dlm
14 posts
Oct 28, 2008
9:40 AM
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Doesn't anyone but my family remember the Whistle Stop Pop Shop in Miracle Lane close to Duff's smorgasboard. They had all these flavors of pop and we would pick out all these different flavors to fill up a case and take them home and drink them all up in a day's time just to try all the flavors. It was probably a big expense for mom and dad because we went out of our way to drink it.
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bigbob
37 posts
Oct 28, 2008
10:26 AM
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I remember Miracle Lane but not the store you mentioned. I would ride my bike there with friends back in 1965. What year did you go there.
Last Edited by on Oct 28, 2008 10:27 AM
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driver62
119 posts
Oct 28, 2008
10:39 AM
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I also don't remember the store you mentioned but I do remember Duff's.
Miracle Lane is now nothing but a grass lot and all the buildings have been torn town.
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Dan-O
14 posts
Oct 29, 2008
5:44 AM
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I remember as a young boy going grocery shopping with my mother at the Alber's Supermarket in Miracle Lane Shopping Center. That would probably have been back in the late 50s-early 60s. I think that when Alber's closed down, Duff's moved into that space. I recall Miracle Lane being a pretty vibrant place. I just looked at it on Google Maps, and you're right, driver62, it's nothing but a vacant lot now. Sad.
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dfw
1 post
May 05, 2009
10:22 AM
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Lived on Torrington Pl...FES, FHS '65
Gray's was the first drugstore at the Salem end of Miracle Lane...when it first opened.
...and don't forget the neat carnivals in the parking lot at the south end they occasionally held during the summer.
Was the name of the shoe store in the smaller section of retail shop to the south "Vernons?" I probably got a lethal dose of x-rays from the fluoroscope they had.
Anyone able to name all the shops in the shopping center across Salem from Miami Hardware? Remember the Malone's Camera Store behind there that burnt down in the mid-50s?
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RickD
19 posts
May 10, 2009
3:45 PM
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dfw- Quite familiar with Torrington Pl. The last place I lived in Dayton was on Malvern, just blocks from you, same side of Salem.
Raised on Kipling Dr, 18 years, after school I lived on Salem Ave , Imo, Vallerie Arms (behind Beerman's), and Malvern before moving to Denver. Loved the carnivals at Miracle Lane. First time I saw someone dive from a tower , set up in the parking lot, into a small pool was there. The water didn't look deep enough but he survived. Also saw what was claimed to be Hitler's car at one of the carnivals. It was a Mercedes with bullet-proof glass and three speeds in reverse. I guess you can't have enough speed in any direction when so many want to get you.
I once won a Halloween contest at Miracle Lane. I was about 5 or 6 years old (maybe 7 or 8, hard to remember). It came down to me and a girl. I was dressed as an Indian princess with pigtails and leather dress with beads, and when I took off my "mask" a dark beige stocking (hosiery) and wig and they saw I was a boy, I won. Got a Brownie camera for it. It didn't seem to affect me, I'm still masculine. I guess these days my parents would get in trouble for damaging my psyche.
Last Edited by on May 10, 2009 4:31 PM
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carlatm75
28 posts
Jan 05, 2010
6:00 PM
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Does anybody remember Joe Friedman's Photography Studio at Miracle Lane. In the 70s, everyone got their senior pictures taken there. I remember little Joe coming to my elementary school in the 60s and his assistant lifting him up on the counter so he could take pictures of the classroom. Does anyone know what happened to him? Is he still alive?
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magran
1 post
Jan 07, 2010
9:33 PM
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Yes, Joe was a great NW Dayton fixture, he was our team photographer at Meadowdale in the 70s
Duffs was really something in the 60s, the Lane was a fancy place
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MikeH
36 posts
Oct 28, 2011
12:59 PM
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It's funny how memories are different. I remember Duffs as being David's Buffett and worked my first job there as a teenager. I also remember "Joe Friedman" as Mickey Freeman Photography.
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wolfcreek
26 posts
Oct 29, 2011
9:33 PM
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I thought there was some smorgasbord there before Duff's. Or was it after Duff's?
Also, there was a beauty parlor in the small building on the other side of the parking lot, facing the Woolworths. My mom got her hair fixed there on Saturday, and sometime's i'd tag along so I could hang at the 5 and 10 for a while.
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Jack S.
8 posts
Oct 31, 2011
3:25 PM
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CHARMS61 The bar in Maracle Lane was called The Brief Candle, It was a Go Go bar.
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DOUG69
2 posts
Nov 02, 2011
10:18 PM
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I REMEMBER WOOLWORTHS- GOT MY FIRST FRANK ZAPPA ALBUMS ON SALE THERE. ALSO SMORGASBOARD. GOT KICKED OUT.ALL YOU CAN EAT BUT I WAS WITH BOB BASS AND GREG SUCHER AND THEY ATE WAY TOO MUCH! ALSO SPORTING GOODS STORE BETWEEN WOOLWORTHS AND METROPOLITANS.DOUG MASON
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Sharons
1 post
Nov 06, 2011
6:56 PM
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Wasn't there a Kroger's and a Fox Cleaner's on Salem in front of Miracle Lane? Also, across the street from there was a Murdock's candy store. I'd buy my mother a pound of chocolate peanut clusters. Wonder how much $ a pound was then? I can't remember.
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carlatm75
89 posts
Nov 07, 2011
5:53 AM
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Oh I loved Murdock's Chocolate. My sister was friends with Cindy Murdock and they went to Trotwood Madison together. Every Christmas we looked forward to getting boxes of Chocolate from them as presents.
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