Welcome to staffannnouncer.com, where we celebrate everything that makes Buffalo... Buffalo!
Collectively, that's Buffalo's Pop Culture History, and we hope you not only stop by for some memories,
but come away with a sense of what our area can be again.
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Kodachrome Buffalo: 1950s Downtown in Color:Dozens of beautiful photos showing downtown, areas along the Blackrock Canal that have been replaced with the 190, and photos of a neighborhood devistated by the building of the 33 Expressway... and even some shots from "out in the country." These photos are mostly from 1957 & 1958. |
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Mound in the Meadow- Buffalo's Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers: 300 Union soliders died during the harsh Buffalo winter of 1812 as they waited to invade Canada. Those soldiers are buried in a mass, virtually unmarked grave in the middle of the Dealware park Golf Course. It's an incredible story too few people know about. |
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Buffalo Snapshots:WE NEED YOUR BUFFALO 'STUFF'!! We are collecting the photos, audio and video that tell Buffalo's story, so that we can better tell that story here on staffannouncer.com and with all of our other projects... As we pay hommage to Buffalo's past, but look to the future!. |
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Good Ol'Max the Dog, 2001-2011: Steve Cichon's memories of the life and times of his faithful canine companion. Filled with photos and the great stories and the sad end of it all. |
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Made in Buffalo, 1951: A look at Buffalo at the height of its indsutrial might, from the pages of a July 1951 Fortune Magazine cover story. Over two dozen photos inside WNY's factories. |
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The Old Roman Mass: Here is a 1950's St Joseph's Missal for Children, the standby for any good Catholic boy or girl growing up in the 50s & 60s. Great illustrations, and break downs of the old pre-Vatican II Catholic mass, complete with Latin responses. |
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107.7 WNSA & The Sharpshooters: Listen to clips from one of the best radio shows to ever grace the airwaves of Buffalo Radio.... starring Mike Robitaille, the late Jim Kelley, Mike Schopp, and Howard Simon. Hours of listening as well as some classic photos from Buffalo's FM sports talk station. |
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Ted Darling Recaps the 1975 Sabres Season: Celebrating the Sabres 40th anniversary with a classic broadcast, as the orginal Voice of the Sabres recounts one of the teams great seasons... The 1974-75 Buffalo Sabres Stanley Cup run, complete with extended Darling and Jeanneret highlights. |
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The Glory Days of Buffalo Retailing: A quick taste of the twice sold-out talk at Forest Lawn Cemetary on retail... Photos, Jingles, and links to more right here! |
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The Real Steve Cichon 1951-2010: Your webmaster's photo and story filled memories of his father, written in the months following his death on Palm Sunday 2010. It’s the story of my dad’s last week on this planet, and the story of his life on this planet, and, mostly, the 32 years he spent on this planet as Dad to me, my brother, ans sister.
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STAN JASINSKI on WKBW: A very early recording of Buffalo's undisputed King of Polka Radio from Christmas 1954. Hear Stan work sponsor "Lucki-Urban"into a Polish version of Jingle Bells! |
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WKBW: The sights and sounds of one of Buffalo's (and America's!) great radio stations. Audio snapshots of the station in the 50s, 60s, and 70s... and photo snapshots as well. |
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CRYSTAL BEACH: See the sites and hear the souns of Crystal Beach from the 40s through the 80s. See TV commercials, hear radio jingles, look at over 100 snapshots from the park!! |
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WYSL Record Charts: A collection of over 50 WYSL/WPhD Record charts as handed out by the station in the 70s. The best part: Each Chart features a WYSL jock like Kevin O'Connell, Larry Norton, or John Piccillo (plus scads more) all in their 70s glory! |
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WBEN 1973: Hear Clint Buehlman, Van Miller and the Buffalo Braves... ENTIRE DAYS worth of WBEN in 1973, recently digitally remastered from station logger tapes unheard since the day they were recorded! |
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Buffalo Postcards: Well over 600 Buffalo Postcards, from the 1860s through the 1980s. See Downtown, The Olmsted Parks, the Zoo, Swank Delware Avenue, Buffalo Harbor, and hundreds of others... |
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The Uncle Bobby Show Page: The World's Most Complete Tribute to the late, great Uncle Bobby Ash, including the Bimbo the Birthday Clown Song! |
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Larry Glick! Pictures and Sounds with WBZ's Overnight Maven of Yesteryear.. the Great Larry Glick! |
 | Channel Four's Santa Show: A page dedicated to Channel 4's Santa's Workshop Show... An All Time Buffalo Classic, remembered by just about anyone who grew up in the 50s, 60s, or 70s! |
| Christmas in Buffalo 1954: Ads and epherema taken from the pages of December 1954 editions of the Courier Express and Evening News. |
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Mr. Dressup: Remembering Canada's Greatest Kid Show Host... Ernie "Mr. Dressup" Coombs. |
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Irv, Rick, and Tom: A multimedia presentation on the Eyewitness News Team of Irv Weinstein, Rick Azar, and Tom Jolls. |
| Buffalo Radio '89: Don Postles and Channel 2 cameras visted Buffalo's Top-Rated Radio morning shows back in 1989.... WBEN, WPHD, WMJQ, WGRF, WHTT. |
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Statler Hilton Luggage Tag, 1960s
Kevin O'Connell broadcasts live during the Blizzard of '77 on WBEN-TV
Buffalo Police Cruiser, 1981
Rick Azar for Iroqouis Beer
Malecki Sausage Chairman Ronald Malecki, c.1985. Miss those hot dogs!
