Steve K
95 posts
Sep 10, 2009
8:17 AM
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Somebody was asking what was in the Rike's Kettering shopping center, couldn't find that message again to reply there, so I'll start over here.
First thing I did was to try and get an idea as to how old Rike's Kettering was. Info that follows is from the Dayton city and suburban directories.
1960 only 107 N. Main is listed
1967 2050 E. Dorothy Lane is listed in the Suburban directory
1970 Second and Main, 2050 E. Dorothy Lane, Salem and Shiloh Springs, and Dayton Mall (2700 Miamisburg-Centerville road) are all listed.
I copied the 1967 pages from the suburban directory that list the 2000 block of Dorothy Lane, and what appears to be the part of Woodman right around the corner from Dorothy, so I'll report back once I figure out which businesses were on the right side of the street to be part of the shopping center, unless it gets too messy, in which case I'll list everything and you guys will have to figure what's on which side of the street .
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Steve K
100 posts
Sep 10, 2009
8:53 AM
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This is the area around Rike’s Kettering in 1967
(Woodman and Dorothy Lane)
These are on Dorothy Lane, even numbers are on the
Shopping center side of the street...
2025 Krest Builders Inc
Swimmco Pool & Supply Inc
2035 Dayket Shopping Plaza
Vacant
2039 Da-Ket Barbers
2045 Household Finance Corp
2049 Pink Pussey Cat Cocktail Lounge
2050 Rike’s Kettering Dept Store
2055 Fashion Flair Beauty Salon
2061 Carrousel Bar Cocktail Lounge
2080 S.S. Kresge Co.
2100 Revco Discount Stores Inc
2101 Burger Chef Restr
2105 Kettering Animal Hospital
2115 Red’s Steak House Restr
Dungeon Cocktail Lounge Restr
2119 Vacant
2120 Kroger Co
2125 Gene’s Super Shell Service
2130 Gem City Savings Association
2150 Dorothy Lane Sunoco Service
WOODMAN DRIVE INTERSECTS HERE!
2200 Standard Oil Co Gas Station
(then a few residences are listed on the other side of the street)
2260 Wood-Lane Plaza Shopping Center
I still owe you the Woodman Drive information.... the highlights of which are Parkmoor Drive-In Restaurant at 3030 Woodman and the Library Inc (bar) at 3051 Woodman, other than that, mostly opticians, dentists, insurance agents, beauty parlors, barber shops, and the Goodyear Service Store, actually I think that's all I'll send, unless somebody really, really wants to know all about the insurance guys.
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newsnot
102 posts
Sep 10, 2009
9:09 AM
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steve,
check www.soaphs.com
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rfk61
40 posts
Sep 10, 2009
2:19 PM
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SteveK...Thanks for the info! You went above and beyond the call of duty on that one. I think Goodyear was next to Parkmoor if I remember correctly. I think Revco was next to Kresge, Burger Chef was across the street because we used to eat there alot. Kroger must have been next to Revco. I think that's where mom shopped for groceries before Stumps came in to Woodlane Plaza. They gave out Top Value Stamps. We used to go trade them in up the street at Top Value on Woodman.
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RIVERDALE RAT
238 posts
Sep 10, 2009
5:23 PM
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SteveK: I enjoyed reading all of that stuff. I second rfk61, you went above and beyond..Thanks.
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Steve K
101 posts
Sep 10, 2009
7:10 PM
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My wife and I can't remember that Kresge's at all... and she's lived in Kettering her whole life. I wonder if it was maybe gone by 1970 when I moved back to Dayton? I only remember the Woolworth's at Van Buren shopping center.
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rfk61
41 posts
Sep 10, 2009
8:42 PM
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SteveK...I remember vividly going in there in the 60s...I bought my first Barbie in that Kresge's. I also remember going in the Kresge's in Xenia alot. Living in Beavercreek, we mostly went to kettering, but we had family in Xenia, so we went there alot and went to the shops in town. (uptown as they referred to it)
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dquartz
135 posts
Sep 12, 2009
2:59 PM
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Rikes Kettering used to have a Kroger, a Winters bank, the Kresge and Rikes. I think that was it. My mom was getting groceries in that Kroger when the tornado hit in 1969 further up Dorothy Lane into Beavercreek...posted by Bigmo..
Isn't a Rike's spinoff still at the rikes Kettering location?..posted by jeffN
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dquartz
204 posts
Sep 19, 2009
2:42 PM
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so how many rikes locations were there in the heyday ?
did they all close pretty nuch the same time ?
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pie8me
56 posts
Sep 20, 2009
7:02 AM
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I remember an Italian place on Dorothy, across from Rikes. Vito's Venice Inn or something similar. It was the first real sit down restaurant my folks took me to when I was little. Early 60's or so. Not sure if the building is gone or remodeled and reused.
