In honor of this historic milestone, the DDN is taking a look back 50 years in a weekly series highlighting what was happening in Dayton around the 200th anniversary, back in 1976.
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For this edition of Vintage Dayton, we look back at the week of Feb. 22-28, 1976.
More stories from the archives
• 5 things to love about the epic Dayton chocolate-maker Esther Price
• In its day, Dayton’s Union Station was a “handsome palace”
• 25 banks in 2 years: Dayton’s prolific robbery ‘crime family’ of the 1970s
Did you know?
Here are a few great Dayton history facts we’ve learned from our stories:
• The Golden Lamb, founded in 1803 in Lebanon, is Ohio’s oldest continuously operating business.
• The Town & Country Shopping Center was the first shopping center in the area to have illuminated signs and only the second in the entire nation to feature an illuminated parking lot.
• In 1915, Mikesell was manufacturing approximately 95% of all potato chips sold in the city of Dayton.
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