansion probably turned out to be a big mistake.
I'll have to hand it to the Cassano family. They've regained control of their family's restaurant and everything tastes much better than it did when they sold it to the chain which owned them 10 years ago. They're getting closer to Mom Donisi's old recipe ... although it still isn't precisely the same as a remember as a kid.
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JeffN
138 posts
May 30, 2008
9:57 AM
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JohnC ... I remember when Bench and Rose had the dealership together. It wasn't until I was an adult and was a sports journalist that I found out they really never liked each other much. Still don't. Bench is tickled to death Rose isn't in the hall of fame. That's one thing my old hero and I will have to agree to disagree about. :)
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maxed out
4 posts
May 30, 2008
1:03 PM
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alabama.I'm sure I probably know you. My wife graduated from XHS in 69 also. I'm sure you would know her.
Does anyone remember the Mojo Man from WING radio. ?He was there for just a short time. He wore a turbin. I heard he got arrested for hitting on some young girl.
alalbama, Do you remember the Double "J" restaurant by Rinks? They had the best tacos. It was also a putt putt golf course.
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alabama
9 posts
May 30, 2008
4:11 PM
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Maxed out: I very much remember the Double J. There was Rinks Department Store and I believe Big Star grocery next to it. I loved their ice cream. I played a lot of putt putt there. I am sure that I know your wife since graduated in 1969.
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SeeDavid
3 posts
May 31, 2008
5:42 PM
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We remember those submarine races at DeWeese Pkwy, "Big Jim Quinn" on WING talked about them all the time. He also talked about driving his MG up there, as well. As far as the levee goes, lot's of shenanigans went on there. I thought the first Ponderosa in the country was the one on Salem just S. of Siebenthaler. We remember the first McDonald's on Free Pike...only outside service 15 cents for a hamburger and 20 cents for a cheeseburger! How about those gas wars when we were teenagers? 19 cents a gallon, and 17 cents across the street? Did anyone go to the airport and hang out? You could play pool up there and have a regular fun fest by paging your friends on the "white courtesy phones". Don't forget the parking at the airport viewing area on N.Dixie in Vandalia. It was make-out central. Now, you might be put on a watch list for such acts of civil disobedience! The now leveled Salem Mall took with it a bunch of memories...Mayor's jewelers that sold records...the first LIMITED...MCL cafeteria where all our grandparents went to eat! After we all turned 21, it was the Tijuana Lounge in the mall. The SHE club was lot's of fun...someone mentioned the disco lights on the floor, don't forget the always running movies on the walls while you were dancing. That place was almost like the one in "Saturday Night Fever", only a little earlier in the decade. Lot's of people were killed in that parking lot. Drinking and tempers didn't mix and still don't. This web site is great...keep sparking these "old folks" memories!
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SeeDavid
5 posts
May 31, 2008
7:58 PM
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Does anyone remember Johnny Walker as a night time disc jockey on WING? He later became the Gen Mgr of Hara Arena, now lives in FL. Memorial Hall held lot's of memories besides Kenley Players (ps Marian's Pizzas still have photos of all the "stars" on their walls). I remember seeing Paul Revere and the Raiders and the Cowsills at Memorial Hall. Saw Sly/Family Stone, Steppenwolf, and MANY others at HARA. Saw James Taylor at U.C. several times...and Riverfront had lots of the big rock bands there, Chicago and more! Remember the WHO concert in the late 70's where several people died at Riverbend? They didn't open up enough doors for the crowd. The WHO didn't even know about the tragedy until the concert was over...Mom's all over Ohio were trying to find out if their kids were okay. That changed a lot of rules for crowd control and enough doors for the anticipated crowds. We did a lot more than we would let our kids do...guess we scared ourselves! UD had lot's of conerts/events too.
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maxed out
5 posts
Jun 01, 2008
8:15 AM
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I went to a concert in 1966.....I saw the original "Temptations" at U.D. Fantastic.. I still drool over Esther Price candy. There was a bookstore near the Dayton mall. it was gigantic, but I forgot the name of it.
.........I remember going to "Old Hickory" restaurant with my friends. We ate one dinner , then ordered another one. Best ribs ever.
John Bryan State Park....
Young's Dairy...
My red 1963 Chevy Impala
Fantacising about Debbie who was one year older than me.
Falling thru the ice at Shawnee Park
Breaking my wrist pretending to be Superman in Kindergarten
Donges drugstore phosphates.
