lslindsay54
1 post
Aug 07, 2009
9:55 AM
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Does anyone remember the quarter midget track behind the last row of the drive in ? How about the small putt putt course on the side of the drive in nearest to Dixie and the in ground trampolines ?
Last Edited on 7-Aug-2009 9:56 AM
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driver62
199 posts
Aug 07, 2009
12:48 PM
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I remember the race track by the North Star. I believe it closed down about the same time as the drive-in. Don't remember the putt-putt course though.
I remember Brawley's restuarant being across the street from the track. It closed years ago and is a Chinese place now.
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samstone
25 posts
Aug 07, 2009
1:29 PM
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I remember the track. I used to work across the street at Ontario Foods, as a teenager. I used to love those trampoline places. There used to be one down at old Riverside and Needmoore.
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dquartz
41 posts
Sep 04, 2009
6:51 PM
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was brawleys the restaurant that used to be at dixie highway and stop 8 road ?
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driver62
220 posts
Sep 05, 2009
6:48 AM
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Brawleys was on Needmore west of North Dixie. I don't remember a restaurant at Stop Eight and Dixie. There was a grocery store on the SE corner. I think it was a Krogers.
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mem
10 posts
Oct 27, 2009
7:19 PM
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The North Star also had minature golf and trampoline centers facing North Dixie Drive. I don't remember a restaurant ever on the corner of North Dixie and Stop Eight Road and I've been here seventy years.
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Northridge Kid
22 posts
Oct 31, 2009
7:10 PM
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I remember playing WAHOO at the North Star .... Never did win though !!! Sure do miss that old Drive In. Loved the seats out in front of the consession stand.
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Curt Dalton
220 posts
Nov 01, 2009
8:35 AM
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Hey, here is an ad for Golfland at North Star. http://www.daytonhistorybooks.citymax.com/albums/album_image/6763895/4738561.htm
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samstone
41 posts
Nov 01, 2009
8:36 AM
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We used to hitch hike from Vandalia to the Golden Point, get empty gallon jugs which they were nice enough to wash out. We would walk the the Green leaf bar were our friend who looked 18 would have the jugs filled with draft beer. We would make our way to the plat south of the North Star and sneak up through the woods and watch the movies and get drunk and sick. Those were the days.
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Bill68
63 posts
Dec 25, 2009
11:14 AM
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I worked at the North Star drive-in in late 1966 and early 1967. I was there when the owner's son had a terrible car wreck and a guy named Charlie Vickers was killed. Seems to me they hit a bulldozer where the state was extending Needmore Rd. over to Frederick or Shoup Mill. I remember the boss in the concession stand, John Mason, a woman who worked there named Irene, and a maintenance guy named Bob. I wonder if they are still alive. Anybody know any of them?
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PaulH
7 posts
Apr 18, 2011
2:57 AM
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Bill68. Yep. I know all those folks including the owner and his son. I worked at the snack bar summer 62 or 63.
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flikhem
5 posts
Apr 18, 2011
2:27 PM
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The first R-rated movie I can remember seeing was at the North Star. 1972's "X, Y, and Zee" starring Elizabeth Taylor. I think I also saw "Willard" there.
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