AM-POL Eagle: Buffalo is where the heart is

TRAVELING HOME THROUGH TIME: John Grandits and his mother Laurie Jakusz Grandits were photographed in front of the family tailor shop, A.E. Jakusz, 857 Broadway. The shop was open until the 1960s and was torn down around a year ago.

(Michelle Fritz – AM-POL Eagle) Writer John Grandits remembers growing up at 857 Broadway in the City of Buffalo above his grandfather’s tailor shop, A.E. Jakusz. He remembers being a young boy and being able to walk down the street unsupervised, stopping in every shop and talking to various people who all knew and watched out for him. He said, “People looked out for each other then and dealt with things as a community. Everyone tended to support the Polish shops and shopped in the neighborhood.”

Even though Grandits’ achievements have taken him well outside the old Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, he understands the importance for a writer to write about what he knows. His latest children’s book The Travel Game is a story of Grandits as a young boy, renamed Tad in the book, and his life growing up in the Broadway-Fillmore area.

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