Wow, how I remember those days. That's when DG downtown Buffalo, New York was bustling. Way before they tore up streets and laid the train that only runs from downtown to University Buffalo on Main Street. I especially loved seeing the Christmas animated windows in A.M.&A.s department store. So many wonderful memories of my hometown.
Grew up during this time, lots of jobs, good times. This is great brings back memories, was is perfect?, nope....but i'd still take it over today ! Grew up on the upper west side, listening to rock-n-roll on WKBW-am radio, Grant street was where we did most of our shopping, lots of mom and pop neighborhood stores too back then, downtown was still thriving....
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!
Lived there from 66-72. Remember playing hockey on ponds and Santora's pizza. Little league baseball and football. Bills drafting OJ. Greatest radio and DJ Jackson Armstrong and WKBW. First crush (Pam)!Loved it there but I was just a kid and I didn't have to drive in the snow!
Got my first little league baseball mitt by redeeming books of Mom’s Greenies. The next year Dad took me to Al Dekdebrun’s Sporting Goods to buy a larger and better glove. Still have them both!
@@chasbodaniels1744 The one on Sheridan drive??? I LOVED that place....I played many sports, and loved smelling the bats and smelling the new gloves....I don't think I am weird but I loved competing.....which little league were you in? I was in Connie Mack Little League.
@@chasbodaniels1744 WOW!!!!! I used to love to go to Dekdebruns to just see the new shiny bats and smell the brand new gloves! I remember my dad bought me a beautiful bat, I got a double with my first at bat and a teammate used mine and broke it...I was crushed and never shared my bat again......was I a bad person?
Cool to see Buffalo when it had many people and a bustling downtown. I've visited and enjoyed the beautiful architecture and the few bars and restaurants. Considering how small the population is today, it's still got some impressive neighbourhoods on the north side.
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 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.
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.
HALO LOVE Me too, I remember those 10 years of Concerts at Bills Stadium in 70s Even today Buffalo gets big name Bands. I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Century Theatre Had Bills seasons tickets right threw Superbowl years. In summer went to Mickey Rats in Angola. My Brother is a good friend of Johnny Rezniz from GOO GOO DOOLS. He could have been part of the band but he liked his Alcohol. I went to all Boys High School TIMON in South Buffalo, it was free because my Dad was a Football Coach. My grade School wasn't much fun ST MARKS in North Buffalo was all nun teachers. There was 1 thing 8th grade girl looked like Steavie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. My Dad was on 1958 UB BULLS football team that got a Bowl game invite, they couldn't play because they had 2 Black players, the whole team decided not to go. City of Good Neighbors. JAMES PATRICK O'GRADY don't get more IRISH than that
Buffalo in the 1960's, 1970's, even the 1950's where I was born there was totally different from the present. I was born in Buffalo at Children's Hospital on 10/17/1953. I lived in Buffalo at 251 Hutchinson Street in Kensington, also lived on Lexington Avenue, 127 Montana Avenue, lived in Kenmore at 154 Woodward Avenue, 102 Cobb Street in Sheridan Parkside in the Town of Tonawanda(Buffalo's largest suburb) & in the City of Tonawanda at 303 & then later 300 Hinds Street in Riverview apartments. I lived the first 9 years of my life in the Buffalo area. My late mother was a Class of 1950 graduate of Grover Cleveland High School. My late father worked for AMF and later for GM at what is now the Pierce Arrow Museum, he worked in Niagara Falls for Olin Matheson and later Carborundum in the early 1960's when Niagara Falls was the true & real chemical capital of the world. I moved from the Buffalo area on 11/21/1962 to the Philadelphia area, my father took a better paying job with Boeing aircraft & the better roads & highways of Pennsylvania and the milder winters, plus the lower taxes all incentives to move from Western New York State. I'm in to long slow tedious process of selling everything I own in the damned Sh@thole Loser City Tucson metro area and once that's done, I'm returning home to the Philippines where my heart is & my girl friend lives in and my late wife of 31 years was from. The Loser City Tucson metro area is the very worst place I have ever lived in, and Arizona has the nations very worst roads & highways. Pima County is the Crack seal capital of North A Erica & the Pothole Capital of North America. Pothole dodging & tailgating are sports in the Tucson metro area.
