I recently took a day trip to Dayton with my fiance and some friends and was pleasantly suprised!  I decided to compile a list of reasons to visit Dayton... feel free to add on to it :)

 

1)  5/3rd Field (Home of the Dayton Dragons)

2)  Electric powered busses

3)  Main Street's nice urban architecture

4)  Dayton Institute of Art

5)  Gem City Records

6)  Oregon District

7)  Marion's Pizza

8)  Air Force Museum

9)  Super Subby's

10)  Parks showcasing old canal locks

11)  Mendelsohn's (sp) liquidation warehouse

12)  Carillon historic park

13)  Cox Arboretum

14)  Woodland Park

15)  University of Dayton

16)  Riverscape/Saturday night fountain & laser light show

17)  Neon Movies

18)  Carillon bells

19)  Grafton Hill neighborhood

20)  Birthplace of ColDayMan

 

 

I thought ColDay was born in Cincinnati?

 

Anyway, good list, it seems you got around. The only things I can think of to add off the top of my head are:

 

21) The Victoria Theater & Schuster (sp?) Center

22) Wright-Dunbar Neighborhood

23) Oakwood

Who is the major league affiliate of the Dayton Dragons?

 

20)  Birthplace of ColDayMan

 

 

 

Thats all you had to say.

not just marion's, i'd just say it as dayton style pizza as a whole. yum! also, to music fans, troutman studios and hara arena are legendary old pop music shrines.

 

i remember when i was a child our family went on an ohio weekend vacation to dayton for us to see the wpafb museum. it's about the perfect museum for any kid to visit. we tied it in with a visit to the neil armstrong museum in wapakoneta on the way back & then tony packo's in toledo. all very impressive fun stuff to us little kids.

 

 

Who is the major league affiliate of the Dayton Dragons?

 

Cincinnati

I was born in Cincinnati, not Dayton.  Though I have lived in Dayton significantly longer than Cincinnati and Columbus, thus it's home.

 

And that list is pretty good but you forgot one important thing:

 

BROASTED CHICKEN, for Christ sakes! 

 

Also, Boonshoft Museum and Ohio Wild Zoo are also notable attractions.

the girl on 'Made' was born in or around Dayton.  Go to Dayton to see her.  Btw, in the opening segment they said she was from Dayton and they showed cornfields to represent it.  hmmmmmm......

the problem there is broasted chicken is tasty, but hardly unique to dayton. now barberton-style chicken, that's unique and so worth traveling for. ok, ok back to dayton, milanos canadian bacon sub, that is a rather unique take and worth climbing over people for. my peanut gallery wants me to add mike sells chips and smalleys pretzels and esther price candies to the food list, too. i call not unique enough on those either, but hey its all good.

 

 

This is a wacky thread.  Kinda like the "Reasons to Love Cleveland" ones.  I know I couldn't come up with 20 reasons to go to Dayton.  There are definitely some neat things about Dayton if you know where to look.  Since I'm used to a mid-sized city in Ohio that has canals and a nice ball park, there's things in Dayton that don't impress me or excite me. 

So my fave things are in no particular order:

Food:

Thai 9

Marion's Pizza

El Meson

Dewey's Pizza

I suppose the Oakwood Club, but I never ate there..

Surprisingly decent Indian restaurants

Dublin Pub

 

Places and activities

Belmont Park for disc golf- really fun course

Hills and Dales for regular golf- fun and scenic course

Belmont Beverage for the best selection of beer in Ohio

Oakwood- cool neighborhood, a beautiful place to walk, drive, run, or bike through with silly easy access to downtown.

USAF Museum obviously

Dorothy Lane Markets is nice

Belmont Billiards-tough tournaments in old fashioned grimy pool hall.

Oregon District nightlife including Elbos and Southern Belle/Canal St. Tav

 

 

 

 

 

 

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the problem there is broasted chicken is tasty, but hardly unique to dayton.

 

Whos aid it was unique?  I just said the shit is delicious and is unbeatable.  Like I care about some lake-friendly, blue collar suburb of Akron's attempt at chicken.  That's just an embarrasement (and yes, I've had Barberton chicken and it's good but it ain't Chicken Louie's or Broaster Hut or Pinky's or Hook's or Huffy's or...).

Like I care about some lake-friendly, blue collar suburb of Akron's attempt at chicken.  That's just an embarrasement

 

LMAO

mmmmmm...Subby's....i am going home saturday...definetely getting subby's...this thread makes me miss home

The Subby Club should be famous in its own right... gotta get it cold though.

my peanut gallery wants me to add mike sells chips and smalleys pretzels and esther price candies to the food list, too. i call not unique enough on those either, but hey its all good.

 

Or you can get your Esther Price and Mike-Sells fix all in one with Esther Price's chocolate covered potato chips.

