LuAnn
4 posts
Oct 10, 2013
12:25 PM
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The best Italian food in my youth, I believe it was on Far Hills Ave. don't know what is there now. I remember the red/white gingham tablecloths and eating spaghetti and meatballs! It was a real treat!
This would have been in the 1960's
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joey m
124 posts
Oct 10, 2013
1:05 PM
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LuAnn I remember it well the owner was a friend of the familys My father had a pizza house and we made pizza doughs for a number of the pizza houses in dayton. Jake was the owners name and you are right their food was great. Pizzas were very good. He closed it because the lease ran out and he decided to close it down.
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LuAnn
5 posts
Oct 10, 2013
1:50 PM
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Thanks for the info! It seems like such a long time ago, although my family still talks about it even though we moved away in 1972. Do you know what year it closed?
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luv my dayton
416 posts
Oct 10, 2013
6:37 PM
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Awhile back this very subject was covered but its still a good memory for some of us old timers who lived in Kettering during their school years. Village Inn was the place we all headed to after the games at Fairmont. Don't remember when it closed but think the Oink A Doddle Moo is at that location now. Has been numerous eateries over the years.
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olds88
143 posts
Oct 10, 2013
7:49 PM
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Iposted in another topic that Jake just passed away last March very suddenly.Great eatery.I worked at Shell late fifties and eat many a lunch at KVI.
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Calhoun
235 posts
Oct 11, 2013
11:34 AM
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I won a free pizza from Village Inn on the radio, probably WING, in the mid/late 60s. To my young mind, the pizza was awful. Why? Because to that point in my life, the only pizza I had ever eaten was from Cassinos. Since the VI pizza tasted nothing like Cassinos, it wasn't pizza.
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tlturbo
549 posts
Oct 11, 2013
1:04 PM
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Wasn't there a Village Inn on Wilmington just N of the Country Kitchen on the other side of Wilmington? Down near the Elder Beermans? I went there a lot in late 60's early 70's. Had a huge stuffed giraffe and a firepit.
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supersix
149 posts
Oct 11, 2013
1:15 PM
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There was a chain of Village Inns and I know of 2 in Dayton. One on Wilmington Pk. and one on Siebenthaler Ave. The privately owned "Kettering Village Inn" was open prior to the other chain of stores. It seems to me that they added "Kettering" to the name to distinguish between the 2 different operations.
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Calhoun
236 posts
Oct 11, 2013
6:42 PM
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There is still a VI national chain, have eaten at them in Utah and Colorado. I've also seen them in the Midwest and South. They are kinda like a Denny's from what I remember, good breakfast place. Do not remember them being in Dayton, but probably would not have realized they were different than the KVI.
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Steve K
225 posts
Oct 13, 2013
9:09 AM
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tlturbo... yeah... There was a Village Inn right across from Elder Beerman's on Wilmington.... it's now the Van Buren Tap Room.... before that Cadillac Jack's.... been dozens of bars/restaurants in there since it was the Village Inn.... I worked across the road at Custom Electronics.... we used to go over there for lunch or dinner 4-5 times a week...
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gomershad
5 posts
Oct 30, 2013
7:08 PM
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Yep, luv my dayton is right - Kettering Village Inn was right where Oinkadoodlemoo is now on Far Hills just north of Stroop. It was quite popular through the 70's and at least until January 1983 - I proposed to my wife there at that time! Good ol' hearty, reasonably priced, no-frills Italian. The lasagna and some of the other dishes were baked right in the serving bowl, brought to the table piping hot with that nice light oven-browned mozzarella cheese on top. I think the place burned down in the mid- to late-80's. It might have already been out of business by that time. This website has some interesting info on other restaurants of that era: http://mostmetro.com/dayton-dining/dayton-restaurants-closed-but-not-forgotten.html
Last Edited by gomershad on Oct 30, 2013 7:09 PM
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donm
1 post
Oct 31, 2013
7:25 AM
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I remember the Siebenthaler location well. Used to go there on Friday's after football games with a group of band people. We enjoyed the music, the pizza, and the fireplace in the middle of the store. Felt good after being out in the weather for several hours. I left Dayton after college and noticed it wasn't there on a trip back. Also used to ice skate across the street until that closed. What memories.
