Where did your parents work when you grew up?

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Where did your parents work when you grew up?

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rr52c 6 posts Mar 13, 2011 3:54 PM	My Dad worked at Chrysler Air Temp from the early 40's until 1960 when he passed away. In the early 40's he also had a night job at McCooks as a short order cook and bar tender.
SeeDavid 364 posts Mar 15, 2011 2:15 PM	My Dad worked at Dayton Power and Light. First he was a Truck Driver and delivered things from pencils to transformers to the other substations. Then he became foreman and then supervisor over Stores Operations. My Mom worked as a waitress at night at the Crossroads Restaurant in Vandalia.
F16 1UB 8 posts Mar 17, 2011 7:02 AM	My Dad managed the corner coffee shop in the Biltmore at first & main. My mom was a stay at home mom. Remember those days?
clamper 2 posts Mar 21, 2011 9:33 PM	My dad was on the Dayton Police Dept...and worked part time as store security at the Rikes on Dorothy Lane in Kettering
oldrndirt 5 posts Mar 28, 2011 6:48 PM	Dad worked at NCR for 41 years and his dad for nearly as many years. He worked in the carpentry dept (later Bldg & Grounds Maint) and it never failed to amaze me when we'd be on vacation hundreds of miles from Dayton and some other NCR guy would spot him and sing out "Hey, Whitey!" It continued to happen for many years after he retired.
lonebear 6 posts Mar 30, 2011 7:53 PM	Mom worked for a short time at Delco Products, until Dad made her quit, she was then a stay at home Mom. Dad worked at Delco, Continental Bakery, AeroProducts in Vandalia, and then finally at Dayton Tire until he retired.
unixTechie 9 posts Jun 19, 2011 7:08 AM	My Dad worked at WPAFB until his retirement. My Mom was a part-time nurse at Miami Valley Hospital. ---------- "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." Carl Sagan
Juanita57 20 posts Jun 21, 2011 7:54 AM	My father worked for Miami Maid Bakery and then it was purchased by Pennington Bread. He passed away in 1980 and didn't get to retire. My mother was normally a stay at home mother, but had times where she would work part-time at Cheerheart Cleaners at the Spin-Kemp shopping center - just to "help out."
BB64 15 posts Jun 23, 2011 12:38 PM	My Dad had the Barber Shop next door to Dayton Reliable Tool on San Rae Dr.
flikhem 7 posts Jun 25, 2011 6:05 AM	It seems the three biggies were NCR, Frigidaire, and Wright-Pat. My dad worked for Otterbein Press which later became United Color Press.
DebCB 63 posts Jun 25, 2011 1:11 PM	Juanita57...When did your mother work part time at Cheerhart Cleaners? I worked there in 72 or 73.
Juanita57 23 posts Jun 25, 2011 5:29 PM	DebCB - My mother worked at Cheerhart Cleaners around 1969-1970.
PaulH 31 posts Jun 25, 2011 8:24 PM	Mom went to work at Wright Patt in 1949 and retired in late 85.
F16 1UB 23 posts Jun 26, 2011 6:50 PM	Dad owned a couple bars in the 50's Phils Tavern on East Third (?) and Tobys on Linden across from East Town Shopping Ctr. He also managed Biltmore Coffee Shop @ 1st & Main 60's Poelking Lanes on Wilmington across from WHIO.
TimTrochelman 8 posts Jul 05, 2011 9:30 AM	Father at Schriber's and mother at Liberal Market. Last Edited by on Jul 05, 2011 3:25 PM
jfox68 20 posts Jul 05, 2011 1:09 PM	Tim, what was your father's first name? I worked at Schriber's on Webster street from 1973 to 1994. The name Trochelman sounds familiar. (Don?) Last Edited by on Jul 05, 2011 1:09 PM
TimTrochelman 9 posts Jul 05, 2011 3:22 PM	Yep, that was him - Don Trochelman. He passed away in 1995. His mother lived just down the street on Webster and he was raised there in the house that his father built. Last Edited by on Jul 05, 2011 3:27 PM
carlatm75 83 posts Jul 05, 2011 4:17 PM	Jfox68 - Did you know my sister or brother-in-law? They both worked at Schreiber's in the 70s. Their names are Bill Henry and Sarah Nelson (Henry).
