from the web...thanks

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/03.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/05.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/268_main.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/1913niagarasquare-1.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/aerial_bethlehem_steellge1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/audfoundationslge2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/bflo027.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/bflo031.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/bflo040.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/bflo043.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/buffaloe.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/canalslumlge.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/convention_site.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/downtownearly50s_72.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/downtownearly50s_part2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/electricbldgfar.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/ellicottconstruction.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/ellicottlg1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/eriebank.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/foot_main1936.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/foot_main1946.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/franklin_huron_1940s.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/german_ins_bldg_1910.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/lafayettesqfull.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/lowerterrace1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/mainst30slge.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/mainst1929.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/main_chippewa_1960s.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/oversize_waterfront_lge.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/skyway_50s.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB/snowmain30lge.jpg

city hall really sticks out in that second picture.

a few more fer ya

http://img142.echo.cx/img142/5537/town7lj.jpg

http://img142.echo.cx/img142/4293/slide34cj.jpg

http://img142.echo.cx/img142/7724/043fi.jpg

http://img95.echo.cx/img95/5586/grants.jpg http://img95.echo.cx/img95/986/cityhall.jpg

http://img95.echo.cx/img95/6407/airview.jpg
http://img25.echo.cx/img25/605/view5.jpg

http://img95.echo.cx/img95/3118/Untitled-58.jpg
http://img95.echo.cx/img95/6032/night3.jpg

http://img95.echo.cx/img95/6126/night2.jpg
http://img95.echo.cx/img95/7546/main2.jpg

http://img95.echo.cx/img95/2676/laffsq.jpg http://img95.echo.cx/img95/7713/laffsq2.jpg

http://img95.echo.cx/img95/7713/laffsq2.jpg http://img53.echo.cx/img53/6084/mt1610sb.jpg

http://img156.echo.cx/img156/8995/nft001219id.jpg

then
http://wnyheritagepress.org/photosofweek/main_south_chippewa/main_south_chippewa_1920s.jpg

now
http://wnyheritagepress.org/photosofweek/main_south_chippewa/main_south_chippewa_2004.jpg

http://wnyheritagepress.org/photosofweek/main_court/main_court_1930s.jpg

http://wnyheritagepress.org/photosofweek/main-genesee_1940s.jpg

http://wnyheritagepress.org/photos_week_2004/shopping_downtown/people1.jpg

many many more can be found here http://wnyheritagepress.org/photographs/photographs.htm

That was depressing.....most of those buildings that are gone have been replaced by parking lots! UGHHHH I didn't know Buffalo had a Corona Hotel! :)

http://img156.echo.cx/img156/8995/nft001219id.jpg
Alot of people in Buffalo riding the special bus till this day.

good to see some "special bus" members named "Jimi C" are representing they're team (special bus)

Thanks for the pics ! Very interesting.

what exactly was that bus used for? Anyone know?

Behind that bus in the bldg. that Scientology renovated- looks much better today! And to the right is the block that First Amherst is converting to residential- I don't know when that pic was taken (early 70's?) but those buildings look vacant even then! So 30 years of blight and now just getting rehabbed! Good thing the "shovel ready" crowd didn't get at them!

Special bus was probably for handicaped riders, Im just guessing that because of the lift door on the side.

wheelchairs or hospital beds? :jk:

Erie County Savings Bank and the German Insurance (?) Bldg. on Lafayette Square- two of the biggest losses downtown IMO.

The special bus was a repair bus. Many bus systems convert old buses for that purpose. You still see some very old buses in Chicago used for repariing "L" tracks in chicago. Some times they have generators inside them for welding.

That bus is old enough to be one of the buses that GM dumped on the market to kill off the street cars in American cities.

"good to see some "special bus" members named "Jimi C" are representing they're team (special bus)"

Thank you.

lol

http://www.hellobuffalo.com/buffalo/images/Swan-Street-1910.jpg

http://www.hellobuffalo.com/buffalo/images/Jack-knife-bridge-1910.jpg

http://www.hellobuffalo.com/buffalo/images/Post-Office-1905.jpg

http://imagesofwny.com/gallery/OldeBuffalo/bflo048?full=1


Look at the freekin density!
http://imagesofwny.com/albums/OldeBuffalo/bflo034.sized.jpg

speaking of the old post office...

someone try a search on the Old post Office in Washington DC, you will be shocked at how much the Buffalo and DC Post Offices resemble each other...wow.

