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- Subject is exactly "Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees"
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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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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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[Bert Hyde pictured outside the Waterfront Memories and More Museum with the Lake and Rail Elevator and Buffalo river in the background]
Bert Hyde is pictured outside The Waterfront Memories and More Museum in February 2020, with the Lake and Rail Elevator in the background.
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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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