“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…
“It's like walking next to a jet, that's how loud they are.... That thing was just whistling and screaming.” Don Dodd got his start at General Mills in 1969 and worked there for decades, taking on all sorts of roles. For a time, he was a gunner -…
“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…
Outside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY., photo by Kate Kaye in early 2020.
Outside former Cooperative Grange League Federation (GLF) Grain Elevator at Buffalo RiverWorks, Ganson St., Buffalo, NY., photo by Kate Kaye in early 2020.
"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.
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.