Remembering Western New York
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- Remembering New York is a celebration of historical treasures, including architectural gems, beloved community establishments and homes for local sports teams, told through the memories of those who remember and love the unique treasures of the region. Stories in the program include: Memorial Auditorium, Sattler's Department Store, War Memorial Stadium and the Colored Musicians Club.
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0:00 Introduction
1:42 Remembering Western New York HOLIDAY SHOPPING
5:27 Remembering Western New York SATTLER'S
9:38 Remembering Western New York THE WILLIAM SIMON BREWERY
13:13 Remembering Western New York THE AUD
18:32 Remembering Western New York HERSCHELL CARROUSEL FACTORY MUSEUM
23:17 Remembering Western New York COLORED MUSICIANS CLUB
27:55 Remembering Western New York THE ROCKPILE
32:42 Remembering Western New York CENTRAL TERMINAL
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I practically lived at Sattler's as a child because my mother worked there , for 35 years!!!
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.
My parents would take us to see the Christmas windows at AM&A's. Just so magical!
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.
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 !!
I was also born in 48 in Buffalo . my Dad was a Buffalo police officer after serving in WW2 .
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!
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.
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!
Total shithood now!
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.
@@joijaxx he is a hoot! Given me everyone of his hundreds of “one liners” he’s one of 3 of my favorite human beings!
@@ampman5357 how wonderful, lucky you!
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.
Thank you for sharing!
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
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
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.
@@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
@@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.
@@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.
Really do love living in the city
Every community thinks it's unique in how connected or quaint it is, literally feels its special
Once again, why was I born to this generation when I love so many generations of the past?
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.
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
Glad you enjoyed the program.
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 .
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.
Christmas before the internet was so different 😄
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.
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.
Those where the great places Broadway market too!
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
Boy I loved watching this how times have changed I want to go back
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.
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.
@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.
@@debra2700 I get there as often as I can. I still have family out there.
@@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.
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.
as a boy i i rember dad taking me to glenn park later a bills game at the rock pile
Same here, my dad took me to my 1st bills game at the pile in 68
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. ❤😊
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!
The good ole' days !
I miss it so so MUCH.
Me to
Tom Girot. “Who needs a Beer?” AkA Conehead
I watched Buffalo play there biggest memory I was soaking wet due to a sudden storm I froze
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.
This makes me really sad watching this cuz I live in Buffalo and it sucks now
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.
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.
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
Forgot all about Freddies doughnuts !!
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 .
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
37:31 Anyone know what all those upper floors were for?
I still call it the aud 👍😁
Only store I remember is A&M’s and Woolworth and Bells 😂 I guess I’m not old enough.
Remember concerts there's to dolly Parton Kennedy Roger's 😊😊
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
My first job was as a stock boy at Sattlers, I think in 1959 or 1960.
Thanks for sharing.
What’s toronto got to do with it?
let's go buffalo
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 😊😊
Yeppers downtown Buffalo New York was beautiful at one time dearly but now is disgraceful dearly 💔 😊
Hell yes this is awesome. I love my own butt cheeks
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
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💯🇺🇲.
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 !!!