DonnaG 1 post Jul 05, 2011 6:41 PM	Mom was a social worker until she married Dad, then became a homemaker. Dad was Chief Assistant Probation Officer for Montgomery County Juvenile Courts for years. He dedicated many, many years to the JC system. I was adopted from Shawen Acres btw :)
jfox68 21 posts Jul 06, 2011 4:32 AM	Tim - Sorry to hear about your father. Carla - I don't remember those names but it has been 17 years since I was there.
trolleyfan 21 posts Aug 08, 2011 7:14 PM	My Dad worked most of his adult life at Sheffield Tool & Gage on Springfield Street. He started there as a tool maker and worked his way up through the years as a Sales Engineer, and eventually a Regional Sales Manager Mom worked as a receptionist for a Doctor White on Central Drive in Knollwood (Beavercreek)
dave5838 6 posts Aug 14, 2011 11:27 AM	My Dad was with GHR foundry (formerly Dayton Malleable Iron Co) for about 40 years. My mother worked for Montgomery Voter registration on Ludlow for about 20 years.
sfv2002 1 post Aug 17, 2011 1:09 PM	My dad also worked at NCR until he was offered early retirement in 1976. My mom worked at Wright Patterson until she became a mother in in 1950.
SgtSniper 2 posts Oct 26, 2011 9:06 PM	My father worked at Hewitt's soap co. Mother was stay at home housewife. She did work at kresge's downtown before she was married. I skated at Beaver vu remember the first manager Sterick he went to Huber Hieghts skating rink. I sort of remember your Dad. I remember Stu Self the organist use to sing Mary ellen alot. I worked with a lady who use to be the one on Sunday who did the dance steps and her mother made her and her sister wear skating outfits. She met her husband there and married him he worked in the skate rental part. Can't remember her name right now. I remember larry beller and his father use to be a floor gaurd. I was a show off and always in trouble for skating fast.
plr2 14 posts Dec 01, 2011 9:48 PM	seems to be several of us cop's kids here. my dad graduated Dayton PD Academy early 1952. also spent many years at the Regional Crime Lab. mom, well, with 4 boys in 11 years, she spent a lot of time cooking, cleaning, sewing, canning, ironing, and baking homemade bread and pies about 3X a week. yep she worked---hard. paul
CalGirl 3 posts Dec 02, 2011 3:45 PM	My Dad was a firefighter on the DFD before the Army sent him off to the Battle of the Bulge. Post-war, as a disabled vet, the DFD re-instated him as a signal dispatcher working out of the building on Monument Ave. until he retired. Mom took care of the house and us 2 kids.
Sharons 6 posts Dec 02, 2011 6:32 PM	My Mom was a homemaker for the most part, but she did work at Dayton Steel Foundry several times, going back when they needed her. I think her boss was Sam??? My Dad worked at a Supply & Tool Co, then was in WW2 and the Korean War, and back to the tool company from where he retired.
Butchl1977 5 posts Dec 06, 2011 2:52 PM	Didn't Stu Self write a song that the Beatles did?
KenC3 16 posts Dec 15, 2011 9:41 PM	My Dad worked at Inland on W. Third St. I think he was there when I was born in 1940 and retired from there somewhere in the 1970s. My Mom worked at Inland for awhile and later was at Wolf Creek Soap Company part time. I would go with her while she cleaned the facilities there. She died in 1954 or 1955. Names were Kenneth and Mary Coon.
blue J 18 posts Jul 09, 2012 5:36 PM	My father was an engineer at Dayton Walther (formerly the Dayton Steel Foundry, as was mentioned earlier in this thread), and my mother was a model. She did all of the TV and radio ads for Elder Beerman from about 1975 to at least 1985 or so.
