In 1957, Frisch’s Big Boy announced plans to build first downtown Dayton restaurant at 135-137 W. First St. They took a 10-year lease on the property at the corner of First and Wilkinson Streets.

Dayton, Ohio skyline with the Great Miami River and a large water fountain in the foreground. Getty. City growth is not inevitable. Since the 1950s, several cities across the Midwest have suffered ...

Dayton was a place to send missionaries — not a place missionaries were sent from. Later sections of Weckesser’s notes give a fuller picture of Catholic life in Dayton. He includes short histories of ...