By Steve Cichon steve@buffalostories.com @stevebuffalo
BUFFALO, NY – The outpouring was amazing.
After agreeing to give a lecture at Buffalo’s Forest Lawn Cemetery about some of the city’s great retailers of the past, I was deluged with people offering up their memories, and thirsty for the memories of the stores of Buffalo’s grand old stores.
Consider this page a taste of the Golden Age of Buffalo Retailing talk that’s been seen by thousands of Western New Yorkers (and can become a part of your next meeting or event. )
Take a stroll down memory lane, and play some classic jingles while looking over some images of Buffalo’s by-gone retailers.
AM&A’s Southgate Plaza
AM&A’s: Buffalo Owned and Operated, 1867-1994
Holiday Shopping at AM&A’s
AM&A’s holiday windows, 1980s
AM&A’s holiday windows
AM&A’s holiday windows
Brand Names, Niagara Falls Blvd, 2004
The Charga-Plate. Buffalo’s version worked with many Downtown Retailers…
Danny Neaverth, Bells Markets spokesman
WEBR’s Jack Eno & Buffalo’s First indoor mall, the Boulevard Mall. 1962
Grandma Coyle pays off her AM&A’s charge
Grant’s at Main & Genesee
How many took the street car, and got warm by the open fire inside the trolley car?
Hengerer’s
Hengerers Eastern Hills Mall location
Hengerer’s, Seneca Mall
Wm. Hengerer Co celebrates the end of WWII, Main Street, 1945
Hens & Kelly ad, 1954
A Hens & Kelly Charge Card… More Buffalo Retail images at ForgottenBuffalo.com
S&H Green Stamps, from those big rotary dial machines at the Hens & Kelly check-out
Hills is where the toys are!
JN Adams, in the building that would become AM&A’s downtown location in 1960
Kings Department Store, Hertel near Elmwood
Kleinhans’ Mens’ Store
LL Berger, Main Street
How many of us took the bus downtown for shopping?
Oppenheim Collins
Buffalo Braves Star Randy Smith lovin’ his Transcendental Sound System
SabreJak at JC Penney
Sample, Hertel Ave
998 Broadway, 1941.
Ever get attacked by a babcia’s chicken from the Broadway Market on the bus or trolley to 998 Broadway?
Hengerer’s, Seneca Mall
Seneca & Cazenovia, 1940s
Twin Fair
Two Guys and Twin Fair inserts, 1976
Wardynski & Sons, Buffalo Meat sellers for generations
Reformatted & Updated pages from staffannouncer.com finding a new home at buffalostories.com
By Steve Cichon
