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Steve Baczkowski, musician, music curator at Buffalo’s contemporary arts center Hallwalls and Buffalo grain elevator sound enthusiast
“Banging, creaking, popping, sliding, scraping: every sound you could imagine. Sometimes it sounded like a person screaming, the way the wind moved through there.”
As a kid, Steve Baczkowski sneaked into Buffalo’s abandoned grain elevators to hear…
Position: 252 (64 views)
"Window" cut from former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY.
"Window" cut from former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY., photo by Kate Kaye in early 2020.
Position: 164 (81 views)
[Exterior view of grain elevators and north side of the Buffalo river, facing the Ohio street bridge and rail cars]
Grain elevators and railyard views from 41 Hamburg St, Buffalo, NY, site of Waterfront Memories and More Museum, photos by Kate Kaye in early 2020
Position: 200 (74 views)
[Exterior view of grain elevators from across the Buffalo River]
Grain elevators and railyard views from 41 Hamburg St, Buffalo, NY, site of Waterfront Memories and More Museum, photos by Kate Kaye in early 2020
Position: 218 (71 views)
[Interior view of Duende (bar) at Silo City]
Inside Duende Bar, once used as an administrative office for flour mill operators, Childs Street (�Silo City Row�), Buffalo, NY, photo by Kate Kaye, February 2020.
Position: 597 (30 views)
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…
Position: 481 (35 views)
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…
Position: 450 (38 views)
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…
Position: 471 (36 views)
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…
Position: 375 (45 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…
Position: 256 (63 views)