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SeeDavid
6 posts
Jun 01, 2008
5:21 PM
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The Old Hickory still has the best ribs in the world. Too bad N. Main St. is becoming an almost "ghost town". All the independent owned restaurants are going by the way side. They are destroying most of N. Main near downtown for highway reconstruction(trying to make 75 straight). Grub Steak has moved to the S. end, all that's left is the Old Hickory and the Barnsider. Even the chain restaurants in Vandalia are having a hard time staying open now.(so we heard on the news). Did anyone wash their cars at Englewood Dam? It seems like every weekend the park was full of cars being hand-washed.
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maxed out
6 posts
Jun 02, 2008
4:58 AM
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I remember a sandwich shop on North Main St. Am I right saying "The Upper Crust"? They had the best liverwurst sandwich. I remember seeing this unknown band probably 1965 at Lesourdsville Lake. The band was The Beau Brummels who became popular with "Laugh, Laugh".
Also, When I was probably 10 or so, driving by with my dad and peeking out of the car window to see "Todd Burlesque, and Mayfair Burlesque marquis. I couldn't believe that sort of stuff actually happened. Busty Russell comes to mind.
And driving to Yellow Springs to look at all of the hippies from Antioch College.
Jerry Cohen... Concord City
Cash Amburgy.. South Lebannon Ohio "Come on down"
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SeeDavid
7 posts
Jun 02, 2008
9:21 AM
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to Maxedout: I believe they use Pacific Standard Time on this web site...we were wondering the same thing. Seems like all blogs are three hours behind. Dave and Cindi
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SeeDavid
8 posts
Jun 02, 2008
9:29 AM
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Maxed out: "Save Cash with Cash, the old country boy from South Lebanon Ohio" Jerry Cohen with "Concord City"..."See you, please..." The Upper Krust was a great deli...lost it not too many years ago. They alway sold pop "Dr. Brown's" Loved the "cel-ray" brand. LeSourdsville: I remember some sort of sea serpent on the cartoon advertisement...then it became Fantasy Farms.(For little ones) our kids went there when they were tykes. There were some concerts at Island Park Bandshell on E Siebenthaler. Your parents were really progressive if they let you go to "coney island" in Cinn. Ah the things we have in the corners of our minds.....
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driver62
76 posts
Jun 02, 2008
9:31 AM
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Maxed-Out - You are correct about the "Upper Krust". They had great sandwiches but they've been closed for quite a few years. The "Grub Steak" closed recently but they have one south of town. Seems everything is south or east of Dayton anymore. I just hope the "Barnsider" hangs around.
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driver62
77 posts
Jun 02, 2008
9:36 AM
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SeeDavid - Lsourdsville and Fanatasy Farm were two different places. Although they were next door to each other, they had different owners.
The Island Park bandshell is on Helena, not Siebenthaler. They sill have concerts there.
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SeeDavid
9 posts
Jun 02, 2008
9:41 AM
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My husband tells a great story of his uncle taking him to the burlesque place on Brown Street when he was becoming an "adult". Now, if you drive down N. Dixie and Keowee, there are so many places (strip clubs) it makes those burlesque places look like convents. They even walk the streets down there. What a mess. Did anyone frequent the bars on Brown St..."The Shed" and a few others, then the "Jack Kerouac" coffee shop in the basement of the Frisch's on Brown St. right near UD. It was so dark and everyone wore black clothes..but you could still hear the car hops and the loud speakers from outside when people would order their "Big Boys". (We forgot that we got around that much).
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SeeDavid
10 posts
Jun 02, 2008
9:48 AM
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Driver62...sorry 'bout that///I need A GPS to get around town anymore...didn't mean to put out false info..just getting old. Thanks.
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maxed out
8 posts
Jun 02, 2008
10:57 AM
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I remember the speakers to order the food in Xenia.Mainly Frisch's and A&W Root beer Stand. The same A&W where several people were killed in the April 3rd, 1974 tornado.
A&W had the best burgers and chili dogs.. Papa Burger, Teen Burger , Mama Burger. I can even remember when I was very little going to the A&W and getting the baby root beer in probably a 4 ounce glass mug. The foam stayed on the root beer until it was gone. I love them. And Barq's Creme Soda..It was really red.
Wasn't there a White Castle, or White Tower on 3rd Street?
I remember my dad getting up early and turning on the radip to WHIO, he would listen to Lou Emm. It woke me up, but I remember Lou had such a great voice.
And Gil Whitney and the Dayton Air Show.
