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This looks like a baseball stadium. And WTH is that helicopter in the rendering? It looks like something right out of The Jetsons.

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The D&L was still a railroad hub, bringing passenger trains into Buffalo... I remember riding the South Park Ave. bus with my mother when I was a very small boy and seeing that station in operation...The area was dead for so many years and now has suddenly become a bustling destination and focal point for the city.. The Pegula family has done more for Buffalo than almost anyone I can think of in my lifetime... Mr. Wilson, the Knox family, Rich's all get their props, but I hope the Pegula's are able to secure ownership of the Bills... I can only speculate the marvels yet to come... Got my fingers crossed!!!!

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Wino's under the Skyway? The Skyway was way too far to stagger from early 1970's Chippewa Street... lmao

 

I remember as a kid, telling your friends you seen their mother on Chippewa St was a major insult.

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This looks like a baseball stadium.

 

Very well could have been.

Stadium capacity is listed as 47,000 and MLB was looking to expand around the time the drawing was made.

 

http://www.hardballtimes.com/smart-growth-and-mlb-a-virtual-history/

By the late 1950s, all Major League Baseball owners had agreed that it was time for the beginning of expansion of the venerable 16-team structure, as well as extension to the West Coast.

 

 

According to the original article, the stadium drawing was done in 1958, but the Bills were not awarded until 1959.

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Wino's under the Skyway? The Skyway was way too far to stagger from early 1970's Chippewa Street... lmao

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GLv4cUAIck

 

Thanks for sharing...awesome stuff.... I remember walking into one of those "go go girl" joints (I think it was Radice's) when I was in 9th grade....take a walk on the wild side...being a catholic grammer school kid, I was sure I was going to hell afterwards....distinctly remember a dancer leaning over. putting her arms on my shoulders and covering my face with her long hair...she smelled like a combo of Black Label and french fries...

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Thanks for sharing...awesome stuff.... I remember walking into one of those "go go girl" joints (I think it was Radice's) when I was in 9th grade....take a walk on the wild side...being a catholic grammer school kid, I was sure I was going to hell afterwards....distinctly remember a dancer leaning over. putting her arms on my shoulders and covering my face with her long hair...she smelled like a combo of Black Label and french fries...

 

Intoxicating stuff to a Freshman, no doubt!

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That was fun to watch. I was only 8 in 1975, and remember my grandmother taking me downtown on the bus for the day. Nice memories, and was like being in a different world from the suburbs.

 

I'm trying not to get too excited about the recent Pegula news, but you just wonder if he buys the team, and puts a stadium downtown how cool that would be overall for Buffalo.

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It's not shown, but everything in that design is "powered by the atom."

 

And constructed out of "space-age polymers."

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