Remembering Western New York

[@colleenperez5607]

My parents would take us to see the Christmas windows at AM&A's. Just so magical!

[@5ch3nk]

Thanks for the upload. I'm only in my 30s, but the older I get the more I love learning about the history of Buffalo. Wishing we can turn back things to our glory days.

[@AlfonseGambino]

Me too brother. I was born at the end of the glory days. As a child my dad used to take us downtown on Christmas to see all the animatronics in the windows. It was like heaven to me. The older I get and the more I see this stuff, the more I feel I was born in the wrong time period. Technology destroyed everything. Now with a whole generation being raised by tic tok instead of parents, I feel it's going to crumble even more in the next 50 years.

[@tciesla]

I practically lived at Sattler's as a child because my mother worked there , for 35 years!!!

[@bobashby3106]

Some of my memories go back further then those pictured in the video. Offerman Stadium, where the Bisons played before War Memorial, was a Triple A analog to the major league "jewelbox" type stadiums. Intimate, a Fenway-like green monster in left, an Ebbets Field-like concrete wall in right, with houses across the street with second-floor porches from which people sometimes watched the games, in the way that used to be the case at Wrigley Field. There was a high scoreboard in right center that had never had a home run hit over it until Luke Easter did it three tines in, I think, 1957 (I saw the least impressive of the three). In the mid-50s, there will still a lot of former Negro League players in the International League; I saw Stachel Paige pitch three scoreless innings in relief for Miami in 1957 in Offerman. War Memorial was a football oval, ill-suited to baseball, much like the Los Angeles Colesium, only with right rather than left being the short field (about 250 feet down the line, with a screen). It may have looked impressive in The Natural when the Redford character hit magnificent home runs over the right field roof; I recall Don Mincher (who later had only a modest MLB career) doing it three times in one game.

[@sherylchapman4168]

I remember the old rock pile had no parking so people were parking a mile or two down the side streets during Bills games. I remember hearing the crowds cheering several blocks away, and the Goodyear Blimp making an appearance when the game was on t.v. My husband went to several Bisons games during the filming of the Natural. The country scenes wear filmed in Stafford, NY, not far from Batavia. Who can forget Parkside Candies? The car scenes in the movie “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” were filmed on the NYS Thruway not far from Buffalo. Wurlitzer organs were built in North Tonawanda.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thank you for sharing!

[@frankbaker2861]

I was born in Buffalo in 1948. My dad was a bus driver in the city. He was also the Caretaker of the National Guard Armory, around 1950.

[@shanghunter7697]

Buffalo native here sir and hope you're well, the National Guard Armory is also a STELLAR building itself. Happy holidays and best wishes to you fellow old timer !!

[@paulpetock2836]

I was also born in 48 in Buffalo . my Dad was a Buffalo police officer after serving in WW2 .

[@jimfesta8981]

I too was born in Buffalo in 1948 and my dad also drove bus for NFT. I loved Buffalo as a kid. Go school 78.

[@Def1nitelyn0tac0p]

In 50 years, people will be referring to us right now as the "good old days", and we don't even know it's happening! We can still go into the stores, we can still go out with our family and friends and have drinks and play miniature golf or anything! Cherish what you have today or you will certainly miss it tomorrow.

[@mariasterlace6304]

Absolutely true 👍

[@ampman5357]

My grandfather would tell me “kid, I’d burn a quart of oil in my 39 Plymouth driving from Mt. Morris to Buffalo. But on Friday night, it was assholes to elbows on Main Street in Buffalo.” I’m sure it was a sight to behold….people gotta remember. This is when Bethlehem Steel was running full force. Truly a time of flourishing, economically. What a time to be alive!

[@phyllisdiller1996]

Total shithood now!

[@joijaxx]

What a saying LOL. I bet your grandpop was a hoot, I love people that are so colorful in their language. It’s a lost art.

