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- Buffalo: 1900
- Circa 1900. "Buffalo, New York. Creek and elevators near foot of Main Street." Detroit ... they're covered in paper survive the brutal winters that Buffalo is famous for?
[Those are the grain elevators mentioned in the caption. - Dave]
Buffalo wings Right above Erie Railroad car 44176 looks to be a Free ...
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:38am -
- Buffalo Bank: 1908
- Bustling Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "Erie County Savings Bank, Niagara Street." ... Fifty cents roundtrip! Last time I went to Niagara from Buffalo my niggardly tip was $20. I forget the fare. Inflation has come a long, ... saw was here . A kind of open-air omnibus.
Death by Buffalo Mark Twain once said, "To commit suicide in Buffalo is redundant." ...
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:39am -
- Expert Truss Fitting: 1900
- "Main Street, Buffalo, N.Y., circa 1900." The merchants of Buffalo, aside from making that fine city a haven for the herniated, also ... photo will take a while to gather it all and to understand Buffalo as a major U.S. city at the time.
[Those cities were excursion ...
Posted by Dave - 07/26/2012 - 12:35pm -
- Urban Buffalo: 1904
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1904. "Main Street." Landmarks on view include the Buffalo Savings Bank dome and Hengerer's department store. 8x10 inch dry plate ... Publishing Company. View full size.
Progressive Buffalo It's only 1904 and already there's a store with an "AUTO SUPPLIES" ...
Posted by Dave - 05/02/2017 - 9:50am -
- Buffalo: 1905
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1905. "Looking up Main Street. Steamer North Land ... Co. View full size.
Splendid New Steamship Buffalo Enquirer. January 5, 1895
SAFELY LAUNCHED.
The New ... Northern Steamship Company and the representatives of the Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit newspapers, guests of the steamship company. At ...
Posted by Dave - 07/20/2012 - 7:17pm -
- Teeming Buffalo: 1905
- Circa 1905. "Buffalo, New York, Main Street." A bird's-eye view of Buffalo. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View ... walking into the office every day. If you are ever in Buffalo, make sure to visit it -- it is still a spectacular treat.
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Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:41am -
- Apolitical Animal: 1942
- ... Instead, I found myself in the mean-ass stare of a buffalo , made of rebar. On the capitol grounds is also a memorial to ...
Posted by Dave - 01/07/2024 - 12:12pm -
- Niagara Street: 1908
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1908. "Erie County Savings Bank, Niagara Street." 8x10 ... office.
16 Niagara Street Another great image of buffalo this week!, thank you so much for this beautiful shot. This is the ... The site today:
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Poor Buffalo Should passenger rail service ever return in a big way, Buffalo is ...
Posted by Dave - 06/21/2011 - 11:55am -
- Thruway Lanes: 1956
- ... on the left is the most depressing storefront ever.
Buffalo NY ...
... It's pretty eerie.
Cheektowaga Lanes, outside Buffalo The building appears to be the Thruway Lanes in Cheektowaga, New ... Thruway Lanes is still in Cheektowaga, N.Y. (a suburb of Buffalo, about 25 minutes from Niagara Falls). You would take exit 52W of the ...
Posted by Dave - 11/21/2008 - 8:35pm -
- Buffalo Soldiers: 1942
- ... 10th Cavalry brigade." The African-American regiment of "Buffalo Soldiers" fame. Acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size. ...
Posted by Dave - 06/07/2023 - 3:33pm -
- Buffalo Savings: 1904
- Buffalo, New York, circa MCMIV. "Buffalo Savings Bank." Just look at the time -- I:LV -- gotta run! 8x10 glass ... How did they manage to clean the streets in the winter - Buffalo can get a lot of snow? As for the letter box - my neighborhood had one ...
Posted by Dave - 08/13/2013 - 3:56pm -
- Buffalo Dredging: 1905
- Circa 1905. "Waterworks and Niagara River, Buffalo, N.Y." Panorama made from three 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit ... down from Lockport and North Tonawanda into the port of Buffalo. Wow, talk about a bygone era!! Buffalo was one of the ten largest ...
Posted by Dave - 03/10/2021 - 4:02pm -
- Buffalo Pup: 1900
- Circa 1900. "U.S.S. Buffalo , ship's company." A certain amount of mugging for the camera here, as ... by The National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) in 1861.
Buffalo Sailors An interesting but brief career for the Buffalo, designated both as an auxiliary cruiser and, later, a destroyer ...
Posted by Dave - 03/22/2013 - 1:07pm -
- Buffalo P.O.: 1910
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1910. "Post Office, Ellicott Street." 8x10 inch dry ... Company. View full size.
Tallest building in Buffalo from 1901 to 1912
Designed by James Knox Taylor, it opened ... masonry rendered in shades of gray?
(The Gallery, Buffalo NY, DPC) ...
Posted by Dave - 08/15/2012 - 2:39pm -
- Speed Demon: 1904
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1904. "Delaware Avenue." Hitching posts, mounting ... Publishing Company. View full size.
Mark Twain and Buffalo winters The story of all the millionaires on this street reminds me that Mark Twain married and retired to Buffalo. After digging for gold in California, Twain became a gold digger and ...
