By Steve Cichon
steve@buffalostories.com
@stevebuffalo
Our grain elevators are part of what makes Buffalo Buffalo.
More than 15,000 men worked in Buffalo’s flour and feed milling industries in the 1940s and 50s.
No other city in the world processed more grain than we did in Buffalo.
Circumstances changed through the decades, and the grain boats stopped coming.
Those hulking elevator and mill complexes along Buffalo’s waterways served as reminders of what Buffalo had lost for decades.
Now the grain elevators that survive are being adapted to new uses, and serve as an example of how Buffalo can make it’s past– part of its future.
This video from fastimages.net features Buffalo’s lighthouse, waterfront, and various aspects of Buffalo industry.
Our grain elevators are part of what makes Buffalo Buffalo.
