Jag13
1 post
Dec 17, 2009
4:34 PM
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Originally, Jed's was called "Tennessee Jed's" and it was the 1st restaurant that I remember with a salad bar. At some point, they shortened it to Jed's. I remember one in Beavercreek by the new Lofino's, one in Centerville near McEwen and 725, one in Kettering on Dorothy Ln near Wagner Wood, and there was one near the Salem Mall, too.
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mem
58 posts
Dec 18, 2009
12:47 PM
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The Tasty Pantry was the first restaurant to occupy the building on N orth Dixie where Westward Ho was located. The Tasty Pantry served many meals to Northridge athletic teams that were headed for a long bus ride before games.
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Bill68
56 posts
Dec 25, 2009
6:55 AM
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If I remember correctly (and I always do), there was a Jed's out on Salem Ave. One of my favorite places to eat back in the 60s and 70s was Maggie's at the corner of N. Dixie and Bartley. They had great chili, good hamburgers, and a deep fried beef tenderloin with mashed potatoes and mushroom gravy that hit the spot. Now I've gotten myself hungry and I live 115 miles away from Maggie's and it's Christmas Day and they are closed anyway. Maybe I can get up there next week.
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Cross
1 post
Dec 26, 2009
5:39 PM
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Does anyone remember Flint's on Gettysburg? Great burgers and fries. Alot of the guys & gals of Fairview High School and of the Greenwich Village area hanged out there. It was near Gettysburg IGA Market.
There was also a neat little shake joint across from Fairview High on Hillcrest which was popular but I can't remember it's name.
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maxed out
134 posts
Dec 30, 2009
12:57 PM
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I had to be maybe 6 or 7.Remember the free kiddie mug at A&W root beer stands. That was one of my favorite memories growing up... when dad would take us to the A&W in Xenia. That root beer mug would have a foamy head until it was gone.. Sad to say that in 1974 that is where many people were killed in the tornado.
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Curt Dalton
256 posts
Dec 31, 2009
7:38 PM
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Hi hunt69,
I just so happen to have a picture of the diner from the 1950s. If you click the Dayton Images/Videos button on the right, then click on Dayton in the 1950s you will see it is the last photo in the set at the very bottom of the page.
Curt
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Steve K
162 posts
Jan 02, 2010
9:41 AM
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Curt... Thanks for the Gatehouse Diner photo! I've been looking for one for about five years. At first I thought this was the one in Fairborn, but comparing it to the postcard copy I have from Fairborn, it's definitely different. The Keowee street diner was rebuilt in Cleveland and was open as a restaurant somewhere in Texas a few years ago. It was featured in a PBS special about diners.
You got any pictures of the Tasty Boy at Filth and Wine?
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mrc
6 posts
Jan 02, 2010
3:28 PM
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If you are up for a 2000 mile road trip you can see the latest incarnation of the Gatehouse Diner. It is now part of the Pioneer of Texas Diner in Wichita Falls, Texas. If that is too much driving, check out the links below.
http://mcarr.org/shared_images/pumpjack.jpg
http://www.agilitynut.com/diners/tx.html
From the website:
The Pumpjack Diner opened in 2005. It is actually two fully-restored 1950s diners combined into one restaurant. The former Gatehouse Diner (a 1955 O'Mahony) was from Dayton, OH and the former Brandywine Diner (a 1954 Mountain View) was from Wilmington, DE. There is an oil derrick and an outdoor eating area between the two diners. It closed in 2006 and reopened as the Pioneer Diner in 2008.
902 Broad St, Wichita Falls, Texas 76301
Google street view link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=902+Broad+St,+Wichita+Falls,+Wichita,+Texas+76301&sll=39.751909,-84.16737&sspn=0.009238,0.016544&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=FcxgBQId1Qgh-g&split=0&hq=&hnear=902+Broad+St,+Wichita+Falls,+Wichita,+Texas+76301&ll=33.906539,-98.498038&spn=0.009973,0.016544&z=16&layer=c&cbll=33.906458,-98.497975&panoid=S2MuJZMYF6-QBkZJvT4q-Q&cbp=12,239.4,,0,11.67
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tlturbo
179 posts
Jan 03, 2010
5:31 AM
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Does anyone that was in the Fairborn area in the early 50's remember a silver rail car diner that sat near the Fairbrn Theater across from the entrance to Wright Patterson?
