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Memories of Dayton, Ohio

Betsy Trotwood

Trotwood was named after the Charles Dicken's character

Betsy Trotwood in David Cooperfield.

Trotwood History

Bonnie Devers-Scheneck

100E Main St

Trotwood OH

937-837-7801

Business's

Pantorium Dry Cleaners-Mr. and Mrs. Duncan

IGA Grocers-The Roher's

Village Bakery-Chase/Steinke

Farmer and Merchants Bank

Elder Beerman

Flint's

Frisch's

Arby's Roast Beef

Lawson's

Trotwood News Paper

Gas Station

Jr/Sr High School

PK Lumber

Stop N Go

Dr. Seal-did sport physicials

Laundry

The Ram Shack

Madison Park Elementary School

Trotwood Locker

Roger's Funeral Home

Trotwood Trailer

Dever's

Sam's Pizza-Elder Beerman shopping center

Parkmoor

Cassono's Pizza

Foodtown

Joe's Hardware

Boyer's Dance Studio

Brethern Church-Main St

Trotwood United Church of the Brethern-Worley/Broadway

Post Office-Broadway

7-11 Main St

Car Wash on Stuckhardt

Reid's Drug store

Deb and Rick's Restaurant

Bill's towing

Jolly's Pizza

Pool-trampalines

Laundromat

Dr. Freid

Drycleaner across from Duncan's

Salem Mall

Donut Shop-Higgins Station-Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips

Vaniman Ford

Johnson's Carpet Store

Dairy Queen

Noffsinger's Appliance

Beeber Pharmacy

Lawson's next to the bowling alley

Western Auto

Burger Chef

Trotwood Lanes

Clark Station

Famous Recipe Chicken

Gas Stations

Trotwood Boy's Baseball Club

Trotwood Farmer's Exchange Grainery

Grill's bar

Pool Hall

Exxon Station

Trimble's Jewelry

Berger Pure Oil Station

Cedar Hill Cemetary

Dr. Ross dentist

Dr. Lewis at Sherry and Broadway

Dr. Foster dentist

I remember...

the hill behind Tina True's house on Worley Ave.  We would slide down the hill all seasons using trash can lids, refrigerator box whatever we could come up with.  At the bottom of the hill was a screen room, behind the screen room was Vaniman Ford.  Vaniman Ford faced Main St. from the south.  I attended school with the granddaughter of the Mr. Vaniman.  Cheryl Stubbs lived on the corner of Sunrise and Main St.  Her grandparents across the street on the opposite corner.  We played in the fenced yard of the Vaniman's with her collie chasing us.

On the southwest corner of Sunrise and Main St lived another schoolmate Connie Sheets who was a twirlette from Mrs. Boyer's dance studio.  She had two step brother's Jack Winchester (our age) and an older brother who's name escapes me.  Down the street on the other side lived the Dorn family.  They had a tragic house fire.  A young Dorn died, the story was the child paniced and locked herself in a closet.  Steve Dorn jumped from a second story window and had a debilitating arm injury.

The train tressel stood above Wolf Creek at the end of Sunrise Street.  The underside of the tressel was painted with graffiti (of course).  A wooden sidewalk with a metal handbar was built alongside the north side of the train track...I remember sitting on the skinny board feet dangling above Wolf Creek as a train blew by at a zillion miles an hour inches from my backside.

Down below, the stones showed through the clear water.  Many days where spent wading in the shallow water.  Down the track a few blocks east was the beaten down path we traveled to the baseball field.  The path was found through the parking lot of Roher's IGA food market.

Rusty worked their (Tina's older brother).  The Roher family owned the grocery, they lived up on Worley Ave. top of Pleasant St. to the right.  I remember one daughter, Kim.  Robin and Lark lived next door...two girls not birds.

IN MEMORY

JOSEPHINE CAMPBELL

great aunt

My grandmother's (Thelma Elizabeth Smith) half sister, daughter of Susie Metcalf.

DON SMITH

uncle

My mom's brother, the eldest of the five.  Son of Thelma and Donnell Smith.

He changed his name Donnell, Jr. to Donald.  Sibling of Ethel (my mom), Betty, Rosie (deceased), Barb.

ROSIE WHITTENBURG

aunt

My mom's sister, number four in the line of five.  Daughter of Donnell and Thelma.

JOHN SCHMITZ

uncle

Spouse of Betty (mom's sister).  Married 28 years.

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