newsnot
292 posts
May 13, 2012
10:32 AM
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how about any comments about the grafton hill area?
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cilla46
94 posts
May 14, 2012
5:13 PM
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In the 50's my aunt and uncle lived on Grafton Ave. and I can remember going to their house for visits.I was very young and don't know the address of the house.Their names were George and Anafred Kling.They were the parents of five children.Georgann,Diane,Michael,Susie and George Jr..He later started Central Ready Mix which became Moraine Materials and is still in operation today.
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luv my dayton
10 posts
May 27, 2012
6:20 PM
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Didn't live there but have been through it. Seems like many have been restored. Love to see neighborhoods in Dayton where people are putting time and money into keeping their areas places that you would like to live in.
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Mikey
151 posts
May 29, 2012
10:24 AM
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My uncle and aunt, Bernie Driscoll and Isabell Koors-Driscoll lived on Grafton Ave. in the 40's. It must have been a nice area because I think they were well-off. The area was close to downtown, so was very convenient to everything. As a young child, it was always a treat when my grandmother (Bernie's sister) and grandfather took me for a visit. They had a record recording machine and they let me play around with the microphone.
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
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newsnot
303 posts
May 29, 2012
11:43 AM
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Mickey,
Grafton hill is a nice area. people are rehabing the houses around there. when dayton makes it's comback this will become a hot area. thanks for info on woody.
jack
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Rocket88man
12 posts
Feb 25, 2014
4:29 PM
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I lived at 621 Grafton Ave from '58 to '66. 621 is near Five Oaks. Delivered papers all over the neighborhood for years and still remember the house numbers on a few square blocks of the area! Houses were huge, and many large families lived on that street. I am the oldest of 10, and the Clarks up the street had 13, next door neighbors had8, etc. Nice area to grow up in. Have only been in Dayton once since '72 and drove through this neighborhood, in 2000. It did not look good then, I was surprised and saddened.
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historybuff
91 posts
Feb 25, 2014
5:11 PM
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For Newsnot, I lived in Grafton Hill at 531 Belmonte Park North from 1989 to 1998. Prior to that I lived on Grafton Avenue from 1974 to 1980 and prior to that I lived on 319 Central Avenue from 1971 to 1974 all within a few blocks of each other in the Grafton Hills District. All within walking distance of the Art Institute, the Masonic Temple, the Greek Church and Downtown across the Monument Avenue bridge. Just a great, great neighborhood. For those who study early Dayton History, 319 Central Avenue was the original Home of Edward Deeds and Deeds Barn where he, Boss Kett and the Barn Gang invented the self-starter. I still live in the downtown area, just a few blocks from the Grafton Hill neighborhood. In all of that time I might mention for those suburbanites who worry about Central City crime, I never had any incidents except for losing a pair of bikes stolen by some teenagers. Of course we all know what the real “elephant” in the room is……..
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abwillhoite
14 posts
Mar 31, 2014
6:53 AM
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historybuff when I read 319 I was thinking that was Deeds old house. Is it still standing? I was over there on Saturday looking around for it but from the old pictures I've seen I couldn't figure out which one was his.
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historybuff
117 posts
Mar 31, 2014
7:41 AM
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AB: No, the Deeds house was torn down years ago. I believe around the time that the Deeds Barn was moved to the Kettering-Moraine museum. When I moved there, there were only two 32-unit apartment buildings there. A few years ago, there was a metal plaque on a pole at that location, citing it as the location of the Deeds House and Barn but unfortunately it was stolen. The original Deeds Barn is now located at Carillon Park inside the Heritage Center.
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gris66
121 posts
Mar 31, 2014
7:08 PM
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The side-by-side apartment buildings were 319 and 327 Central Avenue. I delivered Dayton Daily News papers to the residents of both back in the early 1960s. As I recall, the paper was 62 cents a week.
Both apartment buildings have been torn down sometime over the past 10 years. I also delivered to houses on Grafton and Federal. Those were good days for the neighborhood.
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