fairmontchick
8 posts
Oct 26, 2010
10:30 AM
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My dad work at DESI and my mom worked at Rike's. I remember going to the restaurant in Rike's.
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old4d
62 posts
Oct 26, 2010
12:36 PM
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My mom worked at the Credit Bureau and dad worked at McCall's.
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Fischer
18 posts
Oct 26, 2010
9:19 PM
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My Mom worked at the Hasty Tasty on Keowee, an A&W Root Beer drive-in somewhere in Dayton, the Hewitt(sp)Soap factory and also Sunshine Biscuit....I remember going through the bakery with her and they gave me some cookies...I was about 6yrs old at that time. A few more places as well but can't recall where. My stepfather drove a city transit bus then went on to become an Ohio state trooper...I always thought- what a strange combo for him.
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JeffN
328 posts
Oct 27, 2010
8:52 AM
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My dad worked at Wright-Patt. My mom worked on Gallagher's on Third Street until she got pregnant with me in 1960.
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carlatm75
44 posts
Oct 27, 2010
10:08 AM
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My dad worked at Ledex in Vandalia and my mom worked in our family business Nelson Bros. Florist in Trotwood.
To FairmontChick - it's DESC which stood for Defense Electronics Supply Center. I worked there from 1982 until they closed in 1996.
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VHill
1 post
Oct 27, 2010
12:16 PM
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My Mother worked at Rike's when she was in High school in 1950's. My dad worked for McCalls. We lost my mother when I was a senior in HS at Vandalia Butler. My Dad died 2 years ago.
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edgemont kid
1 post
Oct 27, 2010
5:31 PM
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My dad worked at Delco and, mom worked at the Post Office in Dayton.
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fishers1951
21 posts
Oct 27, 2010
7:40 PM
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my dad worked for Standard Oil (Sohio) delivering oil to farmers around Trotwood area, then NCR, then truck plant at Moraine.
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LINDA09
32 posts
Oct 27, 2010
8:57 PM
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When my mom was 16 or 17 she worked for Culp's Cafeteria in the Arcade building. (around 1944). She also worked as an accountant for the Stop n Go stores.My dad worked at GM til he retired in 1980. I plan on taking my mom to the Culp's Cafe at Carillon Park soon.
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roge
83 posts
Oct 29, 2010
1:04 PM
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My dad worked at Whites Bakery and Good Sam
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DebCB
29 posts
Oct 29, 2010
11:18 PM
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My mother was a homemaker and my dad worked at Kurz-Kasch on Broadway until they left Dayton and then went on to General Motors until retirement.
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chazguitar
1 post
Oct 30, 2010
6:18 AM
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My Dad sold cars at Ray Bryant and also worked as a pipefitter. Mom worked at the JCPenny at Forest Park. I remember that Rikes restaurant, and a big candy counter in the basement.
Last Edited by on Oct 30, 2010 6:18 AM
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Riverdale Ghost
130 posts
Oct 30, 2010
6:42 AM
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Before, during, after....
My mother worked at Donenfelds, also Billie Lewis's. My dad owned (ran) a small business most of his adult life.
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 Honest Communications Is The Foundation of Civilizations.
Last Edited by on Oct 30, 2010 6:43 AM
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mjr1960
31 posts
Oct 30, 2010
9:37 AM
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My Dad worked for the schrieber co(42 years) which changed names about eleven times to end up out of business as AM graphics. My mom did alterations for just about everyone we knew and also sewed costumes for Eileen Martin dance Studio which is now also closed.
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phil pixley
24 posts
Oct 30, 2010
9:50 AM
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N.C.R family,Father 2 Aunts 1 Uncle ,Mom would have woked there also but opted to be a housewife.
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rodat6
108 posts
Oct 30, 2010
7:45 PM
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From early memories, late Forties, dad had a egg route, a bread, route, a BlueBird pie route, sold candy, our place was floor to ceiling stacked with candy. My favorite was the caramel corn pinwheel. He also sold DDT and even had movies showing what great stuff it was, we used to call it Drop Dead Twice, DDT. Then he took a job as guard, county workhouse/farm for light offenders though he had to get a bit .38 police special that he kept in a drawer when not at work.
After that, he sold insurance then real estate, became a broker with office on south Dixie and a few salespeople, ran for mayor of that burb for the publicity, didn't win, sold real estate, mom and dad were divorced, he continued selling and mom took a crash 6 week course in Greg Shorthand and took a job at WPAFB. Bus picked her up, left at 6 a.m. got home at 6 p.m., standard 5 day work week. I was in 6th grade at Webster Elem. didn't study much after that but I have learned a lot. Both have graduated from this dimension.
