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#21

Richard, thanks good to be here. And thanks for being so kind. Actually, I shoulda used hair spray versus diluted Elmer’s white glue as the sticky medium, because it would have been thinner. What happened is the white glue bunched up in some areas and the turf wadded up there. But your suggestion of using texture spray is a better idea (guess I better spend more time at Michael’s).

Ralph, yeah, the picture thing took my slow-moving brain a while to figure out, but now that it has, I may become the picture-posting-fool (I already have the “fool” part down pat).
BTW, I would put up a shot of my 95-percent finished hotel, but I hate to show something that’s not quite complete. In case you’re wondering, I need to install the rest of the porch roof supports, which replicate water pipe (I’m using styrene tubing) and to touch up of the gable trim, where my half-assed spray paint job went awry. Oh, and I need to top off and paint the two matching chimneys, which are driving me crazy and have me once again thinking about using Precision Board, which can be carved, routered, sawed, etc.

#22
tac said:
C'mon, Dick, how on earth would a young snipperwhapper like you remember the 50's? I have trouble remembering where the door is, let alone youfolstery from the middle of the last century.

tac, ig and The Coos Bay Boys
Ottawa Valley GRS


Terry, Next time you’re here I’ll relate to you my experiences of what the world was like before dirt was invented. Very hard to dig and outhouses were at a premium!

#23

I remember and the material isn’t what I remember.
color is wrong and the texture is wrong. but like you said it’s burried inside a building.

#24

Hey Joe- Didn’t Sattler’s 998 Broadway sell fury green chairs like that?.. Or maybe it was Lucky Urban? LOL

-Kevin.

#25

I really need to learn how to spell… Furry green chairs. Not Fury green chairs!!! Fury would make them angry chairs. Green is more of an envy color, not an angry color!!! I’ll crawl back under my rock now…

-Kevin.

#26

Kevin, it was Rosinski’s on Fillmore between Broadway and Sycamore, a few doors down from where we lived because my family was really plugged into the Polish-American community. As a kid, I loved watching the IRC streetcars rumble past our house headed south for Broadway or north for Sycamore and Genesee where there interchanges. Sometimes the trolley pole would slip off the cantenary and the motorman had to jump out and get it back on the wire. Winter was challenging as the snow messed up the tracks. For light snow they had this box-like thingy–like what they call a motor in trolley lingo–which had a rotating brush on the front end to sweep away the snow. For the heavy snow they had a machine with a plow and I believe outriggers–like a flanger. Speaking of trolleys, we had a local joke of sorts: “I’ll meet you on Broadway down where the street car bends.” Ya had to be there.

#27

Joe, you’re a Buffalo boy then? I grew up in Clarence. My dad grew up in the city. You might enjoy his book “Remembering Old Buffalo”. It can be found at Borders and a bunch of other stores in WNY.

#28

Joe- I wasn’t around for the street car days, but the old joke about ‘…where the street car bends…’ was still a regular on the mighty East side for my generation. If you lived that close to Broadway, you certainly must have shopped at the Broadway Market. I was so cute as a little kid, that the ladies from the butcher counters would give me all sorts of free samples. How’d I get so ugly??? I can’t remember the last pair of Converse All star sneakers I bought from Liberty’s Shoes. I bet I’ve worn through quite a few since then!

Jon- Your dad’s book is great! Lots of great history there. Sadly, there is no more Borders (add them to the ‘Remember’ list). George Kunz also has a good book about old Buffalo landmarks.

-Kevin.

#29

Southern Tier Boy here…Spent some time up in the “big city” Buffalo but not enough to know the terms you guys are reffering too…OF course I do rmember the “Furry Green Chairs” in my grandparents houses and the cottages at Rushford Lake.

Chas

#30
dieseldude said:
Jon- Your dad's book is great! Lots of great history there. Sadly, there is no more Borders (add them to the 'Remember' list). George Kunz also has a good book about old Buffalo landmarks.

-Kevin.


