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Steele High School
Cindy

1 post
20-Feb-2007
9:53 AM
I would like to know in what year was Steele High School torn down? Also was it torn down in order to build the first Rike's parking garage?
Curt Dalton

38 post s
7-Mar-2007
7:50 AM
Steele High School was razed in 1955 for a parking garage.
Jon Randolph

1 post
21-Aug-2007
6:12 AM
Jim Nichols (DDN "Mr. Downtowner") says it was torn down in '54.

And yes, it was replaced with Rike's first parking garage, a big deal at the time as it was Dayton's first multi-story DIY parking facility.

Marck1957

12 post s
21-Aug-2007
6:33 AM
Yes, the Rike's Garage was a novelty at the time it was built, at least here in Dayton it was. I had a childhood friend that remembers the whole family loading into the Ford station wagon one Sunday and going to the new garage, not to park, but just to drive to the top and then come down the fancy circular exit ramp!
sleonhardt

2 post s
10-Sep-2007
10:44 AM
So when did it cease being a high school?
Greysin1

3 post s
10-May-2008
6:01 PM
My grandfather built that garage - he was one of the founders of Shool Construction. The project drove him nuts with the "peculiar" design and lack of "flexibility" by the workers.

BTW my grandmother attended Steele HS. She and her "sewing bee" group were responsible for the Leo the Lion being moved to DAI.

Greysin1

4 post s
10-May-2008
6:02 PM
Sorry - that should read "Shook" Construction