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. 1-7, 1976.
More stories from the archives
• Who was Thomas Cloud? Meet the namesake of Thomas Cloud Park in Huber Heights
• 7 Black women who helped shape Dayton’s history
• Convenience before cars: the age of the interurban railway
Did you know?
Here are a few great Dayton history facts we’ve learned from our stories:
• When Dayton’s Civil War Soldiers Monument was first unveiled in 1884, an estimated 100,000 people attended the ceremony—which was more than double Dayton’s entire population of 40,000 at the time.
• When the Grant-Deneau Tower opened in 1969, the 331-foot tower was the first high-rise built in Dayton since 1931.
• Before Marion Glass opened Marion’s Piazza he was a “scrappy local kid” who sold peanuts and soda at baseball games and later organized a group of boys to sell ice cream bars from bicycles.
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