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Diamond Club North Dayton - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS driver62 175 posts May 27, 2009 8:10 AM After the Diamond Club closed, it became a restaurant by the name of Yesterdays After they closed, another bar opened called Diamond Lils I was told the lady who owned Diamond Lils also owned the Diamond Club but I'm not sure how true that is Then it became an AMVETS post
Dayton Nightclubs in the 70s-80s - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS The Diamond Club in the late 60's and very early 70's was THE PLACE to be Wed and Sun nights $3 to get in and all the beer you could drink Wayne Cockran and the CC Riders was one of the house bands They had some WILD mini skirt contests I watched the Apollo Moon Landing from there
Dayton Nightclubs in the 70s-80s - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS 2 posts Jun 30, 2014 3:16 AM Back in the 70s is when Gilly's had lots of real Jazz musicians from around the world McCoy Tyner was a regular there as were many others With the concerts and social balls always being held at Wamplers and O'Hara Arena Wow, Dayton was the town to party in gjh2007
Bands in Dayton - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS Soul Inc was one of the finest groups in the mid sixties Dayton offered, They played with Fats Domino, The Dovels, Bobby Goldsborough, They opened for many international acts that came to the Dayton Area They played at the Diamond Club and Forest Park regularly and the show they put on was first rate Kind of a Memphis sould sound Settler36
Who Was the First Person Group You Saw in Concert? One bit of music trivia is an interview with Little Richard I read in which he recalled breaking in a new guitarist at the Diamond Club and getting impatient because the guy was playing rifts directly from his old records Richard said something like, "Son, you're playing THEN I want to hear NOW!" So Jimi Hendrix cranked it up and let loose
Dayton in the 60s and 70s - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS The lady who owned the Diamond Club was Jennie Krynzel Later, after the Diamond Club changed their name to Yesterday's Resturant (Home of the Butter Knife Prime), I worked there as a waitress, bartender, hostess, etc She was a super lady She brought in her son, Dan Krynzel who managed the place with his wife Tina Sooz
Daytons history in bottles - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS Dayton's history in bottles You should ask around for the location of " the bottle farm " It was somewhere in around the west side My father took me to see it several times in the 40s very early 50s There were absolutely thousands of bottles outside - on shelves, fence posts, hanging from trees, etc Wherever it was, I'm sure that when the
NW of Dayton - Greenbriar YMCA Daycamp Anyone ever go to the daycamp at Greenbriar YMCA on Diamond Mill Road? It was a wonderful facility with a pool that had a diving board section, there was a handball court, a large screened-in picnic area attached to the snack bar locker room building Through the 1960's and probably into the mid-70's they had a summer daycamp for 8 - 12 year
Best Concert in Dayton? - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes and Brownsville Station often visited Dayton as well I took my oldest son to a Rush Concert at Nutter in the early ninetys Nugent came to Wright State in 1970 and played to a packed house of about 400 people Those were the days I paid $4 50 for general admission
Belmont - DAYTON HISTORY BOOKS I used to throw rocks at glass bottles floating in the giant puddles created after heavy rains Bulldozers would work the trash into the ground and there was a huge mound of gravel just east of Diamond 5 for their use That side of the park was thick woods, some areas more pristine than others, crisscrossed with trails blazed by wandering Boomers