Many things from the past evoke memories of our youth and time at Alter. Places (Cassano's Pizza King after the crisp Fall night football games), events (school plays and concerts), TV (who can forget Bob Shreve's Schoenling All-Nite Theater). After high school times as well, concerts at Eastwood Lake Park, October and May Daze at Wright State, OSU vs U of M football games, dancing and playing pool at the "She", jumping off the "high side" at Clifton Gorge. You just can't make up wild times like those. We hope you enjoy these snippets of good times past! If you'd like to comment on a picture, please click on the "Add a Comment" button beside it. Memories are meant to be shared!
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Page 1 of 73Alter High School Bulletin
The School Bulletin every year delineated all the rules for academics, scholarships, attendance, athletics, dress code, as well as courses of study, counseling, faculty, sport programs, etc. It also documented the coat of arms, fight song, school history, and other school specific topics.
If you click on the Alter HS Bulletin button link above, it will take you to the bulletin so you can scroll through it.
The School Bulletin every year delineated all the rules for academics, scholarships, attendance, athletics, dress code, as well as courses of study, counseling, faculty, sport programs, etc. It also documented the coat of arms, fight song, school history, and other school specific topics.
If you click on the Alter HS Bulletin button link above, it will take you to the bulletin so you can scroll through it.
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer on April 18, 1972 (I was 14). They were one of the first groups to use the synthesizer in their music, in good company with the Moody Blues at the time. "Lucky Man" showcased their synthesized harmonies and remains a favorite song of mine.
-- Alan Steffens
Styx had only a few songs at that time, "Light Up" and "Lorelei", and Pure Prairie League had "Amy". I remember Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" blasting through the amusement park speakers at full volume while I rode the roller coaster with Julie and our other friends at the time. Lots of alcohol and other recreational drugs and lots of kids from every high school in the area having the time of their lives. That evening was one big blur ...
-- Alan Steffens
I was a decent pool player back in the day, and would go to the She's pool room and play people for beers when I was going to Wright State. Good times!!
-- Alan Steffens
I remember playing darts there in between slamming down pints of ale.
-- Alan Steffens
Contributed by Bill Barlow. To add your own memory, go to the last page of this section and follow the instructions there to get your text and picture to us, and we'll add it to this section. I highly encourage you to contribute to this website where you can ... add a comment to a picture, submit a classmate bio update, and/or submit a memory!
-- Alan Steffens
Yep those are mine
-- Dave Denney
I woke up the following morning face down in my friend's backyard a few houses down from one of those parties with my friend's Dad mowing the lawn around me! He told me they checked my pulse when they saw me laying there in the morning, called my parents to tell them I spent the night, and decided to let me sleep it off where I had landed when I passed out! What I did that night is still a big blur, but I do remember drinking several glasses of "trash can punch" from a big garbage can lined with a trash bag that I had contributed my bottle of MD 20/20 to.
-- Alan Steffens
Mike, I didn't remember this at all, but that isn't so unusual. What a treat!
-- Patrick Walsh
Anyone have contact with Tim Pequignot?
-- Ann Frounfelker Althaus
To scroll through the 1974-75 Alter High School Bulletin, click on "Alter HS Bulletin" in the glossary links above this picture. You can get back here then by clicking on the "Memorabilia" page header on the upper left side. A little trick I added for returning quickly to the base page for any menu item sub-page.
-- Alan Steffens
Picture just makes you smell the buttered popcorn now, doesn't it?
-- Alan Steffens
I got into skating on weekends in and after high school at the "Bus Stop" near Yankee Road in Centerville on SR725. I remember roller skating there to "The Bitch is Back" by Elton at the time. It was a good place to meet girls:)
-- Alan Steffens
I was at that concert ... crazy times those were! These Detroit boys knew how to rock it up and entertained us with their costumes and antics in the process!
-- Alan Steffens
I bought all 4 of their initial albums. They began to get noticed in the late 70s, signed with a major record label, released their first album in 1980, and continued to pull in fans from all over the US as a lead-in band touring with Charlie Daniels and the Allman Brothers, among others, in the mid-80s.
-- Alan Steffens
LOVED McGuffey Lane. Judy Boone and I just celebrated her 65th B-day last summer at the Fraze seeing McGuffey Lane. I had this album and now have the CD.
