icsalum
39 posts
Mar 29, 2010
9:37 AM
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I can remember taking I-75 in 1966, and there were multiple traffic lights - Stop-Eight, Needmor etc..
By around 1970 (if not before), the lights were gone.
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mem
71 posts
Mar 29, 2010
1:11 PM
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Long before the traffic lights were installed, the intersection had only stop signs on Needmore. Stops signs were the norm at Neff Rd, Keenan Ave, Coronette Ave, Timberlane, Needmore Rd, Gypsy Dr, Stop Eight Rd, Little York Rd, and Popular Creek Rd. This is when the area from the traffic circle to Little York Rd was named "Blood Strip". When the road was first built the turn off lanes and the accelleration lanes were made of red (pink) concrete. It was a divided highway from the Miami River to U.S. Route 40, National Road, in Vandalia. At the end at National Rd there was a large overhead sign with multi flashing amber lights, large stop signs, and a hugh pile of cinders just across National Rd. Many of mad dashes were made during twelve years of crossing this highway when walking to and from school each day on Timberlane, now called Timber Lane (two words).
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AllenN71
6 posts
Apr 29, 2010
8:27 AM
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Does this explain the origin of the name of "Stop Eight Road"?
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Sgot
15 posts
Mar 22, 2011
2:31 PM
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Here is a Google Books link to a 1969 Life magazine article showing a low-angle aerial photo of what looks to be either Needmore, Stop Eight, or Little York, at I-75. It's at the bottom of page 31:
http://books.google.com/books?id=a08EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=dayton+%22blood+strip%22&source=bl&ots=LiZO9UFRPn&sig=TlFnOfmuAHU2Lfia3GFjEq6WsSY&hl=en&ei=rAmJTeaNC4L2gAev-vHLDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=dayton%20%22blood%20strip%22&f=false
Here's a full-size version of a different shot (upside down!) from the same shoot:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?imgurl=0515f58ab8a7c318
Last Edited by on Mar 22, 2011 2:49 PM
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mjr1960
41 posts
Mar 22, 2011
2:48 PM
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It is Needmore at what is now 75 looking South west, The white building used to have poka dots on it before it was torn down. The picture was taken probably from the hotel which was then Quality Inn (I think)
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LeeVee
8 posts
Mar 24, 2014
7:04 PM
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I used to work on Needmore, just east of I75, so I crossed that intersection every day. Construction of the overpass made that a challenge, but things were much nicer after that.
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ksssc
1 post
Jun 13, 2014
8:06 PM
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A lot of folks back then called that the blood strip a lot of people killed through there and badly hurt in wrecks
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mem
119 posts
Sep 07, 2014
7:36 PM
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AllenN71 Stop Eight Road was so named because it was the eighth stop for the electric Dayton-Troy Railroad, more commonly called the traction. Stop Eight Road was named Henn Road before the name change.
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