Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Flour mills--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Flour industry--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Flour mills--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Flour industry--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Schneekloth, Lynda]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> “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 structures. On a frigid and windy Buffalo day in February 2020, she braved the cold to point out their inner-workings, why they were built the way they were, why they’re considered architectural wonders – and why so many of us are intrigued by them. Schneekloth was interviewed in February 2020 by Kate Kaye.

NOTE: This story features detailed descriptions of Buffalo’s grain elevator architecture, Buffalo’s grain elevator and cultural preservation, internal grain elevator machinery and processes.

]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Schneekloth, Lynda]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Flour mills--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees]]> Flour mills--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Flour industry--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Carter, Bruce]]> Carter, Joel]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Flour mills--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees]]> Flour mills--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Flour industry--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> "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 Buffalo's grain culture as kids. They both went on to work in the flour mill themselves, but an industrial accident in the mill sidelined their father and put an end to the family's flour milling days. Bruce Carter and his brother Joel were interviewed in early 2020 by Kate Kaye.

NOTE: This story involves graphic injury descriptions and features detailed descriptions of flour mill jobs and equipment including the “man-lift.”]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Carter, Bruce]]> Carter, Joel]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Brill, Fred]]> Needham, Pat]]> Kolodziej, Sam]]> Driscol, Jack]]> Roberts, Bob]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> "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 deep down in the hold of a ship, of working with equipment that stayed the same since his dad's time as a scooper, and about what being the boss of a scooping gang was really like. Driscol was interviewed in early 2020 by Kate Kaye.

NOTE: This story features detailed descriptions of scooping gangs and scooping work and equipment, grain elevator and railroad operations and related work.]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Driscol, Jack]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Driscol, Jack]]> Needham, Pat]]> Kolodziej, Sam]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo--Employees]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> “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 decades in Buffalo and around the Great Lakes. A tragic accident down in the hold of a grain ship put an end to his working life. Pat didn’t have to tell us what it was like getting pulled out from a ship hold without being able to feel his legs, but he did. Needham was interviewed in early 2020 by Kate Kaye.

NOTE: This story involves graphic injury descriptions, as well as descriptions of scooping gangs and scooping work and equipment.

]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Needham, Pat]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]>