Calhoun
223 posts
Sep 30, 2013
7:48 PM
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We were having dinner with a group of friends when the topic of local Dayton news came up. We discussed the biggest news stories we personally recalled, and this evolved into local news stories we either were involved in or witnessed.
Mine was relatively benign. In 1971, I attended the offical opening of the USAF Museum at its current site, and got to shake President Nixon's hand. The husband of a friend of the wife witnessed the 1986 derailment of the train in Miamisburg. This accident resulted in large scale evacuation south of town due to the ignition of a tanker car full of phosphorous and the chemical cloud it created.
So anyone have any similar Dayton news story you witnessed or were involved in? Also be curious what was the biggest local news story you remember? (Just to clarify, not talking about the local impact of a national/international news story. Looking for something that actually happened here.)
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rdebross
80 posts
Oct 01, 2013
6:14 PM
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Xenia tornado was big local news. I'm thinking April,1973. A Lake Central Airlines plane crashed north of Vandalia on approach to the airport sometime in the late '60's or early '70's. The Bosnia peace conference made international news from WPAFB in the '90's. A prop plane (B 25?) crashed into a neighborhood near Smithville and Tuttle around 1959. Blizzards in Nov. 1950 and Jan. 1978 paralyzed the area for days.
Last Edited by rdebross on Oct 01, 2013 6:16 PM
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joey m
117 posts
Oct 02, 2013
8:03 AM
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I got to the plane crash that went down on Tuttle St. I was only about 16 and with my brother in law coming down Smithville Rd. when we saw all these emergency vehicles and decided to follow them. They didnt even have the street blocked and we were standing in a yard across the street. While we were there I ran into a boy who was someone I knew from our old neighborhood. His friends and him were playing football in a field on the corner of Tuttle and Smithville and saw the plane fly just over their heads.
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FAITH
100 posts
Oct 02, 2013
9:46 AM
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The barrel factory fire around 1969 is the one that is most memorable to me.
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Billd1952
109 posts
Oct 02, 2013
11:44 AM
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I must be getting old. I rememebr all of those stories, except the 1950 snowstorms. My parents told me about those. The riots in 1967 and the fire at NCR were biggies as well. The C-47 cash on Tuttle, I remember well. My dad drove by the site with the whole family in the car.
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Mark1984
123 posts
Oct 02, 2013
5:26 PM
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The Sherwin-Williams warehouse fire back in 1987. In the west end of Dayton around the Kittyhawk golf course I think. Cans of paint cooking off and shooting off like rockets. The place was sitting on a well field for the city water supply
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carlatm75
118 posts
Oct 31, 2013
12:05 PM
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How about the Lester Emoff murder in the late 70s?
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FreedomWriter
54 posts
Nov 05, 2013
6:58 AM
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And who could forget the windstorm of 2008.
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jack1953
49 posts
Nov 05, 2013
8:00 AM
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Wasn't around then, but how about the flood??
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Forgiven, forgotten, set free!!
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FreedomWriter
59 posts
Nov 06, 2013
6:05 AM
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Was outside working on a car one day when I began to see people lining up on the other side of the street. They yelled for me to join them, not knowing that I was going to be a part of the hands across America that day back in 1986. Kinda neat now, looking back on it. Did anyone else take part in that?
Last Edited by FreedomWriter on Nov 06, 2013 6:07 AM
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Syxpack
156 posts
Nov 06, 2013
11:41 AM
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FreedomWriter, Yes, my family and I took part in that. Didn't we all meet at the Third St. bridge? Had lots of fun that day. I don't remember much about it, other than some kind of a snafu in getting organized, once we all got on the bridge? Some of the older kids in the family drove us crazy by going under the bridge, where we couldn't keep track of them. They're in their 40's now and we still can't keep track of them. lol
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KennyE11
150 posts
Nov 07, 2013
10:55 PM
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Butch - There was a previous thread on this blog regarding David Forbes Pottinger - the councilman who "disappeared" in 1962 - but I couldn't find it using Site Search. It had some humorous posts, but I assume it was on one of the threads removed by Curt.
Interesting side note - Pottinger was replaced by Dave Hall, the father of long serving area Congressman Tony Hall.
Last Edited by KennyE11 on Nov 07, 2013 10:58 PM
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Susan63
13 posts
May 21, 2014
4:35 PM
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Here are a few others...
The Miamisburg train derailment in 1986, I think
Barrel Paint Factory fire in Beavercreek in the early 70's, which I can still remember.
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