Bowfoot 26 posts Jul 10, 2012 3:19 PM	Dad worked at G.M.--My oldest brother and I followed in his footsteps...same shop...different jobs...
luv my dayton 68 posts Jul 11, 2012 2:25 AM	My Dad worked briefly at Reynolds and Reynolds then started a small business on Linden which he had until late 70's. My Mother worked at Truman Optical downtown Dayton, later at Mayer Mens Clothing shop in Oakwood and then for her remaining years of employment at the JC Penny store at Town and Country. I also remember how lonely it became for us kids to have a Mother home for years greeting us after school and then going home to an empty house!!
theWiz 12 posts Sep 12, 2012 10:27 PM	My Dad first came to Dayton in '43. He was a glider test pilot at Wright Field and later on the glider testing was moved to Wilmington. My parents met in downtown Dayton at a place called Lantz Merry-Go-Round. They got married April '44 and moved to Wilmington. Dad retired from the Army in'60 and we ended up in East Kettering. He worked briefly at NCR and Bowser-Morner Testing Labs, then got a job in the Safety Bldg as Deputy Clerk of Courts. Later he was part-time parts driver for Langs and Hopkins Chevrolet. Passed away in 1995. My Mom worked part-time for Bil-Lin Ceramic Studio in the '60s, then volunteered at Kettering Hospital for a few months shy of 30 years. She passed in 2009.
greelywinger 6 posts Oct 30, 2012 6:54 PM	My Dad worked at Monarch Marking (printing) in (Miamisburg)
lah 1 post Nov 09, 2012 3:49 PM	Dad was bartender in numerous bars around the Dayton area. When he started out around 1968 I believe he worked at the Houndstooth & the Underground. At some point a lounge behind the Dayton Mall next to a bowling alley. Then a little bit tamer atmosphere at the Tender Trap & the Matchmaker. In the 90s it was P&B Muggs (where Lil Abner's had been in Huber). The couple years I lived in Dayton I worked at Stump's grocery store on Shoup Mill.
Billd1952 42 posts Feb 17, 2013 9:54 AM	My dad worked at Atlas Linen, which was bought out by Forest Linen, which was then bought by Morgan Linen. My mother worked at Miami Valley Hospital. Last Edited by Billd1952 on Feb 17, 2013 9:55 AM
Hops06GT 2 posts Feb 17, 2013 11:51 AM	Dad was a millwright at Delco products, downtown.Mom reared 3 children, and always said that was a job. Dad retired 1976,had 42 yrs service,plus military time w/WW2.
jack1953 15 posts May 11, 2013 2:12 PM	Dad worked at McCalls and then started an insulation company in Huber Heights called Liberty Insulation. Mom worked several different jobs in her career. ---------- Forgiven, forgotten, set free!!
Tomco 10 posts May 12, 2013 1:11 PM	My Dad was a Millwright for Dayton Malleable Iron Co. and Mom was a Homemaker.
Tbone 33 posts Sep 19, 2013 1:54 PM	My Dad retired from Delco, so did my Grandpa and Uncle.
Nile 88 posts Sep 19, 2013 5:47 PM	My Dad: Sohio bulk plant, Mom: Homemaker. I bet I knew some of those people who worked at McCall's. I worked there, too.
JJCofMAINE 40 posts Sep 26, 2013 1:14 PM	My dad was hired to be the first editor of the Kettering-Oakwood Times in 1956. We moved from Cincinnati to Kettering in July of '56. Prior to his work at K-O-T, he was the City Editor Of The Cincinnati Enquirer. Dad was a self-taught "genius" (in the minds of his kids, and his peers), who worked his way up from a newspaper boy on the streets of Cincy, through several editorial depts., to one of the top “rungs on the ladder”. In the early 1950’s, the Taft family in Cincinnati attempted to buy the Enquirer. Dad helped lead a successful attempt by the employees to purchase the newspaper themselves, so as to keep it out of the hands of the very people who owned one of the competitive papers in Cincy. In 2007, a book was published about those efforts of the employees, and lists my dad (Jack Cronin) as “one of the major players”. Entitled, “The Old Lady Of Vine Street: The Valiant Fight For The Cincinnati Enquirer”, the book actually gave me insight into my dad that I had never been aware of. Mom was “a homemaker”, a true Saint. She did work for a while in the book department at Rike’s, until suffering a stroke in 1959. Last Edited by JJCofMAINE on Sep 26, 2013 1:16 PM
chuck48 18 posts Oct 03, 2013 4:55 AM	Dad worked at Harris graphics on Webster St. Mom worked as a Homemaker.
