newsnot
24 posts
Aug 22, 2009
6:41 AM
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what is your favorite swimming pool inside dayton city limits?
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JeffN
222 posts
Aug 22, 2009
12:07 PM
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I was a member at Eastview on Bayside Drive ... those were fun summers! I think it's still open ... anyone still go there?
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rodat6
64 posts
Aug 22, 2009
12:56 PM
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Phillips on Leo was fun, spent many a day there since when I was around 13. I won a seasons pass, the drawing was held one dark and cool evening with a tornado watch in the mix. I was a poor kid and winning the ticket was real cool. We lived in McGuffey Homes and I learned to play chess at ClairRidge Park next door and attended McGuffey School. Phillips is where I learned to swim, hung around the shallow end until a little girl took me to her mother who was in the fenced visitor area and announced that I was her boyfriend. That very week I learned to swim across the pool so I could avoid the shallow end. I must admit, the little girl had good taste, same for the one who caught me in SFO in March of 1969 and wanted 12 children. I only gave her 9.
At Phillips I can almost remember the smell of water and chlorine and the milky white foot bath that we had to walk through.
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obreyes
3 posts
Sep 17, 2009
10:15 AM
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NCR Park! Old River Park. You could swim, picnic, go canoeing. You had to have a pass to get in as it was a place for NCR workers. Loved going canoeing at night and feeding the giant carp they had in the river.
Most all is gone now, the pool has been filled in, but the tall spire in the middle is still there. It reopened this past summer for short while as a "park" only. - Private as I think UD owes the property now.
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Steve K
117 posts
Sep 17, 2009
10:36 AM
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Bomberger Park.... Still remember the day the lifeguard dove in to remove a piece of trash from the bottom, and discovered it was a very large snapping turtle... it was amazing how fast that guy could swim! But I actually probably spent more time at the Orville Wright pool after it opened. Used to go to Philips on Leo for lunch with a car full of guys so we could check out the girls.
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DebCB
12 posts
Sep 25, 2010
7:20 PM
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Remember Orville Wright pool. I think the deepest end was 5 ft. deep.
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victoryopera76
6 posts
Sep 25, 2010
9:00 PM
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THE NCR POOL BY FAR, YOU FELT PRIVELDGED TO GO THERE AFTER ALL IT WAS FOR WORKERS & THEIR GUESTS
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Hankster65
62 posts
Oct 04, 2010
2:58 PM
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I grew up in Belmont and we always walked to the one on Irving next to Kramer's. I think it was called the Day-Ket, or maybe it was the Oak-Day. Somebody help me out on this one!
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icsalum
51 posts
Oct 04, 2010
4:18 PM
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Hankster - it was Oak-Day (on the Oakwood/Dayton border). It had multiple diving boards, including a
20 foot board!
One of the best parts of going to Oak-Day, was hitting
the Dairy Bar (right in front), on the way out.
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rosewoodroyal83
17 posts
Oct 04, 2010
4:38 PM
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My mom grew up near Phillips, so I have some fond memories as a little kid of going there. But, Kettering (Stroop Rd) pool, and its ginormous slide has to be my favorite. No way you could have a slide like that today with liability issues and all. It was too tall, too fast, and frankly too much fun for this homogonized vanilla world we now live in.
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Hankster65
64 posts
Oct 04, 2010
9:27 PM
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Icsalum, thank you so much! I knew it was some sort of mashup of city names but could not for the life of me remember just what it was. I remember the 20' board and how much fun it was. (That is, how much fun it was to NOT go off it! Something I never did.)
And thanks for the Dairy Bar memory. I had totally forgotten about that. Very nice memories...wouldn't it be grand to go back for just a day?
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btaylor
6 posts
Apr 01, 2011
10:05 PM
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i lived in old norht dayton and most of the gang from that neck of the woods swam at patterson park
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clamper
32 posts
Apr 02, 2011
8:28 AM
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Old River but since noone in my family worked for NCR I had to rely on my friend for the invite. But in second place is Birchwood Pool in Kettering. I guess since I spent so much time there I think of it fondly.