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dixiehwy25
1 post
Oct 31, 2010
5:31 PM
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Pop worked at McCall's (Dayton Press) as a letterpressman from 1953-81 Mom worked at Dayton Rubber, then Dayco down at the Talbott Tower from 1955-67. She took a break to have me in 1961 and restarted her college education back when Wright State was a Miami University extension operating out of the then-new Roth High School. She finished up Wright State in 1972, ending up at Colonel White (my alma mater) as the volunteer coordinator
Last Edited by on Oct 31, 2010 5:32 PM
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Andy
7 posts
Oct 31, 2010
5:53 PM
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dixiehwy25, may I ask, what was your fathers name? I worked at Dayton Press in letterpress, 1969-81. I would probably know him.
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dixiehwy25
6 posts
Oct 31, 2010
7:55 PM
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Email me at dixiehwy25@gmail.com , Andy and I'll give you all the details, He'll probably know you as well...
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andrew
3 posts
Oct 31, 2010
8:57 PM
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My dad was a dayton police officer. My mom as well as my grandmother taught at Treasure House Nursery School also known as Hoffman Private School at one time. My Grandfather was with Mutaul Life Of New York
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medvet84
2 posts
Nov 04, 2010
8:53 PM
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My Dad was a rural mail carrier from about 1930 to 1964, RR 9 mostly North Mont Co around Sulpher Grove. Mother only worked during the war, sewing uniform shirts at a war time factory near the RR overpass on Linden.
Late in his career he had RR 8 that was mostly Beavercreek , ending in east Kettering city limits. Would love to hear of anyone thinking they may remember either of my parents. Dad's sub PO(Sta A) was on East 3rd, south side between Huffman and Linden, before that(1930s), same street east at the corner of Bell St. At that time we lived at 61 Bell,(Dad walked to work there, 5.56 (took 4 Min)every morning, rain or shine), he was never late, 1930-31 and I started school at Huffman GS.Bout the only thing I remember about that is that the boys played cops and robbers and the stairwell to the basement on the southside of school was the jail, woe is me! Medvetww2@peoplepc.com
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RCINKY
21 posts
Nov 05, 2010
7:01 AM
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My Dad worked at Delco, first downtown and then in Kettering...42 years in all.
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supersix
34 posts
Nov 05, 2010
7:41 AM
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My Dad worked at Egry Register (later became Allied-Egry Business Systems) on Monument Ave., between DP&L and Requarth Lumber. He was a pressman and worked there from mid-forties until his death in 1963.
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LHelton
7 posts
Nov 05, 2010
9:12 AM
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When Dad's family came up from Kentucky in the 60s, they worked at the Blue Bird Pie Factory.
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JBlair
11 posts
Nov 06, 2010
10:48 PM
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My dad was a Tool Designer at Delco Moraine. He died there 20 Dec 1978. He loved his work and talked about teaching Drafting at Sinclair after he retired but he died at 59.
Mom was primarily a housewife but for many years did marketing research telephone surveys part-time, from home. It really was research that didn't include soliciting or promotion and she enjoyed it. Like a lot of mothers at the time (fifties and early sixties) she did other part-time work, occasionally, also.
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medvet84
3 posts
Nov 10, 2010
8:10 PM
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To Fairmontchick; Just curious if you might have been at Fairmont while my sis-in-law, Marilyn, some called her 'Ann', she says, Black, 1946-49 or the next class of '53 when a friend, Jim Eckley, who just died last Fri, graduated? Marilyn lives in MI with her husband, my bro, Meryl Miller. Just wondering?
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colleen8
11 posts
Nov 15, 2010
7:21 PM
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My Dad - NCR
My Mom - St. Elizabeth Medical Center
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indy
13 posts
Nov 21, 2010
2:26 PM
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my step dad worked at dayton tire and rubber worked there until the place closed 79 or 80 and retired
Last Edited by on Nov 21, 2010 2:26 PM
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driver62
342 posts
Nov 22, 2010
6:42 AM
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My father worked at Parker-Hanifin(sp) in Eaton and my mother was a stay at home mom.
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AllenN71
117 posts
Nov 22, 2010
11:38 AM
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Dad was a senior engineer with NCR (He started out as a cash register repairman in Indianapolis, took classes on the GI Bill and we wound up moving first to Kettering on Tait Rd. and then to Huber on Chesham and Tomberg. One of his last projects was solving the problems associated with installing ATMs on warships. The requirements that the machine stay upright in rolling seas and be completely radio-silent were considered insurmountable, but Dad did it, so all you swabbies out there who use those things, thank Pop.
Mom stayed home and rode herd on the five of us kids. We had a periodically impoverished family living one house down (the father was a used car salesman on commission) and the mother would often wangle 'invitations" for her two sons to eat with us. Mom was irked, but she always obliged. That's Dayton.
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miiames
1 post
Nov 27, 2010
6:04 PM
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Dad was a bartender at Suttenmillers on Main St. He was there for years, he brought home different autographs from Stars who performed there.
Mom was a stay at home Mom, after having 16 kids she knew her craft well.
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DebCB
33 posts
Nov 27, 2010
9:03 PM
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mijames, I can't even imagine a family with 16 children. What number were you?
