Perry401
108 posts
Jan 27, 2013
1:19 AM
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Does anyone remember when L'aburge was the "Yum Yum Inn". It actually is sort of funny that the mid-priced family restaurant built in an expanded farm house with the funny name became an upscale 4-5 star French restaurant. Even funnier is the new restaurant's name "L'aburge" which is French for "The Inn"
Doe anyone remember that almost next door (where the bank is now) there was a Howard Johnson's Restaurant?
Does anyone remember that the Baskin's 31 Ice Cream store was originally way down in the back almost next to the fire station?
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olds88
5 posts
Jan 27, 2013
3:41 PM
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cULPS HAD A CAFETERIA YEARS AGO WHERE THE SHELL STATION IS NOW AND THERE WAS A SUPPER CLUB BEHIND THE MET.
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Perry401
114 posts
Jan 27, 2013
11:58 PM
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I forgot about the Culps. It was sold to Christ United Methodist Chuch who used the building as a church for a time before they built the building on Shroyer Rd. & Lincoln Park. The church sold the property and it was changed into the Shell gas station.
Didn't know about the supper club behind the MET.
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joey m
32 posts
Jan 28, 2013
10:49 AM
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olds88 the supper club behind the met was owned by the people who started the TREASURE ISLAND. i think he was a greek gentleman. if i'm not mistakrn it was a night club and restaurant.
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luv my dayton
215 posts
Jan 30, 2013
9:20 PM
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Went to the Howard Johnsons often as lived in Kettering. Was on the property where the big bank is now on Far Hills. Also went to the Yum Yum then it became the upscale French cuisine place. Economy hit the place hard and they started to bring in different chefs with menus that each specialized in in an attempt to bring life back into it. Drove by the place the other day and its gone now and building being sold.The clientele for years was older, business people in the area. There was no running in for a meal in jeans, shorts and sneakers as it was affordable only to those with means. I myself never saw the inside of the place after it was no longer the Yum Yum.
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olds88
25 posts
Feb 01, 2013
11:41 AM
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I believe one of the owners of town & country supper club was named Hollend and they moved to Lamp lighter square and started Hollend house.Icould be wrong but i belive a fellow named Bogan opened T.I.he died in a plane wreck on his way to daytona for the 500.
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steff77
2 posts
Mar 03, 2013
9:18 PM
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How about TC Pizza!! The best used to ride our bikes from Village South to eat there it was great!!
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JJCofMAINE
19 posts
Mar 05, 2013
2:01 PM
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The Howard Johnson became something like Surf & Turf. While on the KFD, sometime between '73 and'75, I helped fight a fire there, early one morning. The building was totalled by the fire and had to be torn down.
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Yermudder
2 posts
Mar 16, 2014
10:51 AM
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HoJo's was an after-the-game hangout when I was in jr. high. Weird menu items like the "grilled in butter frankfort." Never ate at the Yum Yum even though I lived like three blocks from it. Parents frequented the Carillon, the Patterson, and Sacksteders, though. And their favorite, the Westward Ho. Man, that was a long time ago!
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Andy
15 posts
Mar 17, 2014
12:51 PM
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Does anyone remberer the Wagon Wheel Resturant on Dixie? I belive in the north town center, arounnd 1965 0r 66. they had chandilers made from wagon wheels. Made very good burgers.
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Paula fishman
18 posts
Mar 18, 2014
6:20 AM
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I lived on Avon Way in Kettering and Culps Cafeteria was at the end of my street which dead-end into Culps parking lot. This was on Far Hills near the intersection of Dorothy Lane
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olds88
236 posts
Mar 18, 2014
1:30 PM
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Culps was, I believe at Dorothy and far hills in the old Liberal market and next to a car wash.This was after Stroop and far hills by several years.If I remember correctly Shell paid 250,000 dollars for that corner and was one of the highest tranactions in van buren twp. at the time.Kettering had just became a city.
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mpup
19 posts
Mar 19, 2014
9:13 PM
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Was'nt there a Lums Restuarant in the Town & Country shopping center close to where Marions is now? I believe they're specialty was Beer Soaked Hot Dogs. Probably still there in the late 80's.
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Paula fishman
19 posts
Mar 20, 2014
6:10 AM
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Yes, there was a Lums at T&C. My former mother-in-law loved that place. Also, after T&C remodeled there was a high end restaurant called Phesant Stock. Not sure it is still there.
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luv my dayton
564 posts
Mar 20, 2014
12:15 PM
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Peasant stock long gone but there is a place called Figlio there now that specializes in pizza making. More of a restaurant style eating and looks a bit on the up scale side.