Jungle Jay and the Sunday Funnies on Channel 7.
WGR-TV's Barry Lillis.
Buffalo Bob Smith and WKBW-TV's Mike Randall.
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Ted Darling and Rick Jeanneret at the Aud.
Yours truly, Buehly. Clint Buehlman on his last day at WBEN 1977. |
| Its Midnight: The Tom Connolly Experience: Tom is WBEN Radio's overnight mystery man, famous all across the Niagara Frontier for his hourly time checks heading into CBS News... It's midnight. |  |
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The Milt Ellis Jukebox
Milt Ellis was the PA voice of the Buffalo Sabres for the teams first 28 years. On this page you'll find all sorts of classic "Game Presentation" audio, like Milt's famous understated goal announcements, Tenor Joe Byron signing thr National Anthem, and Norm Wullen on the organ; Many of these unheard since the Aud closed it doors! |  |
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WBEN at 75! Check out the dozens of pictures, sounds, and stories of one of Buffalo's great radio stations... With this 75th Anniversary tribute to WBEN! |  |
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Buffalo Anchorman: A
Tribute to Buffalo TV in the 70s Buffalo Anchorman is a look at the mustache and paisley filled era of Buffalo Television known as the 70s and early 80s. If you enjoyed Wil Ferrell's hit movie ANCHORMAN, you'll love the real life look back at Buffalo TV.
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the 1986 KB Radio Reunion Pictures and memories from the the 1986 KB Reunion Weekend, celebrating Danny Neaverth's 25 years at WKBW. |  |
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The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid The NBC Project Peacock Movie starring Buffalo Radio and TV personality Jim Brinson as the Evil Pat Robbins. |  |
| The Legend of Haseoke!
At a long gone Buffalo Radio station, Mike Schopp and
producer Steve Cichon found a box of dusty old tapes in the backroom. After listening to a few, they knew they had a hit on their hands. HASEOKE... as heard on the radio... Available only here... At staffannouncer.com! |  |
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Hold the Phone: The John Otto Page
The Dean of Talk Radio in Buffalo, John made nights a little less lonely for WNYers for 40 years. |
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The Many Faces of Ed Little Ed Little was a staple on Buffalo radio for over 60 years... From his time as a Child actor, to his live broadcasts from the Town Casino, to his 4 decades as in the news business. |
 | The Plush, Yet Not Overly Ostentatious Norm Nathan Page:
after decades as one of Boston's preeminent jazz disc jockeys, Norm was re-born late in his career as the overnight talkshow host on 50,000 watt giant WBZ. He always kept the conversation light, and kept us company weekend overnights. |
| Buffalo TV Tetris The Classic computer game updated for Buffalo TV fans. One game and you'll be hooked! Don't be the last one on the block to conquer the Irv Weinstein Final Round! |
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The Puckett Dance! Kids, its the dance sensation that's sweeping the nation... An Audio tribute to one of Buffalo's Great Radio newsmen... And My Radio tag team partner... Tom Puckett!!You must have windows Media Player installed to enjoy. Check out The Staffannouncer.com Blog for a Puckett Dance Remix! |
| SHANE with Sandy BeachPhotos and Audio from Shane Brother Shane's visit to the Sandy Beach Show, 2009. Danny Neaverth, too!
| Remembering the 190 Tolls Warmly (!?) remembering Breckenridge and Ogden tolls, and their exact change baskets with Danny Neaverth at WKBW-TV.