[@ampman5357]

@@joijaxx he is a hoot! Given me everyone of his hundreds of “one liners” he’s one of 3 of my favorite human beings!

[@joijaxx]

@@ampman5357 how wonderful, lucky you!

[@brianfollendorf168]

Once again, why was I born to this generation when I love so many generations of the past?

[@AlfonseGambino]

The old auditorium was the best. I remember as a child my whole family used to get in the car and go drive downtown to see all the animatronics in the windows. Everything has crumbled since then. Social media and the Internet will be the downfall of society.

[@cowgoesmoo3850]

Was born and raised in Batavia, NY. I love my western ny community, and Especially out own weather patterns thst almost noone else experiences loll

[@PapaKevin-AIFN-]

My grandfather was born in buffalo 1918 my father was born here 1949 and I 1996 amazing to see this stuff grandfather taught at Kenmore highschool

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Glad you enjoyed the program.

[@paulpetock2836]

My Dad was born in 1917 in Buffalo , myself 48 , my grandfather in 1882 . It was a great town for me to grow up in .

[@jtomczak100]

Really do love living in the city

[@AlfonseGambino]

I'm only 44, but it makes me cry seeing this. Everything used to be so amazing. I caught the end of it, but downtown was still great at Christmas time as a child.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858]

I will be still an instant and go home. This world you seem to live in is not home to you. ²And somewhere in your mind you know that this is true. ³A memory of home keeps haunting you, as if there were a place that called you to return, although you do not recognize the voice, nor what it is the voice reminds you of. ⁴Yet still you feel an alien here, from somewhere all unknown. ⁵Nothing so definite that you could say with certainty you are an exile here. ⁶Just a persistent feeling, sometimes not more than a tiny throb, at other times hardly remembered, actively dismissed, but surely to return to mind again. 2. No one but knows whereof we speak. ²Yet some try to put by their suffering in games they play to occupy their time, and keep their sadness from them. ³Others will deny that they are sad, and do not recognize their tears at all. ⁴Still others will maintain that what we speak of is illusion, not to be considered more than but a dream. ⁵Yet who, in simple honesty, without defensiveness and self-deception, would deny he understands the words we speak? 3. We speak today for everyone who walks this world, for he is not at home. ²He goes uncertainly about in endless search, seeking in darkness what he cannot find; not recognizing what it is he seeks. ³A thousand homes he makes, yet none contents his restless mind. ⁴He does not understand he builds in vain. ⁵The home he seeks can not be made by him. ⁶There is no substitute for Heaven. ⁷All he ever made was hell. 4. Perhaps you think it is your childhood home that you would find again. ²The childhood of your body, and its place of shelter, are a memory now so distorted that you merely hold a picture of a past that never happened. ³Yet there is a Child in you Who seeks His Father’s house, and knows that He is alien here. ⁴This childhood is eternal, with an innocence that will endure forever. ⁵Where this Child shall go is holy ground. ⁶It is His Holiness that lights up Heaven, and that brings to earth the pure reflection of the light above, wherein are earth and Heaven joined as one. 5. It is this Child in you your Father knows as His Own Son. ²It is this Child Who knows His Father. ³He desires to go home so deeply, so unceasingly, His voice cries unto you to let Him rest a while. ⁴He does not ask for more than just a few instants of respite; just an interval in which He can return to breathe again the holy air that fills His Father’s house. ⁵You are His home as well. ⁶He will return. ⁷But give Him just a little time to be Himself, within the peace that is His home, resting in silence and in peace and love. 6. This Child needs your protection. ²He is far from home. ³He is so little that He seems so easily shut out, His tiny voice so readily obscured, His call for help almost unheard amid the grating sounds and harsh and rasping noises of the world. ⁴Yet does He know that in you still abides His sure protection. ⁵You will fail Him not. ⁶He will go home, and you along with Him. 7. This Child is your defenselessness; your strength. ²He trusts in you. ³He came because He knew you would not fail. ⁴He whispers of His home unceasingly to you. ⁵For He would bring you back with Him, that He Himself might stay, and not return again where He does not belong, and where He lives an outcast in a world of alien thoughts. ⁶His patience has no limits. ⁷He will wait until you hear His gentle Voice within you, calling you to let Him go in peace, along with you, to where He is at home and you with Him. 8. When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice. ²So poignantly He calls to you that you will not resist Him longer. ³In that instant He will take you to His home, and you will stay with Him in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that you are at home. 9. Rest with Him frequently today. ²For He was willing to become a little Child that you might learn of Him how strong is he who comes without defenses, offering only love’s messages to those who think he is their enemy. ³He holds the might of Heaven in His hand and calls them friend, and gives His strength to them, that they may see He would be Friend to them. ⁴He asks that they protect Him, for His home is far away, and He will not return to it alone. 10. Christ is reborn as but a little Child each time a wanderer would leave his home. ²For he must learn that what he would protect is but this Child, Who comes defenseless and Who is protected by defenselessness. ³Go home with Him from time to time today. ⁴You are as much an alien here as He. 11. Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence. ²Christ has called you friend and brother. ³He has even come to ask your help in letting Him go home today, completed and completely. ⁴He has come as does a little child, who must beseech his father for protection and for love. ⁵He rules the universe, and yet He asks unceasingly that you return with Him, and take illusions as your gods no more. 12. You have not lost your innocence. ²It is for this you yearn. ³This is your heart’s desire. ⁴This is the voice you hear, and this the call which cannot be denied. ⁵The holy Child remains with you. ⁶His home is yours. ⁷Today He gives you His defenselessness, and you accept it in exchange for all the toys of battle you have made. ⁸And now the way is open, and the journey has an end in sight at last. ⁹Be still an instant and go home with Him, and be at peace a while. A Course In Miracles (1975) Author: _Jesus Christ_

