olds88
67 posts
Feb 11, 2013
6:50 PM
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Back in the fortys the Hoyne funeral homes ran the ambulance service for dayton maybe early fifties.Police 'callboxes'had ticker tape to verify that they were at a given time of day.
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tlturbo
520 posts
Jun 05, 2013
5:41 AM
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Corvettes6 - I was mistaken about the guy with the corvette. I've gotten to know him and his wife as they live next door to Vicki's parents on N main. His name is Norm and hers is Pam. He has a mint red 79 (I believe) and she has a new Grand Sport in matching red. They go to all the vette shows. He's been around the Dayton car scene since back in my days as we sit and talk about all the old car shops and people we knew.
Last Edited by tlturbo on Jun 05, 2013 5:41 AM
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donm
20 posts
Nov 15, 2013
2:09 PM
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Just read through this and caught the comment about the lumber yard fire on Monument. We had gone to a drive-in south of town, forgot which one, to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre and were coming north on Patterson. You could see the flames from Kettering. Once we got closer we had to go to the Salem bridge because they had Main Street blocked. There were fire trucks everywhere. Had never seen anything like it. It was cold that evening, I remember thinking that the firemen were probably glad for that. The heat had to be incredible.
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old school dancer
4 posts
Nov 18, 2013
12:23 AM
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i REMEMBER THE KEEOWEE ST BRINGE AND FINDLY ST BRIDGE, AND THE SMELL OF THAT NASTY HEWITT SOAP FACTORY WHEN WE WALKED TO FRANKLIN SCHOOL LOL
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old school dancer
5 posts
Nov 18, 2013
12:27 AM
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i REMEMBER lIBERALS ON LINDEN AVE.
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old school dancer
6 posts
Nov 18, 2013
12:51 AM
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IF ANY OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TALK IM gABRELLA hOLLOWAY ON FACEBOOK, OR EMAIL ME AT GABRELLA_HOLLOWAY@YAHOO.COM.DAM caps lock lol
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old school dancer
7 posts
Nov 18, 2013
12:58 AM
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Cilla48 i remember a place ran by an old man who had pinball his name was pops and it was bengals lunch on 5th st close to bomburgers he moved it down the st at some point but was there in that block for years and years .....
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Billd1952
135 posts
Nov 18, 2013
1:48 PM
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old school dancer, Hewitt soap was definatly a fowl smell. I went to Franklin School too. 6 through 8th grade, then on to Wilbur Wright.
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RIVERDALE RAT
568 posts
Jun 15, 2014
4:16 PM
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Strange how differently people can perceive the exact same thing. I used to love the smell that came from the old Hewitt soap factory. I remember walking past there as a kid and wanting to work there when I grew up. One time I went to Sunday school class with a friend at the Dayton Baptist Temple and some guy who worked at Hewitt was there giving away samples of kids’ soap. The soap was in all different colors and was in sticks about 5 inches long and about as big around as a quarter. I took 2 dark blue sticks and it smelled exactly the same as the aroma that used to waif from the plant. It didn’t lather very good and my Mother hated the way it stained the tub, she said it had too much dye in it.
Buckeyechaplin.. (If you are still on the boards) I recall the Mountain Dew shack, but I recall it on the NW corner of First and Ludlow, cattycornered from the Van Cleve. It was actually the first time I ever tasted Mountain Dew. If it was ever at first and Main, I don’t recall. I really don’t think there was a vacant corner at first and main in those days. I do recall seeing two nuns in there from the Loretto and for some reason I pictured them taking a sip and busting out into the Yahoooo Mountain Dew yell, I began laughing at the thought and my Mother thought I was being disrespectful to the Sisters and drug me out of there by my ear. Thanks for bringing back those long forgotten memories.
Last Edited by RIVERDALE RAT on Jun 15, 2014 4:17 PM
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joanofthe60s
32 posts
Jul 23, 2014
10:56 PM
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Susan63, I do recall that old infirmary I went to the cemetery once with my mother and her friend. I think it was memorial day, Easter or something I waited in the car with my mother while the other lady put a vase on one of the graves. The cemetery was much larger than I expected and I got the feeling that maybe we wasn't even supposed to be there. Didn't seem like a friendly place at all, but of course I was just a child.
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Billd1952
233 posts
Jul 27, 2014
4:19 PM
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joanofthe60s, I am sorry, but I don't remember a bar or any residences in the 100 block of sears. I only remember 3 - 4 story buildings in that area. Sorry.
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RIVERDALE RAT
722 posts
Jul 27, 2014
8:23 PM
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Billd1952...Ha Ha, don't feel bad, nobody except me seems to remember it. That’s my ramblings from another thread that she is talking about. joanofthe60s is trying to win an email bet with me that I am thinking of another street.
On the NW corner of East 3rd and Sears street sat an old 5 story brick building that manufactured paper products for the janitorial industry. Directly behind that building and (going North on Sears) was Another brick building 3-4 stories that housed the local welfare offices or General Relief as it was called in those days. Next to this building and on the SW corner of the alley was their parking lot. On the NW corner was a 2 story yellow brick manufacturing facility that I recall as a tool and die makers. On the NE corner of the alley sat a 2 story grey house owned by a widow lady named Zana Harrison, the address was 36 Sears Street. We rented the upstairs of the house from her for a while and after moving I still came around and helped her with chores and yard work. Zana had a small Bull Terrier by the name of tittles that I would walk occasionally. On the SE corner of the alleyway was a large vacant lot. I can't recall exactly what year this was, but Kennedy was President and he was dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Using Google street view, I see that the only things that are missing is the General Relief building and the house, everything else is exactly the same (even the old bumpy
alley) the old brick building that sat on the NE corner of 2nd and Sears Street and Housed the Jockey Club is of course long gone. I am certain that someone will pop up here any day now and verify my recollections.
Last Edited by RIVERDALE RAT on Jul 27, 2014 8:26 PM
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DaytonDennis
64 posts
Jul 28, 2014
1:12 PM
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RR, who was the Pastor at Dayton Baptist Temple when you went there? Was his name Fleming? When I was at Wilbur Wright I remember a guy named Stephen Fleming and he said his dad was the pastor there.
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RIVERDALE RAT
727 posts
Aug 01, 2014
11:09 AM
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DaytonDennis... I only went to Sunday school a couple of times as a guest of a friend of mine, but I have heard of Dr. Fleming. He was the head honcho out there forever and I am pretty sure there are Pastors still serving in churches today who trained under him.
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Daytongirl01
29 posts
Aug 01, 2014
3:58 PM
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Pastor Flemming was the pastor when my parents attended DBT in the 70's, prior to them moving to Arizona in retirement. They both had high praise for Pastor Flemming.
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