I remember the smell of wet cement on a hot summer day and eating those 'bullseyes' (Caramel with vanilla in the middle)
Last Edited by on Apr 02, 2011 8:31 AM
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grapeape
5 posts
Apr 02, 2011
5:44 PM
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The NCR pool at Old River! Biggest pool I'd ever seen.
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Butch1977
4 posts
Apr 03, 2011
8:13 PM
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I posted about going to Phillips Pool but it never showed up.
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Juanita57
3 posts
May 02, 2011
7:16 AM
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Went to Eastview Pool everyday in the summer - 1965-1969. Loved listening to the Top 40 from WING over the speakers. And did not like it when they let the adults take over for the 15 minutes of "Adult Swim" LoL
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Juanita57
8 posts
May 05, 2011
5:54 AM
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JeffN - Yes, did you too? We lived behind St. Helen's school. What a great neighborhood to grow up in!
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delcodude
153 posts
May 05, 2011
6:48 AM
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We used to swim at Lohrey Center next to Immaculate Conception Church. It was never crowded and they kept the water temp very warm as I remember..
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JeffN
387 posts
May 05, 2011
9:01 AM
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Juanita ... I lived on Spinning Road and graduated from Stebbins in '79. Did you live on Wagon Wheel? That was a great neighborhood ... had several great friends there!
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Juanita57
9 posts
May 12, 2011
6:54 AM
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JeffN... We lived a few blocks over from Wagon Wheel on Biltmore Place. I was suppose to go to Stebbins too, but we ended up moving from there after my 8th grade year at St. Helens and I went to Wilbur Wright High School - class of 1975.
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JeffN
389 posts
May 13, 2011
9:51 AM
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I remember Biltmore Place. That was certainly a great place to live back then. Are you still in Dayton? I visit there pretty often ... after some rough times in the 80s where the neighborhood looked a little run down, it actually looks great now. Reminds me of when we were growing up.
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maxed out
252 posts
May 13, 2011
10:40 AM
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My dad worked for DPL (and me later in life) DPL had a great pool and golf course on Woodman Dr. in the 60's... I was made to take swimming lessons there....I hated it... I was a skinny little guy.. There were maybe 10 kids in the class and I was the smallest. We would all hold hand in a circle and jump up and down as we kept moving towards the deeper water. Everyone was up to their neck in water but "NO" not me... I was up to my eyebrows.. I kept jumpin up to take a breath...It was so freekin' cold and my lips would turn blue...
My mom would take me every week to the torture pool.. (I would classify it as waterboarding now)
"NO" It wasn't my favorite, but it was what I remember. I cried every week.
Remembering my favorite quote from Tom Hanks
"There's No Crying In Baseball"
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Juanita57
10 posts
May 13, 2011
11:46 AM
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JeffN - You're right, the neighborhood was a great place to grow up in. Unfortunately, I no longer live in Dayton, but have family there and visit often. Every now and then my sisters and I ride through the old neighborhoods around St. Helen's and reminisce. :)
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JeffN
392 posts
May 15, 2011
8:38 AM
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Juanita - Same with me. I've taken my wife and kids up there and shown them around the old place. I doubt that they're as impressed as me. LOL
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delcodude
158 posts
May 15, 2011
9:36 AM
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Do swimming holes count? There was a pit that was part of the tunnel drainage system that was just west of BP at Woodman and Burkhardt. Of course it was Sohio then, around '68. It was across the street from Pizza Hut which used to be a Short Stop (with Icees, yah). Anyway, everybody used to jump off the pipes and slabs of broken concrete into the drain pit. Until my mom found out and forbade me to 'go in that water again'. It was filled in, and the tunnels were buried later. We used to walk from where the ATM is now, in K-Mart's lot to where Payless shoes was...underground through the tunnels.
