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Good housing for good neighbors
Report describing housing operated by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, including demographics of residents.
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Ten-year review of the activities of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority, 1934, ten years of progress.
An accounting of the activities of the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority since its inception in 1934.
Position: 104 (114 views)
Annual report of the Board of Police of the City of Buffalo
Annual report produced by the Board of Police for 1898. Includes narrative reports of the Police Superintendent, Police Surgeon, Patrol Boat, Bureau of Identification, Electrical Department, and Police Matrons. Includes precinct and staffing…
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Bruce Carter and Joel Carter, former Buffalo flour mill workers
"My father said, ‘Here’s a bottle of whiskey. Go tell that guy I need about a three-second spill.'" With a dad nicknamed Fearless Freddie who worked in and around the grain elevators throughout his life, Joel and Bruce Carter were indoctrinated into…
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Pat Needham, former Buffalo grain scooper and grain ship engineer from Alabama Street
“When we were kids we’d go to Concrete Central – just fields over there, old railroad tracks. And we'd hang out."
Some of Buffalo’s grain elevators had already shuttered by the time Pat Needham was a kid, but he worked hauling and scooping grain for…
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Lynda Schneekloth, University at Buffalo architecture professor emeritus and grain elevator preservationist
“They are so out of scale to anything that you see in your life that they are like a distant landscape right in front of you all the time.”
More than a grain elevator enthusiast, Lynda Schneekloth is a scholar of these giant concrete and steel…
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Jack Driscol, former boss of a Buffalo grain scooping gang, railroad man and elevator worker
"The scoopers were at the whim of everybody."
A railroad man at age 17 who would soon become the “boss” of a grain scooping “gang” in 1962, Jack Driscol toiled on Buffalo’s waterfront his whole working life. Jack shared memories of scooping grain…
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[Former Buffalo grain scoopers at the Waterfront Memories and More Museum]
Former Buffalo grain scoopers pictured from left: Sam Kolodziej, Jack Driscol, Pat Needham, photo taken at Waterfront Memories and More Museum, 41 Hamburg St, Buffalo, NY, photo by Kate Kaye, December 2019
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[Former Buffalo grain scoopers gathered at the Apollo Family restaurant for coffee]
Former Buffalo grain scoopers (clockwise from left: Fred Brill, Pat Needham, Sam Kolodziej, unnamed friend, Jack Driscol, Bob Roberts) at the Apollo Family Restaurant, 3387 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, NY, where the old pals gathered weekly for…
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[Former Buffalo flour mill workers Bruce and Joel Carter sitting in kitchen]
Former Buffalo flour mill workers Bruce Carter (left) and his brother Joel Carter, photo by Kate Kaye, January 2020.
Position: 606 (32 views)