By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo
Buffalo’s decline as an industrial power had already begun, but either it was difficult to tell from within or those who did know didn’t want to admit it for fear the admission would help accelerate the decline.
As the 1960s started 55 years ago this week, The News Editorial Board looked back at the booming ’50s and looked ahead to what needed to keep that boom going into the ’60s and beyond.
Many of the changes discussed as necessary for the 1960s are just beginning to be fulfilled 50 years later.
“Challenge of the ’60s”
“The decade just ended for the Niagara Frontier, as for other urban regions, has been a period of tremendous growth and profound change.”
