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KennyE11
200 posts
Aug 10, 2014
10:51 PM
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I don't remember any particular roadside stops in the Dayton area, but as someone who travels on a lot of back roads around the USA, I still see the roadside stops as you describe. A lot of areas in the USA that are not served by Interstate highways are reached by the old US highways. Some have regular rest stops similar to the Interstates, but others have the old roadside stops with picnic tables and pit toilets (or portables), often in "scenic" areas. Some have no toilet facilities at all, simply a place to pull over - many of these are intended as truck stops on a long route with no other stops.
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rdebross
123 posts
Aug 11, 2014
7:47 AM
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Doug68 My dad often drove us up OH Rt. 48 to Covington and then over to Piqua on US 36. I believe we used to stop at the roadside rest you mention. Seems that it was on the west side of the highway. It was very inviting except for the pit toilets that smelled to high heaven. It had lots of mature trees for shade among the picnic tables. I loved to pump drinking water from the well which sat on a concrete pad with a drain. The well pad was covered by a small, wooden shelter house.
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Billd1952
248 posts
Aug 11, 2014
9:15 AM
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I remember the roadside rest near Englewood, but, I also remember the roadside rests on SR 73 & SR 350, just west of New Viena, the one on US 50 in Hillsboro, and another on US 50 just west of Bainbridge, along Paint Creek. Like rdebrosse typed above, it was fun to pump the drinking water from those green pumps, and they all had a screeching sound as you pumped the handle.
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