DANIEL DUTTON:  

WAITED QUITE A WHILE TO FIND LITTLE MISS PERFECT. I WAS 27..…..HAD MY OWN 3 STORY SHANTZ BUILT HOUSE IN UD GHETO AT 500 BLOCK OF IRVING AVE WITH 23 CAR GARAGE ,15 UPSTAIRS 8 DOWN STAIRS VIA 2ND DRIVE . MOSTLY CONVERTIBLE CARS. AND YES THERE WERE CORVETTES. BUICKS ,CADILLACS ,JAGUARS. AND OTHER EXOTICS .I STARTED BUYING THEM IMMEDIATELY AFTER GRADUATION ..UPSTAIRS ..WAS A COMPLETELY PRIVACY FENCED BACK YARD THAT SEALED OFF THE COURTYARD OF THE STABLES / GARAGES .,THE STABLES WERE BUILT WITH SOLID RED BRICKS MADE IN DAYTON, AND RED TILE ROOF.,. ALL THIS USED TO BE ADAM SHANTZ HORSE STABLES AND HIS JOCKEY / STABLEMASTER LIVED IN THE HOUSE IN THE EARLY 1850s……… THE SCHANTZ FAMILY HAD AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE MONTGOMERY CO. FAIRGROUNDS HORSE TRACK AT THE SCHANTZ MANSIONS AT 200 AND 400 BLOCK OF SHANTZ AVE. .MY HOUSE AND STABLES /GARAGES HAD CONCRETE FLOORS AND SWING OPEN DOORS. HAD BEEN PART OF THEIR PROPERTY ,WAY BACK WHEN SCHANTZ FIRST BECAME PROSPEROUS ..[[ TO GET RICH , THE SCHANTZ FAMILY HAD THE LARGEST BOTTLED WATER SERVICE IN DAYTON AS DAYTON ONLY HAD 8 MILES OF CITY WATER SYSTEM IN 1869 !!!! ]] ((( KEEP IN MIND THERE WERE NO TRUCKS SO HORSES WERE NEEDED TO PULL THE WAGONS. SO THE SCHANTZ FAMILY HAD TEAMS OF HORSES TO DELIVER THE WATER))) AND ADAM ALSO HAD TROTTERS .,THE TRACK WAS 100 FT WIDE AND 600FT IN LENGTH. ADAM WOULD TIME HIS HORSES ON HIS TRACK ,THESE HORSES WERE THE TROTTERS ..THEN GO DOWN TO THE FAIRGROUNDS AND TIME SOMEONE ELSES HORSE AND JOCKEY ,THEN MAKE A WAGER ON A RACE WITH THE OWNER , HAVE HIS JOCKEY SAND BAG AND LOOSE THE FIRST RACE.. THEN ENTICE THE COMPETITOR TO LET THEM RACE AGAIN FOR A MUCH LARGER SUM OF MONEY AND CLEAN THEIR CLOCK ... THUS..TAKE LARGE SUMS OF MONEY FROM THE OTHER PARTY....COMMON PRACTICE BY SCHANTZ……….NOTE ( I DID THE SAME THING AT DIXIE ELECTRIC, IN THE LATE SEVENTIES , WITH EXOTIC CARS .,MY FAVORITE BEING PANTERAS , I HAD TWO , ONE BRILLIANT BLUE AND ONE BLACK OR ONE OF MY PLENTIFUL CORVETTES, ONE GOLD 69, ONE WHITE 70, A RED 70 ROADSTER LTI , AND. ONE BROWN 74 ,,All CORVETTES WERE 4 SPEEDS ,THE PANTERAS WERE 5 SPEEDS,,THESE CARS WERE ALL VERY QUICK ESPECIALLY THE PANTERAS . THOSE 351 CLEVELANDS WERE ABSOLUTELY STREET KILLERS ,. I NEVER FREQUENTED THE DIXIE CLUB TO DANCE OR PICK UP WOMEN , WAS ONLY INSIDE TWICE , I JUST WENT THERE TO FIND A RACE ) ANYWAYS .,.,.,.SCHANTZ COULD DO THIS BECAUSE HIS TRACK WAS AS I STATED IDENTICAL TO THE FAIRGOUNDS TRACK IN EVERY ASPECT .... THIS WAS BETWEEN SCHANTZ AVENUE AND IRVING AVE.. THE EASTERN BOUNDRY BEING SORENTO AVE DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM STABLES ,[[ THIS WAY THE HORSES ENTERED THE TRACK JUST LIKE AT THE FAIRGROUNDS , ON THE BEGINING OF THE BACKS...Expand for more