Barnett's in Bellbrook furniture store.
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SeeDavid
11 posts
Jun 02, 2008
11:57 AM
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maxed out: Send me your email address and I'll send you a web site that has old Dayton Commercials on it and also the actual radio annoucements of Gil Whitney during the 74 tornado. That have opened more A& W's atttached to KY fried chickens up here...same burgers, and root beers. They also have Long John Silver's. The old A&W stand on Woodman is now called "The Root Beer Stand"; still have the draft root beer in glass mugs, and car hops,great footlongs. Brother in Tenn. packs up his van with Barq's (that spells BARQ's it's the best) cream soda on his way home...still delicious and red as can be. That was a White Tower downtown. WYMPEE's just celebrated it's 70th ann. a couple of weeks ago.There is a White Castle opened in Huber/Troy and Taylorsville/ You can buy those burgers all over the country in the frozen section of the meat dept.(lived in FL for awhile). No place like home.
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SeeDavid
17 posts
Jun 02, 2008
2:29 PM
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AllenN: have you seen Taylorsville Dam lately? Rubble and stones....pretty scary everytime we drive over it, but still stable . Those guys without machines sure built'em to last, though. All the dams built after the flood need some much ignored repairs, though...that goes for lot's of the bridges and overpasses in the Ohio Valley. I don't want to complain, though...I love it here. The fall is an easel of color, the communities still stick together, and the people are more friendly than anywhere I've ever been. Guess it was all the kids we all went to school with that rubbed off on us (and perhaps our hard-working parent's influence)? Could this be??? Manners and sustinence...and a sense of belonging..even if your major industries close down. No matter where we venture, Ohioans are known to stick it out. Oh, whomever spoke of taking mercury to school, my Grandpa was a chrome plater at Delco..brought home mercury all the time..we played with it and shined up nickles and dimes and quarters (when they were made of silver). That man could turn a branch into a piece of treasure! Ergo the Alzheimer's I think I have...I forgot, though.
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SeeDavid
18 posts
Jun 02, 2008
8:51 PM
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All the houses "on the river" N. of Little York have been either washed away, or torn down because of flooding and the County trying to build up the river bed. I remember the races on Rip Rap. Verrrry dangerous. Everyone still takes Bridgewater to Taylorsville...now Old Troy Pike is built up beyond your wildest dreams...Even a Kohl's, Elder Beerman's, Lowe's Marshalls, etc. There is a giant "Gander Mountain Store" that faces I-70 behind one of the shopping centers. Talk about your road races...Old Troy Pk is one crazy strip since all those places opened. Ah, progress. Oh, the "Villa" is still there, and so are the river folk behind it. There is still a bar that opened in the old barn on Rip Rap in the 70's..used to be called McNasty's(he moved to Key West) now, it's called "Jackass Flats"
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John56
1 post
Jun 05, 2008
11:07 AM
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Not being a native of Dayton (Chillicothe), I feel like an interloper here. With that said, I’m seeking information regarding a band from the early 70s called The Elders. They were really good and I actually had their album – which I’d like to replace. Does anyone have any info? Thanks.
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Amvet17
3 posts
Jun 11, 2008
6:50 AM
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Hello all. Got to pass on this latest little piece of nostalgic news. I was in Hillboro a couple of weekends ago and had dinner at a local chinese restaurant in town. My parents had told me that they see Al Lewis (a.k.a., Uncle Al of Datyon kiddie whio TV fame) from time to time. Well, guess who was having a chinese chow down that evening? None other than. He has traded in his straw hat and striped sport coat for cowboy hat, etc. Captain Wendy and he live there now.
To AllenN71--Yes, I remember Cricket Holler and other Boy Scout locations. I spent one of the worst week's in my life at Woodland trails in 1967. Ant infested oatmeal, first-time exposed to the one-and-only spam (not the email kind), and a ride on a horse reminiscent of the Kramer's on Seinfeld, you know, the one Kramer fed the super size can of Heinz beans to? You get the idea. Here are some other scout memories....how about the Silver Moccasin Trail? Canoeing on the Stillwater river, I think it was called the Blue Water trail, or something like that. Our canoe trip ended at Englewood Dam and just before you get to the end you had to navigate over this dredging cable that periodically rose out of the water...we were warned to "time" our paddling over the cable so as to not be on top of the cable as it was coming out of the water....our timing was off that day...the cable came up and literally flipped our canoe over! I remember being one scared 11 year that day....thank God for life jackets!