Damn shortly after you were born I was just getting out of the service and had moved to buffalo in 1955. Got a job with South Buffalo railroad, retired down to Georgia. Gotta lotta good memories and friends in buffalo
@@briannotafan3368 nobody is impressed with your shithead racist comments you've made. Ive read several already from you. Get a life or better yet get covid Boomer
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.
1963 I would go to the candy cane lounge, and other places to drink and dance.All then good looking Gals, wow, I was in the Army on the Grand Island nike base. Good old days
Even the Polonia district was nice in the 60s. I spent 65-75 there growing up. We were lower class, but it was a beautiful neighborhood and people had big hearts and took care of their houses. (Sycamore and Ruhland to be exact). Now my 60s paradise is in ruins, and if I visit, its depressing and dangerous.
@@jamesogrady6612 Winds coming from the arctic typically flow from the north west so the cold air hits that moist vapor off the lask and BAM...your jalopy is buried in snow...other cities are to the west of the lake.
At 0:36, I'm surprised that the Buffalo area had only six-digit phone numbers into the 1960s. When did they go to seven-digit numbers? (I'm from the Cleveland, OH area, which has had seven-digit phone numbers since 1949, I think, at least in Cuyahoga County.)
@@robertetzenhouser I just looked at a picture I downloaded from buffalostories.com of an article in the Buffalo News from July 20, 1980 that basically mentions that 7-digit phone numbers came to Buffalo in 1960, so I reckon they came much later than April of that year.
In 1960 l was 4 years old & TT3-4029 was our phone#. Can't tell you how many #'s I've had since then but that's the only one l still remember. #buffalo-born#coldsprings
Good Gawd, did "urban renewal" savage so much of downtown's core and character! Add suburbanization and riots and vanished industrial jobs, and we get what we got. Most Buffalonians, though, have a lot of grit and grace.
Giovanni: Love your Buffalo footage. I'm making a documentary about Buffalo cartoonist Spain Rodriguez. I'd like to talk to anyone who has film of Buffalo from 1940-1967. Please email me susan@bernalbeach.com
Lake Erie and the Buffalo River are cleaner than ever. So is the air. The closing of the Erie Canal in the 50's helped destroy our economy. I've had the privilege to travel all over the country, old school, by car. There are more beautiful places, but many, many more depressing places.
Wow, how I remember those days. That's when DG downtown Buffalo, New York was bustling. Way before they tore up streets and laid the train that only runs from downtown to University Buffalo on Main Street. I especially loved seeing the Christmas animated windows in A.M.&A.s department store. So many wonderful memories of my hometown.
Wow I stayed 15 min from downtown. What time period did u live there and what part?
Grew up during this time, lots of jobs, good times. This is great brings back memories, was is perfect?, nope....but i'd still take it over today ! Grew up on the upper west side, listening to rock-n-roll on WKBW-am radio, Grant street was where we did most of our shopping, lots of mom and pop neighborhood stores too back then, downtown was still thriving....
Used to take the 3 grant bus to shop at grant and w. Ferry with my mother. Used to be a fun place
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.
So proud to be born and raised in Buffalo. I raised my children here too. Miss it
In the city?
Lived there from 66-72. Remember playing hockey on ponds and Santora's pizza. Little league baseball and football. Bills drafting OJ. Greatest radio and DJ Jackson Armstrong and WKBW. First crush (Pam)!Loved it there but I was just a kid and I didn't have to drive in the snow!
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.
Hens and Kelly! I'm going to remember the beauty of Buffalo. I remember Humboldt Pkwy before the 33 was built. Good childhood memories.
I grew up off of Humboldt Pkwy. on Hamlin Rd.
Remember "green stamps" from Hen's & Kelly? 🙂👍
Deaconess Hospital was on the Humboldt wasn't it?
@@enricopallazzo2987 Yep! My mother worked as a nurse there.
@@rivkajazz I was born there. Most people think I'm making that name up when they ask where I was born, very few remember deaconess these days.
Who remembers S and H Green stamps?