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fishers1951
5 posts
Jan 03, 2010
7:56 AM
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Thank you for your post JeffN. I no longer live in Dayton and just found this site this weekend. Been trying to think of name of Jeds - worked on N Main St out by shiloh during 70's - we went out to lunch every day and here are some of the ones I remember - Brown Derby, Marions Sandwich Shop, Pappys Kitchen,Upper Krust, Keyhole on Salem Ave, Pastime on N Dixie, Maggies(?)on N Dixie,Ivy Lounge.
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Doug68
51 posts
Jan 03, 2010
9:48 AM
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Samstone: Thanks for the info about the Rocket Drive-In in Vandalia. Finally, Maybe I'm not yet losing my marbles.
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Curt Dalton
258 posts
Jan 03, 2010
2:36 PM
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Steve K - Sorry, no Tasty Boy pics at this time.
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magran
2 posts
Jan 07, 2010
9:55 PM
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Sister Carmine of St. Rita's 6 grade in 1967 took our class to the only Chinese resturant downtown at the time, maybe the only in Dayton. It was on Ludlow and I remember going down stairs. Two word name, can't remember. She was a great teacher, quite liked.
Sano's on Main. Never busy when we went in during the early 70s. But good place, don't know when it peaked, but does anyone remember they had a very large team photo of the UD Flyers basketball team.
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magran
3 posts
Jan 07, 2010
9:55 PM
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Sister Carmine of St. Rita's 6 grade in 1967 took our class to the only Chinese resturant downtown at the time, maybe the only in Dayton. It was on Ludlow and I remember going down stairs. Two word name, can't remember. She was a great teacher, quite liked.
Sano's on Main. Never busy when we went in during the early 70s. But good place, don't know when it peaked, but does anyone remember they had a very large team photo of the UD Flyers basketball team.
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moke57
4 posts
Jan 11, 2010
7:35 PM
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jeds (in beavercreek and kettering) was a steak house very similar to ponderosa; how about mr. steak on the corner of linden and woodman?
better yet, who can remember the roast beef place on the corner of woodman and airway where wendys is today....? hint.....burned down not too awfully long after it was built.....
Last Edited by on Jan 11, 2010 8:14 PM
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maxed out
140 posts
Jan 19, 2010
11:29 AM
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Did anybody frequent Nicks in Xenia? I loved that place. It is still in operation on North Detroit Street. My wonderful wife was there for her class reunion last October.
they had the best beer in town.. (Bud Light)
Last Edited by on Jan 19, 2010 11:31 AM
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maxed out
143 posts
Jan 26, 2010
11:15 AM
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There was a Roy Rogers Roast Beef somewhere around Kettering. Maybe they had a big cowboy out front. I also remember Rax Roast Beef.
Last Edited by on Jan 26, 2010 11:16 AM
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newzoo
2 posts
Jan 27, 2010
3:51 PM
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Does anyone remember the Rhino restaurant? It was located directly across from the Dayton Inn Hotel on Third and Ludlow. I was scared to death to go to the bathroom by myself you had to walk downstairs And there were stuffed wild animals from Africa down there. The Lobster was great and cheap!
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mem
61 posts
Feb 15, 2010
10:57 AM
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Anyone ever go to Marion's> That is Marion's Ice Cream shop on North Main Street. I think it was on the west side of Main St. north of the Upper Crust.
Last Edited by on Feb 15, 2010 10:58 AM
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driver62
287 posts
Feb 16, 2010
6:04 AM
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mem - I never went to Marions but the building is still there and the sign still hangs out front. It advertises either Meadow Gold or Sealtest ice cream. It must have turned into a bar at some time as there are still beer signs in the windows.
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kenjan
1 post
Feb 23, 2010
11:39 AM
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I moved from Dayton to Florida several years ago, and still remember the taste of the burger sauce and the butterscotch pie at the Goody Goody restaurant. I would LOVE to have the recipes for these items. So far, the ones I have received have not tasted at all like I remember. Can anyone supply this???
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rosewoodroyal83
3 posts
Mar 02, 2010
5:32 PM
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Tennessee Jed's, then later just Jed's. There was one on 725, where Goodwill is now, one on Free Pike I believe, and one on Dorothy Lane near Ackerman, home to Carlin Audio for many years after Jed's closed. Jed's was known for their big salad bar.
Parkmoor, later Hail and Hearty was out in front of Shopper's Fair, later Bob's Food Warehouse.
Roy Roger's was on Dorothy Lane just east of Kettering Theater, where Autozone is now.
Upper Krust Washington Square has been closed for aq few years now, but they were good right up to the end.
Someone mentioned the theaters in washington Square, I think they were just called Washington Square Cinemas, 2 screens I believe. Phil and Jerry's waa across Whipp, didn't they build what is now DLM, but changed to DLM before it was completed?
