newsnot
508 posts
Jan 26, 2015
8:34 AM
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strayrider,
Welcome to Dayton History
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strayrider
3 posts
Jan 27, 2015
12:48 AM
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@luv; Mom's name is Janet.
@news; Thx for the welcome :)
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luv my dayton
825 posts
Jan 27, 2015
1:53 AM
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Was your maiden name Barnett? If so our mothers did work with one another. Since your from Bellbrook you may have known my ex husband who bought the little barber shop next to police dept. Always loved that area and in later years when my grandchildren came into being we would go to the parks out there and have holiday picnics. Imagine it was a nice place to grow up.
Last Edited by luv my dayton on Jan 27, 2015 1:54 AM
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RichC
16 posts
Jan 27, 2015
5:34 AM
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"Barnetts in Bellbrook! Yayyy!" (things kids had to say on the Uncle Orrie Show)
Back to the string; It was freshman year at Miami U, looking out the dorm window and being amazed at the size of the hail stones.
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strayrider
7 posts
Feb 06, 2015
2:25 AM
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@ luv
No maiden name here. I am male :)
@ Rich
Yep, remember Uncle Orrie. No, do not remember "Barnetts in Bellbrook...yayyy!"
And, yes, Bellbrook was a great place to grow up.
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kristina1962
2 posts
Feb 08, 2015
6:05 PM
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David C
3 posts
Feb 15, 2015
9:46 AM
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I was stationed on Guam at the time. My wife and I learned about it weeks later when our parents sent newspaper clippings of the tornado's wake. We ended up moving to Xenia and,yes, we have a basement. As my profession is in emergency management, I strike up conversations with folks from the over-40 population in town about that storm. I have heard some amazing stories.
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Cushwakid
11 posts
Feb 23, 2015
7:02 PM
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A customer of mine in Centerville built most of his building from scrap from the Xenia H.S. Doors, windows, ceiling tiles and more. He has 6 clocks from the H.S. with the time that the tornado hit. Somewhere around 3:38 (?) not for sure. Anyway, these clocks could only have their time changed by the master control in the Principals office and these all have the time that power was lost. Kind of eerie.
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Redfestiva
14 posts
Mar 29, 2015
11:19 AM
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I was 14 when it happened. My mom sold realastate and her boss lived in Xenia. The only way you could get near the storm site was if you lived there and so her boss took my mom,dad and me in to see the damage. It looked to me as if the area had been bombed . I remember seeing untouched homes next door to cement slabs where a home used to be. When we went through nothing had been cleaned up,only the roads had been cleared.
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miles away
20 posts
Apr 09, 2015
9:46 AM
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I was kickin' back after school and remember watching this very broadcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkWmNamVS2Q
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historybuff
296 posts
Apr 11, 2015
11:00 PM
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Always interesting and nostalgic reading this thread. Hadn’t read it for awhile. I was employed at WPAFB at the time and we let several employees who lived in the Xenia area go about 2:30 that afternoon. Fortunately all survived but some had major home damage. My elderly parents lived on E. Market St., near Rt. 42 N. which was the path of the storm out of Xenia. My mother was home alone at the time and fortunately their home only received minor damage, although she was extremely terrified. My father unfortunately had driven a few blocks to James Bros Grocery in downtown Xenia and was shopping in the grocery when the storm hit. The grocery store was completely leveled with many shoppers in the store at the time. There were some minor injuries but none major. My dad’s car was destroyed and he didn’t remember walking home the five or six blocks through all of the destruction. He kept the parking receipt he had when he got there with the time recorded on it of about 3:15 PM that day. I still have that as a memento of that terrible day and he wrote on it “Xenia Tornado; April 3, 1974. From that day on until his death, years later, he was terribly afraid of thunderstorms and bad weather reports. He kept a weather radio turned on anytime there was a report of potential bad weather. I visited Xenia the next day and have never since personally viewed such destruction.
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