Donna1
1 post
Jan 14, 2010
6:32 AM
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My Dad was the maintenance man at the Belmont Auto for 22 years. He used to bring home the little programs showing the names of upcoming movies at the theatre. Does anyone know where I could get one of these little programs as a keepsake? My Dad passed away on October 22, 1975.
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Donna1
2 posts
Jan 14, 2010
6:34 AM
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Hi. I am a native of Beavercreek, Ohio. I am glad to have stumbled across this really neat site. Those of you who put in your time to this wonderful site are to be commended. Thank You!
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maxed out
137 posts
Jan 14, 2010
7:40 AM
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Donna, for more info on the drive-in go to the "Site search" on the right hand side of your monitor. click it then enter the word Belmont.
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Mike C
48 posts
Feb 12, 2010
7:17 AM
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We use to go to the Belmont drive-in all the time. The people that owned that one also owned teh Sunset drive-in on Germantown Road. Their last name was Doll. My parents grew up with them years ago. Great memories. I'm sorry to see it go. :(
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fairmontchick
15 posts
Feb 26, 2011
7:03 PM
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We used to go all the time to the Belmont. I am fortunate now to live in a town that also has a drive-in but they are a dying breed.
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DJ
3 posts
Jul 02, 2012
12:44 AM
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I as well used to go Bellmont Drive in many times with my family. Always had a good time there. Was sad to see it close
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Bigmo
84 posts
Jul 03, 2012
7:29 AM
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I'll never forget watching Woodstock at the Belmont Auto Theater with fellow classmates from Beavercreek High School when the movie was released. We were all outside our cars milling around with the little speakers turned up.
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luv my dayton
59 posts
Jul 06, 2012
12:51 AM
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My memeory of when this event took place leaves me but as I remember all the land across the road from Belmont was a state farm with cattle, hogs, orchards and whatever else needed to be grown to serve the institutions locally. Heading to the drive-in one night all came to a halt with traffic and many firetrucks and equiptment fighting a large blaze at the barns where people were trying to lead horses out to safety and not making it with many, along with the panic and sounds of the animals going up in the blaze. To see it now most people wouldn't remember a huge state farm was ever there. This event may have been back in the 60's. I think of it every time I'm in that area. Belmont drive-in was a place where we'd get a carload of us in for $5 and in later years take our own children. Great memories for all.What really will be remembered once us old timers are gone?
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jfox68
45 posts
Jul 06, 2012
4:17 AM
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My uncle lived on Vale Dr and I always thought it was so cool to go to their house because you could see the drive in movies from his back yard.
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maxed out
353 posts
Jul 07, 2012
1:27 AM
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This is kind of jogging my memory...After you passed the drive-in ,then the state farm heading west couldn't you see off to your right in the distance the Ontario store? Maybe that was on Woodman. Was it Ontario?
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DebCB
76 posts
Jul 07, 2012
3:39 PM
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Yes maxed out and then later Gold Circle.
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tlturbo
341 posts
Jul 08, 2012
9:33 AM
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Ah yes, many fond memories of the Belmont. In the late 60's, there was only fields West of County Line Rd until you got to Woodman. And there was the big box store and I believe a Hasty Tasty or something on the East side of Woodman Back then, when you got to Patterson (think it was Patterson) on Woodman, you had to make a tight right then left turn to continue S on Woodman. I remember on that little section of Patterson, there was a slot car racing place for several years. Wasn't there a seminary or something at the N end of County Line Rd? Can't remember the name of that street but it was the one the barrel factory was on.
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luv my dayton
63 posts
Jul 09, 2012
3:44 AM
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Yes, there was a seminary there but the name has totally left me. Used to volunteer for a group out there that had a program for severely handicapped children. The place is still there but have no idea what its function is today.
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luv my dayton
64 posts
Jul 09, 2012
3:57 AM
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The name just came to me on that facility. It was known years ago as Bergamo. Name has changed and have no idea what it is now called.
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carlatm75
98 posts
Jul 09, 2012
11:40 AM
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I live out that way now and it's still called the Bergamo Center. I don't know what activities they have there though. But it's still open.
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Perry401
100 posts
Jul 23, 2012
7:42 PM
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Was the original name of the seminary Mt. St. John? I don't know for sure, but I never heard the name Bergamo until the place was supposedly changed from a true seminary (dedicated primarily to the education of church leaders and with little direct connection to the community) to a retreat center and education center for the masses. It seems that there were more "old" buildings -- dormitories and the like at the time and also a chapel which I think was at some point torn down. This would have been sometime in the 1970's.
Likewise the St. Leonard's facility in Centerville started out as a true seminary, then as the number of new priests declined (and training methods changed) and as the church opened up their facilities for multiple uses, the seminary was closed and converted mostly for use by the lay people of the community.
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stevedog52
4 posts
Jul 27, 2012
7:55 AM
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titurbo, I think "Lammers"barrel factory was on Grange Hall Road.Early 70's they had a big fire there.
I remember we drove out there and watched the barrels exploding and shooting up in the air. Saw many a great movies at Belmont Auto theater,we used to sneak in a couple extra people in the trunk.
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blue J
52 posts
Jul 27, 2012
10:17 AM
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I remember going to the Belmont when I was a kid, when that area east of Kettering on County Line was just land, as far as you could see. It was definitely the drive-in we frequented the most, out of all of them in the city. We just liked the setting; it was just about "out in the middle of nowhere" back then.
My most memorable time there was in 1981, for something really unfortunate- I had a terrible fever. But my mother and stepfather took all six of us out for a double feature- Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke, and Stripes w/Bill Murray. I was eight years old! Hahaha.
Anyway, I can't recall how long the screen was still standing there after the Belmont closed; it seems to me that it was quite some time.
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