❤I grew up in Kenmore, NY near Elmwood Ave. and then Hamburg, NY. My late grandmother taught at Sweet Home Junior High in the 1970’s. Fond memories.
@jamesdellaneve9005Ай бұрын
I left the Western NY area in 1983. I knew that I’d never be back because of the lack of good employment. I’’ve been in Cali for 40 years. It’s been great and still go back to visit my relatives in Buffalo. The city has really recovered.
@jamesdellaneve9005Ай бұрын
The light rail finished off Main Street. That was too bad. You can’t close down for 15 years and not affect the buying patterns.
@SuperGreycloudАй бұрын
Sure miss the old Buffalo.😢
@lindadigesare9429Ай бұрын
My Mom's came in a cloudy plastic. She always kept it in her jewelry box on her dresser.
@Test-vl1ibАй бұрын
Cool to see the city when it was living and bustling. Now it’s still got most of those buildings missing only people and retail. It’s a city in storage, plug in and play when you’re ready.
@johnranallo424Ай бұрын
Hen's & Kelly's........as kids we called it Hen's & Chicken's.
@dutchflats2 ай бұрын
Gotta love Ernie Warlick!
@thomasm91392 ай бұрын
We moved from there in 1969. Attended School # 52 from K-6th grade. Just remembered how safe it was as kid and how much I missed it after we left.
@Airpods-ur5wt2 ай бұрын
sampling this beutiful song
@BabeRutheless7022 ай бұрын
My folks stumbled across this video a couple days ago and were pleasantly surprised to find a set of very familiar faces (their own!) at the 2:20 mark. Thank you so much for putting this together! I'm definitely thinking of tracking down a decent copy of it and getting a framed print made for them.
@f.w.20542 ай бұрын
Before the fall.
@jamesdellaneve9005Ай бұрын
I hated growing up in the 1970’s. The specter of poverty chasing all of my relatives out of town for work. I knew that I’d leave the area when I was in High School. After college, I left and spent 40 years in California. The city has come back a lot though. I still visit.
@guyevansrussell-re7cc3 ай бұрын
Unexcelled
@MLZ19573 ай бұрын
What a different time that was. I currently live in Buffalo, man has it changed.
@djquanta67483 ай бұрын
Golden days ❤
@bblegacy3 ай бұрын
The handwriting was on the wall. Industry was deserting the entire rust belt around the great lakes from Chicago and Duluth to Detroit to Cleveland to Buffalo to Niagara Falls to Rochester to Syracuse as fast as they could get out by 1970, and it only accelerated more once Nixon opened the gateway to trade with China in 1974. Nobody now talks about the rampant crime infestation that was everywhere downtown like W. Chippewa St. either, back when hookers and winos were walking the streets and throwing up everywhere as porn shops took over store fronts and old dilapidated movie theaters became porn houses, that made it completely unsafe to even want to go anywhere near what was the then-brand new Main Place mall. And it only got worse from then on for at least 25 if not the next 30 years.
@bblegacy3 ай бұрын
One thing I don't miss one bit about the 1970s was all the horrible music like this back then when I was a teenager.
@springsummerwinterorfall3 ай бұрын
I remember Moe Considine, when she raided the drift boards… nice work my moey
@springsummerwinterorfall3 ай бұрын
I worked at the suicide prevention, crisis services over grants
@springsummerwinterorfall3 ай бұрын
If they say boost buffalo, it’s good for you
@alanFconrad3 ай бұрын
so many memories
@kevinsnell50314 ай бұрын
I might’ve grown up about 35 miles north of Buffalo down on Lake Ontario, but always remember going to the Rockpile for a baseball game when I was in a little league and going to the auditorium. wrestling uConn and Bobo Brazil and the love Brothers . And most of all riding pass WKBW.
@SharkDawg324 ай бұрын
A lot less Sodomites
@reginaldmartin6394 ай бұрын
I escaped from New York...Good bye.
@bblegacy5 ай бұрын
Wow. Lots of retail store names, media people, etc. that are mostly (all -?) gone now that I haven't heard anything from or thought about since I was a kid growing up in the 1960's.
@lindadigesare94295 ай бұрын
I was a freshman in high school then. Loved going downtown to shop using my Mom's Charge-A-Plate. Great to see all the ladies with hats on!
