While I was flipping through some old newspapers, I know…my life is very exciting, I found a Donn Esmonde column from 1990 on the Broadway Market.
You may not remember, but before K-Mart finally ended up on the old Sattlers site at 998 Broadway, there was a plan to put a plaza in at the location featuring a Bells.
We all know what happened to K-Mart.
As I get older, years like 1990 doesn’t seem that long ago, but in reality it has been almost 17 years…I digress.
Here is the article…
Broadway Market needs new neighbor, not a big competitor
(02/25/90) – Donn Esmonde – Buffalo News
AH YOW AH yow ah yow. That’s what my grandmother, rest her soul, used to say. Whenever one of us fell and smack d our head, or her apple strudel didn’t come out quite right, or a family crisis was unearthed, Grandma would shake her head and repeat her Old World mantra.
I thought about Grandma the other day after stopping by the Broadway Market.
A lot of the people there remind me of her and the old neighborhood in Ridge-wood, N.Y.
That was a German neighborhood, and the market is mostly Polish. But the market has the same sort of Central European feeling, and the people look a lot like those in Ridgewood. Some of the elderly women wear cloth coats and kerchiefs; a lot of the men are in hats