[@Paul-lm5gv]

Buffalo has a grest history with great architecture. But about missing the things that no longer exist like dwntown department stores, almost every American city went through this slide.

[@debra2700]

We now live in Raleigh NC and malls are being replaced with the old fashioned outdoor shopping centers or plazas as we called them. My first time at the Boulevard Mall as kid was magic for me because it got us out of the freezing cold and every mall in WNY was always busy. My favorite was Eastern Hills Mall. We seem to just keep going backwards from better things to things we couldn't wait to get away from.

[@Scoot7827]

Those where the great places Broadway market too!

[@angelawilliams9088]

I live in Buffalo NY, and have been since 1963. I remember store fronts like A&MAS putting all kinds of Christmas characters in the windows. It was magical!

[@maryduhon9769]

Every community thinks it's unique in how connected or quaint it is, literally feels its special

[@bobashby3106]

As to the Aud, my memories go back to the days of the AHL Buffalo Bisons, before the Sabres were created. At one point in the 1950s, they were owned by someone who, I think owned the local Pepsi-Cola bottling plant. As a result the team had a large Pepsi bottle cap on the front of their yellow sweaters. As a kid, it was great fun to sneak into the Aud for a game. There was a door to the right of the ticket booths in the lobby. It it was unlocked, I could open it, go downstairs into the basement, then come up the ramp used by the Zamboni and find a seat. When I first started watching Bisons games as a kid, the team had not yet acquired a Zamboni, and the ice was cleared by a group of skaters with shovels, and new ice laid from wheeled drums with squeege-like attachments. When the team first acquired a Zamboni, the equipment was a challenge to the driver, a short stubby man named Shorty LaLonde, never seen without a cigar. On one occasion, it ran out of gas between periods. On another, he spun it out and it crashed into the boards. It's easy to forget that, in the Original 6 era, AHL offered a high level of competition, with better play than that offered by the first group of NHL expansion teams in the years before the influx of European players.