Thanks Kevin. Yeah, Borders is gone all over. It was Barnes & Noble I was thinking of. There are 10 or so stores that carry it. If anyone is interested email me for a list. Unfortunately he didn’t live long enough to see it make a profit.

#31

Jon,
Your Dad’s book is listed on Amazon too.
Ralph

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B002M3EWH0/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&redirect=true&qid=1326335375&sr=1-1&condition=all

#32

Well at that price I’d be happy to send you 5 copies. MSRP is $13.95. I can’t believe they are gouging like that.

The publisher’s webiste is http://www.wnybooks.com/ - They will sell it to you for the correct price.

#33

I’d expect that on eBay. I guess you have to be carefull on Amazon too :wink:

#34

Sorry for the delay in responding. I’ve been off line as we traveled to warmer climes. Yep Jon, Buffalo born and bred. And a yearly visitor–to see my cousin who lives in East Amherst, next door to Clarence. Their local bikeway runs along NYC’s old Peanut Line and takes you through Clarence where there are some neat old buildings I have photographed and measured and may model someday. Great area in the summer.

Jon, I’ll get one of those Buffalo books when we get back. I love to read about the old place.

Kevin, yeah, the Broadway Market was part of our shopping routine and even though I too was a cute kid, all I ever got was a cookie. Actually, the reason we lived near Broadway and Fillmore was because my father owned the Polish newspaper located near the corner or Broadway and Wilson (the printing plant faced Wilson), a block from Fillmore. I was expected to become the next publisher some day, but my father’s death and the loss of our paper in a lawsuit, kinda turned us into jus’ plain folks. BTW, the newspaper’s custom-built office building, which housed my uncle’s liquor store and the local Niagara Mohawk Power Co. office on its ground floor, is long gone, replaced by a parking lot. A few doors down was Modern Battery, which became Modern Auto, a kind of a Western Auto store, where I got my first coaster wagon, a Radio Flyer, my Flexible Flyer sled and I think my Shelby bicycle. That place is gone too. Kinda sad…

#35

Must be ‘that time of year,’ Joe. I just returned from the sunny, sandy shores of Mexico, myself, and I finally found some time to catch up on things. Wow, talk about a small world- my mom lived at 54 Wilson (behind Eddie G’s)- just down the street from St. Stans, and not far from you. Amazingly, that house is still standing. It’s one of the few left on the block. Of course someone stole all the leaded glass front windows. That family paper wasn’t the Ampol Eagle, was it?

-Kevin.

#36

Kevin, it was the Polish Everybody’s Daily (Dzienik Dla Wszytkich). The Ampol Eagle came a bit later and was founded by one of our former editors or staffers (I forget which). Last time I checked (a few years ago) our rental house on Fillmore was still standing. It was quite the showplace–four bedrooms, formal dining room, kitchen with walk-in pantry, parlor, living room, basement office, three gas fireplaces and lots of oak and leaded glass. Shortly after we moved out in 1945, I think, we heard the next tenant, who was some kind of a medical practitioner, gutted much of the living room/parlor/dining room area, tearing out the oak and putting up beaverboard (drywall) partitions. Pretty sad.

The part of Wilson where your mom lived is south of Broadway, which is closer to St Stan’s. We were north of Bway, close to Transfiguration, my school. When we moved close to Humboldt Park, we were in German-American territory where the parish was St Mary of Sorrows. I got initiated into the hood by the local thugs who didn’t like pudgy Polak kids like me. But hey, where are they now? Not on Maui.

Speaking of Wilson Street where your mom lived–one Christmas season while attending Canisius College, I worked the graveyard shift at the U.S. Post Office at Central Terminal and when I got off work, I raced up Wilson at about 60 mph in my dad’s '56 Ford with glasspack mufflers, which I installed. It’s a wonder I and all the resident babushkas survived. Fun times.

See what you started, Kevin?!

Oh, Mexico’s cool too. Actually, make that warm, which is why we like it along with Hawaii and the Caribbean. And maybe Buffalo in August. :slight_smile: