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Fantastic !!

Looks good

Bicycles, but no horses

The county courthouse is a bit unusual looking, but very interesting. Great tour !

Very nice. Loved the 'Go Bucks' on the Nationwide Bldg, in the night shot.

Cool pics..... pun intended.

Enjoyed the pics. Thanks

Great shot of downtown at night. I was born in Good Sam , long before the tower was added. The light band atop the Kettering Tower in a nice improvement.

Very nice

Of the four schools I went to in Dayton, all have met the wrecking ball. That would be three grade schools; Washington, Ruskin and Orville Wright, and my high school, Wilbur Wright. It was while searching online for pictures of WW last week that I found that WW and OW were both erased last year. Came as quite a shock to me.

I lived on Carma Dr. in Trotwood 1955 - 1957. Carma Dr. is easily seen in the aerial of Trootwood in the 50's. It's the last street off W Main before crossing the bridge. Our house was about the 5th or 6th on the right side. We'd drive out each week to see the progress as the house was being built. I'm not positive, but I believe the house cost about 10 K. I went to 2nd grade when the school was next to Trotwood Madison High. The next school year was at the new Broadmore elementary school, which I see is now gone. About a month in, my mother left dad and took my sister & I to Oceanside,Ca. Dad flew out in Jan 57 and brought sis & I back to Trotwood. He sold the house and we moved back to Dayton a couple months later. I remember C.C. Vannaman (sp) Ford when it was on the N.E. corner of the main intersection and saw it move into a new building a block or so East, and the railroad track crossing Main St was on a berm in those days. The last time I was in Trotwood was when dad died in 01. My sister & I took a drive through to see our old house.

Don't hold your breath on the new Ray's field along the waterfront. The project is being rethought, and may be built elsewhere.

My Google search of Elder-Beerman, page 3 - The Elder-Beerman Stores / International Directory of Company, states; Aurthur Beerman bought the Home Store in 1956. Also, Beerman's merged with Elder-Johnson in 1962. > FYI. Downtown Dayton might look very different today had Arthur Beerman not fought tooth & nail to keep John Kenneth Galbraith, the Pittsburgh developer, from getting involved in Dayton's urban renewal plans in the late 50's early 60's. Beerman was against any outsiders coming into 'his' city . I remember a rendering in the DDN of a 31 story tower Galbraith had planned for the area. > I also remember a 24 story tower proposed in the mid 60's. It would have been on Monument, a couple lots west of Main St. Don't remember details of this one. > I'd be shocked if anything ever gets proposed, let alone built, taller than the Kettering Tower.

Yep, I remember the old Sears, and the old Elder's, and old Beerman's, and the Home store. Saw movies at all three RKO theaters downtown in the '50's. Downtown was a busy place in those days. I have many memories of the Dayton that used to be.

A bit late finding this one. B/R in Dayton Trotwood Dayton Oceanside,Ca Dayton Lackland AFB, San Antonio,Tx Gunter AFB, Montgomery,Al WPAFB, Fairborn Dayton St.Joseph,Mo Dayton Jamestown,Oh Ft.Collins,Co St.Joseph,Mo Sarasota,Fl since '84