[@donaldgarry5742]

MY wife and i drove to Buffalo,,,from Hamilton ont.,,,she was 16,,i was 17,,we spent most of the time in the downtown area,,,we were able to get into some bars,,[if you can believe it! ],,,we went to baseball games,,,,and later ,,football.,,,we went to most of the ,,''malls '' as and when they opened,,,,even when ,[we ] lost --3 cents on the dollar!,,,we are still 2-gether in our 90's,,,,we have stayed at most of your hotels,,,an eatin in most of your fast-food--specialty-eatery's,,,we have taken all of our grandsons to your parks and malls,,,grt memories ,,,,so sorry to see whats happening in your residential areas???,,,we still keep-accom-in though!

[@robertewalt7789]

Back in the day, the drinking age in NY State was 18, but it was 21 in Ontario. So many of our Canadian friends came over to partake.

[@debra2700]

If shopping downtown was so wonderful, the suburbs wouldn't have exploded the way they did. My grandmother started out at the AM&As store downtown and the minute they opened the store at Airport Plaza, she put in for a transfer because my grandparents lived on Beach Rd in Cheektowaga. When they moved to Amherst, she went to the Sheridan Drive store. The drive to downtown in horrible weather, the battle for parking and the other challenges of winter in Buffalo aren't mentioned here. As a child, I loved visiting my Grandmother when she was working downtown but years later she told me how hard it was for her.

[@christinemanka9411]

Buffalo’s Main Street at Christmas was so beautiful. I loved going there to shop. I especially remember AM& A’s the outside was so decorated & every window had an animated Christmas scene. I live near Cleveland now & I miss all the holidays in the good city of Buffalo.,Nothing like it nowadays. The beauty of Christmas is no longer.

[@debra2700]

@inemanka9411 AM&As didn't take Christmas beauty with them when they closed. Sounds to me like you're longing for the days when you were young. You're only a three hour drive from Buffalo and there's all kinds of holiday festivities and beauty still there. Go there if you can.

[@christinemanka9411]

@@debra2700 I get there as often as I can. I still have family out there.

[@debra2700]

@@christinemanka9411 I'm glad. We left Buffalo in '96 and moved to North Carolina and we do miss Buffalo terribly but the bad weather and high taxes were too much of a pain. I completely understand what you mean about missing the Christmases we remember but more than the windows, I remember my grandfather taking me downtown when I was little to see the AM&As windows and then going into the store because my grandmother worked in cosmetics and it's the memory of my grandparents that I truly treasure. My grandmother was so beautifully dressed and elegant and loved her job but today salesclerks in stores look like they just rolled out of bed and couldn't care less about their jobs. Times sure have changed, I agree.

[@hodgeelmwood8677]

The suburbs "exploded" because of white flight from the city, developers built cheap houses and people moved there, so it made sense to build shopping malls. The malls are now mostly closed, all except for the Walden Galleria, but it's days are probably numbered as well, since online shopping has become so popular. Things changed.

[@calee12]

I grew up about an hour/hour and a half east of Buffalo. Hearing the Upstate NY accent with some of the people in this video just cracked me up because when I moved after college, everyone used to pick on my accent. Now that I’ve been gone for 25 years, I can see why everyone used to get a kick out of my accent that over emphasized vowels 😆. Document pronounced as DAHHc-u-ment. Collar pronounced as CAHH-ler. ❤😊

[@brendad3570]

I can always tell an upstate NYer!

[@RobertBarnett-bg3gy]

My mom used to work at Jenns in Niagara Falls, NY. I still have he photo of me taken with Santa Claus - Christmas 1951. Things have changes sooooo much.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thank you for sharing.

[@davidhollfelder9940]

Back in the day, there were very many corner pubs, known to us (then) young guys as “old man’s bars”. The remember some of the old Buffalo brewed beers/breweries.

[@ericamcauliffe5121]

I miss it so so MUCH.