luv my dayton 408 posts Oct 04, 2013 10:01 AM	Remember when Monarch was in the east end on Torrence behind my grandmothers house learned to ride my bike there. My dad had a gas station at the linden-huffman point and worked there for years. Hewitt was right across the street and dad bought scrap bags of soap which was a treat for the family as we only had several brands of soap to choose from back in 50s . Moms longest stint working was at JC Penny at Town and country for over 20 yrs.
Syxpack 141 posts Oct 04, 2013 7:31 PM	Chuck, my youngest son worked at Harris Graphics from 1987. He stayed with them through several name changes and moved with them to New Hampshire when they were known as Heidleburg (sp?) Printing in 2002. They sold out and became Goss something or other. My son came back to Dayton in 2004. He was homesick for Dayton and his family. He worked for a short time at their plant in Sidney. When did your dad work at Harris Graphics? Luv, wasn't Monarch on Garfield? My grandson owns an old brick home that he is renovating, on East Third Street beside an empty lot that is on the corner of Garfield and Third that I was told is where Monarch used to be. Wasn't the soap from Hewitt Soap Company wonderful. I used to love walking past there. The entire neighborhood smelled so good. In later years, they made all different brands of soap, even Avon I was told.
gomershad 4 posts Oct 05, 2013 4:38 AM	My dad was a CPA with offices on the 7th floor of the Reibold Building. His partner had a corner office that overlooked 4th and Main Sts. When I was a kid in the mid-60's, dad would take me to the office on Saturdays to get me out of mom's hair for a few hours. The Reibold Bldg had elevator operators in those days. There was one guy who had kind of a hunchback, sorry to say I can't remember his name. Nice guy. There was one back elevator, off the 4th Street entrance that was operated by an old crusty guy who I was kind of afraid of - I think he didn't like kids very much. I do remember gazing out those corner windows looking down at the big city. One morning there was a parade going by and the lady in the Grand Marshall's convertible saw me looking out the window and waved at me. I thought that was the coolest thing. When I got a little older, dad let me go by myself all the way up to the 11th floor where there was a lunch room with vending machines. It was a real big deal to get a sandwich out of the vending machine, LOL!
luv my dayton 413 posts Oct 06, 2013 5:22 PM	Monarch for years was located between Bierce and Fifth St on Torrence. Moved to a new location and still there down on 725. Their old building sat empty for sometime and later became Crowe manufacturing which is no longer in business. Building not in very good shape and empty. Remember my grandmother telling of working at Monarch making ammunition during one of the war. Was the only job she ever had outside her home.
cynthia 7 posts Oct 08, 2013 1:49 PM	My dad went to college on the GI Bill, then taught speech and drama at Wilbur Wright High School in the late 40s/early 50s. Then he went to work at Wright-Patt, and stayed until he retired. My mother worked at Wright-Patt during World War II, until she married my father in 1950. Then she became a homemaker.
mjr1960 90 posts Oct 08, 2013 3:36 PM	Hi all, as I mentioned earlier in this form My Dad spent 42 years for schriber, harris, whatever you want to call it. Last name Richey, What I can say about the company is, when It Came time for me to get a job I was Halted at the gate. Apparently they didn't want three of use there as my uncle worked there also. That all said dad loved his job until the day he was forced to retire. All my young life we had good fortune so Schribers did him well.
joey m 123 posts Oct 09, 2013 8:42 AM	Dad managed city golf courses in the 60's then bought a few pizza houses. One on Salem Ave., one in Centerville, and the last one on Kettering Blvd. Name of pizza houses was Angelinas Pizza.

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