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This historic downtown building began with, ‘Build me a damn bank’
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Preservationists select 10 of Dayton’s ‘most endangered properties’ to try to save
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The Dayton museum history you didn’t know: When there was a zoo at the Art Institute
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Beer cost WHAT at the first Oktoberfest? What you should know about its boozy history
An aeriel view of the 1988 Dayton Air Show. DAYTON DAILY NEWS ARCHIVES
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Air Show history: Today’s Centerpoint Energy Dayton Air Show started out as an “Air Fair”
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Americana Festival: Celebrating the Fourth for more than 40 years
The Dayton International Peace Museum, located at 208 W. Monument Ave. in downtown Dayton inside the historic Isaac Pollack House, is America's only brick and mortar peace museum. TOM GILLIAM/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
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Dayton museum wins major award for ‘Peace Accords’ exhibit
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Historic horse barn shares stories of the Montgomery County Fairgrounds
Workers erect a carousel in preparation for the 1991 Montgomery County Fair. DAYTON DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE
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Prized pigs, elephant ears and canned beans: Looking back at the Montgomery County Fair
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Leo the Lion, standing over Dayton since 1908
The Cheez-It cracker was invented in Dayton in 1921 by the Greene & Greene Company. This snack can, circa 1929, is on display at Carillon Historical Park. LISA POWELL / DAYTON DAILY NEWS
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It’s National Cheese Day!: Let’s celebrate the Cheez-It! The crispy crackers were...
The original caption dated July 7, 1964 reads: "Marking their 11th anniversary this month are the Vic Cassano-Mom Donisi Pizza houses which have grown from a one-store operation to a $3 million a year business. Above, Cassano and Mrs. John (Mom) Donisi, his mother-in-law, are shown in the central commissary from which ingredients are distributed to their pizza outlets." DAYTON DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE
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Dayton’s first pizza chain: Cassano’s and the taste of success
Salem Mall reopening, 1981. (Dayton Daily News archive)
COMMENTARY
Flashback Friday: Dayton’s Gen Xers share their favorite mall memories
Laser light shows at RiverScape filled the night sky in the first years of the opening of the new downtown Dayton river front park. STAFF FILE PHOTO
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RiverScape opened 20 years ago, the start of ‘something gorgeous, vibrant and contagious’
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FLASHBACK: Read what Ann Heller wrote when the King Cole closed its doors in 1998
Bill Stolz, reference and outreach archivist at Wright State University Libraries Special Collections and Archives, documented his own experiences during the pandemic in words and photographs, including photos of working from home, empty parking lots and "paper gold" - hard to find toilet paper. BILL STOLZ / CONTRIBUTED
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Donate your pandemic stories, ‘that once in a lifetime event we’re all participants in’
Mac-A-Cheek was built by Abram Sanders Piatt, a farmer and soldier in the Civil War. He and his brother, Donn Piatt, built a pair of homes in West Liberty called the Piatt Castles. LISA POWELL / STAFF
Lifestyles
Explore an Ohio castle and its historic artifacts during free events this month
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Funk innovator from Hamilton killed 22 years ago in one of the region’s most shocking...
In the late 1950s, Dayton singing group the El Vireos, (left to right) Charles Hill, Frank William, Bing Davis, Levoy Fredericks and Sonny Jackson, were an integrated group with an all-white backing band. CONTRIBUTED
MUSIC HISTORY
Bing Davis talks about his musical past: ‘One of those doo-wop things’
Elvis Presley brought down the house at the University of Dayton Arena April 7, 1972. DAYTON DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE / WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVE
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‘Bedecked and bejeweled,’ Elvis Presley packed UD Arena 49 years ago
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Pete Rose’s most nervous moment, and other Reds Opening Day history quirks
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