JackZ
8 posts
Feb 12, 2008
9:28 AM
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Anyone remember trips to this long-gone park on the West side?
Here is a good link: http://www.soaphs.com/lakeside.htm
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karentoneyjazzi
1 post
Mar 14, 2008
10:44 AM
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I remember going to Lakeside all the time. It was located over there by the VA center. It was nothing like it back in the day. Oh how times have changed. Remember the Wildcat roller coaster.
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edylynn
1 post
Mar 27, 2008
4:31 PM
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I have pictures of me and my cousin riding the roller coater and the ferris wheel at Lakeside Park. I was about 7 or 8 which was in 1959 or 60.
It was also the first time I ever rode in a VW Bus. I still love them and Beetles as well.
Last Edited by on Mar 27, 2008 4:32 PM
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davew
7 posts
Dec 04, 2008
11:22 AM
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My Dad worked at the Lau Blower Co. in the 50's and we always had our company picnic there.
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SeeDavid
99 posts
Dec 05, 2008
11:16 PM
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Jack and Others: My Dad took us to Lakeside all of the time when we were kids. He had me ride on the Wildcat alone, since I was the oldest, and yes, it was rickety and it was a dare (sort of) from my Dad as to if I were brave enough to ride it and see the nails and such creeking out of the joints ... scary thing..close to collapse the last time I rode it ALONE!
I also remember a circular building of some sort...they used to hold dances there in the 40's and 50's and possibly the 60's...it was diminishing quickily when I last saw it. It seems that we went on Sundays after Church. I only know that it was warm, wonderful and an exciting time. It made me sad to see it go. Dave's Dad worked at Lau Blower, too. Yes, he and his family remembers picnics there. Oh, we still have a Lau Blower fan, and an advertisement booklet for the fans and boxes...Dave saves ALOT. ~c
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bo68chev
16 posts
Dec 06, 2008
7:54 AM
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I think that the building was the Lakeside Paladium. My Mom said that she went there to see Fats Domino in the 1950's.
There is a house near the former site, on Lakeside or Lakeview Dr.(?), that has one or more of the horses from the carousel. The horses are in an enclosed porch or room, and are visible from the street.
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Curt Dalton
93 posts
Feb 17, 2009
4:00 PM
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I just added a video of the Flying Turns ride at Lakeside Park that was filmed in 1930.
http://www.daytonhistorybooks.citymax.com/flyingturnslakeside.html Or click on the "Images of Dayton" button to the right to find the link.
The guys loved the ride because the girls had to sit on their laps in order to get in the car.
Last Edited by on Feb 17, 2009 4:02 PM
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samstone
56 posts
Dec 04, 2009
5:26 PM
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All I remember is my Grandfather taking me there to see a midget wrestle an 8 foot giant.
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Vesta
3 posts
Apr 13, 2010
2:17 PM
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During the WWII years, Lakeside Ballroom was always jam packed especially on weekends. Big Band appearances were special nights for us.
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Keugene48
115 posts
Sep 25, 2010
7:57 PM
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My dad, his dad and my mom worked at Kurz Kasch. I remember the Lakeside picnics too.
When my dad got released from the Japanese POW camp he met my mother. She had heard about him from his dad who was a guard at Kurz Kasch. My dad was smitten right away but my mom not so much. He won her heart and they were married 4 months after they first met. Married for 50 years.
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DebCB
15 posts
Sep 25, 2010
9:26 PM
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My Dad worked at Kurz Kasch until they closed and left Dayton. He was in his 60s and went to work for GM. Made more money at GM than he did in decades at Kurz Kasch. He and my Mom were married 72 years. He passed away 4 years ago at the age of 90. I think of him every day.
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Keugene48
116 posts
Sep 26, 2010
10:56 AM
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My dad left KK for a maintenance job at what was then City Transit (RTA)in the early 60's. He worked there until he retired. We never had a lot of money but I had one of the happiest childhoods of anybody I know. Dad died in 1996, Mom in 2007. To me that is one of the hardest parts of getting older.
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newsnot
209 posts
Sep 28, 2010
8:49 AM
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looking for a movie of the wildcat at lakeside park. it was filmed st nite. saw it on public television years ago.
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Leath
12 posts
Jan 09, 2011
11:43 PM
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This is one of the FEW places my dad ever took me because he had a favorite bar across the street from the entrance....had a blast though....age of innocense...we were close until I realized not everyone's dad drank every night....remember the amusement park on Indian Lake...when we were old enough to drive, we would go there and rent a motel room and drink beer and try and "score"....oh my..
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CarrollM
1 post
Jan 28, 2011
7:23 PM
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My earliest recollection of Lakeside was the special days when they had rides for .o3 cents or the Coke Cola days, buy a Coke ( for a nickle) and get a ride. Loved the roller coaster better than Forest Park as it had more sharp curves. After the war spent many night in the ballroom dancing to the music of bands like Eddie Howard.
