Buffalo in the ’70s: Cheering on your Buffalo Braves

By Steve Cichon
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Buffalo News archives

“Oh, ah, Braves on the warpath.”

We can’t be sure exactly what the cheer was at the moment News Photographer Robert L. Smith snapped this photo, but the scorer’s table at Memorial Auditorium didn’t seem too impressed.

Fans in the Gold and Red seats, however, seemed to be paying closer attention.

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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.