I think that the demise of Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Administration Building is Buffalo's greatest architectural tragedy. (But then I've always been a fan of FLW.

http://ah.bfn.org/h/larkin/admin/source/2.html

here is a computer rendering of the interior
http://www.nbm.org/blueprints/00s/winter01/page2/LarkinBuilding.jpg




http://www.prairiestyles.com/images/artisans/bock/bock_larkin1.jpg

http://www.fba.fh-darmstadt.de/lehrinhalte/Allgemein/Fachgruppen/Darstellung/Geometrie/Plakate/images/A2%20Frank%20Lloyd%20Wright%20-%20Larkin%20Administration%20Building%20-%20Buffalo.jpg

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/EEI/INTRO/larkin3.jpg

If only some rich guy would step forward to rebuild this master piece. The destruction of this building was a mega blunder by Buffalo. It easily ranks in the top 5 of all of Wright's work (Johnson Wax, Guggenheim, Robie House, Falling Water, Larkin Building) Can you imagine any of the other 4 being torn down???? Even after this blunder Buffalo came within inches of destroying Sullivan's Guaranty Building in the early 80's.

Damn! Look at that old lift bridge! Thats what they should try to recreate near the foot of Main or Erie Basin if a bridge to the outer harbor is built. I'm just sick of what urban renewal did to this city. I guess we should be grateful we didn't pull a Niagara Falls and tear down everything!

Buffalo looks good in B&W, here are some more.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/05mcinlly.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/4a12140r.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/4a23147r.jpg
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/buffalo7_sm.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/electowerday.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/mainstreet3fr.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/panamelectwrabandoned1902.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/pic16.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/term1929.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/waterfront1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Citysky/Buffalo%20Classics%20WEB%202/y1.jpg

good find Buffcity :) terrific photos...sorry i was two years late chiming in...but better late then never.

Buffalo's rich boomtown days when downtown was PACKED with people. Great photos, and maybe someday downtown will become like this again! :)

Good stuff.

anyone still have some of the pictures that are no longer hosted from this thread? I love seeing how everything used to be, it helps explain how things changed and what can still be restored

Sad and interesting at the same time.

We have done some similar demolitions here in Oslo, Norway, often inspired by what you've done in America. We started a tread called Oslo of yore (here if anyone is interested: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=549160) in order to get a clear view of all the damage that have been done, and at the same time to show the world that we did indeed have some greater buildings before. We've even played with the idea to establish a found to rebuild details and whole buildings we lost trough the years.

I think it would be interesting to see something with Buffalo. I've taken a look in the different picture treads here dedicated to Buffalo and it seems you have a lot of great, older buildings surrounded by parking lots and various open plots that makes the city very "broken up" if you catch my drift. Older pictures could hjelp people (like me) understand why the city appears as it does today. Therefore I think would be a good idea to sample all the pictures here in this tread, the Buffalo gallery tread and perhaps other pictures in to one big tread consisting of classical photos ...

To start, here is a picture I've found at Wiki Commons.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/7/76/20070209154236!Buffalo_Panorama_1911.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buffalo_Panorama_1911.jpg

Could any locals tell me how the same street/angle looks like today? And does the castle-inspired building still stands there?
:)

Sad and interesting at the same time.

Could any locals tell me how the same street/angle looks like today? And does the castle-inspired building still stands there?
:)

you dont want to know how it looks. most of that is gone. the castle-like structure was the erie county saving bank, replaced with this horrific structure:
http://a851.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/38/l_3f827ba6abe9d60670fa5600b01a7caa.jpg

a good source to start your photo hunt is here:
http://wnyheritagepress.org/photographs/photographs.htm

no thumbnails but still a great resource.

and for an extra bit of torture, you can watch them tear it down in these youtube clips
(its in 4 parts- this is just part 3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvaBb60DtE&feature=related

you dont want to know how it looks. most of that is gone. the castle-like structure was the erie county saving bank, replaced with this horrific structure:
http://a851.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/38/l_3f827ba6abe9d60670fa5600b01a7caa.jpg

a good source to start your photo hunt is here:
http://wnyheritagepress.org/photographs/photographs.htm

no thumbnails but still a great resource.

^^Well, at least it have been replaced with building and not a parking lot, which makes it somewhat more justifiable imho. Still a shame. Thanks for the link though.
:)

and for an extra bit of torture, you can watch them tear it down in these youtube clips
(its in 4 parts- this is just part 3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvaBb60DtE&feature=related
Tragic, but also fascinating just to see what downtown looked like in 1967 from many angles, and the interesting little glimpses of 1967-era construction technology.

and for an extra bit of torture, you can watch them tear it down in these youtube clips
(its in 4 parts- this is just part 3):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvaBb60DtE&feature=related

What the hell... ;)

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What the hell... ;)



masochist.

masochist.

I never got to see it before it was demolished. I feel no pain, just a mild sadness...