2024-11-22

Category: vintage

#tbt The last ever Flag Day at Philip Sheridan Elementary School Philip Sheridan Elementary School, Tonawanda NY, final flag day 1982
#tbt, Buffalo, Buffalo History, Dead Nancy Stuff, photo, Photos, the 716, vintage

#tbt The last ever Flag Day at Philip Sheridan Elementary School

The year was 1982. The Baby Boomers were growing up which left the post-WW2 suburb of Tonawanda, NY with more schools then students. The smaller K-2 schools built quickly for the boomer kids had already started to close (I was supposed to attend Horace Mann school but it closed the spring before I started- it […]

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#TBT Torn Down Buffalo Saint Joseph’s New Cathedral, Buffalo, NY (demolished 1976) St. Joseph's New Cathedral, Buffalo, NY (demolished 1976)
#tbt, Buffalo, Buffalo History, Dead Nancy Stuff, photo, Photos, vintage

#TBT Torn Down Buffalo Saint Joseph’s New Cathedral, Buffalo, NY (demolished 1976)

Saint Joseph’s New Cathedral History (via preservationready.org and Kay Nou = Our House) In the early years of the 20th century, Roman Catholic Bishop Charles Henry Colton began plans to construct an even grander cathedral several miles north of the existing church, along Buffalo’s Delaware Avenue, where the well-heeled lived. The new structure would be build for $500,000 […]

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