 

http://www.estherprice.com/ViewProducts.asp?cat_id=13

Hmmmm... my fiance's father lives near the Esther Price candy shoppe in Silverton.  I may have to go there just to see what that tastes like...

Tanks's Roadkill Chili

The Dance!

 

Dayton would be a great visit for a confirmed balletomane during the performing arts season.

 

Oregon District nightlife including Elbos and Southern Belle/Canal St. Tav

 

Elbos is no more.  But Canal Street Tavern is indeed a reason to visit (and people have come there from Cincinnati and Columbus for shows).

 

The Air Force Museum and now the Wright Brothers national park sites are worth going to.  The visitors centers in Wright-Dunbar and over at the Wright Brothers monument are free and really worth the trip if one is an aviation buff.  The Air Force Museum is probably a collection of old military aircraft of world signifigance as they have European planes as well as US ones.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  I took a trip to Dayton just to see the trolley buses.

 

^

you must be joking.

^I don't think he is.  They are quite popular regarding transit-ites?

The Subby Club should be famous in its own right... gotta get it cold though.

 

I always get it hot...that is the thing that i love the most, the greasy mess that is subby's...(drool)

the problem there is broasted chicken is tasty, but hardly unique to dayton.

 

Whos aid it was unique?  I just said the shit is delicious and is unbeatable.  Like I care about some lake-friendly, blue collar suburb of Akron's attempt at chicken.  That's just an embarrasement (and yes, I've had Barberton chicken and it's good but it ain't Chicken Louie's or Broaster Hut or Pinky's or Hook's or Huffy's or...).

 

little worked up right from the get go, eh?  :wink:

 

well in that case you should be just fine for your fav chicken in just about any other city you visit too. i mean nice rant, but it does not change the fact that broasted chicken is not a uniquely dayton thing nor a reason to visit. why not kfc and popeyes too by that logic?

 

otoh, barberton chicken joints are 'reasons to visit akron' as they are utterly unique. first of all, they have all been around a lot longer than fooey hooeys or whatever and longer even the invention of the broasting fryer itself. mostly tho, it's good & it's worth traveling for as you can't get freakin serbian styled fried chicken anywhere else. even you said it was good and unlike going to dayton you went out of your way for some!

 

so surely you can come up with a better reason to visit dayton than hand me down yardbird.  :laugh:

 

 

 

 

but it does not change the fact that broasted chicken is not a uniquely dayton thing nor a reason to visit.

 

Apparently you didn't read what I said.  I said it wasn't unique to Dayton yet it STILL is a reason to visit.  That simple.  Much like ribs and ice cream aren't exactly "unqiue" to Cincinnati yet people still go there for Montgomery Inn and Graeters/Algemesis or go to St. Louis for custard (even though it isn't "unique" to St Louis), etc.

 

why not kfc and popeyes too by that logic?

 

Yes, because national chains are SO much better than the local joints.  I mean, I'm treking to Cleveland now just for some Arby's.

 

otoh, barberton chicken joints are 'reasons to visit akron' as they are utterly unique. first of all, they have all been around a lot longer than fooey hooeys or whatever and longer even the invention of the broasting fryer itself.

 

Barberton Chicken joints is a "reason for visiting Akron" while Dayton's local chicken joints are the "reason to visit Dayton."  Unique is irrelevant and not all of the Dayton chicken places I mentioned are "broasted."

 

mostly tho, it's good & it's worth traveling for as you can't get freakin serbian styled fried chicken anywhere else. even you said it was good and unlike going to dayton you went out of your way for some!

 

I didn't go out of my way to get it.  I was TAKEN there by an Akronite who knew I liked chicken.  I do the same for all my guests during my Dayton tour.

 

so surely you can come up with a better reason to visit dayton than hand me down yardbird. 

 

And yet you defend Barberton?  Riiight.

but it does not change the fact that broasted chicken is not a uniquely dayton thing nor a reason to visit.

 

Apparently you didn't read what I said.  I said it wasn't unique to Dayton yet it STILL is a reason to visit.  That simple.  Much like ribs and ice cream aren't exactly "unqiue" to Cincinnati yet people still go there for Montgomery Inn and Graeters/Algemesis or go to St. Louis for custard (even though it isn't "unique" to St Louis), etc.

 

bzzt nope the chicken is not a reason in itself to visit dayton just as the ribs are certainly no special reason to visit cinci. the ice cream maybe, but big whoop all of ohio outshines most states as it has super regional ice cream in all sectors and you can get graeters outside cinci anyway.

 

now another angle might be if you wanted to say those were 'the first' or 'the best' or even 'best in ohio,' then it could fly as a 'reason to visit.' for example, a 'reason to visit akron' is for strickland's, ohio's best custard. so maybe the problem here is how you are not quite selling the chicken as a reason to come.

 

why not kfc and popeyes too by that logic?