Posted by Dave - 08/10/2012 - 12:14am -
- Detroit tourism, 1930s
- ... They likely traveled across Lake Erie between Detroit and Buffalo, NY. The Guardian building is seen flying the American flag on its roof. View full size.
Re: Greater Buffalo Thanks Jimmy. I did some more searching and found some pictures of ...
Posted by bhappel - 09/28/2009 - 11:09am -
- Twenty-One: 1980
- "21 Club, Buffalo, Wyoming, 1980." 35mm color transparency from the John Margolies ... the scans and gave them the originals.
Doubt this is Buffalo, NY I've lived here for 70 years and do not recognize this. I've also shared on Facebook "Former Buffalo Restaurants" and no one else recognizes. It might be Buffalo, Wyoming. ...
Posted by Dave - 01/02/2021 - 2:00pm -
- Swan Street, Buffalo: 1911
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1911. "Swan Street." The motorcar gains a foothold where hooves once trod on Swan in Buffalo. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
Elllicott Square Building ... still owned and operated by Statler, it became the Hotel Buffalo in 1923 when the new Statler at Niagara Square opened (built where the ...
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:41am -
- Thisbe: 1900
- ... attractive when the obvious is somewhat oblique.
From Buffalo.. to this! Yowzzzzzer! Thanks Dave!
Oh. My. God. I 'bout fell ...
Posted by Dave - 07/26/2012 - 4:56pm -
- Buffalo Crossing: 1908
- Circa 1908. "Main Street -- Buffalo, N.Y." Landmarks on view include Hengerer's Department Store and the dome of the Buffalo Savings Bank. 5x7 inch glass negative. View full size.
Dome? ... out his family was quite influential in the future of Buffalo. His father was in the famous New York light infantry brigade at ...
Posted by Dave - 05/10/2019 - 8:34am -
- Buffalo Rising: 1904
- Buffalo, New York, circa 1904. "St. Paul's Cathedral, Episcopal." 8x10 inch dry ... is the same view from September of 2022.
(The Gallery, Buffalo NY, DPC) ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 8:47pm -
- Buffalo Ghosts: 1900
- "Hotel Iroquois, Buffalo, 1900." The ectoplasmic pedestrians are out in force. 8x10 inch dry ... Horace L. Bliss, one of the oldest living photographers in Buffalo. He was born in Hartford, Conn., October 6, 1823, came to Buffalo about 1854 and learned the photographic business. In 1859 he ...
Posted by Dave - 07/22/2012 - 10:42am -
- Christmas in Buffalo: c. 1910
- Christmas with my grandparents in Buffalo, New York. They are the couple on the right. Grandmother emigrated to ... she is seeing a mantle of snow on the ground. It is Buffalo after all.
Grandmother's childhood tree My grandmother told ... I live in the Metro DC area now, but my childhood was on Buffalo's east side, in the Polish-German area (my father is from "Kaisertown", ...
Posted by bhappel - 11/24/2009 - 3:25pm -
- Market Street: 1916
- ... issuing forth from the mouths of beautiful cast-metal buffalo heads.
"Certainly Not!" That's what Mom told me when I ...
I must say I never really considered those drooling buffalo heads as beautiful. Interesting -- but not beautiful.
Hemmed In ...
Posted by Dave - 07/30/2012 - 4:34pm -
- Buffalo Trilogy: 1900
- Buffalo, New York, 1900. "Labor Day parade, Main Street." The Clairvoyant Bird ... to watch?
Vexillographic Inversion In all three Buffalo pictures, I see flags displayed upside-down (on the Western Savings ... north on Main Street at Huron Street. The brand new Buffalo Savings Bank building and part of it's dome can just been seen on the ...
Posted by Dave - 08/15/2012 - 4:15pm -
- Buffalo Boys: 1910
- February 1910. Buffalo, New York. "Home of the Palia family, 260 Terrace Street. The boy, ... it off before backing up to the heat!
(The Gallery, Buffalo NY, Dogs, Kitchens etc., Lewis Hine) ...
Posted by Dave - 10/17/2011 - 12:10pm -
- YWCA Kitchen: 1927
- ... An industrial-strength garlic mincer?
[It's a Buffalo meat grinder. - Dave]
The Buffalo a perfect name for that torture device.
Heavy metal Love the ...
Posted by Dave - 08/05/2012 - 1:13pm -
- Bustling Buffalo: 1900
- Circa 1900. "St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Buffalo, New York." With the Guaranty (Prudential) Building and a bicycle ... Larger Map
Two Spectacular Buildings! I visited Buffalo for the first time last April and saw these two landmarks of American ...
Posted by Dave - 07/01/2016 - 5:27pm -
- German Band in Buffalo, New York
- ... Oktoberfest band. Bringing a taste of Bavarian music to Buffalo, New York, in 1925. View full size.
(ShorpyBlog, Member ...
Posted by phlyx - 10/30/2022 - 11:21am -
- Buffalo Slept Here: 1942
- ... Nebraska. Tourist cabins." Yes, it's the Original Buffalo Bill Cody Camp. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security ... in this interview , Cody Junior was a descendent of Buffalo Bill Cody.
*The* Original (BEWARE of imitations) You just might ...
Posted by Dave - 02/22/2022 - 3:54pm -