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Alive Photo: Buffalo’s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, Christmas in the 1950s

23 December, 2022 Christopher Byrd

I’m old enough to remember the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood being a shopping destination for WNYers, but young enough to see its decline. Do you have memories

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Alive Video: Christmas Parade in Buffalo on Broadway 1950s

17 December, 2020 Christopher Byrd

The old Christmas parades on Broadway in East Buffalo used to help usher in the the holiday season at a time when the neighborhood had

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Then and Now Photo: 698-700 Broadway

16 August, 201716 August, 2017 Christopher Byrd

I love finding old ads for businesses on Broadway. This ad is from 1928. It also has image of building now. It was a general

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March 21, 1943: Crowds Jam Market Stalls for Meager Supplies of Meat

11 February, 201711 February, 2017 Christopher Byrd

BFA friend, Bill Blake, always forwards us interesting things he finds while researching old Buffalo newspapers. This time around, he found a Buffalo Courier-Express front page

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The History of Saint Joachim’s Church

13 December, 201616 October, 2019 Christopher Byrd

I always hear people talk about a lot of the different (open and closed) churches in East Buffalo’s Historic Polonia. One I don’t hear a

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Video: “Nocturne” at Former Chopin Singing Society Building

16 June, 201416 June, 2014 Christopher Byrd

Heading into the fall of 2013, I wanted to shoot a video of someone playing Chopin’s Nocturne in front of the former Chopin Singing Society building

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Buffalo Central Terminal Scrapbook from 1920s-1930s

12 January, 2013 Christopher Byrd

[singlepic id=2492 w=320 h=250 float=](click on image for full view) Two days back, Bill Blake shared a couple of very cool old Central Terminal photos. Bill was also kind

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When Poles Attack

4 December, 2009 Christopher Byrd

Found the above while doing some research…

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Call for photos of the neighborhood

19 February, 2009 Christopher Byrd

BFA wants to build an online gallery of old neighborhood photos… If you have any photos you would like to share with us, we will make

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From Saint Adalbert Basilica’s Archives: A most beautiful ceremony

9 February, 20099 February, 2009 Christopher Byrd

(click here for full view) A MOST BEAUTIFUL CEREMONY of accepting the school children of St. Adalbert’s Parish into the “Holy Childhood Association” was held

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Broadway-Fillmore Alive went online in January 2006. Our mission remains the same today as it did when we started. “To help promote Buffalo’s historic Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood and support the places and organizations that make it a unique part of the fabric of the city.”

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