John Huffman
1 post
May 02, 2012
9:37 PM
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I was raised an Air Force brat in page manor. Our family was one of the first families to move into Page Manor. This was approximately 1955. Does anybody have a history of Page Manor or pictures of when it was first built. We lived on Gross Drive, Hickam Drive, Spinning Road and Trunk Drive. We lived there approximately 8 years. Have a lot of fond memories I would love to share especially with the original Page Manorites. Does anyone know of reunions for base personnel who lived in Page Manor back in the day?
John Huffman
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Ol'Roy
22 posts
May 03, 2012
5:20 AM
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John,
If you follow this link, it will take you to a thread about some early Dayton-area shopping centers. If you scroll down a bit, there is some brief information about the early days of Page Manor.
http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=12702.0 You may have to cut and paste.
Somewhere in my collection of transportation memorabilia, I have an old St. John Transportation bus schedule for their route to Page Manor. It started in 1954.
Ol'Roy
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tlturbo
319 posts
May 06, 2012
6:20 AM
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That was a pretty cool link about the old shopping centers and Page Manor. As I have said before, I lived in the section of Beavercreek about where the Fairfield Commons Mall is now but it was all country back in 60-71. The nearest "shopping center" was Airways and I spent a lot of time there with my parents. Page Manor was close enough to ride bikes to but all I remember in there was an Ice Cream shop we would go to. I remember a lot more about Airways Center.
Question - what was the big box store that opened up on the SW corner of Woodman and Kemp?
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JeffN
420 posts
May 18, 2012
9:07 PM
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John: My parents were the first owners of their house at 483 Spinning Road in 1954. From that link Roy provided, it appears the same people who built the base housing might have built most of the homes on Spinning Road, too.
Part of the shopping center was destroyed by a fire last year. But I was up that way recently and it looks like they are rebuilding it.
Jeff
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Calhoun
27 posts
May 19, 2012
2:00 PM
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tlturbo--
The only big box store anywhere near that Kemp/Woodman intersection is K-Mart, and it's still there. A little further down Woodman, maybe 500 yds from Airway, there was a Miller's Discount Department Store. There was also a Goldman's Bargain Barn in that general area, but it was on Linden, near Carroll High School.
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jpopps
1 post
Jun 23, 2013
5:11 AM
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I lived at 40 Spinning Rd. in Page Manor in 1953-54. Then we bought our first house at 290 Spinning Rd. Only lived there a short while and I got transferred to Cincinnati. They were flying B-36's at Wright Field then.....would shake the dishes in the house when they went over.
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Kelly
25 posts
Jul 25, 2013
12:51 AM
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We lived in an apt there about 1968, the first night of a SAC alert, we jumped up in the middle of the bed, thinking a train was coming thru.You couldn't talk on the phone, just had to wait. After that we figured out why the rent was so cheap...
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JeffN
453 posts
Jul 29, 2013
6:29 PM
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It was something you kinda got used to. I can remember being out in my backyard on Spinning watching the jets fly over.
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dcreep
14 posts
Apr 06, 2014
11:57 AM
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JeffN, my parents were the first owners of their house at 309 Lawver Lane in October of 1954. Do the names Harlow, Withers, or Gamble ring a bell?
John, Page Manor was right next to where I lived on Lawver Lane. If you remember Gary Gibson, Leslie Coulter, Eleanor Frith, Johnnie Sue Radcliff, Paula Bullard, Bonnie Cook, Mike Richardson, Skip Hockensmith, Sally Dodds, Bill Dodd, or Keven Smith, let me know at dcreep@gmail.com
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JeffN
474 posts
Apr 16, 2014
3:27 PM
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Send you an email dcreep!!
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