Here.s another memory ticklers...how about Harry's Carpets where Harry would be seen sitting smoking in a plush surrounding, and claim, "I don't care about making money, I just love to sell carpets!"
I remember going to the Shed when I became of drinking age. My friends car was towed one night for illegal parking. The towed to some obscure place out in Drexel. We had to get a ride from the Shed down west third around midnight or so. Talk about scary. Anyone ever drive down west third at night in those days? Probably worse today. I lived in Englewood and graduated from Northmont in 1974....anyone out there from Englewood? We used to park in the parking lot of Kroger's overlooking route 40 (over Englewood Dam) where it intersects Rt 48 N. Main. Greate spot to drink a few Strohs and talk with the buds. There was a Casanos in that shopping center and we'd get some pizza and beer and hang out. Miss those days.
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Steve K
3 posts
Jun 12, 2008
9:12 AM
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Does anybody remember a Hasty Tasty restaurant on South Dixie? For that matter, other than the one on Linden avenue, how many others were there, and where were they?
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JeffN
141 posts
Jun 12, 2008
10:05 AM
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Steve ... there were several Hasty Tasty restaurants in the 70s. The one on Linden is still alive and well.
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laynel
4 posts
Jun 13, 2008
7:48 AM
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AllenN71 - No, you're NOT the only person who cringed at "Midwestern Hayride" and who now would like to see an old tape or two! I've gotten very much into bluegrass music and remember that show wistfully!
As far as Midwestern-isms go, I've lived on the East Coast for 30 years and stubbornly insist on calling carbonated soft drinks "pop." A linguist once correctly pegged me as being from Southwestern Ohio (he guessed Dayton but said it could've been Cincinnati) by the way I say "-ash" sound words ... trash, mash, cash. Something having to do with a little extra "y" sound -- sort of like "caysh." Makes people laugh here, but I still do it.
Layne
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Steve K
13 posts
Jun 14, 2008
2:25 PM
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I remember getting a little friendly with a bar maid at that place out behind Northtown shopping center (was it the "She" then?, not sure).... anyways somebody pulled me aside and mentioned that the really cute girl was Bill Stepp's girlfriend and I'd better start ignoring her if I knew what was good for me. Think Spot and the Blotters were playing that night.
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tlturbo
1 post
Jun 15, 2008
7:41 AM
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WOW - I just found this site yesterday and have read all the posts from the beginning a couple of times. MAN talk about a LOT of memories that haven't crossed my mind for decades.
First - a little about me. I lived in Beavercreek (Brook Hollow) near where the huge mall is now. I used to hunt rabbits and pheasant in all those farms where the mall is. I graduated Beavercreek in 65 and lived between there and Kettering before moving to Florida in 1972. I get back about once a year (will be there over July 4th) to visit my girlfriends parents who still live on N Main.
Anyway, I sure remember a lot of those places because I was a motor head (still am) and found this site looking on the web for anything on the Country Kitchen in Kettering.
Maybe we should start a separate thread for cruise spots and bars.
Without tons of details, I remember Page Manor, Airways Center, Spin Kemp center, all the speed shops - Ault & James, Brockmans, George Montgomery (built my first car), Kil-Kare, raced a lot at Shelby Drag Stip in Lockington (raced Billy Steep's cars a lot) remember the vette - Little Red Ridinghood? Remember the huge NCR pool, all the Parkmoors, Hasty Tasty, Frisches etc. Most of my spare time was spent hanging out, cruising and looking for races. I practically lived weekend nights at the Country Kitchen on Dorothy Lane, Frisches on Keowee, Parkmore in front of Forest Park, Parkmore in front of Airways Center and an occacional trip to Fairborn and Xenia. I remember all the drive-in theaters and had lots of "great memories" ha ha from the old Southside, the one over near Stebbins, the Belmont and a few others.
To the one guy - I also lived in Coach & Four (the one off Biggar Rd (remember Feedwire where we all raced?)about 1968-1970.
My bar hangouts were the Diamond Club (Wed & Sun night $3 to get in and all the beer) What was the name of the one out on Wilmington near DESC that burnt down about 1971? I wanna say the Lions Den? Was in there a LOT. Also the place behind Forest Park occasionally.
Remember watching the submarine races along the river in DeWeese Parkway just S of the Siebenthaler bridge?
