luv my dayton
324 posts
Jul 15, 2013
9:05 AM
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Went by the other day and they had left the building on Brown st intact and refinished the outside. Looks good. So much of it had been done away with and was happy to see some of it allowed to remain.Don't know how it will be used or if UD actually owns it. Would be surprised if they don't. That entire area is now owned by UD and Miami Valley Hospital. Looks like a lot of the old businesses down to wayne gone and including the old bar on the corner. If its not for old pictures and some memory still intact there is no evidence left of a lot of Dayton. Thanks to Curt and the images on this website that help to remind us of how things were.
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Hankster65
94 posts
Jul 18, 2013
7:34 PM
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Yes, my understanding is that UD now owns the building. I would love to go through it today. I worked my first "real" job there and I was fresh outa high school. The job lasted from 1965 to 1969, when I quit. I was on the second floor, Parts Machining #4, Precision Machining. Directly across the street was a Colonel Sanders, and to the SE was the NCR Credit Union. There were more than a few bars along there that I'm proud to say I helped support as my civic duty!
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luv my dayton
327 posts
Jul 19, 2013
6:12 AM
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Morning Hankster thats about the same as when I worked there. Worked at NCR twice and finally left there in 1968.Was in electronic inspection 4th floor and worked both day and 3rd shift. 2:30 in the morning was lunchtime and we would head out to Frisches at corner of Brown and Stewart, then farther down we'd head to White Tower. Other option was to brown bag and then take a power nap as we still had an hr lunch and time to kill. Good times and great memories.
Last Edited by luv my dayton on Jul 19, 2013 6:14 AM
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blue J
104 posts
Jul 19, 2013
10:05 AM
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Is this the NCR building that sustained a bad fire in 1971? I've looked at the pictures that are on this site, but I wasn't aware of that history until I saw them. I may have a different structure in mind altogether, though.
The bar on the corner- Brown and Wyoming, you mean? That was called Walnut Hills, back in the days when I frequented it, and then it changed to Jimmie's Cornerstone Bar (which was after I quit drinking)...Jimmie then started Ladder 11, which is catacorner to it, at Brown and Oak Streets.
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Marck1957
165 posts
Jul 19, 2013
1:30 PM
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Blue Jay, I think it was a different building that burned. It was on Stewart Street and faced a bar across the street, which I think probably must have served more then a few NCR employees. Was it called "The Leprechaun"? Anybody know?
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luv my dayton
329 posts
Jul 19, 2013
3:32 PM
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Marck1957. Trying to picture your directions and believe the place now is called Flanagans. Right on Brown street was s place called the Cashbah or something similar.That area has changed so its hard to remember what was back then. Years ago at the corner of wayne and brown was a neighborhood bar and grill called Stoecklines. ( spelling may be incorrect). All business for about a block now gone.
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donw
331 posts
Jul 19, 2013
4:00 PM
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Flanagans, on Stewart, a couple of blocks west of Brown street, and on the north side of the street facing the NCR buildings - agreed. It had a cartoon of a leprechaun on its sign. Flanagans was a college bar (when I attended UD in the late 70s.)
Last Edited by donw on Jul 19, 2013 4:01 PM
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blue J
107 posts
Jul 20, 2013
6:11 AM
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OK, I know the area you're talking about now.
I lived in the South Park neighborhood in the late 1990s, just a little bit east of Brown Street, and I used to walk over to that area all the time... it has changed tremendously just since then.
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luv my dayton
330 posts
Jul 20, 2013
6:43 AM
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to those I have totally confused, I always make the same mistake and that is to call Wyoming Wayne ave. In above reference I am referring to corner of Wyoming and Brown. Thanks Bluej you figured it out for me. My bad.
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Marck1957
167 posts
Jul 20, 2013
7:01 AM
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donw, you are absolutely correct. Is was Flanagans and there was a leprechaun on the sign. I recall that the UD students started their St Patrick's Days celebration there at something like 4AM! Was the same bar Kirk's Casaba (sp?). I was a lad then and only recall the name. I always wondered if Steve Kirk (WING Radio)had some ownership in it.
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