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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

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.

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

“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…

Former Buffalo flour mill workers Bruce Carter (left) and his brother Joel Carter, photo by Kate Kaye, January 2020.

"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…

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…

"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…

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

“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…