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 […]
Tag: retail geekery
Plum Jelly – vintage Loblaws recipe
As always printer friendly copies: Plum Jelly 3×5 card Plum Jelly 4×6 card Plum Jelly full page
#tbt More Buffalo retail advertising from the vaults
More Old School Buffalo retail advertising Face-saving Facts Take the sting out of your daily shave! Let a Schick Electric Dry Shiver shear away your beard, smoothly, quickly and cleanly. There’s no fussing with lather, blades or brush. There’s no scraping or pulling. The Schick whisks over your face in a jiffy and removes […]
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 […]
#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 […]