Anyway after I heard scary stories about getting deseases like polio from swimming in that ditch, I didn't 'want' to go back in there. Does anybody else remember the pit between BP and the ATM on Burkhardt?
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SeeDavid
366 posts
May 16, 2011
9:28 PM
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@maxed out. Both of our Father's worked at DP&L. That was the greatest pool, and seemed like you were in one of those movies about the people in NY who would go to the Catskill summer camps with their families. My Dad played golf there, and taught me there as a girl. I was also given "lessons" in swimming. REMEMBER THE "PIN" you had to wear on your swimsuit to tie you to your "basket" in the basket room ?? Great memory. It was cold @@@@ We always brought a gallon of A and W Root Beer... it was on the way (on Woodman). There is still a "Hot Dog Stand" there.
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bentz
69 posts
Sep 22, 2012
2:13 PM
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Growing up in the 60's and 70's I spent most summer days at the JCC swimming pool in Trotwood, But I don't think it was Trotwood back then, the Salem mall was across the street.
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Butchl1977
17 posts
Sep 24, 2012
6:18 PM
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My post did not show up. I was at Phillips pool at least twice a week. Went to McGuffy school with one of the Phillips kids. This was 1954-1958
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wolfcreek
63 posts
Sep 24, 2012
6:57 PM
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The "Phillips" boy who played baseball was none other than Mike Schmidt.
Another vote for JCC. I went to Catholic school (Precious Blood) across the road, but spent summers swimming at the Jewish Community Center.
Also remember the Trotwood Swimming Pool from when I was very, very young. I remember the grass around the pool, and looking through a fence to see what looked like a huge gorge at the time, but was probably just a drainage ditch.
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carlatm75
100 posts
Sep 25, 2012
8:51 AM
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I grew up going to the Trotwood Aquatic Club. It was the best pool to go to in the area. I was always so envious of the kids who lived close by and who could just walk to the pool. I lived in the township out in the country so I had to get a ride to the pool. But it was so neat with the concession booth, volleyball court, kiddie pool and big pool with diving boards. It was a good place to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Mikey
164 posts
Sep 27, 2012
8:21 AM
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The Oakday Beach Club! My grandmother would drop me off in the morning and pick me up six hours later. Probably explains why I keep getting skin cancer. My favorite moment was when an older woman (maybe as old as 30!) dove in and came up topless, much to the amusement of we young boys. She wasn't able to get to the bottom to retrieve the top. Enough said.
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Mikey, Gatlinburg, TN
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greelywinger
4 posts
Oct 30, 2012
6:48 PM
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Wasn't there a fire at Lohrey Center?
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sarahkate1971
1 post
Nov 30, 2012
7:43 PM
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My dad worked for DP&L so we went there until they tore it down behind the employees' backs...around 80 or 81, then we joined Eastview, where I ended working for about 4 years as a teen...great memories of both places.
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KenC3
39 posts
Dec 04, 2012
11:37 PM
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I used Wolf Creek under Black Bridge and later upstream from White Bridge across the railroad tracks.
That was late 40s and 50s.
Ken
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Billd1952
18 posts
Jan 06, 2013
8:19 AM
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Bomberger and Orville Wright swimming pools are the ones I went to the most. I also remember going to Clearwater, and Miller's Grove a few times in the 60's
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cilla46
133 posts
Jan 06, 2013
2:15 PM
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Every year my grandparents gave us a family pass to Oakday pool on Irving Ave.We would walk from our house on Illinois Ave. to the pool and swim all day.
My other grandfather worked at the NCR so we also got to swim at Old River a lot.
I loved both pools but I think I would choose Oakday as my favorite.
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dhoertt
10 posts
Jan 09, 2013
9:38 AM
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Cilla46....when walking from Illinois Ave to Oak-Day, did you take the shortcut down the railroad tracks from Wilmington Ave to Irving?