-- Cindy Brownsberger Adams
Martha Quinn, one of the first VJs on MTV in the 80s, is still DJing on a syndicated music program that can be heard on many of our local radio stations weekly. She has to be in her 60s now. I admit to having a bit of a crush on her back in the day:)
-- Alan Steffens
I remember being there with my dad and the seats (benches) were uncomfortable. Cool photo.
-- Karen Schaffer
Very cool pic! This is where my dad finally realized I was blind.... cause I kept asking about the score and he kept telling me to look over there.... ? good memories!!
-- Ann Frounfelker Althaus
My Dad and I saw Tony Perez launch one OVER THE SCOREBOARD... and I can still see that ball in my mind's eye!
-- John Janning
I loved the contoured warning track.
-- William P Barlow III
Mike Wildenhaus, Joe Schneider and I used to have sleepovers in 7th and 8th grades and stay up all night watching these.
-- Alan Steffens
Gordon Jump (The Big Guy) graduated from Centerville H.S. in (1951) and Gary Sandy (Andy) is from Moraine & attended Fairmont West H.S. in the 60's.
-- Mike Wildenhaus
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Alter High School Bulletin
The School Bulletin every year delineated all the rules for academics, scholarships, attendance, athletics, dress code, as well as courses of study, counseling, faculty, sport programs, etc. It also documented the coat of arms, fight song, school history, and other school specific topics.
If you click on the Alter HS Bulletin button link above, it will take you to the bulletin so you can scroll through it.
The School Bulletin every year delineated all the rules for academics, scholarships, attendance, athletics, dress code, as well as courses of study, counseling, faculty, sport programs, etc. It also documented the coat of arms, fight song, school history, and other school specific topics.
If you click on the Alter HS Bulletin button link above, it will take you to the bulletin so you can scroll through it.
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Syllabus
The Syllabus was sent to all the Alter parents in the summer after they paid Alter's tuition for that year, along with a letter from the Dean of Students at the time. It lists all the school standards, the registration process, all the course offerings, and all those courses descriptions. We would then pick out the class electives we wanted to take that year which were then added to the classes that were mandatory for us to graduate.
If you click on the Syllabus button link above, it will take you to the syllabus for you to browse
The Syllabus was sent to all the Alter parents in the summer after they paid Alter's tuition for that year, along with a letter from the Dean of Students at the time. It lists all the school standards, the registration process, all the course offerings, and all those courses descriptions. We would then pick out the class electives we wanted to take that year which were then added to the classes that were mandatory for us to graduate.
If you click on the Syllabus button link above, it will take you to the syllabus for you to browse
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State Basketball Tournament Brochure
Our awesome Men's Basketball Team went 24-0 our Senior year making it to the State Tournament at St. John's Arena on the OSU Campus. The brochure documents all the teams who made it there. Alter went all the way to the semi-finals, barely losing to Columbus Linden McKinley 56-58.
The basketball season game scores are all listed on page 215 of the Senior Yearbook.
If you click on the State BB Tournament button link above, it will take you to the brochure so you can browse through it.
Our awesome Men's Basketball Team went 24-0 our Senior year making it to the State Tournament at St. John's Arena on the OSU Campus. The brochure documents all the teams who made it there. Alter went all the way to the semi-finals, barely losing to Columbus Linden McKinley 56-58.
The basketball season game scores are all listed on page 215 of the Senior Yearbook.
If you click on the State BB Tournament button link above, it will take you to the brochure so you can browse through it.
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Activities
For a few of us the "Bus Stop" Roller Skating Rink provided some mid-to-late 70s entertainment on the weekends.
The facility started out with the name "The Great Skate" in 1974 with a 40,000 sqft facility (nearly an acre) and was the first complex in the country to offer year-round ice and roller skating side-by-side. The owners closed the ice skating rink side in mid-1976 as that part was losing money. The name was then changed to the "Bus Stop Rollerworld" after that, focused as a roller rink /disco floor, basically a non-alcoholic night club for teens.
For a few of us the "Bus Stop" Roller Skating Rink provided some mid-to-late 70s entertainment on the weekends.
The facility started out with the name "The Great Skate" in 1974 with a 40,000 sqft facility (nearly an acre) and was the first complex in the country to offer year-round ice and roller skating side-by-side. The owners closed the ice skating rink side in mid-1976 as that part was losing money. The name was then changed to the "Bus Stop Rollerworld" after that, focused as a roller rink /disco floor, basically a non-alcoholic night club for teens.
