1 hour ago, RetiredFan said:

Nice project.  Have they considered parking?  Will there be a parking lot?  Was always an issue at the old stadium. 

Street parking will be the main source, particularly up 3rd Avenue, 4th Avenue, and maybe 5th Avenue. Parking lot space is small between the high school and elementary school. With everything going where it is, there won’t be capabilities for new parking lots. Also keeping in mind that Greendevil Rd will not be driven on once the project is done. There will also be plenty parking on Berry Avenue by St Bernard Church, behind the fence of the baseball field, and around where the older location of the Dayton Eagles used to be. 

On 4/25/2024 at 11:22 AM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

 

Always heard that the Greendevils always watered the field to keep faster teams from scorching them.?  Don’t remember either Skip or Tom Ferguson  having any problems smacking us in the mouth and running away from us for hard earned yards.

Here is a link for the architectural plans for anyone interested:

 

https://portal.ksba.org/public/Meeting/Attachments/DisplayAttachment.aspx?AttachmentID=778607

So based on the design plan, there does not seem to be a locker room for either team. I assume both teams will prepare/change in the field house?

1 hour ago, AirRaidCoach said:

So based on the design plan, there does not seem to be a locker room for either team. I assume both teams will prepare/change in the field house?

That’s what I would think unless the school locker rooms are used, which aren’t far away.

On 4/25/2024 at 11:22 AM, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

 

The video is actually incorrect when it says the field opened in 1937. Olin W. Davis Field was dedicated on October 26, 1934. Here's a newspaper article from October 27, 1934 about the dedication and football game that took place the evening before.

14 hours ago, hrcarrier said:

Here is a link for the architectural plans for anyone interested:

 

https://portal.ksba.org/public/Meeting/Attachments/DisplayAttachment.aspx?AttachmentID=778607

1 hour ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

The video is actually incorrect when it says the field opened in 1937. Olin W. Davis Field was dedicated on October 26, 1934. Here's a newspaper article from October 27, 1934 about the dedication and football game that took place the evening before.

Thank you for sharing this.

Good picture of Jack Moreland at the groundbreaking, Dayton’s former superintendent from longer ago. Jack Moreland was a BIG part of Dayton during that time, before, and after, as well as for a lot more in Northern Kentucky. Speaking of a neat picture from before, the picture he’s holding is the groundbreaking for Dayton’s current high school. How things have changed since.

1 hour ago, hrcarrier said:

Good picture of Jack Moreland at the groundbreaking, Dayton’s former superintendent from longer ago. Jack Moreland was a BIG part of Dayton during that time, before, and after, as well as for a lot more in Northern Kentucky. Speaking of a neat picture from before, the picture he’s holding is the groundbreaking for Dayton’s current high school. How things have changed since.

Really good guy who has made a major impact in the N. Ky. river cities.

Even during the times when Dayton has been the absolute pits of high school football in Northern Kentucky, their old stadium seemed like such a hostile environment and the kind of place where you really had to be ready to strap it on when you came to play a game as a visitor.

I've always envied programs like Dayton, Bellevue, Newport and Ludlow who had stadiums steeped in all the history they had. Their teams walked onto the field knowing they were standing on the shoulders of giants simply with the action of stepping onto their home field. Even if their players don't feel that today, I can't help but feel that part of that history will be completely lost once Davis Stadium falls to the progress of time.

It's hell growing old, isn't it?

7 hours ago, Voice of Reason said:

Really good guy who has made a major impact in the N. Ky. river cities.

No doubt, I don’t know if the majority of the development that’s happened down since it began would have happened without him.