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Steve K
128 posts
Sep 20, 2009
3:10 PM
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It was Vito's... I think the road between Delco Park and Krogers is about where it used to be.
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Lgaccetta
1 post
Mar 01, 2010
10:09 PM
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Vito's Venice Inn was right across the street from Rikes Kettering next to railroad and Delco Park. My grandparents started it and then my Dad and Uncle Tony took over. It was a great family Italian restaurant. Later on my Dad remodeled and named it Giuseppe's. A lot of wonderful memories.
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rosewoodroyal83
2 posts
Mar 02, 2010
5:04 PM
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Vito's was roughly where Krispy Kreme is now. Burger Chef was closer to Woodman, Oney's Salon moved into the building once Burger Chef closed. There was another restaurant also, Black Forest maybe, later it became a Chinese place, next to Rex, next to the Shell station on the corner. Rike's Kettering Shopping center had a Gem City Savings and a Winter's bank. Kroger eventually moved or merged to the Forrer location. Rike's put a budget store in the Kroger location for a short time before Odd Lots opened. I remember Revco, but SS Kresge was before my time. Only Kresge I remember was in Airway Shopping Center. I seem to remember Richard Potasky Jewekers in Rike's Shopping Center. Wolohan's was just west of Rike's, then railroad tracks. Wendy's and Bob Evan's, with a King Kwik behind Bob Evan's, who picked that location? The barber shop that is now in Woodlane Plaza, was in the Rike's SC on the Woodman side back in the 70's, around where Subway is now. On the other side of the creek from Woodlane was a Lawson's I believe, on the corner of Dorothy Lane and Sudury. Anyone remember Cassano's having a location in Woodlane and one east on Dorothy at the top of the hill next to Handy-One, awfully close together. Shopper's Fair became Bob's Food Warehouse, no bags, you put your graceries in boxes! Goodyear at the north end and Firestone at the south end. Parkmoor in the north end of the lot towards Woodlane, later it became Hail and Hearty, hosted friday night cruise-ins well into the 90's, they moved across Woodman behind Ponderosa once H&H closed, then on to the Kmart parking lot Dorothy-Co Line-Indian Ripple-Stroop.
Last Edited by on Mar 02, 2010 5:05 PM
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theWiz
30 posts
Nov 18, 2012
7:12 AM
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I remember back in the '60s the dime store (Kresges??) next to Rikes Kettering had a fire and then had a big clearance sale. The restaurant across the street was called the Black Knight. I can't believe that now there is a Beermans where Rikes Kettering once was-I can see David L. Rike spinning in his grave!!!!!!!!
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tuckerone
20 posts
Nov 18, 2012
9:20 AM
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I remember the Kressges, it caught on fire and they had a fire sale. My mother and an Aunt spent many hours sifting through the burnt remains of the stores /sale I was about 10 years old and after breathing in the toxins for many hours I got very sick and required a trip to the Doctor they would never let people in a store that was burnt like that today
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theWiz
31 posts
Nov 18, 2012
2:29 PM
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I remember the smell in that store--it was awful, like a smoky,oily yucky smell!! I had gone in after the fire and bought a model plane (dumb idea), got it home and found the plastic was all warped. Took it back a day later and there was a register open for 'returns'. There were about 75 people standing in that line.
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Syxpack
11 posts
Nov 21, 2012
6:44 PM
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I remember the fire at Kresges. We stood in line as it was snowing and they let just a few people in at a time. I had to leave as my kids came home from school at lunch time. My friend saved my place in line and they were still waiting and hadn't moved too far when I returned. I did alot of my Christmas shopping there. I bought my brothers socks and about a month later, my brother said "Sis, where did you buy those socks? When I put my foot into the first one, my foot went right through and out the end." LOL
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rxman
1 post
Feb 03, 2013
5:31 AM
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FYI- there was also a Rike's in the Upper Valley Mall in Springfield.
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tlturbo
462 posts
Feb 03, 2013
7:24 AM
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Steve K - do you still have access to the 1967 directories? Do they list residential phone numbers? If so I'd love for you to see if you can find a listing for me.
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luv my dayton
225 posts
Feb 03, 2013
9:03 PM
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I worked at Rikes Kettering back in late 70's except it was then called Schillito-Rikes. Next door where the hallmark store is now was their budget store. There also some time later was an Odd Lots and it remained there until its move to Wilmington Pike near Dorothy Lane where its been for years. The employees of the old store worked hard to get the newer store ready for the move. My daughter was one of these people and she worked part time and also went to high school.
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