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I have memories of going to Clifton Gorge with some fellow Alter students after graduation later that summer. There was a supposedly "bottomless" area of the river with 40' and 80' cliff sides to jump in. I was looking over the edge of the higher cliff edge when one of the girls in our group came up behind me and pushed me off the edge. I caught her and a friend of hers later in the day looking over the edge of the shorter cliff, so I walked up between them, put my arms around their shoulders and jumped off dragging them both with me. PAYBACK!
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Remember when "Disco" reared it's ugly head a few years after we graduated? The Dixie Electric Company in Kettering with it's bottom lit flashing dance floor was my first experience of the crazed dance scene so unique to the late 70s, wearing my blue corduroy leisure suit with the large lapels and matching pants with big bell bottoms. "KC and the Sunshine Band" and the "Bee Gees" ruled!
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Hara Arena is where most of us saw our first concert and all our concerts growing up. What was the first concert that you saw there?
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer on April 18, 1972 (I was 14). They were one of the first groups to use the synthesizer in their music, in good company with the Moody Blues at the time. "Lucky Man" showcased their synthesized harmonies and remains a favorite song of mine.-- Alan Steffens
WItch's Tower at Hills and Dales Park. In the summer of '76, a year after we graduated, there was a humungous party one Saturday night at the park with loud rock music pumped in from the pavilions. It was believed to be a collective effort by a handful of people from Centerville, Miamisburg, West Carrollton and Fairmont East high schools. There were hundreds of teens there partying with reckless abandon. getting in one last hurrah before heading off to work and/or college.
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Kings Island, a concept amusement park 10 miles east of downtown Cincinnati on the banks of the Ohio River, opened in April 1972. 1975 was the first "Grad Night" hosted at Kings Island and they featured Styx and Pure Prairie League in concert there that night. If you went, that night was one big party for seniors from high schools all over southeastern Ohio. What a blast!
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Styx had only a few songs at that time, "Light Up" and "Lorelei", and Pure Prairie League had "Amy". I remember Alice Cooper's "Only Women Bleed" blasting through the amusement park speakers at full volume while I rode the roller coaster with Julie and our other friends at the time. Lots of alcohol and other recreational drugs and lots of kids from every high school in the area having the time of their lives. That evening was one big blur ...-- Alan Steffens
Many of us should remember seeing movies at the Kon-Tiki, a theater known for its distinctive architecture and South Pacific Polynesian-themed décor. The Kon-Tiki Theater was a landmark in Trotwood along Salem Ave for over 30 years between 1968 and 1999.
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LeSourdsville Lake was an amusement park in Monroe that opened way back in 1922. The park got heavy competition from Kings Island when that opened in 1972 and was rebranded in 1978 to "Americana Amusement Park". Eventually things dried up there and they closed up operations in 1999. Prior to Kings Island it was the place to go on warm summer days for a little fun in the sun.
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The hot spot to be after a decent snow in the 70s was "Suicide Hill" at Hills and Dales Park with sled in hand. From the looks of things that statement still rings true today. Here's to great memories of screaming down the hill on your 2-rail and some spectacular wipeouts!
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The "She" was a college hang-out favorite of many of us in the Forest Park Shopping Plaza, many of us getting in with our cheap fake IDs at the time. The dance floor was always packed and some pretty decent pool players frequented the backroom "games" area. They hosted "Drink & Drown" Wednesdays and Sundays with half-priced pitchers.
Forest Park was a pretty seedy area of the city at that time, which made the adventures there even more memorable:)
Forest Park was a pretty seedy area of the city at that time, which made the adventures there even more memorable:)
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I was a decent pool player back in the day, and would go to the She's pool room and play people for beers when I was going to Wright State. Good times!!-- Alan Steffens
The Shed was another one of the University of Dayton Brown Street bars that many of us frequented ... with our fake IDs!
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The most famous of the UD Brown Street bars. Timothy's was packed every single time I went there and was a second home after graduating from Alter for many of us!
