Posted October 30, 200519 yr First some pix of "Fairfield" part of Fairborn...the oldest part of town. Some of the old houses around are actually log, not frame, but are clapboarded over. This one had the clapboards removed. The porportions on this one are a bit odd...maybe its got a log substructure? A nice little collection of brick 'I-Houses', built right up to the sidewalk. I think Ive read somewhere this way of siting..right on the street rather than set back on a lawn.... came from Pennsylvania. Not sure about that, but it does give this part of Fairborn a bit of a different feel. Halloween I suspect this one might be log, too, under the clapboards... Cute..."rose covered cottage" in Fairborn.... Fairborn rows and backstreets....this might have been the old interurban ROW, but maybe that was further east... A brief look at the Osborn part of Fairborn Downtown Fairborn Foys still has the old Five and Dime thing going on...wood floors, bins of candy, greeting cards, as well as some great costume stuff (which is their main buisness). This is the oldest store still operating in downtown Fairborn. vintage Cadillac hearse...judging by the fins, early 50s: ....even the Bookery comic book store people where getting in on the act....Fairborn is sort of odd. A neighbording store, News-Readers, is the only place in Dayton that I know of where you can get the Villiage Voice. I don't think the other big bookstores carry it (Wilkies used to). This "church" was a hoot... Halloween as a fall harvest festival of sorts.....it was one of those pagan festivals that was adopted into the Christian religous calendar....
October 31, 200519 yr Can't have Halloween in Fairborn without Foy's! Great thread--it's about time someone posted some Fairborn pictures. Better clean that smudge off camera lens, though. :wink:
October 31, 200519 yr Foy's is legendary. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 31, 200519 yr cute. super cute. we have friends who live in fairborn and their kids are infatuated with foy's. but what kid would not be? must be torture for parents to drive by.
October 31, 200519 yr Holy crap...Foy's. I used to go to that five-and-dime when I was a kid. No pics of Osborn? Come on...some of the foundations are still in the ground! [/A-hole]
October 31, 200519 yr No pix of that neat old movie theatre, too. Main Street in Fairborne, closer to Broad, is interesting as it looks like a typical main street except all the buildings are postwar (with parking in the rear). That strech of street resemebles parts of Chicago postwar suburia in DesPlaines and Skokie, with a conventional streetscape (sidewalks, stores fronting the street), but the architecture was all one- or two-story 'modern".
October 31, 200519 yr The amusing thing about downtown Fairborn is that Foy's seems to occupy half of it.
November 2, 200519 yr The brick houses set right up against the sidewalk are indeed characteristic of some Pennsylvania places. Visit the old villages off the main highways in the Lancaster area, and you'll see whole blocks of them, set elbow-to-elbow.
April 18, 200619 yr I know of a great website where you can see pictures of the Fairborn Theater. They have photos of how it looks now and how they want it to look after the renovations are finished. Check it out! :clap: http://www.fairbornpac.org/ I think the pictures in the post are great. Some very good shots of the town! Anyone interested in local happenings go here... http://www.efairborn.com/
March 23, 200718 yr Here's one of my favorite shots. I hope you likey... Anyone thirsty for some Mountain Dew?
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