newsnot
325 posts
Dec 14, 2012
5:30 AM
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Does anybody have any stories about the Dayton Stockyards? When did it close?
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PaulH
129 posts
Dec 14, 2012
1:09 PM
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Didn't they used to be on Springfield Street? I seem to remember a restaraunt also called The Stockyard near there too.
Or is my memory lying to me again. Focke's was in that same area.
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cilla46
129 posts
Dec 14, 2012
6:29 PM
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I can remember going with my father to the stockyard to pick out a cow to be butchered for our freezer.This must have been sometime in the mid 50's because I was to young to understand what a freezer beef purchase meant!
It seems to me that we were either on Springfield St. or we drove on Springfield St. to get there.
My brothers were with us and they didn't seem to mind a bit that we were buying a cow to have killed.I never went again but I didn't have any trouble eating the meat!
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luv my dayton
193 posts
Dec 16, 2012
12:07 PM
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Kettering had 2 butcher shops I remember that they would package and store for you. One was near intersection of Wilmington Pike and Dorothy Lane in the area next to where McDonalds is. The other was down the road about half a mile. Can't remember the names of either place but know someone out ther can fill us in.Also, does anyone remember The Butcher Block down near S Dixie on Crescent Blvd? Was right across the street from my daughters. She could walk over and get what the family needed for supper, and I used to go there myself as they had large chickens and loved to get them for baking. Had a great deli.
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Billd1952
7 posts
Dec 16, 2012
3:34 PM
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I've to the Stockyard Inn on several occasions. The food is good, and the small cheese crocks were great to take home, for cheese , crackers, and beer.
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olds88
50 posts
Feb 03, 2013
1:19 PM
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Afellow named McQuire bought and remodeled the Stockyard around 1964.After a year or so he sold and bought a silver mine out west. He sold shares to alot of local folks and never heard any more about him.His wife was i believe was a focke.
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donw
242 posts
Feb 03, 2013
5:44 PM
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Hey luv_my_dayton, I remember a freezer beef place on Wilmington Pike in that vicinity. I remember as a 4-5 year old standing around for what seemed like absolutely forever in a completely white shop that smelled a bit like a butcher, while my father purchased some massive amount of frozen meat.
Here's the building I remember. A cocktail lounge was immediately next door.
https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs&q=3705+Wilmington+Pike+,+Kettering,+OH+45429+.&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x8840850c694452e5:0xe3c69d2070e4c16e,3705+Wilmington+Pike,+Dayton,+OH+45429&gl=us&ei=wBQPUZTQJ4j-0gGdmoCgCQ&ved=0CDMQ8gEwAA
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olds88
52 posts
Feb 03, 2013
6:19 PM
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There was a food locker on Lincoln park near Oakdale. I had a small enterprise around 1970 and stored some pork there.Beavertown food locker was the name.
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donw
243 posts
Feb 03, 2013
11:05 PM
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Ah. That name triggers a memory of the place. Yes, that is it.
I remember that we ate an awful lot of beef when I was a kid and we had a fair number of steak meals. My dad was a tightwad so I assume that the value was really good.
Thanks.
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FreedomWriter
25 posts
Aug 30, 2013
9:39 AM
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The meat Market at Dorothy and Wilmington Was called Ryans Meat Market. Belonged to my Aunt`s Family that used to live in that area of Beavertown.
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luv my dayton
368 posts
Aug 30, 2013
9:45 AM
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Just heard this week that the Stockyard Inn not in business and that there is to be an auction coming up. Have no idea when that will be. Another landmark biting the dust.
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Ared60
51 posts
Aug 30, 2013
10:35 AM
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There was a butcher shop in "downtown" Trotwood that had meat lockers for rent. It was, more or less, across the street form the funeral home. I don't think I ever knew the name of the shop but our family rented a locker and had a half of a beef cut up and stored in there. When the freezer in the fridge was running low my Mom would tell me what she wanted me to bring home and I would ride my bike to the locker to get what she needed.
There was nothing better than going there on a hot summer day. No matter how hot it was outside by the time I had found what I needed to take home I was almost frozen solid. As soon as I walked into the freezer it was like hitting a solid wall of cold. I was 11 or 12 years old but I will never forget the experience. We didn't have air conditioning at home, we didn't have air conditioning in our car. My school wasn't air conditioned and I was rarely able to go to the Victory theater, downtown to enjoy it there. It was a novel and wonderful sensation. After 50 years I remember how happy I was to run that errand for my Mom.
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FreedomWriter
26 posts
Aug 30, 2013
6:04 PM
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Re; Calhoun: Actually they built the water bed store next to Ryans which was next to McDonalds. Then they tore down Ryans to make way for the 2nd McDonalds which put it next store to the by then Thrift Store. They finally tore down that store to make way for the 3rd McDonalds on that site. Like i was saying it was my Aunts family name and they had the meat Market there. Used to bring in the cows thru the back, and well, you know! Biff, bam boom! to put it politely.
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luv my dayton
384 posts
Sep 16, 2013
1:21 AM
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Looks like the Stockyards recently had an auction and did well after a failed first attempt previously. There was a lot of history for that place and must have been something to see back in the day when it was a stockyard.
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