@chasbodaniels1744Ай бұрын
Haha, “Mom’s Magic Charge-a-Plate”!! IIRC, it was a lightweight metal credit card in a cardboard sleeve. The physically embossed numbers and letters would print 2-3 copies of a receipt when inserted into a countertop device when the salesperson pressed down on the lever (ka-chunk)! So cool to see Mom buy something without actual cash. (I’d just finished 6th grade at the fairly-new Maple Road Elementary in Amherst.)
@LovenotHate1306 ай бұрын
To think I was a child in the 1990 lol wow just a child no bills no nothing just enjoy life as a child
@drezulu20006 ай бұрын
No, this had to be 94/95ish…..Onyx popped off in 1993
@mikeinalberta13306 ай бұрын
Back when they had jobs. Look how busy and nice the city was. Thank your leaders for what you have today!
@RetroGaming-gp2ef7 ай бұрын
I wish there were some 70s photos of south Seneca street. Since that's where my grandparents lived back in the day.
@donalddavis66897 ай бұрын
I Love ❤️ Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells - You Better Sing 🎤🎤🎤.
@RetroGaming-gp2ef7 ай бұрын
The city where my father was born. Buffalo sure has changed in over the last 50 years.
@r.pres.41217 ай бұрын
Back when Buffalo was a proud, prosperous though grimy city of over 500,000 population.
@user-to1yw8vv2k7 ай бұрын
So what did the democrats do to save Buffalo over the past 60 years ? 5:24
@smilergrogan17259 ай бұрын
Definitely NOT the Buffalo I remember growing up in during the 70's and 80's. Downtown was mostly empty and surrounding areas were garbage housing developments. Sad.
@cindyk429410 ай бұрын
I was 13! It was so much fun shopping in the city…
@JD-kg3mx10 ай бұрын
I remember it all. I was born when the progression stopped and the decline started, insidiously slow at first then it gained momentum like a train wreck in slow motion. Buffalo City proper went from half a million souls to less than half that in about thirty years. Some argue give or take five years but it declined none the less. By the 70's it was still hustle-bustle, just less so but strained and injured, stumbling and almost aimless and known as the city where ideas come to die. The factories closed and relocated due to taxes corporations couldn't tolerate. First down south then to Asia, Mexico and places that made our clothes ill-fitting, car parts that didn't last and mills making products with child labor. The Eighties rolled in and so did the train to nowhere, a subway that traveled down main street leaving behind bankrupt businesses in its wake - the heavy cost of growth and development, unrealized, and La Cosa Nostra union $tacked cronyisms and a related mob hit unsolved to this day. The nineties rolled in because numerically it has to and Bette Midler came to town and remarked how wonderful it was what Buffalo did to its waterfront - so thick with cynicism the area politicians soiled their pants. Crys went out for investigations, impeachments and editorial cartoonists should have been awarded Pulitzers lambasting civic movers and shakers for the fiasco of negative growth. A mouse standing on its toes could see better ideas over a curb than what held political office in Western New York from the top of city hall. Then we moved into the two-thousands and "preservationists" want to save grain elevators for posterity. I can't wait to go on that tour. But hey, from the area that jailed Tim McGraw for the "infamous Horse Incident" what do you expect for this mindset? Grain elevator tour or country western concert? Yep. But to round things off Buffalo and surroundings are really on an upswing. Our football team is a top contender, hockey isn't far behind, jobs doing better than national stats, housing is ok and the weather shift is actually pretty good here in the 'ol Beau Fleu. The City never died because the people wouldn't let it.
@RichardSault-tc2gv8 ай бұрын
Green Lightning 🎉
@marybutlin560511 ай бұрын
Great video, I wish I could hear the music louder.
@empresseve528311 ай бұрын
I visit Buffalo every summer to visit family..just left July 29 2023 AND IT LOOKS THE SAME... JUST IN COLOR 😮
@MARRANCA211 ай бұрын
Cool to see the Market Arcade. The love of my life works there now.
@jamesdellaneve9005Ай бұрын
I didn’t know Buffalo had an arcade. They have a very cool one in Cleveland.
@cmdrflake Жыл бұрын
Arlene Wozniak where are you?
@KingOFuh Жыл бұрын
I like 10cc's virgin of this song.
