Buffalo in the 50s: Summertime dancing at Thunder Bay

By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
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The Ontario summer home of the Duane Lyman family was the scene of a dance party for the entire summer colony at Thunder Bay.

Lyman was “the dean of Western New York architecture.” He designed the Saturn and Buffalo clubs on Delaware Avenue, the old Federal Courthouse on Niagara Square, Christ the King Chapel at Canisius College and Williamsville South High School, among others.

He died in 1966.

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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.