Ghost Girl of Tonawanda
I grew up (late 70s/ early 80s- Gen X represent!) hearing the Ghost Girl of Knoche Road story. I had no idea just how old the story was. I also don’t want to admit for how long I kept looking for her whenever I was in the Knoche Road/ Delaware Avenue area. TOWN POLICE […]
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Philip Sheridan Elementary School, Tonawanda NY, final flag day 1982
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 […]
St. 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 […]
Sometimes blog posts almost write themselves (well often I wish it was that easy but I digress). Today’s find was a program from the Ballet Folklorico of Mexico’s performance at Shea’s Buffalo Theater Monday, May 22 & Tuesday, May 23, 1967