[@BNOBLE.]

Me to

[@esthertorres4541]

Boy I loved watching this how times have changed I want to go back

[@mischievousone1232]

The “Musicians club” was an amazing part of Buffalo, it’s shows how music binds us all,no matter what color,religion,economic status or political beliefs music brings us ALL together❤ Would’ve loved to see one of those “infamous” Sunday nights at the club back then! #Cool!

[@greg33770]

The good ole' days !

[@johnmeoff]

Christmas's downtown was a wounder land me & dad looking at trains running in store windows than stopping at a mom & pop butcher shop for Hungarian sausage for Christmas dinner

[@ronkarcher3086]

I still call it the aud 👍😁

[@karliann1]

I was born at Children's 1975, my beloved PApPap , RIP would take me downtown to look at the Christmas windows all the time. Miss those days 😢

[@Cyndimple]

I see they was talking about the rock powered with the old stadium used to be. It’s crazy cause I live right across the street from the rock pile and I’ve been watching them every day since I moved here September them fixing it tearing the rock pile down I don’t know what they gonna do with the park over there, but I just watch them every day and my little dog runs out and bark at the machines out thereI feel special living across the rock pile of history, historical history of Buffalo, New York

[@johnmeoff]

as a boy i i rember dad taking me to glenn park later a bills game at the rock pile

[@shanghunter7697]

Same here, my dad took me to my 1st bills game at the pile in 68

[@briand4754]

I was born in Buffalo, lived there till 17. Moved to south Florida where I've been for 35 years. I miss so many things about Buffalo. People are a lot more real there. Florida is the most phony look what i got people. Visited a few months ago. I like the revitalizing going on

[@debra2700]

I'm from Buffalo and we lived in Boynton Beach for five years and although it was beautiful and the weather was nice, the people were horrible especially the snowbirds who came down from NY City and places like Connecticut. They acted as if everyone needed to make room for them because they were only going to be in FL for the winter. We didn't want to go back to New York State because of the snow and high taxes so we settled on North Carolina where the people are like the people in Buffalo, friendly and down-to-earth.

[@briand4754]

@@debra2700 hi Debra. That's funny because I live in Boynton. There are nice things about this area, but you are absolutely right. The people that come here half the year are awful. Yes from New York and Jersey not to mention a few other places. I hate when someone asks me where I'm from and I say Buffalo and they say oh yeah New York. No! Buffalo is nothing like those rude self absorbed people. Florida has slowly turned into new York. And that sucks. Not to mention the heat

[@debra2700]

@@briand4754 Boynton Beach is beautiful. We loved going to The Two Georges and The Banana Boat and the Key Lime House in Lantana and looking at the Intercoastal all of those mansions and yachts we would never be able to afford but we could walk right into restaurants like Bimini Twist until the snowbirds showed up and then the line snaked around the whole building. We lived in Sun Valley East which was a 55 plus community because my mother left me her condo and the people were beyond nasty. We weren't 55 yet but it was willed to me so the Board couldn't force us to sell it. We lasted two years and sold it. We've toyed with the idea of moving back though because we do miss it but friends down there are telling us their homeowner's insurance is so high now that they're afraid they're going to have to move out of FL.

[@debra2700]

@@briand4754 If you're still checking on this channel, a friend of ours lives in Boynton and retired from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Dept. He and his wife have a paid for home and are struggling to try to keep it. His homeowner's insurance is through the roof, no pun intended and things are so expensive that they can't go to casual places like the Two George's and the Banana Boat. It's a shame that people who worked their whole lives might be forced out an area they love but he said they figure if the economy doesn't turn around in a few years, they will have to leave FL.

[@danielburke4113]

Great vid. Everything positive about Buffalo. Brings back good memories. Great city and great people.

[@michaelalejandro3267]

I’m only 48 and I remember Main Street had the animated characters in the windows Woolworths and all the other stores. so times were definitely the same in the 70s and 80s as they were in the 60s and Buffalo. I’d love to go back to them.