@vanopromo Жыл бұрын
Born and raised Rochesterian here. Loved Buffalo back in the 60's and early 70's. Great schools, kids, night life, Clutch Artists car shows, and the people there always seemed to dress far better than they did in Rochester. Even got to live in Buffalo in 1977 and endured the blizzard there that year. Left WNY the year after that and haven't lived there since. As it is, I go back to Ra-cha-cha every couple of years to see family members still around, but always find the time to visit Buffalo and stop in to Frank and Teresa's for wings. Only thing missing from my youth in Buffalo now are the great radio days of WKBW. The best Top 40 station ever!
@cynthiaculverhouse92397 ай бұрын
I liked WKBW and WYSL It was the age of innocence. I went to sleep listening to the radio... and I always had good dreams.
@patentexperts1675 Жыл бұрын
The old Buffalo Pub Building on Chippewa Street, so cool to see it's earlier days.
@davidsteck413 Жыл бұрын
Good place in early 1970s on elm wood ave Allentown
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❤I grew up in Kenmore, NY near Elmwood Ave. and then Hamburg, NY. My late grandmother taught at Sweet Home Junior High in the 1970’s. Fond memories.
I left the Western NY area in 1983. I knew that I’d never be back because of the lack of good employment. I’’ve been in Cali for 40 years. It’s been great and still go back to visit my relatives in Buffalo. The city has really recovered.
The light rail finished off Main Street. That was too bad. You can’t close down for 15 years and not affect the buying patterns.
Sure miss the old Buffalo.😢
My Mom's came in a cloudy plastic. She always kept it in her jewelry box on her dresser.
Cool to see the city when it was living and bustling. Now it’s still got most of those buildings missing only people and retail. It’s a city in storage, plug in and play when you’re ready.
Hen's & Kelly's........as kids we called it Hen's & Chicken's.
Gotta love Ernie Warlick!
We moved from there in 1969. Attended School # 52 from K-6th grade. Just remembered how safe it was as kid and how much I missed it after we left.
sampling this beutiful song
My folks stumbled across this video a couple days ago and were pleasantly surprised to find a set of very familiar faces (their own!) at the 2:20 mark. Thank you so much for putting this together! I'm definitely thinking of tracking down a decent copy of it and getting a framed print made for them.
Before the fall.
I hated growing up in the 1970’s. The specter of poverty chasing all of my relatives out of town for work. I knew that I’d leave the area when I was in High School. After college, I left and spent 40 years in California. The city has come back a lot though. I still visit.
Unexcelled
What a different time that was. I currently live in Buffalo, man has it changed.
Golden days ❤
The handwriting was on the wall. Industry was deserting the entire rust belt around the great lakes from Chicago and Duluth to Detroit to Cleveland to Buffalo to Niagara Falls to Rochester to Syracuse as fast as they could get out by 1970, and it only accelerated more once Nixon opened the gateway to trade with China in 1974. Nobody now talks about the rampant crime infestation that was everywhere downtown like W. Chippewa St. either, back when hookers and winos were walking the streets and throwing up everywhere as porn shops took over store fronts and old dilapidated movie theaters became porn houses, that made it completely unsafe to even want to go anywhere near what was the then-brand new Main Place mall. And it only got worse from then on for at least 25 if not the next 30 years.
One thing I don't miss one bit about the 1970s was all the horrible music like this back then when I was a teenager.
I remember Moe Considine, when she raided the drift boards… nice work my moey
I worked at the suicide prevention, crisis services over grants
If they say boost buffalo, it’s good for you
so many memories
I might’ve grown up about 35 miles north of Buffalo down on Lake Ontario, but always remember going to the Rockpile for a baseball game when I was in a little league and going to the auditorium. wrestling uConn and Bobo Brazil and the love Brothers . And most of all riding pass WKBW.
A lot less Sodomites
I escaped from New York...Good bye.
Wow. Lots of retail store names, media people, etc. that are mostly (all -?) gone now that I haven't heard anything from or thought about since I was a kid growing up in the 1960's.
I was a freshman in high school then. Loved going downtown to shop using my Mom's Charge-A-Plate. Great to see all the ladies with hats on!
