Download or read book Dayton in the 20th Century written by Tom Dunham and published by . This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laugh, cry, and learn to love 15 women as they dish the dirt on topics ranging from aging in general, life's biggest regret, sex at 40, God and religion, and of course perennial favorites; plastic surgery, men our mothers fashion and menopause! Read how several of the women interviewed discovered previously untapped inner-strength in order to overcome years of self-esteem issues, infidelity, abuse and divorce. Learn why they describe turning 40 as freeing and why they all feel stronger, healthier, sexier, more confident and happier than ever before. Peruse their personal goals for the coming year (and make some of your own) and their hopes and dreams for the future. Most importantly realize for yourself that age is a state of mind, and that 40 is indeed fabulous!
Download or read book Dayton written by Curt Dalton and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and near destruction of Dayton in the early 20th century is chronicled in this visual postcard history. The postcards showcase some of the city's unique commercial buildings, hotels, churches, and residences, many now long gone due to urban renewal and highway construction in the 1960s and 1970s. Landmarks featured include the National Soldiers' Home, built for veterans of the Civil War in 1868, and there is an entire chapter dedicated to the events of the 1913 flood that forever changed the face of the city. Over 200 postcard images were selected from the Dayton Metro Library and a number of privately held collections.
Download or read book Grand Eccentrics written by Mark Bernstein and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the nineteenth century turned, the small-town America in which Huck Finn fished was yielding to an age of industry; of a new form of energy, electricity; of a new toy, the automobile. It was a plastic age, as uncertain as our own, a time When the future was ready to be shaped. Grand Eccentrics is a group biography of a half dozen individuals-- Orville and Wilbur Wright, Charles Kettering, John H. Patterson, Arthur Morgan, and James Cox-- who explored those new possibilities. They collaborated, bankrolled each other's undertakings, founded and joined the same clubs, tried to run each other out of town. And in all of this, they did much to create the American 20th century, the America that is now yielding to the rise of the electronic technologies and a global marketplace, creating an uncertainty like that to which, a century ago, these men gave form.
Download or read book Dayton written by Adam A. Millsap and published by Trillium. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines underlying factors behind the rise and decline of Dayton, Ohio, an archetypal Rust-Belt city, ultimately proposing a plan for revival.
Download or read book The Story of Dayton written by Charlotte Reeve Conover and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed history of Dayton, Ohio, from its founding up to the late 19th century, including its growth, development, and notable figures and events. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Building the Ivory Tower written by LaDale C. Winling and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the Ivory Tower examines the role of American universities as urban developers and their changing effects on cities in the twentieth century. LaDale C. Winling explores philanthropy, real estate investments, architectural landscapes, and urban politics to reckon with the tensions of university growth in our cities.
Download or read book Rucker Remembers written by Frederick R. Ridolf and published by . This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning at the opening of the 20th century as Dayton, Ohio was becoming an industrial powerhouse, the text initially focuses on the city's economic growth and the changing and vibrant downtown made possible by a growing industrial base. Although the city was victimized by an early lack of planning and continued poor housing, the principal theme of the book is that the overarching set back to Dayton was its failure to adequately annex surrounding territory. Consequently, the city's small physical growth led to significant losses of its industry and wealth, as companies settled outside the city boundaries. In this context both the downtown and the neighborhoods declined. Moreover, Dayton's failure to expand meant that it could not plan over a wide area, which led to private developers controlling the direction of growth, to the dominance of sprawl, and to the balkanization of governments. But if Dayton was not to regain its industrial strength or to meaningfully to increase its size, it could still become a better though a different city. The persistent interest and drive by both the public and private sectors to improve neighborhoods and the business, housing and cultural life of the downtown forms a second theme of the book.
Download or read book Dayton Barristers in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jewish Community of Dayton written by Marshall Weiss and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the arrival of approximately a dozen German-Jewish immigrants in the 1840s, the Jewish community of Dayton has actively contributed to the betterment and welfare of the "Gem City." Jewish Community of Dayton recalls forgotten stories of Arthur Welsh, the first Jewish airplane pilot; orphan turned social reformer Rabbi David Lefkowitz; Golda Meir's impassioned 1948 visit on behalf of the new Jewish state; and opera star Jan Peerce giving the final performance of his career with the acclaimed Beth Abraham Youth Chorale. This book illustrates how Dayton's Jews have responded and adapted to challenges ranging from the Great Flood of 1913 to resettlement of immigrants throughout the 20th century, from sacrifices for the state of Israel to activism in the civil rights era.
Download or read book Country Music written by Dayton Duncan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rich and colorful story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the upcoming eight-part film series to air on PBS in September 2019 This gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South, where people sang to themselves and to their families at home and in church, and where they danced to fiddle tunes on Saturday nights. With the birth of radio in the 1920s, the songs moved from small towns, mountain hollers, and the wide-open West to become the music of an entire nation--a diverse range of sounds and styles from honky tonk to gospel to bluegrass to rockabilly, leading up through the decades to the music's massive commercial success today. But above all, Country Music is the story of the musicians. Here is Hank Williams's tragic honky tonk life, Dolly Parton rising to fame from a dirt-poor childhood, and Loretta Lynn turning her experiences into songs that spoke to women everywhere. Here too are interviews with the genre's biggest stars, including the likes of Merle Haggard to Garth Brooks to Rosanne Cash. Rife with rare photographs and endlessly fascinating anecdotes, the stories in this sweeping yet intimate history will captivate longtime country fans and introduce new listeners to an extraordinary body of music that lies at the very center of the American experience.