 

Yes, because national chains are SO much better than the local joints.  I mean, I'm treking to Cleveland now just for some Arby's.

 

don't you mean wendys?

 

otoh, barberton chicken joints are 'reasons to visit akron' as they are utterly unique. first of all, they have all been around a lot longer than fooey hooeys or whatever and longer even the invention of the broasting fryer itself.

 

Barberton Chicken joints is a "reason for visiting Akron" while Dayton's local chicken joints are the "reason to visit Dayton."  Unique is irrelevant and not all of the Dayton chicken places I mentioned are "broasted."

 

bzzt. unique is the only relevant thing, it's no reason to visit dayton otherwise. nice try but no way they are not on equal footing. fried chicken can only be used as a 'reason to visit akron,' unlike chicken in dayton you're not going to find that kind elsewhere.

 

mostly tho, it's good & it's worth traveling for as you can't get freakin serbian styled fried chicken anywhere else. even you said it was good and unlike going to dayton you went out of your way for some!

 

I didn't go out of my way to get it.  I was TAKEN there by an Akronite who knew I liked chicken.  I do the same for all my guests during my Dayton tour.

 

well here maybe you didnt read what i said. you went to rome before you did as the romans.

 

so surely you can come up with a better reason to visit dayton than hand me down yardbird. 

 

And yet you defend Barberton?  Riiight.

 

an original underground roadfood destination versus dayton's common chicken joints? yes. oops, i did it again.  :laugh:

 

 

bzzt nope the chicken is not a reason in itself to visit dayton just as the ribs are certainly no special reason to visit cinci. the ice cream maybe, but big whoop all of ohio outshines most states as it has super regional ice cream in all sectors and you can get graeters outside cinci anyway.

 

Oy...you don't get it, do you?  They aren't the SOLE reason to visit Dayton (and Cincinnati) but they are REASONS to visit.

 

now another angle might be if you wanted to say those were 'the first' or 'the best' or even 'best in ohio,' then it could fly as a 'reason to visit.' for example, a 'reason to visit akron' is for strickland's, ohio's best custard. so maybe the problem here is how you are not quite selling the chicken as a reason to come.

 

Yeah, but I could say "Pinky's, Ohio's best chicken" and it is the same relavance as Strickland's (which probably doesn't have Ohio's best custard but is advertised that way).

 

bzzt. unique is the only relevant thing, it's no reason to visit dayton otherwise. nice try but no way they are not on equal footing. fried chicken can only be used as a 'reason to visit akron,' unlike chicken in dayton you're not going to find that kind elsewhere.

 

Moronic logic.  There are pizza joints in Boston and New York that sell the same style of pizza yet call it different names, yet both are quite popular.  Are they REASONS to visit the cities, sure.  Are they the SOLE reason?  No.  Akron has numerous attractions and reasons to visit it and Barberton chicken is ONE of them.  I would not go out of my way to get Barberton chicken unless I were in the Akron area for an activity, tourist stuff, etc.  Ditto with Dayton chicken joints and whatever else.

 

well here maybe you didnt read what i said. you went to rome before you did as the romans.

 

Ah, now we both agree on something.  We both aren't reading what the other person says (or comprehends it).  Congrats. *chomps on a slider*

 

 

an original underground roadfood destination versus dayton's common chicken joints? yes. oops, i did it again.  :laugh:

 

Schmidt's and Young's Dairy Farm are also "roadfood destinations" yet neither are "unique."  Good chicken is good chicken, and Dayton (and Barberton) does it well.  Thus, an added bonus for reasons to come to Dayton.  Perhaps we don't get it, still?

I think Dayton's chamber of commerce has you all on payroll.

I think Dayton's chamber of commerce has you all on payroll.

 

They can't afford us, so you are incorrect.

Other reasons to visit Dayton:

 

America's Packard Museum

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (includes the Wright Cycle Company, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Brothers Aviation Center @ Carillon HP, and Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial)

The Pine Club (great steaks!)

Milano's Restaurant on Brown St.

Boston Stoker coffee shops

Brixx Ice Co. across from 5th Third Field

Jay's Seafood Restaurant in the Oregon

 

and many other reasons!

 

America's Packard Museum I slept on (I went to high school across the street from the damned place) for a while but I finally got to visit the joint and it was interesting.

America's Packard Museum I slept on (I went to high school across the street from the damned place) for a while but I finally got to visit the joint and it was interesting.

 

before or after they were illegally renting packard's from the city of detroit for personal use?

Doesn't matter.  Even Ferndale is taking advantage of Detroit's incompetency.

I go to Dayton to watch the Wheeling Nailers play the Bombers. Actually they play in Fairborn, but close enough.

I go to Dayton to watch the Wheeling Nailers play the Bombers. Actually they play in Fairborn, but close enough.

 

Cool!