luv my dayton
150 posts
Oct 02, 2012
8:19 AM
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Anyone remember in the late 60's or early 70's there was a push for people to install incinerators in their homes to help with the waste problem. Think you also got a tax break along with it.Well, my father bought into that logic and had one installed. Things went missing all around our house and you needed to be very careful what you laid down. Soon after they outlawed them because of the pollution being emitted into the atmosphere. Too bad it was never completely thought through as it would have saved my dad some hard earned money and I'd still have my autographed photos of all my favorite movie stars...
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tlturbo
403 posts
Oct 02, 2012
9:41 AM
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Interesting - we come to Dayton several times a year to stay with father-in-law on N Main St. He is 86. He separates all his trash and says that the trash pickup people WILL NOT pick up garbage, just trash. I takes it all downstairs and burns it in an incinerator he installed many years ago. I have questioned him that is he sure they don't pickup garbage, just trash and he swears if he wants to get rid of it, he has to burn it.
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87 Buick GN
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tlturbo
404 posts
Oct 02, 2012
10:29 AM
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Definitely, back in the 60's that was a sign of FALL. The huge raked up piles of leaves we all ran and jumped into and threw around (requireing re-raking) and that eventually were burned. I can still smell that. Very common back then
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87 Buick GN
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Calhoun
72 posts
Oct 02, 2012
2:51 PM
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In the late 60s/early 70s there was a huge commerical incinerator in rural Beavercreek, I think it was off Kemp Road. One year my school bus took a route where the driver actually turned around at the incinerator. The thing was a huge conical structure with large doors that swung open to throw in the stuff to be burned. I remember seeing dozens of guys out there with pitchforks and coal shovels heaping in the trash. That job must have sucked royally in the summer.
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tlturbo
405 posts
Oct 02, 2012
2:53 PM
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Calhoun - thanks for proving I'm not nuts. I asked about this on a Beavercreek board and everyone said HUH? It was indeed off of Kemp Rd but back then the development N of Kemp toward the Green Valley pool wasn't there. We would walk East from the pool across fields and it was just S of where we walked. I remember it looking like a big beehive.
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87 Buick GN
Last Edited by on Oct 03, 2012 2:33 PM
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PaulH
118 posts
Oct 02, 2012
5:33 PM
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Ah yes! The joys and fun of simpler days. It was nice to be able to play in the raked leaves and then rake again. Then stuff them into an empty 55 gallon drum (the family incinerator) and burn them along with some other unwanted stuff too.
Actually its a wonder that we didn't burn down entire neighborhoods back then. I think most city dumps had incinerators back then too. But that was before they all became landfills.
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Last Edited by on Oct 02, 2012 5:34 PM
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Keugene48
227 posts
Oct 02, 2012
6:02 PM
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In the 50's and early 60's we burned our trash in a big metal can at the end of our backyard. I always said there would be fewer arsonists around if they could have gotten their fill of setting things on fire in their backyards when they were kids! We used to make a fire pit and roast hot dogs on hangers in the back yard in the summer and fall too.
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Calhoun
73 posts
Oct 03, 2012
2:29 PM
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tlturbo--
You've got me wondering what's back there now? I remember there was a road off Kemp that went to the incinerator. I'll drive over there in the next few days to see if there's anything left of the thing.
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tlturbo
406 posts
Oct 03, 2012
2:47 PM
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I just looked at the area on Wikimapia and couldn't see anything except one place that was back behind a farm just N of the eastern 90 degree turn on Kemp that looked like there was a big circular road that might have gone around something. But then not that sure just where to look. Been 45 years.
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87 Buick GN
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tlturbo
521 posts
Jun 11, 2013
6:16 AM
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An old friend from High School recently contacted me and he provided the following.
The incinerator off Kemp was like this: down Kemp, past Van Oss, and the road takes a 90 degree left, then right. A couple hundred yards on, there is Township, on the left, a lane that dead ends into what was the incinerator.
Last Edited by tlturbo on Jun 11, 2013 6:22 AM
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