oldnorthdayton
2 posts
Aug 28, 2009
7:27 AM
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anyone remember keifer's market across from webster school?
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rodat6
78 posts
Aug 28, 2009
2:06 PM
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Was the market on the same street or was it west a few blocks? I remember a market that we kids loved to buy French bread and other treats on the way to or from school, we walked from Parkside, it was a mom and pop market, it was on the corner of Chapel near the railroad tracks just down from the school a bit. There were a lot of businesses on Troy st, there was a nice five and dime and places to eat lunch but don't remember Keifer's market though the name rings a distinct bell in my skull.
On Troy a few blocks north of the school was Burry's Bakery, they had good treats, sat next to Carol Burry at Webster school and her elder brother was killed in Korea. The family displayed a pic of him in uniform in their shop window. A block from that going north was Shocks Treat shop where we sometimes ate lunch, that place was a real dive but didn't recognize that as a little kid. They mostly had hamburgers and greasy fries along with ice milk treats. It's a wonder my brain worked at all. LOL
I attended Webster from first grade through sixth grade, walked everyday except once during a violent rain when a aunt drove us. Had a hour and half for lunch and early on, sometime we would walk the 1 mile home and back again, racking up 4 miles each day.
I measured the distance on Google and it was a mile which gave us strong legs for our life. I was born in the summer of 1942 and to this day I can balance myself on either foot and do a kick. In the early Eighties I roller skated Marathon distances quite often.
My mother became pregnant in October of 1941, she must have had a terrible time with the war just starting and really bad news about how we were losing our ships and service men, how we were basically getting our butts kicked, this had to affect her.
Where was Keifer's in relation to the school?
Last Edited by on Aug 28, 2009 2:18 PM
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oldnorthdayton
4 posts
Aug 28, 2009
2:30 PM
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webster school was on the corner of maryland avenue and kiefer st I believe-I think the owners name were George and Irene Livingston-they had a son named Stanley-ended up being their next door neighbor in years to come on Ray st
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rr52c
1 post
Dec 24, 2010
12:32 PM
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I attended Webster from 1950 to 1958. I can remember Kiefer St. Market. Went there a few times to get candy. My favorite teachers were Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Martin. I also remember Carol Burry and her family.
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rodat6
109 posts
Dec 25, 2010
2:44 AM
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In the second grade, around 1949 I sat behind Charles Knight, in the first grade sat next to Carol Burry. They had good cream horns.
At the 5 and 10 cent store I bought a girl a paste bracket for 60 cents which was a lot for around 53.
Mrs. Probst was my first grade teacher. I think that she had room 101, walk in the main entrance, go to the hall make a right and a few doors down on the left turn right, walk to the window facing Maryland, sit down.
We had Memories Garden and the McGuffey Reader, the former was a poetry book, I memorized a poem in the 3rd or fourth grade, that was our assignment so i decided to memorize a short one, it was, "Good luck will help you across a creek if you jump hard enough."
I forget the author.
My second grade class was go in the front door to the hall, turn left, go up stairs, first door turn right, I forget her name. We were being taught cursive writing and simple numbers, I got sick and missed several months and had to catch up. Our house got put under quarantine as did many others.
One of my 63 customer, morning Journal Herald route was the Katherine Kennedy Brown estate, I thing they tipped me 5 pennies once, wish I had saved them. lol
I was afraid of the doberman dogs they had tied to the servant house near Leonhard so I would go to the north side wall, mid way, just across from the house there was a break in the concrete wall that my small body could slip through and make it to the porch leaving the paper then slipping back to continue my route.
Boeckman's meat market on Keeowee is still there. I've been in that place as a child many a time. Pickled pigs feet, chitlins. ugh.
We went from Parkside to McGuffey Homes to 62 Messina Place just near Claridge Park, Stacy was one of the Park directors and that is where I learned to play chess, watching the old men play, now I are old. lol
Our clapboard living quarters came with a coal stove in the living room but a well off aunt bought mom a oil heater which in the winter we kept a pan of water on to give humidity to the room.
While at Webster we had paper drives and they were always fun, we also played find the turtle which had something to do with being nuked by Communist Russia.
We knew what to do if we saw a bright light while walking home from school, lay down in the gutter and cover our head with the books. Fun thing to teach a kid, get them prepared to be blown up from idealism.
Grown men and woman not intelligent enough to make a good world to bring their children into speaks volumes then teaching us that Christopher Columbus discovered our country and we even had a day to celebrate him while much later Martin Luther King, Jr. had trouble getting a day of remembrance. As we later found out Columbus was a nasty fellow if you didn't bring him valuables.
From there I went to McGuffey school for 7th and 8th grade. Mrs. Wallace was my home room teacher.
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btaylor
3 posts
Mar 29, 2011
3:24 AM
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we knew it as georges market i lived on maryland ave just around the corner but the store sat next to the alley that led to my back yard.
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btaylor
5 posts
Mar 31, 2011
7:30 PM
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YES GEORGE AND HIS FAMI;Y LIVED ON RAY ST BETWEEN MARYLAND AND DEES AVE
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rr52c
7 posts
Apr 01, 2011
2:51 PM
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I remember in the early 50's there were three custodians at Webster. Their names were Mrs.Long Mr. Short and Mrs. Little. Everyone got a big laugh when Mr. Sultzbaugh called them on the PA.
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rr52c
14 posts
Jul 07, 2011
6:14 PM
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Go to http://www.vpike.com/ then put in the address slot 1119 Keifer Street Dayton, Ohio use the left arrow at top of picture and you will see the old Keifer St. Market. Use The top right arrow, turn all the way around and see Webster School. First time I've seen it in years!!
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btaylor
9 posts
Jul 16, 2011
11:34 AM
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wow thanks for the memories rr52c lol
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rr52c
34 posts
Aug 22, 2013
12:28 PM
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Drove through the old neighborhood for the first time in years and noticed Webster School is gone. I didn't know they tore it down. Also saw the new school where Kiser High was located.
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Tbone
10 posts
Aug 22, 2013
1:19 PM
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Okay, so I explain/ask this correctly. At the end of Maryland Ave there is a dead end, just past Kiefer. Starting from the end of Maryland and going towards Kiefer, was the school on the left hand side? with the playground facing you as you were walking up Maryland towards Keifer? That area seemed extremely run down in '76-'78 but according to Google earth, it looks like the homes have been freshly painted and better well kept these days. Also, was that neighborhood a prominent one back in the day?
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Tbone
11 posts
Aug 22, 2013
1:57 PM
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rr52c....I should have read your post first. that is where it was...thanks
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