Thanks for this footage. I've lived in Dayton my whole life and have struggled to find good film footage from the past. This is remarkable quality for its age.
I grew up in Dayton in the 60s and seventies and left in 1980 , I went back after 45 years and I couldn't believe what has happened to my home town ,I seen a short lil vid you showing the witch's tower ,as we knew it back then as Frankensteins castle , my girlfriend and I would go there late at nite ,sometimes, that's when it was open and could hardly get to it for all the over growth of trees and bush's , and a muddy Rocky trail ,thank you for posting ,it did my old heart good ,I'll be visiting again soon to visit , my high school sweethearts grave ,buried not far from carolton park . ❤️Love your post and thank you ❤️kiser high : GO PANTHERS ❤️ In loving memory for 💐🙏Christine strausburg 😔💐🙏
Nice video, thanks for showing me what my city looked like 75 years ago. I have seen alot change in the 40 plus years that I can remember being alive. But alot has changed in 75 years, but I can also still pick things out as well.
Love it! I spent the first 46 yrs of my life in Dayton. I grew up in Kettering. This footage was taken 5 yrs before my father moved there. I wish he could have seen this. Thanks, @Timothy Larson, for posting! Be blessed, today and always! Stay warm in MN! =)
This was 10 years before we escaped to early Kettering, and cows in the pastures on Smithville..... Ohio's first Mac Donald's at Wilmington and Dorothy Lane. Farm house and pond, Pheasants in the fields at that same intersection.... Molers dairy Farm
Awesome! I picked this reel of film up on eBay and had it professionally scanned. I'm from MN so I don't even have a connection to this area. Glad you enjoyed seeing the footage!
I'm also a Kettering resident and I agree, this is very interesting. At about 5:40, the castle like structure would later be known as witches castle or Frankensteins castle. It has been boarded up for many years and is the subject of a local urban legend.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have never lived in Ohio, but I purchased this film on eBay and had it professionally converted because it was so interesting to watch.
Mr. Larson, I, along with some of my peers (we are students at UD) are making a short documentary of Daytons rich history and were wondering if we could use some of this amazing footage! we are not making profit off this documentary and would love to credit you in it if you allow us to use some of it. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing this video! I live in Dayton and enjoyed seeing a lot of familiar places. Some things have surely changed, but overall, it’s still a great place to be.
Though I've never been to USA, I would like to visit midwestern cities, among them the most desirable spot is Dayton OH. I'd love to visit the birthplace of Aviation museum!
From East Dayton and Im familiar with the Kettering/Oakwood area. Loved the film! Can you advise me on the conversion from the 16mm? Professionally converted? Possibly equipment used to transfer? Average cost of conversion? I have a tote full of family 16mm from the 40's-60's and wish to convert and save for the future. Thank you in advance!
Not being from the area I had now idea what that was, but doing a quick Google search I see what you mean! It looks like the roof is no longer on the top.
@@timothylarson3558 yeah it got struck by lighting when two teenagers we're taking shelter from a storm in the 50s or 60s I'm not sure. One died so they removed the roof. Was probably acting as a lightning rod
I understand what you're saying, but chemtrails is the conspiracy theory term while contrails is the correct term. Just so people don't think you're a nut!
Yes....you are correct.....artificial clouds.... Come from planes...spread quickly and take a Blue God sky and make it hideously grey....then it usually rains. I was born too late...sigh
There were contrails in the sky back then (1940s). Any high-altitude flying jet or reciprocating engine aircraft can produce them given ice crystals in the air that are converted to steam by those engines.
I feel like air was diffrent back then, all of this technology and satellites in the space are making this world heavy. You can almost feel how much easyer was back then by watching this. 3:40
@@JeremyKey80 you know he was actually elected to power than had a Times magazine cover before he turned dictator and started killing, burning books and ruining his country... followed by him almost taking over the world!
@@JeremyKey80 not saying that these people were idolizing him... but this was a different time! Just like how you used to see pictures of Bin Laden years ago... same thing bro! Don't take it to heart.
