A coloring book of historic buildings in Buffalo New York. All illustrations in this coloring book were adapted from the book Buffalo Illustrated: Commerce, Trade and Industries of Buffalo, published in 1890 by Anderson & Gillette and the Courier Printing Company. The copy used to create this book as well as many other wonderful items can be found in the SUNY Buffalo State College Archives and Special Collections.
I’ve blogged about his location before (in what is in that space now) but this is what it looked like back in 1948
Now known as Marshalls Plaza, the strip mall has also been known as Great Arrow Plaza and, when it first opened in 1948, the Delaware Park Shopping Center. The apartment buildings in the background are still recognizable. The big tenants when this photo was snapped were the A&P market and the Western Savings Bank branch — which was opened after…
From the roof of AM&A’s in 1960, very few of the buildings seen here would still be standing a decade later. While the venerable Buffalo retailing names like Tanke and Ulbrich, which dated back to the 1850s and 1870s, would hold on until the 1980s, the buildings they’d called home for generations would not. Most of the block was torn…
