A Sky-High View High Above Buffalo’s City Hall
An interesting up close look (as up close as we'll ever get anyway) to the Buffalo City Hall. The Art Deco building is a reminder of better times when New York's third largest city was a hub of commerce perched on the edge of Lake Erie and the mouth of the original Erie Canaland the beginnings of the Niagara Riverthat flows north over the Falls into Lake Ontario.
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Buffalo is a city that is full of Old and beautiful buildings. Some being rehabbed some falling into ruin. It's too bad the city is on the list of America's topdying cities. There is some art in these buildings that will be gone forever if these buildings can't be revoered.
Buzz,
The 'Field' is still there, home to the Buffalo Bisons, Farm team for the Toronto Blue Jays. The field is now known as Coca-Cola Field (was Dunn Tire Park before that). Great place to experience a baseball game the way it was meant to be experienced. The prices are pretty good also and they have lots of 'special' game nights each year. I've been to the Roger's Center and watched the Yankees play the Blue Jays, but wasn't the same with the roof and all.
The Anchor Bar (the Home and creator of Buffalo Wings - You're Welcome rest of the world) is still there-though the wings are even better at their location in the Buffalo-Niagara International Airport (BUF) and there is Duff's who has taken the Best Wings in Buffalo title from the Anchor Bar. They have a satellite location about 5 miles from where I sit right now.
The Albright-Knox is a great museum. The area itself - Buffalo Niagara region (more commonly known as the Niagara Frontier) is like a great open air museum, for one willing to look for the history. I enjoy taking my boat up the Buffalo River and riding along between the silent, abandoned grain elevators of yore. These giants helped make the expansion west possible-Buffalo was the Food Basket of the Frontier. Some are still open and functioning. You can smell Cheerios as you come around the river bend to the General Mills Plant.
There is a huge amount of history of our nation right here.
Buzz-yes, they closed the roof when it started to rain a little during the Yankees game. It is truly a marvel to watch....and virtually silent from the seats.
Dick's Sporting Goods is still going strong. Don't recognize the Mesnekoff name. The larger parlour chainaround here is Amigone. Which, to this day, I can't say out loud without giggling a bit. Yes, that's why I'm here (it doesn't take a lot to entertain me sometimes).
Maybe your mother was a pioneer-Canadians still dress in rags and come over here - to the Fashion Oultet Mall in Niagara Falls, buy new clothes, change in the parking lot and go home wihtout paying customs/duty. It used to be a very big problem as Security would spend the night picking up the parking lot of discarded clothing and shoes. They are combating the problem now by having Salvation Army donation bins located in the lot.
People in Philly will who experienced the pitch thrown by Mitch Williams and the home run hit by Joe Carter will never forget it.
As for landmark architecture, much of it would otherwise exist only as memories if not for old photos and prior to digital photography many such photos deteriorated, or, became damaged or destroyed gone along with those who passed on and who took the memories with them to eternity. It is why I have such a passion to restore and digitize old, one-of-a-king photos.
An example The Neptune Fountain in Berlin Germany, 1903. It has been moved and restored but this is as it was originally and, where it stood originally.
This is a restoration from a Magic Lantern Slide as far as I know, one-of-a-kind.
Hmmmm, Spike, isn't there supposed to be a photo here? I was drawn to your post because I too have lived near Buffalo, a long time ago, but when I got here, I didn't see any photos!
Thank you, Buzz!