Got my first little league baseball mitt by redeeming books of Mom’s Greenies. The next year Dad took me to Al Dekdebrun’s Sporting Goods to buy a larger and better glove. Still have them both!
@@chasbodaniels1744 The one on Sheridan drive??? I LOVED that place....I played many sports, and loved smelling the bats and smelling the new gloves....I don't think I am weird but I loved competing.....which little league were you in? I was in Connie Mack Little League.
& treasure chest cupons from brandnames & century stores
@@BillMorganChannel Sheridan park sledding & tobogganing in the winter
@@chasbodaniels1744 WOW!!!!! I used to love to go to Dekdebruns to just see the new shiny bats and smell the brand new gloves! I remember my dad bought me a beautiful bat, I got a double with my first at bat and a teammate used mine and broke it...I was crushed and never shared my bat again......was I a bad person?
Such great memories! Thank you for making me smile....
Cool to see Buffalo when it had many people and a bustling downtown. I've visited and enjoyed the beautiful architecture and the few bars and restaurants. Considering how small the population is today, it's still got some impressive neighbourhoods on the north side.
I agree with you that Buffalo is much better today in every district than it was in the early 1960s.
dad would take me downtown at x-mas time to see trains on display in store windows now look at the shithole since the whites gave up
Growing up on the west side was just a great time back then i
always will cherish it
I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO 5OS AND 60S
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.
Awesome video!! Brings back 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.
Gotta love Ernie Warlick!
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.
Great video! Thanks for sharing!
AM&A's had the best candy counter!!
Sears used to sell monkeys! Honest!!! My sister and I would watch them while ma and pa shopped.
I love Buffalo
HALO LOVE Me too, I remember those 10 years of Concerts at Bills Stadium in 70s Even today Buffalo gets big name Bands. I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Century Theatre Had Bills seasons tickets right threw Superbowl years. In summer went to Mickey Rats in Angola. My Brother is a good friend of Johnny Rezniz from GOO GOO DOOLS. He could have been part of the band but he liked his Alcohol. I went to all Boys High School TIMON in South Buffalo, it was free because my Dad was a Football Coach. My grade School wasn't much fun ST MARKS in North Buffalo was all nun teachers. There was 1 thing 8th grade girl looked like Steavie Nicks from Fleetwood Mac. My Dad was on 1958 UB BULLS football team that got a Bowl game invite, they couldn't play because they had 2 Black players, the whole team decided not to go. City of Good Neighbors. JAMES PATRICK O'GRADY don't get more IRISH than that
so many memories
Buffalo in the 1960's, 1970's, even the 1950's where I was born there was totally different from the present. I was born in Buffalo at Children's Hospital on 10/17/1953. I lived in Buffalo at 251 Hutchinson Street in Kensington, also lived on Lexington Avenue, 127 Montana Avenue, lived in Kenmore at 154 Woodward Avenue, 102 Cobb Street in Sheridan Parkside in the Town of Tonawanda(Buffalo's largest suburb) & in the City of Tonawanda at 303 & then later 300 Hinds Street in Riverview apartments. I lived the first 9 years of my life in the Buffalo area. My late mother was a Class of 1950 graduate of Grover Cleveland High School. My late father worked for AMF and later for GM at what is now the Pierce Arrow Museum, he worked in Niagara Falls for Olin Matheson and later Carborundum in the early 1960's when Niagara Falls was the true & real chemical capital of the world. I moved from the Buffalo area on 11/21/1962 to the Philadelphia area, my father took a better paying job with Boeing aircraft & the better roads & highways of Pennsylvania and the milder winters, plus the lower taxes all incentives to move from Western New York State. I'm in to long slow tedious process of selling everything I own in the damned Sh@thole Loser City Tucson metro area and once that's done, I'm returning home to the Philippines where my heart is & my girl friend lives in and my late wife of 31 years was from. The Loser City Tucson metro area is the very worst place I have ever lived in, and Arizona has the nations very worst roads & highways. Pima County is the Crack seal capital of North A Erica & the Pothole Capital of North America. Pothole dodging & tailgating are sports in the Tucson metro area.
