Train travel, hell, the death of Great Lakes shipping killed the city. Most of the people seem to have moved to Charlotte NC. Me I moved to Elmira when I was two, and then Detroit when I was five, but ended up in Charlotte anyways. There every other person I met was from Buffalo.
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frank theriault wrote:
On 5/17/05, Alan P. Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip>
I've been going back to Buffalo to take pictures, revisiting my old haunts after 25 years. It's not a bad place for photography. Lots of great rundown architecture, though people are getting a bit thin on the ground. <snip>
In all seriousness, I feel bad for Buffalo.
Last year for GFM, I bussed from Toronto to Pittsburg to meet Mark Roberts. On the way back, I had a couple of hours to kill in downtown Buffalo at about 2:00 in the afternoon. I was right smack in the middle of downtown.
Toronto downtown at that time of day is bustling - people in suits with briefcases zipping about, heavy traffic on the streets, couriers and delivery people clogging the sidewalks and roadways. I had just come from Pittsburg, and it was about the same as Toronto - a bustling, busy downtown core.
Buffalo was dead. No one out and about. There were a few big office buildings, but no one was around them, no one going in and out. It's a dead or dying city.
Sad, really. I guess the death of train travel killed them.
cheers, frank
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