@@peterhaverland699 It’s the thumbs up that the comment drew for me! I’ve now lived in the south longer than I did in Dayton and people down here find it hard to believe when I tell them just how many prejudiced idiots operate in that area of the country, too!
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I remember my mom taking us to Dayton when I was a child. She liked to shop at Rikes Department store. We had so much fun.
RIKES Christmas window , 1950s... Santa throwing silver dollars to the kids.
Thanks for this footage. I've lived in Dayton my whole life and have struggled to find good film footage from the past. This is remarkable quality for its age.
It really is! 16mm was an excellent format and really still is!
I grew up in Dayton in the 60s and seventies and left in 1980 , I went back after 45 years and I couldn't believe what has happened to my home town ,I seen a short lil vid you showing the witch's tower ,as we knew it back then as Frankensteins castle , my girlfriend and I would go there late at nite ,sometimes, that's when it was open and could hardly get to it for all the over growth of trees and bush's , and a muddy Rocky trail ,thank you for posting ,it did my old heart good ,I'll be visiting again soon to visit , my high school sweethearts grave ,buried not far from carolton park .
❤️Love your post and thank you ❤️kiser high : GO PANTHERS ❤️
In loving memory for
💐🙏Christine strausburg 😔💐🙏
Nice video, thanks for showing me what my city looked like 75 years ago. I have seen alot change in the 40 plus years that I can remember being alive. But alot has changed in 75 years, but I can also still pick things out as well.
5:48 cool to see witches' tower/frankensteins castle with the roof
That is actually John Patterson's deer blind.
I read it was made by a local boy's club and not for Patterson. Very interesting.
@@nikkib4917 no it was J.H. PATTERSON'S dear blind! He owned most of that area! And owned most of what is now called Oakwood.
Love it! I spent the first 46 yrs of my life in Dayton. I grew up in Kettering. This footage was taken 5 yrs before my father moved there. I wish he could have seen this. Thanks, @Timothy Larson, for posting! Be blessed, today and always! Stay warm in MN! =)
This was 10 years before we escaped to early Kettering, and cows in the pastures on Smithville..... Ohio's first Mac Donald's at Wilmington and Dorothy Lane. Farm house and pond, Pheasants in the fields at that same intersection.... Molers dairy Farm
So much has changed. Surprised not much footage on amusement park. It was on the West side of Dayton.
This was before my grandmother was born.Crazy how good the footage is
Never knew Dayton had a Zoo!
Pretty sure it was at Lakeside Park. My Dad's shop pick nicks were there every year.
I believe the covered bridge may have been Washington Mill rd bridge. I know many came to photograph it before it burned.
A lot of this footage was taken near my current home in Berkley Heights. Love seeing how little things have changed in some ways.
This is wonderful. I've lived in Oakwood/Kettering for the past 20+ years and recognize several locations. Thanks for sharing!
Awesome! I picked this reel of film up on eBay and had it professionally scanned. I'm from MN so I don't even have a connection to this area. Glad you enjoyed seeing the footage!
I'm also a Kettering resident and I agree, this is very interesting. At about 5:40, the castle like structure would later be known as witches castle or Frankensteins castle. It has been boarded up for many years and is the subject of a local urban legend.
@@bg45420 glad you found this so you could enjoy it!
@@timothylarson3558 - I'm from Dayton and also recognize some of these places! So cool!
Wow I always wanted to go to the top of the witches tower. that's so cool it was open back then
That was John Patterson's deer blind, I have been to the top a dozen times in 1972
There is plenty of information on this building. It was made by boy scouts and is not a deer blind .
The irony is how much smaller downtown was, yet how much more alive it was.
Awful to see what has happened to Dayton. Lost a lot of people and good paying jobs.
My Mom worked downtown in the 40’s and I do now so the skyline was really neat.
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This is incredible video...I've never seen anything close to this from Dayton archives.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have never lived in Ohio, but I purchased this film on eBay and had it professionally converted because it was so interesting to watch.
This was very cool to see. Loved it.