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I remember playing darts there in between slamming down pints of ale.-- Alan Steffens
Town and Country Shopping Center loomed large as a place for a kid growing up on Ackerman Boulevard, near Alter. Its attraction grew as bikes became a means of travel and freedom. Hot spots at the shopping center were Kressges and Grants (2-5/10 general stores), a 31 Flavors Baskin Robbins, a comic book store (inside the Fernandez Art store), a candy store (which apparently was a front for drug sales), and a toy store. Once a car was available to drive, interest shifted to the Dayton Mall.
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Contributed by Bill Barlow. To add your own memory, go to the last page of this section and follow the instructions there to get your text and picture to us, and we'll add it to this section. I highly encourage you to contribute to this website where you can ... add a comment to a picture, submit a classmate bio update, and/or submit a memory!-- Alan Steffens
Concerts
Saw Aerosmith at Eastwood Park Lake after their iconic "Toys in the Attic" album received major airplay over the summer. They were awesome! This concert was called the "Hydroglobe Music Festival" which besides Aerosmith also had Ted Nugent and Rick Derringer.
A 17-year old kid tried to swim across the lake to get into concert for free and drowned before he made it to the concert side shore. The City of Dayton put an end to the concerts there because of that incident, so there was never another concert there.
Saw Aerosmith at Eastwood Park Lake after their iconic "Toys in the Attic" album received major airplay over the summer. They were awesome! This concert was called the "Hydroglobe Music Festival" which besides Aerosmith also had Ted Nugent and Rick Derringer.
A 17-year old kid tried to swim across the lake to get into concert for free and drowned before he made it to the concert side shore. The City of Dayton put an end to the concerts there because of that incident, so there was never another concert there.
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The Beach Boys toured through Dayton every year in the mid-70s. These tickets were contributed by Dave Denney, I believe.
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Yep those are mine-- Dave Denney
The Steve Miller Band took flight in 1976 with their album "Fly Like an Eagle". They filled Riverfront Stadium in 1977 where many of us were exposed to their funky musical stylings. These tickets were from Dave Denney's collection.
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Drink
For many of us straight-laced Alter types, our first taste of alcohol was Boone's Farm Apple Wine and/or Strawberry Hill. Sweet, tasty, and after a bottle or 2, you no longer felt any pain:)
For many of us straight-laced Alter types, our first taste of alcohol was Boone's Farm Apple Wine and/or Strawberry Hill. Sweet, tasty, and after a bottle or 2, you no longer felt any pain:)
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The "Be a Pepper" Dr. Pepper ad campaign began in 1977 and ran through 1983. Those ads featured David Naughton extolling the virtues of the sweet-tasting soda in spirited song-and-dance numbers with lots of "average" people dancing around with him. They kind of made you want to sing along ... "Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?"
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Little Kings 7oz Cream Ales were a staple in the 70s. My buddy and I used to get a case of these, put them in between the front seats of my Camaro, cruise Frisch's Drive-In, drink them and toss the empties in a plastic tub we kept in the back seat. How we never got arrested in those days is still a mystery to me.
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MD 20/20 was a "fortified" wine manufactured by the Mogen David Wine Company in the early 70s. "Fortified" meant that "20/20" stood for the wine's 20% ABV in a 20 oz [591 ml] flask-shaped bottle. If you were unlucky enough to have had a rough morning after some MD 20/20 indulging the night before back in the day, you knew that this tasty red wine product had a healthy "kick" to it!
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Food
Frisch's Big Boy in Miamisburg next to the Dayton Mall and the Southland 75 Drive-In Theater was another high school and college hang-out for many of us south-siders.
They had a drive-in area in the back where you could pull into, order from your car, wait for your food, and meet other like-minded teens looking for some action on a Friday night.
Frisch's Big Boy in Miamisburg next to the Dayton Mall and the Southland 75 Drive-In Theater was another high school and college hang-out for many of us south-siders.
They had a drive-in area in the back where you could pull into, order from your car, wait for your food, and meet other like-minded teens looking for some action on a Friday night.
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Who could ever forget going to Cassano's Pizza King in Centerville after Alter Football games on those crisp autumn nights?
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Many of us took prom dates to this posh restaurant on Brown Street to impress our dates and empty our wallets. Their steaks were to die for!
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The Ponderosa Steak House was a happening spot in the late 70s. Where else could you get a 1/2" thick T-Bone steak, baked potato and a salad for $2.50? Ate many a meal there when in college at WSU.