Haha, “Mom’s Magic Charge-a-Plate”!! IIRC, it was a lightweight metal credit card in a cardboard sleeve. The physically embossed numbers and letters would print 2-3 copies of a receipt when inserted into a countertop device when the salesperson pressed down on the lever (ka-chunk)! So cool to see Mom buy something without actual cash. (I’d just finished 6th grade at the fairly-new Maple Road Elementary in Amherst.)
To think I was a child in the 1990 lol wow just a child no bills no nothing just enjoy life as a child
No, this had to be 94/95ish…..Onyx popped off in 1993
Back when they had jobs. Look how busy and nice the city was. Thank your leaders for what you have today!
I wish there were some 70s photos of south Seneca street. Since that's where my grandparents lived back in the day.
I Love ❤️ Patti LaBelle And The Bluebells - You Better Sing 🎤🎤🎤.
The city where my father was born. Buffalo sure has changed in over the last 50 years.
Back when Buffalo was a proud, prosperous though grimy city of over 500,000 population.
So what did the democrats do to save Buffalo over the past 60 years ? 5:24
Definitely NOT the Buffalo I remember growing up in during the 70's and 80's. Downtown was mostly empty and surrounding areas were garbage housing developments. Sad.
I was 13! It was so much fun shopping in the city…
I remember it all. I was born when the progression stopped and the decline started, insidiously slow at first then it gained momentum like a train wreck in slow motion. Buffalo City proper went from half a million souls to less than half that in about thirty years. Some argue give or take five years but it declined none the less. By the 70's it was still hustle-bustle, just less so but strained and injured, stumbling and almost aimless and known as the city where ideas come to die. The factories closed and relocated due to taxes corporations couldn't tolerate. First down south then to Asia, Mexico and places that made our clothes ill-fitting, car parts that didn't last and mills making products with child labor. The Eighties rolled in and so did the train to nowhere, a subway that traveled down main street leaving behind bankrupt businesses in its wake - the heavy cost of growth and development, unrealized, and La Cosa Nostra union $tacked cronyisms and a related mob hit unsolved to this day. The nineties rolled in because numerically it has to and Bette Midler came to town and remarked how wonderful it was what Buffalo did to its waterfront - so thick with cynicism the area politicians soiled their pants. Crys went out for investigations, impeachments and editorial cartoonists should have been awarded Pulitzers lambasting civic movers and shakers for the fiasco of negative growth. A mouse standing on its toes could see better ideas over a curb than what held political office in Western New York from the top of city hall. Then we moved into the two-thousands and "preservationists" want to save grain elevators for posterity. I can't wait to go on that tour. But hey, from the area that jailed Tim McGraw for the "infamous Horse Incident" what do you expect for this mindset? Grain elevator tour or country western concert? Yep. But to round things off Buffalo and surroundings are really on an upswing. Our football team is a top contender, hockey isn't far behind, jobs doing better than national stats, housing is ok and the weather shift is actually pretty good here in the 'ol Beau Fleu. The City never died because the people wouldn't let it.
Green Lightning 🎉
Great video, I wish I could hear the music louder.
I visit Buffalo every summer to visit family..just left July 29 2023 AND IT LOOKS THE SAME... JUST IN COLOR 😮
Cool to see the Market Arcade. The love of my life works there now.
I didn’t know Buffalo had an arcade. They have a very cool one in Cleveland.
Arlene Wozniak where are you?
I like 10cc's virgin of this song.
Born and raised Rochesterian here. Loved Buffalo back in the 60's and early 70's. Great schools, kids, night life, Clutch Artists car shows, and the people there always seemed to dress far better than they did in Rochester. Even got to live in Buffalo in 1977 and endured the blizzard there that year. Left WNY the year after that and haven't lived there since. As it is, I go back to Ra-cha-cha every couple of years to see family members still around, but always find the time to visit Buffalo and stop in to Frank and Teresa's for wings. Only thing missing from my youth in Buffalo now are the great radio days of WKBW. The best Top 40 station ever!
I liked WKBW and WYSL It was the age of innocence. I went to sleep listening to the radio... and I always had good dreams.
The old Buffalo Pub Building on Chippewa Street, so cool to see it's earlier days.
Good place in early 1970s on elm wood ave Allentown
City of no illusions
BLK will always be Power 94 to me.
*WBLK* Will Always Be Power^^
Was hoping to see UB
Very cool!
Big up and massive respect