What was the name of the hamburger restaurant on the corner of Ludlow and maybe 3rd st that was a jungle theme and had 30 or so varieties of burgers? I worked at E F McDonald and ate there and at a Chinese place on Ludlow that you had to go down stairs to get to it. We called it the Ho Che Min Trail.
I loved the car shows in Hara Arena. I was in them in 70 & 71 with a wild multi colored gold 69 vette conv that the Egyptian painted. If anyone remembers that at the hangouts mentioned above give me a shout. Before that I had a silver 66 vette conv with a L-88 427 in it and the car George Montgomery built (my first hot rod) was a sky blue 61 Pontiac that could take most things on the street back around 1967.
Someone mentioned Salt Walther. I bought a Red Dutchman Tunnel boat from him when his dad owned the marina in W Carrollton about 1969 and skied a lot at Triangle Park with it. I remember getting thrown off the river for going 80 under the Keowee St bridge racing another boat.
Man - way too many things to remember - I have a flood of things going through my mind. This will do for now.
Hope to get a Marions Pizza out in Englewood over the 4th.
I look forward to hearing back from all of you - an added bonus would be to find someone that I actually knew. I love this reminiscing stuff.
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tlturbo
2 posts
Jun 15, 2008
8:42 AM
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Just reread a few more pages and have a couple items.
Vic Cassano and Mom Doniese (sp?) tried to open a restaurant in Ft Myers, FL (that's where I move to in 72) that I heard was for their son to run. He was a failure and it didn't last but a few years - probably around 77-79 era? Building is still there but it's something else now.
Maxedout - I also live in Lake Worth out off of Hypoluxo and I usually hit the car cruise on Monday nights at Denny's on Hypo and Military.
Does anyone remember the location and name of the gun store on N Main St? I also loved to shop at the Sporting goods store in Fairborn and I hung out at Georges little gun shop in and later behind the barbershop in Fairborn. It was funny when he would shoot off a gun into a big log in the back room when someone was getting their hair cut. LOTS of big divots when they jumped. HA HA
I also remember when the Air Force Museum was in downtown Fairborn. My dad worked at WPAFB. Remember when they tore down all the old barracks at the corner of Colonel Glenn (behind Wright State) and we had auto cross races on the old streets and music festivals up in the woods? I went to Wright State the first summer they opened - 2 buildings if I remember. And down the street was a Frostop or A&W rootbeer. First place I ever had something weird called a TACO. Must have been about 65. More later - I am so glad I found this site.
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Steve K
14 posts
Jun 15, 2008
2:18 PM
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There are 450 free downloads of music from 1956-1960 at this website....
http://www.bobforrest.com/JukeBox.htm
I have a few hundred on my mp3 player right now!
Does anybody remember the other Wympee's in town? One at 300 Salem avenue and one at 1135 Keowee? I've been trying to determine whether they were in the same kind of buildings as the one that's still on E. Third street. The Salem avenue address was a Hasty Tasty or a Parkmoor by 1960.
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maxed out
15 posts
Jun 16, 2008
1:49 PM
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turbo.I remember Art Arfon's burning down the fence at Kil-Kare with his jet dragsters...I think it was Green Monster.I may be wrong. Were you one of the guys that hung out at Miami Subs by Hypo & Congress. ?
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Bill77
19 posts
Jun 16, 2008
3:40 PM
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tlturbo,
The name of the hamburger restaurant at 3rd & Ludlow was The Rhino. My dad worked at the Dayton Daily News and he would take my brother and me there when we went to his office.
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SeeDavid
20 posts
Jun 16, 2008
6:17 PM
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We were discussing local bands/music> Does anyone remember the local Dayton Band Rick and the Raiders...later became the McCoys who made "Hang on Sloopy" famous...an Ohio State Staple! Anyone remember the WING Island on Gettysburg that later turned in to the Psychodelic Grape?
Speaking of local dialects: Did anyone's parents or grandparent's say: "warsh",(wash), "stri-ped",(striped),"feesh",fish, or use any other local only "isms"?
Re: Midwestern Hayride; Kenny Price (who later became a pretty good country singer)? How about watching Porter Wagner AFTER Midwestern Hayride just because there was nothing else to do on Sat. nights when there was nothing else on TV? (Oh, Kenny did end up on Hee Haw).
This is a great website. Hope we can all keep sharing. These memories are wonderful and almost uplifting. It is a shame that most of the places, people and things are gone now, but life goes on...this will become an archive of our memory banks for others to laugh about. Like our kids say now...."back in the day, when you guys were in high school..." Later gang. Keep thinking.
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