Grew up during this time, lots of jobs, good times. This is great brings back memories, was is perfect?, nope....but i'd still take it over today ! Grew up on the upper west side, listening to rock-n-roll on WKBW-am radio, Grant street was where we did most of our shopping, lots of mom and pop neighborhood stores too back then, downtown was still thriving....

Wow, how I remember those days. That's when DG downtown Buffalo, New York was bustling. Way before they tore up streets and laid the train that only runs from downtown to University Buffalo on Main Street. I especially loved seeing the Christmas animated windows in A.M.&A.s department store. So many wonderful memories of my hometown.

Born and raised Rochesterian here. Loved Buffalo back in the 60's and early 70's. Great schools, kids, night life, Clutch Artists car shows, and the people there always seemed to dress far better than they did in Rochester. Even got to live in Buffalo in 1977 and endured the blizzard there that year. Left WNY the year after that and haven't lived there since. As it is, I go back to Ra-cha-cha every couple of years to see family members still around, but always find the time to visit Buffalo and stop in to Frank and Teresa's for wings. Only thing missing from my youth in Buffalo now are the great radio days of WKBW. The best Top 40 station ever!

So proud to be born and raised in Buffalo. I raised my children here too. Miss it

Lived there from 66-72. Remember playing hockey on ponds and Santora's pizza. Little league baseball and football. Bills drafting OJ. Greatest radio and DJ Jackson Armstrong and WKBW. First crush (Pam)!Loved it there but I was just a kid and I didn't have to drive in the snow!

Hens and Kelly! I'm going to remember the beauty of Buffalo. I remember Humboldt Pkwy before the 33 was built. Good childhood memories.

We moved from there in 1969. Attended School # 52 from K-6th grade. Just remembered how safe it was as kid and how much I missed it after we left.

I WOULD LIKE TO GO BACK TO 5OS AND 60S

Who remembers S and H Green stamps?

Growing up on the west side was just a great time back then i always will cherish it

Cool to see Buffalo when it had many people and a bustling downtown. I've visited and enjoyed the beautiful architecture and the few bars and restaurants. Considering how small the population is today, it's still got some impressive neighbourhoods on the north side.

Such great memories! Thank you for making me smile....

Awesome video!! Brings back memories❤

Gotta love Ernie Warlick!

Great video! Thanks for sharing!

I might’ve grown up about 35 miles north of Buffalo down on Lake Ontario, but always remember going to the Rockpile for a baseball game when I was in a little league and going to the auditorium. wrestling uConn and Bobo Brazil and the love Brothers . And most of all riding pass WKBW.

Thank you!!!!!

Definitely NOT the Buffalo I remember growing up in during the 70's and 80's. Downtown was mostly empty and surrounding areas were garbage housing developments. Sad.

AM&A's had the best candy counter!!

That advert was a good deal $1895 for a 58 chev impala.

I love Buffalo

Cool to see the city when it was living and bustling. Now it’s still got most of those buildings missing only people and retail. It’s a city in storage, plug in and play when you’re ready.

so many memories

Look better than Buffalo nowdays

I WAS THERE IN THE EARLY SIXTIES

Childhood blast from the past LOL

Wow. Lots of retail store names, media people, etc. that are mostly (all -?) gone now that I haven't heard anything from or thought about since I was a kid growing up in the 1960's.

Buffalo in the 1960's, 1970's, even the 1950's where I was born there was totally different from the present. I was born in Buffalo at Children's Hospital on 10/17/1953. I lived in Buffalo at 251 Hutchinson Street in Kensington, also lived on Lexington Avenue, 127 Montana Avenue, lived in Kenmore at 154 Woodward Avenue, 102 Cobb Street in Sheridan Parkside in the Town of Tonawanda(Buffalo's largest suburb) & in the City of Tonawanda at 303 & then later 300 Hinds Street in Riverview apartments. I lived the first 9 years of my life in the Buffalo area. My late mother was a Class of 1950 graduate of Grover Cleveland High School. My late father worked for AMF and later for GM at what is now the Pierce Arrow Museum, he worked in Niagara Falls for Olin Matheson and later Carborundum in the early 1960's when Niagara Falls was the true & real chemical capital of the world. I moved from the Buffalo area on 11/21/1962 to the Philadelphia area, my father took a better paying job with Boeing aircraft & the better roads & highways of Pennsylvania and the milder winters, plus the lower taxes all incentives to move from Western New York State. I'm in to long slow tedious process of selling everything I own in the damned Sh@thole Loser City Tucson metro area and once that's done, I'm returning home to the Philippines where my heart is & my girl friend lives in and my late wife of 31 years was from. The Loser City Tucson metro area is the very worst place I have ever lived in, and Arizona has the nations very worst roads & highways. Pima County is the Crack seal capital of North A Erica & the Pothole Capital of North America. Pothole dodging & tailgating are sports in the Tucson metro area.

1963 I would go to the candy cane lounge, and other places to drink and dance.All then good looking Gals, wow, I was in the Army on the Grand Island nike base. Good old days

H e n s and Kelly's I worked for them in the late sixties I also worked 4 Western Electric

The music was fabulous in the first few minutes. What was it?

I remember.

Wish i was born a little earlier before stuff hit the fan...

Even the Polonia district was nice in the 60s. I spent 65-75 there growing up. We were lower class, but it was a beautiful neighborhood and people had big hearts and took care of their houses. (Sycamore and Ruhland to be exact). Now my 60s paradise is in ruins, and if I visit, its depressing and dangerous.

To think I was a child in the 1990 lol wow just a child no bills no nothing just enjoy life as a child

Awesome! May i use some of the footage?

My dad was a little kid back than

note not one photo showing snow

nice to see the very rarely seen Richford (Ford) Hotel at 1:07, bombed for a parking lot for the now existing Ramada (I think)

Hen's & Kelly's........as kids we called it Hen's & Chicken's.

At 0:36, I'm surprised that the Buffalo area had only six-digit phone numbers into the 1960s. When did they go to seven-digit numbers? (I'm from the Cleveland, OH area, which has had seven-digit phone numbers since 1949, I think, at least in Cuyahoga County.)

Why does the music sound like a cheesy cowboy western ?

Good Gawd, did "urban renewal" savage so much of downtown's core and character! Add suburbanization and riots and vanished industrial jobs, and we get what we got. Most Buffalonians, though, have a lot of grit and grace.

I escaped from New York...Good bye.

So what did the democrats do to save Buffalo over the past 60 years ? 5:24

Really cool pictures, but extremely annoying how they fade and move in and out, totally ruined it, couldn't finish watching.