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- Subject is exactly "Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo"
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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: 312 (75 views)
Stairway at brewery built inside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) grain elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY.
Stairway at brewery built inside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY., photo by Kate Kaye in early 2020.
Position: 197 (104 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: 529 (46 views)
Outside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY
Outside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY., photo by Kate Kaye in early 2020.
Position: 160 (114 views)
Outside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY
Outside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY., photo by Kate Kaye in early 2020.
Position: 164 (113 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…
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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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Bert Hyde, First Ward historian and lifelong Resident, curator and co-founder of The Waterfront Memories and More Museum, daughter and sister of Buffalo Grain Workers
“Girls didn't go by the waterfront.”
Most women and girls who lived in Buffalo's First Ward -- the waterfront community at the heart of Buffalo's once-pulsating grain industry -- never went close to the waterfront or worked among the grain…
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[Lynda Schneekloth, University at Buffalo architecture professor, inside the former Perault Malt House]
Lynda Schneekloth, University at Buffalo architecture professor emeritus and grain elevator preservationist, inside the former Perot Malt House, Childs Street, Buffalo, NY, photo by Kate Kaye, February 2020
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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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