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Court House
From a series of Buffalo drawings from 1855.

Buffalo Light House
From a series of Buffalo drawings from 1855.

Market House
From a series of Buffalo drawings from 1855.

Niagara Railroad Depot
From a series of Buffalo drawings from 1855.

Sherwood House
From a series of Buffalo drawings from 1855.

1st Baptist Church
Where was/is this?

AAAAAA-postcard-BACK

Aerial view of Downtown
Notice there is no Convention Center... Genessee Street goes right to Niagara Square without interruption.

Albright Museum & State Teachers College
Look at all those trees... Now parking lots.

Arnholt's Restaurant
Washington St.
Not sure of exact location of this coffee shop.

Arrival of Fire Dept on Genesee St
Fighting fires with horse & buggy.

Baby Furntiture Store
1294 Hertel Ave

Buffalo Raceway
Under the lights

Bisons Base-Ball Park
Offermann Stadium

Broadway& Fillmore Avenues
This intersection is much more the same than many others, Except the donkey and the trolley tracks. This is standing with your back to downtown looking at the Boradway Market.

Broadway Looking West
Not sure where on Broadway... Nice trolley.

The Broadway Market
Note Kleinhans on the front umbrella

Buffalo Harbor Showing Coal docks

Harbor Scene
Grain Elevators and Steam Ships

Harbor Scene

Harbor Scene
Real photo this time

The Harbor
I like the ladies in the rowboat

The Ship Channel

Two Lighthouses
The white one,. of course survives

1960s Tug Boats
The Oklahoma and the North Carolina in Buffalo Harbor

Entrance to the Harbor

Another Harbor Scene

The Americana
Sailing between Buffalo and Crystal Beach (more in the Crystal Beach section)

Buffalo Yacht Club

The Dakota Elevator
Why was this one special? Not sure.

Buffalo Fire Boat in Action

Same card as previous
Different coloring though.
Common in these old cards.

Concrete Grain Elevators

Grain Elevators
note the crane in the middle

Jack Knife Bridge
See the Kellogg Grain Elevator... This is Michagan Ave, just past the new casino heading away from downtown.

Jack Knife Bridge
Given the number of different postcards I've seen of this bridge, It must have been impressive in its day

More Jack Knife Bridge

Jack Knife Bridge

Jack Knife Bridge 1950s
This is a cool later view.

The Buffalo Harbor Lighthouse
one of Buffalo's oldest still-standing structures.

Two Lighthouses
Again, the more familiar one stil stands across the Harbor from the Hatch

Mouth of the Harbor
Use the Lighthouse for bearng, the Aud site is out of site just to the right

NYCRR yards
Train tracks criss-crossed the waterfront area.

New Locks
I cant place this one. Is that bridge the old Intl RR Bridge?

Buffalo Harbor Stereocard
Stereocards were placed in a binocular-like device and the images would appear 3-D

Unloading Iron Ore

View from the Harbor
That's St. Joseph's Cathedral with the twin spires just right of the middle

After the storm of Jan 20, 1907

Yacht Race
With the Yacht Club in the background

Entrance to the Harbor

Entrance to Harbor
Real Photo version of previous card

Buffalo Airport
Built in 1939 as a WPA project, it was expanded in 1955, 1961, 1971, and 1977...

Buffalo Airport
This building was replaced in 1997 by the current terminal. The current building is slightly to the west of where this building stood.

Greater Buffalo International Airport
The Name was changed from Buffalo Municipal Airport when the city handed the airport over to the predecessor tot he NFTA in 1959. It became the Buffalo Niagara International Airport in 1996.

Original Terminal
This would eventually be known as the "East Terminal," with a west terminal built in the 70s to alleviate over crowding.

Buffalo General Hospital
I believe the building all the way to the right is still standing... Very close to Michigan Ave.

Buffalo State Hospital
Now known as the HH Richardson complex, locacted on Forest Ave near Elmwood.

Boarding the Americana
The ferry to Crystal Beach left the foot of Main Street. The Aud and the Metro Rail would be in this shot...

Canadiana At Dock
You'd take the Americana or the Canadiana from the foot of Main to the Dock at Crystal Beach

The Americana coming....

And the Canadiana going...

Midway Entrance
Crystal Beach thrilled the people of Southern Ontario and Western New York from 1888-1989.

Midway
Despite 70 years difference, the midway didn't look all that different when it eventually closed.

Arriving at Crystal Beach

The Crystal Beach Pier in winter

Athletic Field at Crystal Beach
The Coaster in the background was known as the Backety-Back.

Bathers on Crystal Beach

Bathers as the Canadiana approaches

Bathers and Boat

1940s view: Bathers and Canadiana

Buffalo's Coney Island: Crystal Beach
Close up View of the Backety-Back Coaster

Two-level Boardwalk and Pier

Union Station Ride

Children Wading

Real Picture card of Customs House
Taken from either Canadiana or Americana

Customs House

Customs House

After the Customs House on the Pier

The Pier
You can see the deck chairs in this shot.

Crystal Beach Divers
This doesn't appear safe...

Jolly Bathers at Crystal Beach
Notice the cottages along the beach...

Entrance to the Midway

CMore from the Midway

Midway
This One's very familiar to me... Even only with memories of the 80s at CB

Another Midway Scene

Again on the Midway

Razzle Dazzle
an Early amusement that looks to be unsafe.

Moonlight on Lake Erie
What a way to end a Crystal Beach date...

Cazenovia Park Casino
The water is no longer there... This side of the building faces the creek

Casino Closeup

Cazenovia Park
This is at the end of the ball diamonds... Basically a bathroom hut as far as I remember it 25 years ago. This is where our grandpa taught my brother and me to "not touch anything" in the public restrooms.

Cazenovia Bridge
This looks alot like the arae below the current Cazenovia St. (not Pkwy) Bridge... But not sure.

CazPark1922
Again, not entirely certain where this bridge stood.

Central Terminal
Here are several views of the building's exterior...

Central Terminal 2

Central Terminal 3

Central Terminal 4

Central Terminal Cocktail Lounge
Inside the attractive Martin's Restaurant

Central Terminal Lunch Counters

Central Terminal Main Concourse
Note the recently re-purchased clock

Central Terminal Main Entrance

Chamber of Commerce Bldg

Childrens Hospital
Nice Tin Lizzy there...

Chippewa at Delaware
To get this view, stand in Starbucks Parking lot... The rounded buidling is Bada Bing these days... The Hampton Inn is now across the street.

Chippewa & Main
For this view now, as you drive up Chippewa from the 33 towards the bars, look to the right as you cross the Metro rail tracks. Note the Buffalo Marquee...

Chippewa, Washinton, & Genesee Sts
This intersection looks as confusing then as it does now. I don't think any of that clump of buildings is still there... All parking lots or the M&T Building across from TGI Friday's.