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Aug. 27, 1960: New Marine Drive Apartments is looking for residents
One of the last contested questions of Buffalo’s Canalside development is what should become of the Marine Drive Apartments. Fifty-five years ago this week, open houses were welcoming prospective...
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1975: The beginnings of disco in Buffalo
Far from the cultural touchstone it is today, 40 years ago in the News’ entertainment section, disco was only mentioned twice -- but those mentions were big ones. In 1975, New York City’s Studio 54 was...
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Sept. 4, 1975: 'There's no flowery rhetoric' in Jimmy Griffin's campaign
“Blunt-talking Griffin,” says the headline, “meets issues head-on along campaign circuit.” Forty years ago today, State Sen. James D. Griffin was seeking the Democratic nomination for Erie County...
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Buffalo's original quarterback controversy: Kemp vs. Lamonica
It’s the Buffalo battle that pitted brother against brother, father against son, bartender against guy on the third stool to the left. In a manner that seems to echo in our own day, longtime friends...
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1965: A young Russ Salvatore promotes his first restaurant
Russell Salvatore has been one of Buffalo’s leading restaurateurs, philanthropists and self-promoters for more than half a century. Before there was Russell’s Chops and Steaks, before there was...
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Buffalo in the '80s: Twinkies, Zingers or Little Debbie?
Like just about anything marketed to kids, there is the cool and the uncool — what you want, and what you usually get. So it was with the heavily marketed snack cakes of the 1980s. As kids of the '80s...
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Torn-down Tuesday: Buffalo's hope that parking lots will save downtown
On Tuesdays, BN Chronicles will look at buildings or structures that are no longer standing, and look at what stands there now. Hundreds of downtown Buffalo buildings were lost to the automobile,...
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Buffalo in the '60s: Exciting tearing down what we excitedly built 50 years ago
As Buffalo waits for the implosion of the Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital on Oct. 3, and controversy swirls about what might be built in its place, 50 years ago, additions onto the old Millard...
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Buffalo in the '50s: Does football trump what's really important?
Bruce Shanks, the first of three Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonists for The News, was wondering 60 years ago this week if Buffalo was paying too much attention to football and not enough to...
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Buffalo in the '70s: Barry Lillis said it would be like this!
With a smile and personality more reminiscent of a Vaudeville comedian than a meteorologist, Barry Lillis’ ceaseless efforts to make Buffalo smile while offering the forecast through the '70s, '80s and...
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Buffalo in the '70s: New NFT buses arrive at the Aud
This former NFT bus, a 1967 GMC Model TDH-5304, was the wave of the future when it and 33 others started rolling around Western New York. Buffalo News archives Known as a “New Look” GMC, these buses...
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Buffalo in the '80s: MetroRail 'unpaves the way' to downtown revitalization
In 1981, the Ansonia Building at Main and Tupper was being considered for a $500,000 facelift with the thought that locations along the coming MetroRail route would be increasing in value. Buffalo News...
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Buffalo in the '50s: Celebrating 50 years of South Buffalo's Mercy Hospital
Sister Mary Sacred Heart is cutting a celebratory cake for some of Mercy Hospital’s youngest patients in this photo from October 1954. The Sisters of Mercy were among Buffalo’s earliest Catholic...
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Buffalo in the '60s: Pensive flight home for the Bills
An undated look, likely from the mid-’60s, of a tired flight home for the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo News archives Among those in the photo are future Erie County Executive and Bills halfback Ed Rutkowski,...
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Buffalo in the '80s: The grocery beer cooler
A 1984 look inside the beer cooler of a Buffalo grocery store reveals that even the things that never change don’t always stay the same. Buffalo News archives Products offered by Labatt Brewing Company...
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Buffalo in the '20s: Lacrosse at Buffalo's Baseball Park
From 1889 to 1960, the International League Buffalo Bisons played at East Ferry, Masten and Michigan. For the first 35 years, Buffalo Baseball Park was barely more than glorified wooden bleachers. But...
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Buffalo in the '80s: What Black Friday looked like at K-Mart in 1986
This is what Black Friday 1986 looked like at the K-Mart store on Ridge Road in Lackawanna. Buffalo News archives Discounted televisions and VCRs got people lined up nice and early on the day after...
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Torn-down Tuesday: In 1945, the Market Terminal Warehouse near today's...
The area is now the parking lot next to the HSBC Atrium on Perry Street, but in 1945, it was the home of the Market Terminal Warehouse. Buffalo News archives The building’s name referred to the Elk...
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What It Looked Like Wednesday: Shea's North Park in 1933
Since the gloom-filled announcement of the closing of Hertel Avenue’s North Park Theatre in 2013, new owners have been pumping tens of thousands of dollars into a full restoration of one of Buffalo’s...
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Buffalo in the '80s: Remember when it used to get cold and icy?
As Buffalo enjoys its longest-ever wait for measurable snow, here’s a friendly reminder of what our winters usually look like. Buffalo News archives Most years, Lake Erie sees maximum ice coverage...
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