From dirt roads to modern Dayton: Lester Ray Wisegerber reflects on 95 years

From dirt roads to modern Dayton: Lester Ray Wisegerber reflects on 95 years

At 95 years old, Lester Ray Wisegerber has watched Dayton grow from a small farming community with dirt streets and little traffic into a bustling city where motorists sometimes spend more time waiting on trains than traveling through town. He remembers when children could ride horses across Dayton, when the Rio Theater drew moviegoers downtown, when rice fields stretched across land now occupied by subdivisions, and when nearly everybody knew t…