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Ash Wednesday is February 22nd.
Corpus Christi Church – 11:30am & 6:30pm
http://corpuschristibuffalo.org
Saint John Kanty – 9am & 5:30pm
http://stjohnkantychurchbuffalo.wordpress.com/
Saint Stanislaus – 11am & 7pm
http://ststanislauschurch.com
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Begin Lent at one of Broadway-Fillmore’s historic churches!
This factory complex (the old Lumen Bearing Company) located at Sycamore and Lathrop will most likely never be saved. Frankly, it is past the point of saving.
In the images above, you see what the complex looked like a about 90 years ago and you will see what it looks like now.
There are a lot of buildings around the neighborhood that are slowly but surely fading away…fading past the point of no return.
It literally is just a matter of time before they are demolished and disappear completely.
When I see buildings like this, I wonder how they were set on this path. I also wonder how we can prevent other buildings from meeting the same fate.
***UPDATE***
I love the building at the front of the old picture of the complex. All the windows, etc…must have been something to look at back in the day.
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, March 18, 2010 – More than 30 locations will serve as official venues for Buffalo’s 2010 Dyngus Day celebration. This marks another year of growth for the post-Lenten party that attracts upwards of 100,000 people at sites spread across Western New York. To assist Dyngus Day party participants, Dyngus Day Buffalo has released a complete schedule of events on its website: www.DyngusDayBuffalo.com.
Dyngus Day Buffalo provides marketing and organizational support to Dyngus Day celebrations in the Buffalo-Niagara region. In partnership with public and private organizations, Dyngus Day Buffalo promotes Buffalo, New York as the Dyngus Day Capital of the World. The goal of Dyngus Day Buffalo is to reinforce its cultural significances through public awareness and education, and to promote Polish customs with accuracy, integrity, and liveliness.
A Polish-American tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the restrictive observance of Lent and the joy of Easter. Over the decades, Buffalo, New York, has become the Dyngus Day Capital of the World, attracting thousands of people from across the northeast United States. Although celebrated in Buffalo’s Polonia neighborhood since the arrival of the first Poles in the 1870s, the city’s first modern Dyngus Day celebration was held 49 years ago by the Chopin’s Singing Society, a tradition that continues today.
Dyngus Day 2010 will take place on Monday, April 5th.
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Great stuff…
They are taken between Warren and Sweet on Broadway during the Pulaski Day Parade in 1977 or 1978.
I’ve also included a perspective picture which shows this stretch of Broadway today.
Thanks Beth…
She also has a blog http://swampcrone.com.
Anyone else have any old neighborhood pictures…please contact me…I would love to post!
A Polonian examination of conscience
Czyli o poddawaniu siê katolickiej polonii
Part I of III (Rev. Dr. Czeslaw M. Krysa President, Association of Priests for Polish Affairs of WNY)
“This isn’t really different from our get-togethers!” exclaimed a Texan-born, Methodist convert at one of Polonia’s most popular Wigilia celebrations.
Not much different? Five years ago, I was surprised, not today. Most of my parishioners who break wafers don’t know that sharing means forgiveness.
Take this, except for a Canadian appearance at a local Dyngus Day extravaganza, most gatherings resemble honky-tonks with vodka and kielbasa replacing beer and nachos.
Media hype over the annual Broadway Market pilgrimages for placek and horseradish is presided over by the spring rodent (known as “bunny” by some) and chruœciki girls with long fuzzy ears. Last Holy Week I asked a 20-something, crumbed babka and kielbasa bearing couple, if they ever blessed their food. They, answered, “What?” At least there’s a Butter Lamb photo op.
Pol-Ams brag in newspapers about eating smoked pork on Good Friday, pre-Dyngus Day celebrations on that same high-fast day, Œwiêconka during Lent, made me think that the only thing the Broadway-Fillmore market lacks is a beer license. Pussy willows have become “Sadie Hawkins” switches, rather than Palm Sunday branches.
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