RickD
16 posts
May 08, 2009
12:17 PM
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Anybody work at Elder-Beerman especially Siebenthaler and Philadelphia.
In 1966 I helped open the restaurant on the mezzanine of Elder-Beerman on Siebenthaler as a busboy with Tom. Miss Spivey was the Hostess, a beautiful woman who was formerly a model for Thal's and Donenfeld's downtown (I think). Mrs Brown ran the kitchen. The dinning room had great soft booths. A lot of employees ate at the coffee shop to the left of the dinning room. We picked up our checks in the back hall of the mezzanine that led to the furniture section stairs and the employee exit. Either walked from school (Fairview HS) or from home cutting across Miami Valley Country Club until I started driving a light blue '62 Mercury Meteor with three on the tree shifting. When the Dayton Mall opened Tom and I went to that Beerman's restaurant there for a few days to help get it started. Seemed like really hard work but better than the kitchen.
Went to the Forvm down the street once and saw Tottie Fields. Funny lady.
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Steve K
56 posts
May 09, 2009
8:02 AM
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Arthur Beerman used to like to eat at the mezzanine restaurant at the Van Buren shopping center store. I had lunch with him up there a couple times. I saw Totie Fields in "Bye Bye Birdie" at Memorial Hall in maybe 1966 or 1967.
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SeeDavid
226 posts
May 09, 2009
12:46 PM
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Rick D: My Mom and Dad took me to see Totie Fields, as my Mom not only loved her, but looked like her, too. I worked next door to Elder Beerman's Northwest at Citizen's Federal Savings and Loan and would eat at the Mezannine every night (we stayed open til 10pm) for lunch. I remember Mrs. Spivey and was a lovely woman and model for all the places you mentioned and also was a model for Elder Beerman's upstairs there when we were kids, too.
I loved the "hot shots" there...didn't you?
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SeeDavid
227 posts
May 09, 2009
12:46 PM
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Rick D: My Mom and Dad took me to see Totie Fields, as my Mom not only loved her, but looked like her, too. I worked next door to Elder Beerman's Northwest at Citizen's Federal Savings and Loan and would eat at the Mezannine every night (we stayed open til 10pm) for lunch. I remember Mrs. Spivey and was a lovely woman and model for all the places you mentioned and also was a model for Elder Beerman's upstairs there when we were kids, too.
I loved the "hot shots" there...didn't you?
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grapeape
4 posts
Mar 11, 2011
8:34 PM
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I used to love the restaurant at EB's on Siebenthaler. Whatever happened to department store restaurants?
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fishers1951
26 posts
Mar 13, 2011
7:00 PM
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Worked at Prudential Insurance over by Pappy's Kitchen on North Main during th 70's. We loved to go to the Elder Beerman Restaurant on Siebenthaler - went there at least once a week for many years.
My first job during high school was in the shoe dept at Trotwood Beermans-that was a learning experience!!!
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NRA_Life_Member
13 posts
Jul 07, 2013
12:01 AM
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I remember the restaurant on the mezzanine of Elder-Beerman on Siebenthaler. I remember their chocolate eclairs. Most delicious dessert I have ever had. It was cold & hot at the same time.
I remember, I was 10 years old, buying a Daisy BB gun at Elder-Beerman and then carrying it up to the restaurant to have lunch. Today, you would probably get SWATted out of existence. Such progress we've made, huh?
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Happy to Be
25 posts
Apr 03, 2014
4:30 PM
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I worked there in the mid to late 70's. What a hoppin place it was then. Now it is a deserted shame. It needs to be torn down.
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mikedaley
6 posts
Apr 15, 2014
7:54 PM
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I remember my parents and I shopping there in the early 60's. They had a "charge a plate" which was a little card and allowed them to buy things and pay later. It was before the credit card thing and qualifying, etc. People in those days respected things and paid their bills. It was sure was nice back then. What does it look like now?
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driver62
522 posts
Apr 16, 2014
6:36 AM
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mikedaley - The EB store on Philadelphia is just another empty building with a for sale sign out front. I doubt anyone will buy it and it will probably be torn down some day.
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Happy to Be
26 posts
Apr 25, 2014
7:10 PM
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Does anyone remember Helen White who worked in the young boys department of the Northwest store? She was the ideal sales clerk and just as sweet and beautiful as she could be.
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