[@richardromano6163]

Awesome History of the Buffalo area.Thank you for sharing just sad that it's change so much and lost so many jobs

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@GregoryWright-dh9rh]

Buffalo had great department stores...AM&As, Hens & Kelly, Hengerer's, Berger's, Kleinhans. Sattlers on Broadway. Twin Fair was the top discount store.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thanks for sharing!!

[@jeraldisme]

This makes me really sad watching this cuz I live in Buffalo and it sucks now

[@BlurtNobrain]

Christmas before the internet was so different 😄

[@SuperGreycloud]

The Aud was way better than KeyBank Center. Love Century theater . Christmas in downtown Buffalo ❤

[@FaithBusselle]

My Mom, 2 brothers and me always took the bus to go downtown. The display windows, the frosted balloons, and Santa! Wonderful memories, and thank you for this article!

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Glad the program could bring back such wonderful memories!

[@bonniekloes6746]

I was also born in buffalo ny.love it here.

[@stella-gx8ne]

I worked in the Marine Midland Building😊 Top floor , executive offices. When that wind blew off the lake the building would ever so slightly sway. Dad worked at 20th Century Fox at 300 Delaware. Got caught down there during the blizzard of ‘77. He walked all the way from that building to Kenmore and Colvin to not let my mother be alone.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thank you for sharing.

[@truupsidetv2616]

i played in one of the most iconic high school basketball games in wny history.at the aud. bennett vs riverside 1983.......

[@SuperGreycloud]

I worked at Sattlers in the 70s.Simon Pure was around the corner from where I lived on South Division. I was at the "Thank You Sabres " game. I am Buffalo.

[@hodgeelmwood8677]

I grew up hearing stories about the Central Terminal. My mother worked in the restaurant as a young woman, and used to tell us how she saw Tyrone Power, and the Crown Prince of India, as they passed through. The Terminal feels as close to me as though I had worked there myself.

[@mainerbates1590]

May Day is the greatest aud memory for me❤

[@kingdoc3262]

I always wanted to know about the life and peoples of Buffalo. I grew up in the East I guess you'd say. Ossining along the Hudson. Thank you for this.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thanks for watching!

[@Headlesshorse]

That was excvellent!

[@SMtWalkerS]

Really interesting video! My dad worked his first job out of college in Buffalo and always recounted great memories made there. I've never been, but would like to visit some day.

[@davidhollfelder9940]

Born in 1955, I grew up in the 60s. I got the last glimpse of what Buffalo once was, before malls appeared with the suburban explosion in the late 60s-early 70s. Downtown at Christmas time was all a buzz .. just hop on a bus downtown .. gone now, never to be quite seen again.

[@MrMikepresley]

As a kid from Toronto, I grew up on Buffalo culture; crossing the bridge to the Rainbow Mall for great Holiday deals, watching TV programs (antenna TV signal went across Lake Ontario) Rocket Ship 7. Commander Tom Show, Dialing/Bowling for Dollars, Eye Witness News with Irv Weinstein, Buffalo Sabres and The Bills.

[@hanktabaczynski4808]

I played hockey in the Aud in the old muny hockey league. We played our games at the Aud and the Fort Erie Arena in Fort Erie Ontario. Great memories of my teen years.

[@paulpetock2836]

Great program but would have loved to see more on the great Rock music in Buffalo in the 1960s - today . A lot of Canadians would flood down in the 1960s and 70s to see the great rock venues . Niagara Falls also hosted a number of greats acts , and still does .

[@lookingforghosts]

I watched Buffalo play there biggest memory I was soaking wet due to a sudden storm I froze

[@frankcollesano3091]

When i was young living on Fargo ave., i remember the times Mr. Gullo played Christmas music throughout the westside from his Connecticut street jewelry store. Snow falling, people happy, boy I miss my youth on the west side of Buffalo.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thanks for sharing.

