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Tour: Jan 13, 2009

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Eckhardt Department Store

Polish Union of America

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Top Hill Grill

Talty's

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Scharf's Schiller Park

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Ulrich's Tavern

Artys Grill

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The Malamute

Taverns of Polonia 1910

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Classic Taverns-Niagara

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Club 505

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Ray Flynn's

Kutas Warsaw Inn

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Buffalo's Polonia

Pulaski Parade 1962

Pulaski Parade 2006

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Broadway Fillmore

Polonia Stories

1910 Maps of Polonia Buffalo

Buffalo Polonia - 1910

Preserve a Polish Home

Kaminski Meats

Polonia Scrapbook

Polonia On Parade

1965 Polka Convention

Forgotten Bflo Features

Re-Light the Rand

Genesee Brewery Tour

Special Features

Whammy Weenie

Inside the Aud

Skateland - East Ferry

Jimmy Griffin 1929-2008

Sattler Theater

Masonic Lodge #846

Broadway Grill Reunion

Bocce Club- Clinton St.

Ukrainian-American Center

Smiling Ted's

Buffalo Snow

Buffalo Drive-In

Buffalo 1969

Ray H. Bennett Home

Ultra Cool: 70s Buffalo

Buffalo Bowling Shirts

Great Northern Elevator

Pullman / Wagner Complex

Pierogi Capital of US

North Park Theater

Zywiec Brewery

Buffalo Beer Trays

1964 Campaign For Pres

Polskie Kolo Spiewackie

Forgotten Buffalo Sounds

Sounds of Buffalo Beer

Sounds of Buffalo

Sounds of the Hound

Utica Club Beer Song

Forgotten Buffalo-Lost

St. Gerard's Parish

The Polish Village

Rudas Record Store

Tondrowski's Shoe Store

The DL&W Terminal

Buffalo Gas Works

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Sattlers 998

Rivoli Theater - Broadway

H-O Elevator

Riverside Men's Shop

Mastman's Kosher Deli

Crystal Beach

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CLASSIC PHOTOS

Bevador/Beerador Coolers

Parkside Candies

Buffalo's Last Roundhouse

Wildroot Factory

Buffalo Stockyards

Chicago Iron Works

Forgotten Ontario

Tim Hortons #1

TH&B Train Station

Ivor Wynne Stadium

Canadian National Station

Forgotten Rochester

Polonia Rochester

Spittoon Water Troughs

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Perreca's Bakery

F.X. Matts - Utica Club

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Rocketship7

Commander Tom Show

Dialing for Dollars

Ed Tucholka

Polonia Media

WKBW Radio

WKBW Top 40 Celebration

KB Goes Kaboom! WKBW

1430 Main St - WKBW RADIO

A Thing of the Past 2006

WKBW's Tommy Shannon

George Hound Dog Lorenz

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TOUR THE AUD - 2007
A Forgotten Buffalo Reader Submission

Picture taken in 2007, about a year before Fall 2008 demolition, the Aud stood quietly on Buffalo’s waterfront.
Picture taken in 2007, about a year before Fall 2008 demolition, the Aud stood quietly on Buffalo’s waterfront.
Forgotten Buffalo recently was e-mailed a portfolio of truly fascinating photos. Taken during the Fall of 2007, the pictures represent an “urban exploration” of Buffalo’s Memorial Auditorium. While looking for more pictures on the web of the Aud post-Sabres, I discovered that these pictures were taken by two individuals names “Canukr” and “Zenjaphy.” Forgotten Buffalo is grateful to these two explorers who have given us an amazing look inside one of Buffalo’s favorite sites as it sat quietly on Buffalo’s waterfront for over 10 years. Until the Fall 2008 demolition, the Aud represented the City’s largest time capsule. “Canukr” and “Zenjaphy” spent nearly 7 hours inside the Aud to capture these images. Thank you!
     
Groundbreaking for the arena occurred on November 30, 1939. The arena was a Works-Progress-Administration project; which was the use of federal money to fund numerous projects throughout the United States in an attempt to halt the Great Depression. The construction of the arena occurred to replace the aging Broadway Auditorium; which was Buffalo's only conventional hall at the time. The $2.7 million dollar, 12,280 seat stadium opened officially on October 14, 1940 to a crowd of 3000 where the arena was officially dedicated to the memory of those lost in World War combat. The stadium originally played home to the Buffalo Bisons of the American Hockey League until 1970 when the team folded after the National Hockey League granted Buffalo the Sabres. It was at this point that the arena was expanded at a cost of $8.7 million by lifting the 2,200 ton roof and the addition of a orange level of seating which brought the arena capacity to 16,433 for hockey and 18,000 for basketball (for the Buffalo Braves of the NBA - now the Los Angeles Clippers).  The Aud was closed in 1996 and sat, suspended in time until 2008 when demolition of the site was begun.
Ticket office near Terrance Street entrance.
Ticket office near Terrance Street entrance.
Escalator to the “orange” level
Escalator to the “orange” level
Photo taken 2003
Photo taken 2003
Same location - 2007
Stairway in the Aud Club
Stairway in the Aud Club
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The Aud Club - Site of my 1990 Canisius High School Prom!
Historic Fire Engines were being stored inside.. What has happened to them?
Another VERY cool fire truck inside the Aud
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