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cilla46
139 posts
Jan 09, 2013
10:20 AM
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dhoertt~Sometimes we did walk the tracks but not always.My older brother didn't like to take the younger kids that way.He was worried they would tell my mom and get in trouble!
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lfecher
5 posts
Aug 08, 2013
1:49 AM
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Bomberger, Old River and Kettering Pool.
Good times.
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Kelly
28 posts
Aug 13, 2013
1:08 AM
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Gosh, I remember railroad tracks in a wooded area, sometimes I saw old campfires remains, and it would freak me out..(being a girl)...it was around Wilmington Ave. but I can't clear the cobwebs from my brain how you got to Oakday swimming pool..
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donm
7 posts
Oct 31, 2013
1:57 PM
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For a short time, before it closed, we were members at the Plantation Country Club, somewhere out Salem I think. That didn't last long. After that we practically lived at Phillip's every summer. I remember thinking the lifeguards hated us because all we ever heard were whistles. I also remember buying Bonomo taffy at the consession stand and taking it home to put in the freezer. Once it was frozen we'd throw it on the floor to break it into small pieces which would then literally "melt in your mouth". The name has changed, but you can still get the taffy at Cracker Barrel. Tastes exactly the same freesh out of the freezer.
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luv my dayton
433 posts
Oct 31, 2013
3:49 PM
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Oakday pool was on Irving ave behind Kramers the beer garden for UD students and still there. Bonomo taffy still available and have bought it at Cracker Barrel. Old River was my favorite pool until kettering pool opened.
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joey m
141 posts
Nov 01, 2013
8:58 AM
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I remember all these pools. Old river was my favorite but my best friend and myself had to stand outside and ask people coming in to take us in on their pass. You had to work there or parent had to work there to get a pass. We just lived across the Stewart St. bridge and could walk there. But we used to swim in the gravel pit where UD arena is and sometimes we would go down to the Miami river and swim. This is something our parents never knew or we would have got in big trouble which was a whipping. For the younger generation out there this meant a belt across your bottom!
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tlturbo
555 posts
Nov 02, 2013
6:37 PM
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Not Dayton but I was taken a few times to a pool just West and N of the road that ran from downtown Centerville to where the Dayton Mall is. Anyone know what and where this was? Really nice place for that area. Of course Old River was favorite BUT lived in Beavercreek with mostly military neighbors and friends and dad worked at Wright Patt so I was always at the 3 base pools or Green Valley which was our neighborhood pool.
Last Edited by tlturbo on Nov 02, 2013 6:38 PM
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olds88
162 posts
Nov 03, 2013
3:13 PM
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Forget the name of pool tlturbo but its still there. You cant see it from street.I believe it might be called Woodhaven.Its off Yankee just north of rt.725.My brother belongs there so I know its still going strong.Entrance is across from southview medical.
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joey m
145 posts
Nov 04, 2013
9:59 AM
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tturbo olds88 is right on the money. I think its a private club.
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Sharons
24 posts
Nov 08, 2013
4:55 PM
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Phillips! We had to ride the bus there and get a transfer ticket too. The song "Splish Splash" sung by Bobby Darin was very popular and was played a LOT! It was played really loud, but we loved it!
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ernestp
1 post
Nov 09, 2013
8:48 AM
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Five Oaks was within walking distance, so that's pretty much where my brothers and I spent most of our time swimming.
I did get to Miller's Grove once. Great pool, but man was it cold..
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ernestp
2 posts
Nov 09, 2013
3:14 PM
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A few times with my cousins, but I much preferred the pools where you could wear trunks.
I could never get used to swimming naked, which the Y's practice at the time.
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joey m
149 posts
Nov 11, 2013
10:47 AM
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I'm not sure About it being required but I'm pretty sure it was in the mid to late 50's when they swam naked at the Y.
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