Mr. Larson, I, along with some of my peers (we are students at UD) are making a short documentary of Daytons rich history and were wondering if we could use some of this amazing footage! we are not making profit off this documentary and would love to credit you in it if you allow us to use some of it. Thank you!
Hi Alex, yes - you are welcome to use this footage for your documentary. I hope it can be shared with and enjoyed by many other people.
Great footage!
Thanks for sharing this video! I live in Dayton and enjoyed seeing a lot of familiar places. Some things have surely changed, but overall, it’s still a great place to be.
Recognize a lot of the places in this film . Very nice video transfer!
Fantastic footage! I had no idea there were color camcorders back in 1947.
16mm Kodachrome film!
There use to be a lot of Germans living in that area. I grewup close to Dayton. Was born in 56 at Wright Patterson AFB.
Though I've never been to USA, I would like to visit midwestern cities, among them the most desirable spot is Dayton OH. I'd love to visit the birthplace of Aviation museum!
From East Dayton and Im familiar with the Kettering/Oakwood area. Loved the film! Can you advise me on the conversion from the 16mm? Professionally converted? Possibly equipment used to transfer? Average cost of conversion? I have a tote full of family 16mm from the 40's-60's and wish to convert and save for the future. Thank you in advance!
Its funny how some of the things I can place yet others are so different it has you going,where's that???
It would be cool to do an overlay of then and now!
That view of downtown from Woodland Cemetary hasn't changed.
I'd love to use this in a documentary. Is there a way to reach you directly about that?
Lived there till I was 50 then closer to my Son in the South. I miss the North every day.
This is do amazing!!
Liked scene of Frankenstein Castle.
Not being from the area I had now idea what that was, but doing a quick Google search I see what you mean! It looks like the roof is no longer on the top.
@@timothylarson3558 yeah it got struck by lighting when two teenagers we're taking shelter from a storm in the 50s or 60s I'm not sure. One died so they removed the roof. Was probably acting as a lightning rod
Sure don’t see Chemtrails in the sky back then, beautiful blue sky’s with real clouds
I understand what you're saying, but chemtrails is the conspiracy theory term while contrails is the correct term. Just so people don't think you're a nut!
@@peterhaverland699 ok then, so what are they spraying out of the planes for the last 30 years? Sure ain’t steam from the plane motor, wake up
Yes....you are correct.....artificial clouds.... Come from planes...spread quickly and take a Blue God sky and make it hideously grey....then it usually rains. I was born too late...sigh
There were contrails in the sky back then (1940s). Any high-altitude flying jet or reciprocating engine aircraft can produce them given ice crystals in the air that are converted to steam by those engines.
@@yadyad1966 😂😂😂
Neat
Where was the zoo?
What’s with the pictures of Hitler and Nazi Germany were these supposed to be like souvenirs brought back home by US troops?
It is my assumption that they were brought back from the war and documented on film for some reason.
Is the title of this, "The Elite Posers" ? Pretty disgusting to me.... Thanks for showing this, You Tube....., that's a like
I feel like air was diffrent back then, all of this technology and satellites in the space are making this world heavy. You can almost feel how much easyer was back then by watching this. 3:40
Dayton had a zoo in 1947?!
7:23 Hitler surprise
I mean the world did just go through ww2....
@@spoom937 Yeah, it was a warm, fuzzy, nostalgic video until Hitler's vacation photos lol
@@JeremyKey80 you know he was actually elected to power than had a Times magazine cover before he turned dictator and started killing, burning books and ruining his country... followed by him almost taking over the world!
@@JeremyKey80 not saying that these people were idolizing him... but this was a different time! Just like how you used to see pictures of Bin Laden years ago... same thing bro! Don't take it to heart.
@@spoom937 Good point! No worries.
The skies were so blue! Before chem trails…. I wish I was born in the 40s
Ahh the Whiteness Love It
Excuse me?
@@peterhaverland699 It’s the thumbs up that the comment drew for me!
I’ve now lived in the south longer than I did in Dayton and people down here find it hard to believe when I tell them just how many prejudiced idiots operate in that area of the country, too!