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miiames
2 posts
Nov 30, 2010
7:32 PM
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I was #16, the older ones were grown and had kids when I came along. I have neices and nephews as old or older than me.
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nancy121
14 posts
Dec 13, 2010
12:32 PM
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My dad worked at WPAFB, my Mom was a homemaker
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Dia
9 posts
Dec 14, 2010
6:53 AM
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my dad put me onto this website so if he sees something incorrect about this posting maybe he will correct it! In the 50's-60's when I was growing up I remember my dad worked as an independent Singer sewing machine sales and repairman, at American Optical, at Bell Optical, and as an optician at the Rike's optical dept. (it was an independently owned business housed at Rike's downtown).My mom worked at Brown & Brockmeier, for a dentist in downtown Dayton named Eugene Barnes, and then at WPAFB until 1974.
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jakspot@sprynet.com
15 posts
Dec 15, 2010
7:55 AM
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My dad worked at Sheffield Corp. on Springfield St. and my mom worked at the Montgomery County Board of Elections.
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BubbaLuv
1 post
Dec 19, 2010
10:17 AM
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my Dad worked at H Gersner and sons as a mill wright which is what he did at the family mill growing up in TN, my mother worked at Revco at most of them but finished her years mostly at the Revco at the McCook shopping center
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cilla46
1 post
Dec 23, 2010
3:37 PM
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My father was a Sgt. on the Dayton Police Force.He retired and went to work as a baliff in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for several different judges.I remember one was Russ Craybil.
My mother was a homemaker and mother of seven.She died when I was 13.
I grew up in the Walnut Hills area of Dayton.
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kbarr11
10 posts
Jan 01, 2011
6:40 PM
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My Dad worked at NCR and we spent many summers at Old River. I grew up in Kettering and graduated from Fairmont East High School. NCR transferred my Dad my Dad to Texas and then to Wichita, Kansas in 1972. I stayed in Dayton and attended Miami Jacobs Jr. College before joining my family in Kansas. While attending Miami Jacobs, I worked at Airway Fashions in the Town and Country shopping center. My then boyfriend sold shoes at The Met. I love this website!
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Timmayer
2 posts
Jan 18, 2011
7:05 PM
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Dad worked as a toolmaker at Delco and mom was a homemaker. My Dad, who passed away in 1993, worked at many job shops prior to Delco.
I still have his tools.
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Don67
1 post
Jan 21, 2011
8:16 AM
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My Dad worked at the main Post Office and my Mom was the bookkeeper (part time) for Our Lady of Mercy church.
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JBlair
25 posts
Jan 22, 2011
12:09 PM
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Timmayer,
My family still has our tool maker-grandfather's tools, also, in their beautiful oak cabinet which he used at NCR. What's the name of the Dayton Manufacturer of those cabinet? They're still in business, too. Help me, someone!
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icsalum
62 posts
Jan 22, 2011
2:16 PM
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it is Gerstner and Sons
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FAITH
17 posts
Jan 28, 2011
9:30 AM
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My dad worked at Frigidaire and was transferred to Delco right before Frig closed. He retired in 1996 after 30 years. Mom was a homemaker, not a housewife. Glory be, don't EVER call her a housewife!
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busline2
1 post
Jan 29, 2011
6:10 PM
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My dad worked for Jewel Tea then Genuine auto parts on main street. He thin ended up at Miami Valley Publishing in Fairborn
My Mom was the manager of Rike's Pet department for years
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Pattie076
1 post
Feb 03, 2011
7:54 AM
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My mom and dad were both city of Dayton police officers, but mom quit 1 yr after I was born. She worked at G. C. Murphys in Forest Park Plaza when I was young. Dad continued to be police office until retirement in the mid 80's.
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brenda55
1 post
Feb 09, 2011
11:44 AM
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My Dad worked at NCR up until the late 60's, during that time Mom and Dad both managed BeaverVu Roller rink from about 1964 to 1969. I grew up in that rink and remember so many people, none that I have contact with now and would love to hear from anyone who remembers the Ritter's.
Last Edited by on Feb 09, 2011 11:52 AM
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delcodude
91 posts
Feb 10, 2011
7:52 AM
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Mom started at Elder's (pre-Elder-Beerman's) when she was sixteen. She got on with NCR around '57-'58 until the huge lay-off in 1972. Then she went to work at Delco downtown where she worked until she was transferred to the Kettering plant on Forrer Blvd. My mom retired in 1998.
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BubbaLuv
4 posts
Feb 23, 2011
12:02 PM
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Yup I missed spelled it thanks for the correction. did you work there ? did you know anyone who worked at the Washingtom St. shop that did the lumber cuttin?
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Nile
5 posts
Feb 24, 2011
3:33 PM
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My Dad worked at Sohio bulk plant on Brandt Pike. I worked at McCall's right out of high School. Went in service and came back to McCall's. Building all flat now. Quite a place. About 6,000 people working there. 24/7 amd now all grass.
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