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 […]
Opening Day ad, 1982
Rainbow Centre Mall & more dead retail
I really hate falling into rabbit holes and today I blame the guys over at Forgotten Buffalo.com (and facebook) for today’s rabbit hole. The Rainbow Centre mall was part of the dystopian future envisioned by the proponents of Urban Renewal (aka tear down any interesting 19th century buildings and replace them with stuff designed by Brutalist style […]
Memorex Tape
#tbt Dead retail with a side of Memorex
The thrift store. the funky smells, the Bible verse screaming woman, the men in dog collars… err wait not that sort of post today. One of the fun things to do when at the thrift is to look for old store tags. If you are lucky the store separates the “New with Tag” clothing from […]
Delight Cookies Sütemémy
Delight Cookies Sütemémy 1 pound butter 1 cup sugar 4 cups all purpose flour 2 whole eggs 2 egg yolks 2 egg whites, slightly beaten ½ pound nutmeats, chopped 4 tablespoon sugar Strawberry, cherry, pineapple or apricot preserves Cut butter into sugar and flour as for pie dough. Add whole eggs and egg yolks. Mix […]
13 Stunning Shopping Malls From the Dawn of Consumerism
There are so many beautiful images of what shopping used to be like. Not anymore- today the mall has become a beacon of blandness- so bland that one can visit a mall in Bangkok and visit the exact same stores with the same layouts… Nowadays, shopping malls are seldom considered masterpieces. But that was completely […]