[@DeeRuss]

Wish I could go back in time to the early 1950s and stop urban renewal and keep history alive but would this be a good thing? Would the internet exist who knows but I do appreciate old architecture and the way America used to live

[@tree8238]

Only store I remember is A&M’s and Woolworth and Bells 😂 I guess I’m not old enough.

[@NapkinEdStern]

37:31 Anyone know what all those upper floors were for?

[@micheleclifford8969]

The nose bleed section

[@stella-gx8ne]

LL Berger! Beautiful store. WT Grants

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Yes!

[@larrymoore9468]

After a movie on the way home to Alexander NY my father always stopped at FREDDIE'S DOUGHNUTS. They were all gone by the time we got home. Father sold junk metal, and before selling it he would weigh the truck load on scales at a lumber company in batavia ny . Then he would hose the load with a water hose to add weight because he new the scales in Buffalo WERE WAY OFF WHERE HE SOLD THE METAL. PS Japan bought lot's junk metal then in the 1930's till 1941. Then they shot it back at us as bombs & bullets DEC 7 , 1941

[@shanghunter7697]

Forgot all about Freddies doughnuts !!

[@stella-gx8ne]

Freddie’s Doughnuts on Sunday Night! Best treat ever!!!!

[@ryanwyttenbach1901]

Tom Girot. “Who needs a Beer?” AkA Conehead

[@davidclaycomb5496]

The Aud. My first concert there was Led Zeppelin, ‘72. Many concerts followed.

[@davidclaycomb5496]

Still have my tickets too.

[@velocity9828]

Buffalo used to have so many malls! It was definitely a mall city. At one point there was Walden Galleria Mall, Eastern Hills Mall, McKinley Mall, Thruway Mall, Boulevard Mall, Como Mall & Main Place Mall downtown. I think the weather had a lot to do with it. I definitely spent a lot of wintery❄️ days hanging out in the mall with friends.

[@GregoryWright-dh9rh]

Seneca Mall as well

[@-BUFFALOMan]

when mayor griffin shut down main street to build the subway was the beginning of the end for downtown... and it never recovered and likely never will. Its just an unfortunate place to be now, its horrible. current mayor brown never did a thing for buffalo and made it perfectly normal for the city to be a crap dump. the city is shot...

[@KimSyracuse-n8d]

Remember concerts there's to dolly Parton Kennedy Roger's 😊😊

[@mainerbates1590]

La la la lafontaine!

[@KimSyracuse-n8d]

My grandmother use to shopping at at Sattler my mom dad then when I gotten older I went their dearly they Sattler downtown in main place mall twe gotten our cat in 1973 😊 Buffalo New York use to be beautiful place now it discussing dearly 😊😊

[@mainerbates1590]

My mom and uncle's parked car at the rock pile❤

[@KimSyracuse-n8d]

Yeppers downtown Buffalo New York was beautiful at one time dearly but now is disgraceful dearly 💔 😊

[@micheleclifford8969]

I worked security for the BeeGees ,When The Performance Was There

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

We had seats in the orange section in the Aud. There was a guy that would wait for the crowd to quiet down and he would say, “Come on Gilbert….we want the biiiiiiiird man!” Everyone would laugh. He’d do it every game and I don’t think that anyone knew what it meant.

[@jayem1826]

What’s toronto got to do with it?

[@gregguralnik2512]

Unfortunately, Buffalo, like many other great cities in the midwest and east coast, the rust belt, became a victim of the anti-industrial revolution. But, there is still a chance to return to greatness.

[@louismarano8121]

My first job was as a stock boy at Sattlers, I think in 1959 or 1960.

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Thanks for sharing.

[@kingdoc3262]

Change is inevitable but I'm curious why so quickly. The real background story

[@jamesdellaneve9005]

My Dad took me to the Rockpile and he had a seat behind a pole.