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Skyline Chili from Cincinnati was all the rage in the 70s! Still going strong today, their trademark difference was that unlike chili con carne, Skyline Chili was a sweet, savory meat sauce with a unique spice blend that was poured over spaghetti or coney dogs and then completely covered with finely shredded cheese. Mmmm, just makes you want a Skyline Chili coney dog now doesn't it?
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Miscellaneous
Our Alter 10th Reunion Brochure had a "10 Year Trivia" page with a bunch of trivia questions about our class. Kind of fun, right? Click to the next picture for the answers. Scroll back and forth to check your answers to the questions.
Our Alter 10th Reunion Brochure had a "10 Year Trivia" page with a bunch of trivia questions about our class. Kind of fun, right? Click to the next picture for the answers. Scroll back and forth to check your answers to the questions.
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10th Reunion Brochure trivia answers. Again, you can scroll back and forth here to see how you did!
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4 years of your life for a piece of paper, a chance at bettering yourself, and a lifetime of memories. Can you still hear the "Pomp and Circumstance" music playing after walking up the aisle in the NCR Auditorium as you accepted this piece of paper with your families all watching with pride in their eyes?
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Had a "newspaper route" as a kid delivering the Dayton Daily News newspapers to our neighborhood. Remember getting up every M-F morning at 4am, biking over to my supplier's garage, stuffing ad inserts into the main news section, folding them up and jamming them into my bike saddle bags and delivering around 60 each morning. It took about an hour and when I'd get home at 5:30am, I'd lay back down and get another hours worth of sleep before getting up for school. I did this for a couple of years between the ages of 13 and 14. Where else is a kid going to make a $100/mo back then under the radar?
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Remember "dodge ball" in gym class? Yikes, what masochist thought it was a good idea to put rubber balls in the hands of teenagers with the idea to hit your opponent hard enough to make welts and sting for hours? The absolute worst was getting drilled in the face! You just know Mr. Ward secretly enjoyed watching us brutalize each other for 40 minutes on dodge ball day :)
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Graduation ticket for families and friends to be able to attend that special day of relief, freedom and endless possibilities. Later that night most of us would celebrate with family and/or friends at parties all over Ackerman Blvd with an endless stream of alcohol drank by a few with reckless abandon!
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I woke up the following morning face down in my friend's backyard a few houses down from one of those parties with my friend's Dad mowing the lawn around me! He told me they checked my pulse when they saw me laying there in the morning, called my parents to tell them I spent the night, and decided to let me sleep it off where I had landed when I passed out! What I did that night is still a big blur, but I do remember drinking several glasses of "trash can punch" from a big garbage can lined with a trash bag that I had contributed my bottle of MD 20/20 to.-- Alan Steffens
Who knew we would have an NBA star, a DDN sportswriter, & other nearly famous in our midst? I did, that's why I got autographs of the guys in our homeroom the last day before graduation. Contributed by Mike Wildenhaus.
Bill Smith, Jim McMillan, Pat Walsh, Rusty Schuermann, Joe Ploplis, Bill Rankin, Rick Schaefer, Tim Pequignot, Jim Paxson, Rick Smith, Gerry Grogan, Tom Kelley, plus a few you can't make out.
Bill Smith, Jim McMillan, Pat Walsh, Rusty Schuermann, Joe Ploplis, Bill Rankin, Rick Schaefer, Tim Pequignot, Jim Paxson, Rick Smith, Gerry Grogan, Tom Kelley, plus a few you can't make out.
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Mike, I didn't remember this at all, but that isn't so unusual. What a treat!-- Patrick Walsh
-- Ann Frounfelker Althaus
Stumbled upon when cleaning out 26 years of boxes in the attic ... glad these weren't tossed out inadventantly over the years. These two from our Sophomore and Junior years were almost exactly the same as the Senior year one that was scanned and put on the website for you to browse through.
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To scroll through the 1974-75 Alter High School Bulletin, click on "Alter HS Bulletin" in the glossary links above this picture. You can get back here then by clicking on the "Memorabilia" page header on the upper left side. A little trick I added for returning quickly to the base page for any menu item sub-page.-- Alan Steffens
Movies
Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" was released on February 2, 1972. In the United States it was given an X-rating in its original release in 1972. Later in the year, Kubrick replaced approximately 30 seconds of sexually explicit footage from two scenes with less explicit action to obtain an R rating re-release.
Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" was released on February 2, 1972. In the United States it was given an X-rating in its original release in 1972. Later in the year, Kubrick replaced approximately 30 seconds of sexually explicit footage from two scenes with less explicit action to obtain an R rating re-release.
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The Dixie Drive-In featured twin huge movie screens across from each other north of Dayton on N. Dixie Dr. Many of us watched movies there from the Beatles "Help" in the 60s up to the Sci-Fi and other movies of the 70s. It is still in operation today and still packs them in April-October.
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The "Night of the Living Dead" was released in late 1968. It started a whole era of zombie movies that 50+ years later is still going strong!
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The Skyborn Drive-In across from Wright Patterson Air Force Base was often referred to as the "Skyporn" due to it's history of showing X-rated films in the 70s and 80s. This practice came to an end after a police raid in 1989 in which 3 films were confiscated for being "too obscene".
Hmmmm ...
Hmmmm ...
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Southland 75 Drive-In in between the Dayton Mall and I-75 for us south-enders was a childhood staple. Meeting up at Frisch's, packing into one of our cars, and going to the latest movie there was the thing to do on Saturday nights back in the day!
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Picture just makes you smell the buttered popcorn now, doesn't it?-- Alan Steffens
The Towering Inferno was released in 1974 and ended up being the highest grossing film of that year. It continued the disaster film genre started in 1972 by the Poseidon Adventure also produced by Irwin Allen. It was nominated for 8 Academy Awards (which included Best Picture) and won 3 for Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Best Song. The star-studded cast included Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Robert Wagner and Robert Vaughn.
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Music
Badfinger's "Straight Up" album was released in late 1971. I have strong memories of hearing the songs "Day After Day" and "Baby Blue" being played in the Alter Cafeteria Jukebox over and over during long period lunch our Freshman year.
Badfinger's "Straight Up" album was released in late 1971. I have strong memories of hearing the songs "Day After Day" and "Baby Blue" being played in the Alter Cafeteria Jukebox over and over during long period lunch our Freshman year.
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Dingleberry's was the premier music shop in the 70s. It was on SR725 between Centerville and the Dayton Mall. Bought many an album and 8-track tape (remember those?) there.
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Elton blasted into our music world in the early 70s with "Tumbleweed Connection" and "Madman Across the Water". He took over the world in 1973 with "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road". Almost every song on this double-album set got major airplay on all the radio stations. Lots of our memories of good times back then are likely tied to a song or two from this album!
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I got into skating on weekends in and after high school at the "Bus Stop" near Yankee Road in Centerville on SR725. I remember roller skating there to "The Bitch is Back" by Elton at the time. It was a good place to meet girls:)-- Alan Steffens
The King Biscuit Flower Hour was a syndicated radio show that featured live concerts on the air from 1973-1993. The first show broadcast included Blood, Sweat & Tears and Bruce Springsteen. For many of us it was a "must listen" on Sunday nights to hear new emerging artists.
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This is a picture of Kiss at Hara Arena on January 31st, 1976 covering their "Alive!" album. An unforgettable experience if you were there!
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I was at that concert ... crazy times those were! These Detroit boys knew how to rock it up and entertained us with their costumes and antics in the process!-- Alan Steffens
I had a friend from West Carrollton whose cousin was in McGuffey Lane. They would save us a table in the front of the Walnut Hills Bar stage when they'd come from Columbus to play there. I really wasn't much of a country music person, but I loved their energy and many of their songs.
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I bought all 4 of their initial albums. They began to get noticed in the late 70s, signed with a major record label, released their first album in 1980, and continued to pull in fans from all over the US as a lead-in band touring with Charlie Daniels and the Allman Brothers, among others, in the mid-80s.-- Alan Steffens
-- Cindy Brownsberger Adams
Not sure I know anyone at the disco clubs in the late 70s-early 80s that didn't learn to dance to "Thriller" like the MTV video released with the song. Good times!
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MTV started in the early 80s and made "music videos" a thing! "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles was the first music video to air on this newly minted cable TV channel. How appropriate!
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Martha Quinn, one of the first VJs on MTV in the 80s, is still DJing on a syndicated music program that can be heard on many of our local radio stations weekly. She has to be in her 60s now. I admit to having a bit of a crush on her back in the day:)-- Alan Steffens
Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", released in 1973, was a ground-breaking musical experience for many of us. Every song on the album got radio airplay. Many of us added it to our record collections, listened to it over and over, and still consider it to be one of the best albums of all time.
