Buffalo at War: big guns at the Broadway Market, 1918

By Steve Cichon
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“The Great War,” World War I on display on Buffalo’s East Side in 1918 or 1919.

A mammoth coastal artillery gun is shown off at the then outdoor Broadway Market in an effort to attract donations to the Victory Loan campaign.

That’s Corpus Christi church in the background.

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Steve Cichon

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. His stories of Buffalo's past have appeared more than 1600 times in The Buffalo News. He's a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves. Since the earliest days of the internet, Cichon's been creating content celebrating the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives-- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.