Does anyone remember Cambridge Inn on Far Hills next to where Denny's was? or when North China on far Hills was an old school Larosa's?
Last Edited by on Mar 03, 2010 4:52 PM
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Doug68
63 posts
Mar 05, 2010
12:57 PM
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Samstone, thanks for the info re the Rocket Drive-In. I was beginning to think that the place was a figment of my imagination!
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Mike80
3 posts
Mar 05, 2010
1:49 PM
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mem. Marion's Ice Cream was on the corner of North Main St and West Hudson Ave. My grandparents lived on Hudson for years and my sister lives there now. We did ocassionally visit there and the ice cream there would always give you a brain freeze. Liberal was right across the street on Main.
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RCINKY
18 posts
Mar 14, 2010
8:37 AM
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Tenneesee Jed's was a chain. My first wife and I often weent to the one in Fairborn. Great BBQ chicken. As you went in they had a bunch of chickens rotating on a spit behind a glass window. I wonder what PETA would have to say about that now. Also, I recall the days before the big box retailers when we'd eat at Kresges, Sears, Grant's, Rikes, Eler-Beermans and other stores at their restaurants. I wonder if any of these remain?
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Expat
4 posts
Mar 14, 2010
3:25 PM
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We used to go to Marion's until they started getting dirty, but that wasn't till the 70s.
I miss Elsa's over on Linden. I refused to go there for years because it looked like such a dive, then kicked myself when I finally went there. Super burritos--yum!
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Dick-Tpa
2 posts
Mar 15, 2010
3:06 PM
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Kenjan, above, asks about the Goody Goody Drive-in Restaurant. There is another Topic in this forum titled "Goody's restaurant? Miller's Grove?" which sheds a little light on the Goody Goody and other drive-in restaurants. Anyone who has not seen it might want to check it out -
The link is: http://www.daytonhistorybooks.com/board/board_topic/1550893/134159.htm
Dick
Tampa
Last Edited by on Feb 14, 2011 9:20 AM
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LINDA09
20 posts
Mar 15, 2010
4:35 PM
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Expat....Mmmm... Bad Juans at Elsa's.
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Expat
6 posts
Mar 15, 2010
6:24 PM
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Were the Bad Juans a drink, if I remember right? If I'd had those, I wouldn't taste the burritos. :D
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RnRDoc57
4 posts
Jun 06, 2010
6:57 PM
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Just thought I'd toss this in...
Someone mentioned Arby's - I remember as a teen in high school in the early '60s in Cincinnati when Arby's opened on Reading Rd. A big hunk o' beef hangin' from chains that they sliced from. Don't see that anymore. And wasn't "Arby's" from "R" for "roast" and "B" for "beef"?
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stick
1 post
Jun 07, 2010
9:19 PM
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I remember eating at Jed's steakhouse in the 70's, seems to me it was just west of Wagner Wood on Dorothy Lane.
Does anyone remember a little white diner on 5th just east of Wayne?
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Don65
2 posts
Jun 09, 2010
8:52 AM
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I hope some one can remember the name of a little burger place close to the corned or Gettysburg and Hoover. It had 15 cent hamburgers, too. I think it had Tri angle in its name. Maybe not. This was back in the 1960's. Its nearby competivers were Burger Chef's and Padro's.
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Steve K
175 posts
Jun 09, 2010
8:57 AM
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Stick... the diner at Fifth and Wayne was probably Pat's Tasty Boy #2.... was red and white I think.... I believe that the old Dugout Deli on East First was Tasty Boy #1 at one point. There was a diner around Gettysburg called Ken's Hamburger Kottage.
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stick
2 posts
Jun 09, 2010
7:15 PM
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Thanks, Steve K, I lived across the street from a man that worked as a cook there in the 50' and 60's
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old4d
11 posts
Jun 17, 2010
7:50 PM
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Curt and maxed, the Ponderosa is still there on Airway, I go there a about couple times a month. And there's one in Englewood next to the shopping center where Aldi's and Big Lots are. Taywood road?
Curt, that steakhouse with the cow mascot, was that Sizzlin' Steak or something of the sort? I think there was one in Fairborn.
P.S. This is a great website!
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Curt Dalton
310 posts
Jun 18, 2010
12:59 PM
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That's right old4d, It was the Western Sizzli' Steak House. The mascot was an old cow chewing on grass and looked like it was 100 years old with a bowed back and I think a fly flying around. Very appetizing...