[@greensombrero3641]

let's go buffalo

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

The Aud I remember going to games there when the Leafs came to town just we do today hop in the truck and drive the QEW to watch the game it was dump but it was Buffalo's dump yes that musty smell

[@kimbermartin7336]

Hell yes this is awesome. I love my own butt cheeks

[@mainerbates1590]

I used to watch wrestling at the aud...wwf

[@micheleclifford8969]

Even Elvis Presley, played at the auditorium

[@BuffaloTorontoPublicMedia]

Great memories. Thank you for sharing.

[@johnRed-de3bl]

I only watched this for a few seconds. I did live in the city for 25 years but grew up outside. The story is about the city, not the burbs. Oh well.

[@samiam9008]

We would walk from the lower west side, to downtown just to see the window displays and the streets lit up. The late 50's and early 60's were amazing at Christmas downtown Main St. Then disaster. A major city of over half a million people, to what it has become today. A lot of blame to go around. From the underground rail line that KILLED downtown, to the old buddy system in city hall that forgot that there are people in the entire city not just one section. Blue collar jobs that were so plentiful in the 50/60's, were driven off by greed, the old American way. It's sad to see what the city has become, even with the medical community coming in, the heart and soul of Buffalo is gone. Just ask anyone who lived through the great age of the city. Yeah, find them in the suburbs, because they're worried about traveling in the city. Sorry to those that missed seeing, the Queen of the Great Lakes, she has sailed on.

[@mainerbates1590]

Bills Mafia ☝🏾 ❤buffalo 🦬

[@neilmoryson]

People on the streets. So sad that we decided cities are for cars, not people.

[@kenw2685]

Too bad that things have to change (that much). Wasn't perfect but wasthe best.

[@thehunterofdeath2180]

I guarantee the beer was better back than 😂😂 compared to now im going over there next month go check it out I want to buy a house over there not bad prices for what i check is a ghost town now comepare to back then but is what im looking for quite n peaceful 😂😂😂 i miss when things was made in america like ectronic n those nice wooden horse not for nothing but made in America goods was the best now n day we got little bit but made well done to last we took pride in our stuff oh what even we mas making in the USA they should bring those company back from china oh other Asia countries but that will never happen cuz we live in a expensive life now cuz made in china is suck 😂😂😂😂 yiu see they country falling down Buffalo NY look like going to another state another country

[@Independenceweare]

BUFFALO was rather Irish and had its drinkers as it does now. U can get your drink on downtown Chippewafor all those to come and trash💯🇺🇲.

[@MargarettMafua-g9n]

Turcotte Place

[@CamieBedee-q1r]

Gorczany Pines

[@Davidjon1946]

I challenge you to find a more friendly city other then buffalo ny we are a family yes its high in crime drugs murder which probably go hand and hand unfortunately. But we are one especially come buffalo bills Sundays we turn into one giant family everyone is together. That why that tops supermarket shooting towards African Americans made me so angry !! He was not from Buffalo he was not one of us !!! He came from miles away in Ohio to kill and ruin the lives of all those people inside the Jefferson Street tops supermarket. He was not one of us !! He was not from Buffalo New York yes we have our problems but I like to think we are ķind we would never do something horrible to any of our innocent residents . Just remember that hateful monster that shoot and Killed all them people inside tops supermarket He was not one of us !!!

[@SamDawson-v2g]

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[@HumeWebb-r8f]

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[@ThomasRobinson-e5x]

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[@TjayfrmdaA]

America iis losing its culture

[@ThomasRobinson-e5x]

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[@pinkeye00]

Considering there are no African Americans in the images ...

[@pinkeye00]

Lots of racism here too... just drive down Main St, and Central Park @ Amherst. tells you how rich and gerrymandered Delaware District is, and how poor the East Side is.

[@paulkersey7458]

We handed our prosperity over to the military industrial complex. We need to take it back