Buffalo’s fast food choices in 1970

By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo

Not an exhaustive list by any means, this is merely a collection of fast food/drive-in style restaurants which had ads in The News this week 45 years ago.

Red Barn was a longtime favorite place when the hungries hit.

The Millersport Highway location of Sandy’s is now a car parts store.  The Transit Road location is a used car lot across the street from Hillview Elementary.

Gleason’s had two Amherst locations in 1970.

A visit to Col. Sanders would net chicken lovers a 6-pack of Dad’s Root Beer.

Beefy’s was a beef on weck place inside the Seneca Mall.

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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.