Download or read book Dayton s Department Store written by Mary Firestone and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dayton's department store, grand in scope and company spirit, enjoyed a century in the limelight as one of the nation's leading retailers. Its disappearance has been a challenge to the community, but it is a sign of the times, as many other urban department stores have shared the same fate. Originally called Goodfellows, the store got its start in 1902 when real estate investor and banker George Draper Dayton became a silent partner in the business. He soon took over the company but had to learn the ropes of retail as he went along since he had never intended to become a merchant. The early years were not without struggles, but Dayton's department store was nevertheless an instant hit with its daylight-filled aisles, generous return policies, and quality merchandise. The Minneapolis store became a vibrant self-contained community with a post office, newspaper, infirmary, laundry, bakery, and even a college. "Daytonians" worked and played together around the clock, in baseball and bowling teams, glee clubs, and orchestras. Over time, the reach of Dayton's extended far into the upper Midwest, with stores in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, including the development of the nation's first indoor mall.
Download or read book A Sketch of the History of the City of Dayton Classic Reprint written by Maskell E. Curwen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Sketch of the History of the City of Dayton At the commencement of the present century, a few log cabins, on the south bank of the Miami, hemmed in on all sides by the primeval forests, where Indian hunters pursued thelr game as free as do the Camanches on the plains of New Mexico, alone showed the Spot, where now stands one of the most beautiful cities of Ohio. Its rapid growth, in the midst of profound peace and almost unbroken prosperity, is marked by few of those 1nc1 dents which the dignity of history thinks worthy of notice. I propose therefore only, in this very hasty sketch, to rescue from oblivion the memory of a few former incidents, which may ih terest our own citizens, and which, with those who witnessed them, are rapidly being lost to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book What Dreams We Have written by Ann Honious and published by Eastern National Park and Monument Association. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 20th century, Dayton, Ohio had become a thriving city, alive with industry and innovation. Ann Honious' new book sets the history-making events of the first flight in the context of the Wright brothers' home life in Dayton: their personal friendships, their domestic chores, their small business enterprises, and their daily work. 'What Dreams We Have' captures the Wrights' story beautifully, with intimate details that humanize the famous pair. Ms. Honious has placed them in the neighborhood where they lived and died, providing Dayton's new national historical park with a valuable resource that explains and celebrates the lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright and their friend, renowned poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
Download or read book Lost Dayton Ohio written by Andrew Walsh and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Dayton's retail, industrial, entertainment, and residential sites and how they have changed over time.
Download or read book Dayton s Children written by Mark Martel and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History repeats. Today's headlines of NSA cyberwar, missing jetliners, GM ignition scandals and environmental disaster echo back to WWII codebreaking, Murphy's Law, Colonel Deeds' Barn Gang and the epic bad luck of Thomas Midgley, Jr. For over 100 years remarkable, intertwined individuals have reshaped the way we live our lives, from the keys in our pockets to the water we drink and the air we breathe. Dayton was the Silicon Valley of its time, and these "grand eccentrics" in the small Midwestern city of Dayton, Ohio changed our whole world. Wherever we live we're all Dayton's Children. The book's twenty profiles include... * The folksy "Boss Ket," second only to Thomas Edison in inventions * The legless black man who bootstrapped himself to the sky * The woman who beat out Amelia Earhart * The nutty cash register tycoon who rescued half a city * Plus an insider view of the swanky club that corralled them under one roof Their legacy includes an array of innovation styles worth reviving. No two worked the same way, not even Wilbur and Orville Wright. Mark Bernstein, noted author of Grand Eccentrics, contributes chapters on Charles Kettering, Arthur Morgan and John H. Patterson. LCD inventor John Janning and 1913 flood survivor Charlie Adams help tell their own tales. Kate Hagenbuch Martel conducted two interviews while Lauren Heaton of the Yellow Springs News profiled Hardy Trolander. Mark Martel wrote the balance of Dayton's Children and illustrated each chapter, drawing upon his career in advertising. A first-time author, Martel is also a third-generation history buff. Praise for Dayton's Children: The book humanizes the larger-than-life men and women from Dayton who helped create the world of today. I really love the fact that you don't have to have an engineer's degree to understand and enjoy Dayton's Children. It should be required reading for every high school student in Dayton... and beyond! -Curt Dalton, Dayton historian and author To say Dayton's Children "changed the world" may be the understatement of the 20th and 21st centuries. My great-granduncles, Orville and Wilbur Wright, are two sterling examples of Dayton sons who pioneered a new technology, aerospace, that would one day deliver mankind from our earth to the moon. -Amanda Wright Lane, great-grandniece of the Wright brothers Martel tells of the Wright brothers' accomplishments during the inventive heyday of Dayton, Ohio. A century ago, the new Engineers Club of Dayton created a nurturing atmosphere for men and women of vision. Is Dayton willing to reinvent itself? -Dan Patterson, aviation history photographer Dayton's Children reminds its readers that plenty of historically important people who weren't named Wright had strong links to the Gem City. -Edward Roach, Historian at Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Dayton's Children is available at Dayton History's Carillon Park, Amazon.com and other retailers. Based on the website DaytonInnovationLegacy.org, with 50% new material and all-original illustrations "A few minutes spent searching other much better funded websites dealing with Ohio state and local history will underscore just how good DaytonInnovationLegacy.org really is." -Tom Crouch, Senior Curator, National Air and Space Museum
Download or read book Eleanor Dayton written by Nathaniel W. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Early Dayton With Important Facts and Incidents from the Founding of the City of Dayton Ohio to the Hundredth Anniversary 1796 1896 written by Robert W. 1819-1891 Steele and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