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Popular radio stations at the time were mainly WTUE, WVUD and WING.
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Sports
The Cincinnati Reds dominated Major League Baseball's National League in the 70s winning 6 Division titles, 4 Pennants, and 2 World Series averaging over 95 wins a season. At their peak they had a lineup that included Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Pérez, Dave Concepción, César Gerónimo and Ken Griffey Sr.
Who can forget going to Riverfront Stadium and watching the "Big Red Machine" stomp their competition!
The Cincinnati Reds dominated Major League Baseball's National League in the 70s winning 6 Division titles, 4 Pennants, and 2 World Series averaging over 95 wins a season. At their peak they had a lineup that included Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan, Tony Pérez, Dave Concepción, César Gerónimo and Ken Griffey Sr.
Who can forget going to Riverfront Stadium and watching the "Big Red Machine" stomp their competition!
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Bowling anyone? Capri Lanes in Kettering and Centerville Lanes in the south had many of us donning those snappy looking bowling shoes for a few hours of fun.
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Crosley Field in Cincinnati. Small B&W photo was originally contributed by Mike Wildenhaus.
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I remember being there with my dad and the seats (benches) were uncomfortable. Cool photo.-- Karen Schaffer
-- Ann Frounfelker Althaus
-- John Janning
-- William P Barlow III
Trends
7-Up started their "Uncola" ads in the late 60s and pulled in Peter Max in the 70s to put the finishing touches on their amazing ad campaign. Looking back at these just dredges up memories of seeing the Beatle's "Yellow Submarine" at the Dixie Drive-In and pops you back into the psycheldelic 60s, doesn't it?
7-Up started their "Uncola" ads in the late 60s and pulled in Peter Max in the 70s to put the finishing touches on their amazing ad campaign. Looking back at these just dredges up memories of seeing the Beatle's "Yellow Submarine" at the Dixie Drive-In and pops you back into the psycheldelic 60s, doesn't it?
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Remember way back to the days of paying less than a buck for a gallon of gas?
Woah ... you are old!
Woah ... you are old!
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Mad Magazine was founded in the early 50s, but had a huge surge in the early 70s to become a cultural icon. It became a forum for political satire and found the funny side of almost every subject. Alfred E. Newman became the cartoon cover boy for MAD magazine and had a growing fan base as the magazine's popularity soared.
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Mood Rings became all the rage in the summer of 1975.
The color ranges and associated emotions were supposed to be: Amber: nervous, unhappy, cool,
Green: average, calm,
Blue: active, relaxed, and
Violet: passionate, excited.
Which were you?
The color ranges and associated emotions were supposed to be: Amber: nervous, unhappy, cool,
Green: average, calm,
Blue: active, relaxed, and
Violet: passionate, excited.
Which were you?
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Woody's Market was a pioneering concept in the grocery business and a staple for anyone in or near West Carrollton in the 70s.
The Over-The-Road Restaurant featured live bands, check-outs on both ends of the store, the green and white checkered bonnets and dresses, water wheels, wishing wells, wooden bridges, and the book store on the second floor. They had hanging sides of beef in the Meat Dept, and a cake decorating viewing window in the Bakery. It made for a fun place to shop and hang out for us south siders.
The Over-The-Road Restaurant featured live bands, check-outs on both ends of the store, the green and white checkered bonnets and dresses, water wheels, wishing wells, wooden bridges, and the book store on the second floor. They had hanging sides of beef in the Meat Dept, and a cake decorating viewing window in the Bakery. It made for a fun place to shop and hang out for us south siders.
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"All in the Family" was such a cornerstone of American culture that today you can visit Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. As the museum's website puts it, "Their battlegrounds were the very issues dividing American society — ethnic prejudice, women's liberation, and racism. Along with M*A*S*H, this show was a powerful look at difficult topics, in this case racism and bigotry ... and it's after effects. 45 years later this is all still revalent, much to our dismay.
"All in the Family" was such a cornerstone of American culture that today you can visit Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. As the museum's website puts it, "Their battlegrounds were the very issues dividing American society — ethnic prejudice, women's liberation, and racism. Along with M*A*S*H, this show was a powerful look at difficult topics, in this case racism and bigotry ... and it's after effects. 45 years later this is all still revalent, much to our dismay.