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historybuff
1 post
Nov 02, 2013
1:26 AM
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Does anyone remember WAVI? They had a "meet the fans" meeting at KVI in the 70's. They were one of the first all talk stations. Very, very conservative before it became the thing to be. wonder if anyone remembers any of the several hosts(they called them taskmasters at the time) that were on the station. It was a real blast to call in and give them a hard time......6bqvm
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historybuff
2 posts
Nov 02, 2013
1:30 AM
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Sorry about the typo previously. They called the hosts "taskmasters". At the time, actually not very descriptive...
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historybuff
3 posts
Nov 02, 2013
1:35 AM
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My humble apologies, I'm new at this but let me try this again. They called the hosts, talkmasters, actually the silly spellchecker on this system didn't recognize something called talkmaster, and changed it ...oh well, I guess that's technology for you.....
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Calhoun
245 posts
Nov 02, 2013
8:44 AM
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The political position of WAVI was strictly a function of the individual talkmaster. Bob Kwessell was very conservative, while Brad Clay was extremely liberal. Most of other on-air personalities were, as I recall, somewhere in between.
WAVI shared its building off 75 near Stewart with urban contemporary station WDAO FM. WDAO played the best R&B/Motown in the area. I remember being told once back in the day WDAO was short for WHITE DAYS ARE OVER. In point of fact, their on-air talent was one of the more moderate voices during the trying times of the Civil Rights movement.
Last Edited by Calhoun on Nov 02, 2013 8:45 AM
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historybuff
5 posts
Nov 03, 2013
9:41 PM
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Actually, the owner, Bud Crowell, owned both stations. He was a big deal in the local Republican party. Bob Kwessell was the original "Rush Limbaugh" before Rush was Rush. Brad Clay was more Libertarian than Liberal. They had another "Liberal Talkmaster", Dr. Frank Henninger, a U. D. professor who was kind of a "wishy-washy" liberal. Great talk entertainment before talk was acerbic, as it is now.....
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Calhoun
246 posts
Nov 04, 2013
3:13 AM
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*laughs* You must have listened to some of Clay's more lucid moments to consider him "more Libertarian than Liberal". He left WAVI in the early 70s to go to KMOX in St Louis, a short-lived gig that ended under somewhat mysterious circumstances. He returned to the area, and I heard he wound up selling cars. He later showed up on some small station (WPFB?) hosting a once-a-week music program, I think big band or jazz.
I don't remember the UD prof, but recall a very young Mike Gallagher on WAVI. I think he was still in high school when he started there. He's now one of the country's leading syndicated talk show hosts, but I don't know if his show is broadcast locally.
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historybuff
8 posts
Nov 04, 2013
6:19 AM
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TNX for the update on Clay. Never liked him much, he was somewhat arrogant to say the least. Did you listen enough to hear a caller named "Clarence" and "Robin Hood"? He was purportedly a mailman who always called in while on his mail routes from phone booths;( remember those?) he called them "The Liberal Phone Booth". His merry band of "Woodsmen" gave the talk masters fits during the Nixon fiasco. What fun!!!!
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Calhoun
247 posts
Nov 04, 2013
9:36 AM
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Remember the "Liberal Phone Booth", didn't remember the mailman. Do recall how the Watergate incident fired up the phone lines.
Bob Kwessell died a few years ago, the DDN ran his obit. He had literally lived that line from the "WKRP in Cincinnati" theme song, "...gone from town to town, up and down the dial". I think he was on a station in Maryland at the time of his death.
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lsbair
2 posts
Feb 09, 2014
1:43 AM
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Kettering Village Inn was owned/operated by my dad. He retired in the 90's, when his amazing, long-time cook retired as well. It didn't burn down, he was just very deserving of a retirement to enjoy :) After KVI closed, it was a Chipotle, and is now an Oink A Doodle Moo. (I've only been back in the building once, and I don't know that my dad ever went back in)
My dad just passed away last April, but I know he'd be thrilled at all of the good memories people share!
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