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Remembering Christopher Glenn and In the News The Great CBS News (and Saturday Cartoon) voice... the man behind "In the News," and the "World news Roundup" for decades.
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Irv Weinstein on PM Magazine… John Beard, too! A late 1970s program, airing on Channel 4, about Irv Weinstein at work & home.
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Do The Lurch! Ted Cassidy's hit record madfe during the height of his fame on The Addams Family.
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Buffalo’s Shane Brother Shane– Shane Gibson What else is there to say... Except that Shane Sings. Worth a listen!!
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Rock Em Sabres… The Great Anthem that rocked the Aud, and WNYB-TV 49 back in the late 80s
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Buffalo’s Early TV Stars The Faces of 50s & 60s Television, as written about in the Courier-Express in 1980.
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Santa Show Video, and “staffannouncer about town…” Watch a clip of the Channel 4 Classic... the only clip known to survive fromt he wildly popular show that ran nearly 20 years
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WINE 1080kc… The Buffalo and Kenmore Station Hear recordings and see emphemera from 1950s Radio in Buffalo
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When Radio Reporters were Real Men Jim McLaughlin was a great newsman and a bad ass, and here is the photo to prove it.
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Spam Names Youre going to get spam, you might as well enjoy it, as i tried to, during a time when spammers were getting creative with names.
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Tom Shannon explains “Wild Weekend” The Tom Shannon Theme, when he returned to WKBW Radio in the early 80s, after being in Detriot and elsewhere for two decades,
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The Carl Yastrzemski Song; The Yaz Song A Boston Red Sox Classic, and one of those earworm numbers that you won't soon forget.
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The Great Rick Jeanneret… Part 1 Some of RJs greatest goal calls
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Rick Jeanneret, Part 2: Fights, Saves, & Great Moments Yet more of th great Rick Jeanneret
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Buffalo Braves Fever with Bob McAdoo & Randy Smith The McAdoo Song... Big Mac!! Big Mac!!!
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WKBW Rock’n'Roll Pioneer Remembered Perry Allen on KB with Irv Weinstein in 1958. One of Buffalo's early Rock'n'Rollers.
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Steve's Silly Tourist Photos Steve's travelled the globe... And always seems to find something to take a picture of that you just won't find on a postcard. |
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staffannouncer.com Hall of Fame: This page started it all at staffannouncer.com. A fun look at the best of Disc Jockeys, Newsmen, Big Voices, Game Show Men and the Rest of the Best! These pages are in celebration of the pop culture icons who may not elsewhere receive their just appreciation. Filled with Biographical comments and commentary. |
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Meet Steve Meet your webmaster, Steve Cichon, and find out more about staffannouncer.com. |
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The Cichon Casino Lounge The Important ins and outs of stud and draw poker... And not that bullcrap Hold'em nonsense they play on TV. |
| Media Archive Catalog Thousands of sound bites, airchecks, and other audio ephemera you won't find anywhere else... From Danny Neaverth to Clint Buehlman... From Ted Darling to Van Miller... From Irv Weinstein to Mr. Dressup... From the Buffalo Bills to the Buffalo Braves... From the earliest wax recordings of the 1880s, to the latest Internet downloads, we collect them all! Quirky old records your interest? We have thousands on-line... Thousands more yet to be listed. |
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Mike Robitaille, Hockey Hotline, Empire Sports Network, mid 90s.
Freddie's Doughnuts, Main at Michigan, 1940s
Goldie Gardner and friend, WNED-TV, late 70s.
Bethlehem Steel Blast Furnace. 18,000 once worked at the Lackawanna Plant
Robert Redford, filming The Natural at the Rockpile, 1983.
Rich Kellman and Jimmy Griffin.
Bob Wells, WEBR's Host of The Hi-Teen Dancy Party at the Dellwood Ballroom.
Your Operator On, John Otto.
Gary Papa and Molly McCoy, Channel 2, late 70's.
Van Miller in his Rich Stadium perch.
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Forgotten Buffalo
If you can't find it here, and its a part of Buffalo's pop culture history, chances are you'll find it at ForgottenBuffalo.com... The two sites are really an extension of one another, with webmasters Steve and Marty sharing two decades of friendship, and passion for the history of the stuff that makes Buffalo, Buffalo! Forgotten Buffalo...One of America's Two Great Websites. |
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