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Who will ever forget their television and radio jingle?
"BHA means Better Home Appliances, Better Home Appliances, Better Home Appliances ..."
Sing it Pat !!!
"BHA means Better Home Appliances, Better Home Appliances, Better Home Appliances ..."
Sing it Pat !!!
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Bob Shreve's "Schoenling All-Nite Theater" was on our TV sets in the late 60s-early 70s, well before Dr. Creep and Elvira. Bob perfected the craft of all night entertainment while showing ridiculously bad "B" grade Sci-Fi and other movies. Attached is a Dayton Daily News ad for it which aired in both Dayton and Cincinnati.
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Mike Wildenhaus, Joe Schneider and I used to have sleepovers in 7th and 8th grades and stay up all night watching these.-- Alan Steffens
Created and hosted by Malcolm MacLeod, Clubhouse 22 was an afternoon children's show on WKEF-TV Channel 22. The show featured stand-up comedy, cartoons, celebrity guests, and more from 1970-1974.
Duffy (the show mascot dog) survived the transition from Malcolm hosting to when Dr. Creep took it over.
Duffy (the show mascot dog) survived the transition from Malcolm hosting to when Dr. Creep took it over.
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Dr. Creep (Barry Hogart) and Shock Theater premiered on WKEF channel 22 in 1972. Like other late-night horror shows at the time, Shock Theater played classic "B" grade horror films, featuring Dr. Creep during movie breaks leaning more toward humor than the horrific with his banter and antics.
Interestingly enough Dr. Creep in the late 70s also began co-hosting "Clubhouse 22", a popular weekday afternoon kids show then.
Interestingly enough Dr. Creep in the late 70s also began co-hosting "Clubhouse 22", a popular weekday afternoon kids show then.
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Happy Days was a sitcom set in the late 50's, early 60s in Milwaukee, WI featuring the Cunningham family and their son Richie and his friends. It is here we meet Arthur Fonzarelli (Fonsie), Potsie and Ralph as we follow their antics and adolescent journey to adulthood. It premiered in 1974 and ran for 10 seasons.
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"The Love Boat" aired from 1977-1985 with many of us tuning in to its campy romantic and funny episodes with star guest cameos each week. Admit it, you watched them every week now, didn't you?
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M*A*S*H showcased the horrors of war as the doctors and support staff stationed at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Uijeongbu, South Korea tried to find humor as a way to escape from the horror and depression of living in an impossibly bleak situation. It handled those topics with humility and compassion, giving us pause to reflect upon our own trials and tribulations in the process.
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Monty Python was a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 that came into prominence with their sketch comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" which ran from 1969-1974. Their off-the-wall, sometimes very irreverant, approach to comedy caught American audiences off-guard and made that hour show, usually airing on BBC stations picked up in the US, a "must watch" in their late Saturday night timeslot. The show later developed into live shows, films, albums, books and, yes, even musical theater.
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The Partridge Family premiered on September 25, 1970 and ran 4 seasons until March 23, 1974, on ABC as part of their Friday-night lineup, and had many years in syndication re-runs. The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family The Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The show spawned several hit singles getting airplay at the time "Come on Get Happy" and "I Think I Love You", and had scores of teenage girls swooning over heart-throb David Cassidy.
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SNL premiered in Oct 1975 hosted that night by George Carlin. It was late night "live" TV sketch comedy, political satire and variety created by Lorne Michaels. The original cast featured Garrett Morris, Jane Curtain, John Belushi, Laraine Newman, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and Chevy Chase (left season 2) replaced by Bill Murray. Over the years, the show spawned the likes of Eddie Murphy, Jim Carrey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, Martin Short, Dennis Miller, Robert Downey Jr, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, and Adam Sandler.
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"WKRP in Cincinnati" added Cincinnati and the midwest into everyone's realm of consciousness. It first aired in 1978 and ran for 4 seasons. Howard Hessman (Dr. Johnny Fever), Loni Anderson (Jennifer) and Gary Sandy (Andy) were catapulted into stardom from their roles on this 70's sitcom.
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Gordon Jump (The Big Guy) graduated from Centerville H.S. in (1951) and Gary Sandy (Andy) is from Moraine & attended Fairmont West H.S. in the 60's. -- Mike Wildenhaus
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-- Alan Steffens