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Paula fishman
20 posts
Mar 21, 2014
7:47 AM
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lmd. Just for your info Figlios is a local upscale pizza restaurant started here in Columbus. Very, very good. Try it sometime!
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joey m
194 posts
Mar 21, 2014
11:41 AM
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Calhoun the chef you mentioned if I'm not mistaken is currently the chef at the officers club at Wright Pat. When he left Peasant Stock he ventured into a couple other restaurants . The one I remember was on the river just across the main street bridge.I've known him and his family for a long time. Excellent chef and very nice person.
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olds88
237 posts
Mar 21, 2014
6:05 PM
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Wagon wheel was the bar at the Van Cleve hotel in Dayton at first and Ludlow.Always felt that Town and Country was the downtown of Kettering. There are probably mixed feelings about that versus Beavertown.
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FreedomWriter
76 posts
Mar 22, 2014
8:19 AM
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Beavertown at one time would have been qualified to be Kettering`s downtown but not any longer since they have chopped away so much of what it used to be. Most dont even remember what it used to be by the looks of it now. At one time you had everything you needed right in that area. Anyone remember the Eager Beaver IGA on Wilmington, south of Dorothy? Lived here all my life. Alot of family ties with the area also. Most people dont remember when Dorothy ended at Wilmington And Indian Ripple went east from there. Or how the two roads didnt meet. You had a slight jog to keep going east!
Family used to have an ice house where the McDonalds is on Wilmington Pk. Thats goes back a ways though..
Last Edited by FreedomWriter on Mar 22, 2014 8:23 AM
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olds88
238 posts
Mar 22, 2014
2:04 PM
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Used to go to grocery about a mile down Wilmington on the left or DLM that was only choice when I lived near there.Stragands opened up and went there.I do remember the big barn at the cornerof Dorthy and Wilmington.It seemed like it was one huge apple orchard running east.
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stevedog52
10 posts
Apr 02, 2014
12:32 PM
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FreedomWriter you've probably heard the story how Dorothy Lane got it's name.As I remember,a family with a big farm in the area had a daughter who would ride her horse along the same path all the time and people began calling it "Dorothy's Lane. I remember when my grandparents lived on Broadmoor behind D.E.S.C.in the mid 1950's,they used to play reville on a bugle back when it was Gentile Air Force base.I always loved the Patterson Park neighborhood,would go to Jane Newcome park a lot.Broadmoor did a weird circular thing around a big open area where we would fly kites and climb these old crabapple trees.About 1966 my family moved to Hadley av near Patterson park.My brother would hop on a slow-moving freight train on the tracks behind D.E.S.C. and ride up to San Rae bakery and Jane Newcome park.I was too chicken to do it.Had some friends that lived in the Beavertown platte.Good memories of growing up in that part of Kettering.
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FreedomWriter
78 posts
Apr 04, 2014
2:42 PM
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Stevedog52: I heard a different version of that story. It was Pattersons daughter who used to ride the horse in that area. Remember the reville every day along with the national anthem being played as well. My grandparents used to live On Acorn Dr when it used to dead end, just about where their putting in that new development at. This was during WW2, and my grandmother used to bake goodies for the Italian prisoners that were kept there. They told me the fence used to only be 4 ft tall because nobody wanted to leave because they had it so good. Back then they would stop That train you mentioned and pick you up for a ride. My grandmother used to ride it to Cincy to visit relatives. I myself grew up in the Wiles creek plat behind the original McDonalds that was on Wilmington Pk. Very familiar with that area since our family has been around here since the 30`s. Remember when The shell station opened up across from Town And Country. They gave you a free case of Coke when you got a fillup. You wont see anything like that ever again, thats for sure..
Last Edited by FreedomWriter on Apr 04, 2014 2:45 PM
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historybuff
120 posts
Apr 04, 2014
4:03 PM
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Memories…….Speaking of the Peasant Stock, my wife and I had dinner there every Friday evening for years with her mother to celebrate the end of a work week. Very good food and good service. We became acquainted with a couple of the young men servers who also had a rock and roll band.
They played at one of the first events at the Court House Square downtown. We were invited and attended their weddings when they decided to move onto adult activities:). One of the young men’s father was a UD professor, now retired but still teaching courses in the UD Life-Long Learning program. The Chef there who was mentioned in an earlier post was David Glenn, who started there, I believe as a bus-boy and went on to culinary school and became a somewhat successful chef and restauranteur locally. There was also a Peasant-on-the-Lane restaurant on Lane avenue in Columbus close to the Ohio State campus which we also frequented occasionally. Both very excellent restaurants. We have certainly missed having the Peasant Stock restaurant locally.
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