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maxed out
160 posts
Jun 18, 2010
1:49 PM
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I must share something with you that happened a few years ago in the Florida keys. Hope you don't mind Curt, but it struck me so funny. The majority of the restaurants in the keys have seafood as their specialty, and many have marquees stating, "catch of the day Mahi Mahi, catch of the day Snapper, so on and so on...There is one steakhouse that had on their marquee
Catch Of The Day....COW"
Sorry Curt, Had to bring that up talking about cows
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old4d
12 posts
Jun 18, 2010
6:02 PM
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Don65, I only remember Burger Chef there on Gettysburg in the 60s. Everything was 15¢, shakes, fries, and burgers. There was a radio commercial with a song about a "big bag of Burger Chef burgers" and a "Burger Chef dinner for 45¢"
Speaking of steakhouses, Curt, all the Bonanza places are closed, aren't they? Someone told me there is one right outside of Cincinnati, but I don't think there are any here now.
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old4d
13 posts
Jun 18, 2010
7:58 PM
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I vaguely recall reading about that Bonanza-Ponderosa connection, probably somewhere on the 'net.
But the Airway Road Ponderosa isn't the only one in the area, there's one on either Taywood or Wenger in Englewood, unless it closed Very recently.
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Curt Dalton
312 posts
Jun 19, 2010
4:05 PM
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You are quite right hunt69. I found the info on an old site that I thought was up-to-date. I also found that in 2009 the last Bonanza still in Ohio was closed which was in St. Clairsville's Ohio Valley Mall. And old4d is quite correct as well. The company sent me a list of the 19 Ponderosa's still left in Ohio:
Alliance, Athens, Calcutta, Carrollton, Chillicothe, Cincinnati,Circleville, Columbus, Dayton, Englewood, Hillsboro, Jackson, Lancaster, Portsmouth, South Point, Urbana, Warren, Wheelersburg,and Zanesville.
Sorry for the misinformation...
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supersix
1 post
Jun 19, 2010
5:04 PM
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Has anyone mentioned the Golden Point on Gettysburg, near Hoover?
Last Edited by on Jun 19, 2010 5:05 PM
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SeeDavid
337 posts
Jun 19, 2010
8:50 PM
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JeffN Wasn't Jed's on Free Pike on the right, just as you cross Salem from Siebenthaler? Across from the old McDonalds and next to the first United Dairy Farmers? Kinda like a Ponderosa ? ~ Cindi
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JeffN
308 posts
Jun 22, 2010
5:40 PM
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That's the one I remember Cindi...I also want to say there used to be one around Stroop Road, too.
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JeffN
309 posts
Jun 22, 2010
5:41 PM
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I remember one of my teachers at Stebbins (I can't recall which one) lost a ton of money investing in Bonanzas.
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old4d
15 posts
Jun 23, 2010
3:25 PM
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I can remember the Bonanza on Salem, I think Pep Boys is in or near that spot now. We used to eat there a few times a week when we were out searching for treasures at the thrift stores. The manager was so nice, and would always come out to talk to us, his "regulars". The day he told us Bonanza was closing he looked almost tearful.
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JeffN
312 posts
Jul 14, 2010
10:40 AM
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I just visited Dayton over the weekend. Great chicken at Hasty Tasty as usual!!!! (And Cassano's Pizze of course)!!
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mjr1960
11 posts
Aug 27, 2010
12:55 PM
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Has anyone mentioned Sambo's there were a few, 2 that i can think of quick, One on salem by the Salem mall lincoln mercury, one on north main around siebenthaler.
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RIVERDALE RAT
521 posts
Aug 28, 2010
5:40 AM
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Does anyone remember Arbys when they first opened? A Roast Beef sandwich so thick that you could barely eat it was 69 Cents and a large thick Milk Shake was 31 Cents. for $1.04 you had a meal that would fill anyone up, and the beef was tasty. Arbys gets my vote for the #1 downhill slide of any fast food chain.
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maxed out
179 posts
Aug 29, 2010
2:00 AM
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RR, I remember the "gang" driving from Xenia to Dayton to get the Arby's roast beef sandwich. Not sure if it was Woodman or Smithville.
I remember they had a big hunk of beef that they would slice paper thin on a meat slicer.
So good..I thought they were only 50 cents.
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newsnot
202 posts
Aug 29, 2010
5:04 AM
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rivwedale, maxed out
what "killed" arby's was when they switched the kinda meat they used. origanly they used what was called a skinned inside round. this is an beef inside or top round with the top section removed. this is the only large piece of meat in a cow that is fat free and seamless. they switched to some kind restructred meat loaf which they still use. a very poor substitute. i think their problem was the supply of skinned insides was very short.
newsnot
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