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newsnot
226 posts
Jan 29, 2011
3:24 PM
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i remember the wildcat roller coaster shooting sparks out at nite. it is still considered a classic by coaster buffs.
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jazzmomma
2 posts
Jan 29, 2011
8:27 PM
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My parents used to dance at Lakeside too. Great memories for them.
Update: Oops, they danced at Brookside.
Last Edited by on Jan 29, 2011 9:15 PM
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newsnot
229 posts
Feb 12, 2011
6:38 AM
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does anyone remember the penny arcade at lakeside?
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plr2
4 posts
Nov 29, 2011
5:27 PM
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hawk, if no one ever answered, the fat lady in a kind of cage was Laughing Sal. she sat at the entrance to the ride that took square turns in the dark and turned all kinds of scary scenes and screams, much like today's Halloween scare houses but you rode in cars on a track. the cars bounced around corners with the steel wheels screeching and clacking at the joints in the track. paul
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Butchl1977
4 posts
Nov 30, 2011
7:20 PM
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I remember that ride.
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stick
10 posts
Jan 17, 2014
12:40 PM
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Does anyone know the date that lakeside closed
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luv my dayton
524 posts
Jan 17, 2014
5:00 PM
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Lakeside park opened in 1890 and due to bankruptcy closed in 1964. We had another local amusement park out on north main called Frankies park and it closed in 1958. Property became the home of Forest park plaza and that is now also gone.
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jack1953
71 posts
Jan 18, 2014
5:01 PM
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My grandparents lived off West Carollton Road and we had to go right by Lakeside to and from.
I did not realize it closed in 1964.
I can't believe people stopped attending there in the 60s. I thought it at least lasted until the mid or late 70s.
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Forgiven, forgotten, set free!!
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luv my dayton
525 posts
Jan 18, 2014
6:39 PM
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They were competing with Lesourdsville, fantasy farms and really were rather small compared to Coney Island in Cincy. Don't think Kings Island was yet up and running. You can research it on this website using site search then writing in Lakeside park. A lot to choose from.
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WestSideGirl
2 posts
Sep 16, 2014
8:53 PM
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I grew up within walking distance from Lakeside and can remember going there as a child in what had to be the late 60s. The Lakeview Palladium remained open into the mid 70s, I believe, and used to showcase many R&B music acts.
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missinthen
17 posts
Sep 22, 2014
7:10 AM
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I too remember Lakeside! We lived on the West Side off of Germantown, and didn't have a car at the time, so we'd take the number 8 bus about a mile or so up to Lakeside. I still remember my mother and aunt, sister and a neighborhood friend and myself standing at the bus stop early on a early Sat morning waiting for the number 8 bus. My sister and I and the neighbor friend wore our new colorful 'short sets" ( more than likely our mother had bought at McCroys or Kressge ).The short sets were a little crop top and pants set.. ( the crop tops were a colorful pattern, I recall mine had colorful fishes, and the shorts were a solid matching color ( Wow, I can't believe I recall that... isn't it funny what you remember ?.... Anywho, The lakeside was a summer treat for us. I recall the laughing fat lady and the dark house and the Merry Go Round. I loved the merry go round!.. I wasn't ( and still am not ) a rollarcoaster fan, but I heard my mother speak of riding the Wildcat ( which was very curious to me, because my mother was meek and not the wildcat rollercoaster type gal at all ). I recall that the wildcat was made of wood and we could hear it creak as the cars roared by. I also recall the Wildcat was very loud.. I also remember vividly the bright red candy apples. We always got a candy apple when we'd go to Lakeside I didn't realize that Lakeside was closed in 64? I would have been 10 in 65, so that would have been about about 1960-62 ) I'm so glad that my mother and aunt made good memories for me.
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blue J
144 posts
Sep 22, 2014
12:38 PM
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Does anyone remember if you could play bingo at Lakeside Park? I have some sort of chip or token from there, from the very early 1950s or so. I'd have to look at it again, but I'd swear it says 'bingo' right on it.
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Daytongirl01
41 posts
Sep 24, 2014
5:23 PM
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My grandmother played BINGO at Lakeside too! She would win sacks of flour or sugar and we'd have to lug it home on the bus. I always went with her, but I didn't play, just sat next to her...she went with some Romanian or Hungarian lady friends...what a hoot! I do remember wanting to take a ride on the swan boats, but never did...Fat lady scared me...she was just way too loud for me, so I walked way around her to avoid the scary noise. Such good times.
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PhilM
11 posts
Sep 24, 2014
7:41 PM
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My mother told me that she and her friends would drive from Portsmouth up to Dayton just to go to Lakeside back in the early forties. Wow-can you imagine.
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blue J
148 posts
Sep 25, 2014
3:10 AM
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John fader and Daytongirl- thanks!
So I do have one of the old bingo chips from there...
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