Damn shortly after you were born I was just getting out of the service and had moved to buffalo in 1955. Got a job with South Buffalo railroad, retired down to Georgia. Gotta lotta good memories and friends in buffalo
me too children's l/ hospital 11/17/57 lived on crowely/royal/briggs then flew the coop when the blacks got out of the projects where we kept em
i was born at Children's Too...1955 !
@@briannotafan3368 nobody is impressed with your shithead racist comments you've made. Ive read several already from you. Get a life or better yet get covid Boomer
Quite a story...hope your happy now 💓
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.
That advert was a good deal $1895 for a 58 chev impala.
Thank you!!!!!
I WAS THERE IN THE EARLY SIXTIES
Childhood blast from the past LOL
as a teens we would drive down Chippewa & toss dog shit at the prostitutes
Look better than Buffalo nowdays
H e n s and Kelly's I worked for them in the late sixties I also worked 4 Western Electric
1963 I would go to the candy cane lounge, and other places to drink and dance.All then good looking Gals, wow, I was in the Army on the Grand Island nike base. Good old days
I remember.
Wish i was born a little earlier before stuff hit the fan...
The music was fabulous in the first few minutes. What was it?
To think I was a child in the 1990 lol wow just a child no bills no nothing just enjoy life as a child
Even the Polonia district was nice in the 60s. I spent 65-75 there growing up. We were lower class, but it was a beautiful neighborhood and people had big hearts and took care of their houses. (Sycamore and Ruhland to be exact). Now my 60s paradise is in ruins, and if I visit, its depressing and dangerous.
No it’s way better now
What happened?
note not one photo showing snow
chike60 I will never understand of all Citys near the 5 Great Lakes why Buffalo gets the most Snow
@@jamesogrady6612 Winds coming from the arctic typically flow from the north west so the cold air hits that moist vapor off the lask and BAM...your jalopy is buried in snow...other cities are to the west of the lake.
Hen's & Kelly's........as kids we called it Hen's & Chicken's.
Awesome! May i use some of the footage?
Sure!
@@payless1981 I will be sure to give you credit and send the link to you. Thank you!
nice to see the very rarely seen Richford (Ford) Hotel at 1:07, bombed for a parking lot for the now existing Ramada (I think)
My dad was a little kid back than
At 0:36, I'm surprised that the Buffalo area had only six-digit phone numbers into the 1960s. When did they go to seven-digit numbers? (I'm from the Cleveland, OH area, which has had seven-digit phone numbers since 1949, I think, at least in Cuyahoga County.)
mbclev theoretically 1947 when the NANP was assigned to the entire country and we got 716, but idk for sure
@@robertetzenhouser I just looked at a picture I downloaded from buffalostories.com of an article in the Buffalo News from July 20, 1980 that basically mentions that 7-digit phone numbers came to Buffalo in 1960, so I reckon they came much later than April of that year.
mbclev ok cool, nice to know
In 1960 l was 4 years old & TT3-4029 was our phone#. Can't tell you how many #'s I've had since then but that's the only one l still remember. #buffalo-born#coldsprings
Why does the music sound like a cheesy cowboy western ?
Good Gawd, did "urban renewal" savage so much of downtown's core and character! Add suburbanization and riots and vanished industrial jobs, and we get what we got. Most Buffalonians, though, have a lot of grit and grace.
If civic leaders had it to do over again, I wonder what they would do differently.
Giovanni: Love your Buffalo footage. I'm making a documentary about Buffalo cartoonist Spain Rodriguez. I'd like to talk to anyone who has film of Buffalo from 1940-1967. Please email me susan@bernalbeach.com
I escaped from New York...Good bye.
So what did the democrats do to save Buffalo over the past 60 years ? 5:24
Lake Erie and the Buffalo River are cleaner than ever. So is the air. The closing of the Erie Canal in the 50's helped destroy our economy. I've had the privilege to travel all over the country, old school, by car. There are more beautiful places, but many, many more depressing places.
Really cool pictures, but extremely annoying how they fade and move in and out, totally ruined it, couldn't finish watching.
Hit the space bar. It pauses it.
Stop complaining