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UER Forum > Archived US: Northeast > High rise department store. (Viewed 665 times) sybertag  Location: Buffalo, NY Gender: Male  |  High rise department store. < on 6/18/2010 12:15 AM >   This is a location LaSonya and I stumbled upon walking around downtown for the powder keg festival in Buffalo. After doing an initial run on the place, we decided to come back when it was daylight and we had more time. When we came back about two weeks later the road running past was closed to cars for some sort of road work, and being a Sunday afternoon it was pretty dead making for an easy entrance. We made our way in and up the fire stairs and through the floors. The floors started out as your basic department store layout, which still had remnants of both the store and the crew that cleaned the place out years back, but as we got higher, we reached the main offices and penthouse, which appeared to have been inhabited at one point. Once we made it to the top floor, we got a great view of the surrounding city from the board room. These are some of the pics LaSonya and I took from both runs we had at the place. The first 16 pics were taken by LaSonya, and the last 9 by myself. Escalators click to view service counter click to view Basement hallway click to view X Marks the spot click to view Pigeons over Main street click to view One of the sales floors click to view This small apartment was up in the penthouse. Not sure if some lived here, or made it a home after the place was vacated. click to view click to view click to view click to view Liberty Building click to view Elevator room click to view click to view click to view City Hall click to view Remains of the security office. Just lots of electrical wires now click to view Part of a display. Jacobs? click to view Inventory storage. click to view click to view click to view The bottle still had some Vodka left. click to view click to view It was dated June of 1988 click to view click to view click to view nightbird  Girl Moderator Location: Buffalo, NY Gender: Female Gone abortin, BRB  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 1 on 6/18/2010 12:41 AM >   Nice shots, it would have been interesting to see more of the interior though. The last I heard (Dec 09) the building was supposed to be renovated into a Hilton hotel. But given that was almost 7 months ago, that could be dead in the water. WTF indeed. Steed  Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Your Friendly Neighbourhood Race Traitor  |  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 2 on 6/18/2010 12:45 AM >   Sort of reminds me of a place I went to once. A couple months later, it collapsed. How tall was this one? nightbird  Girl Moderator Location: Buffalo, NY Gender: Female Gone abortin, BRB  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 3 on 6/18/2010 1:11 AM >   About 6-7 stories. Here are a couple exterior shots, posted mod-only because the OP didn't name the location, so I won't give it away....though anyone familiar with Buffalo should know if off the bat. WTF indeed. sybertag  Location: Buffalo, NY Gender: Male  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 4 on 6/18/2010 5:35 AM >   nine floors if i remember correctly. and as for the fate of this building the owner just renovated the one across the street into apartments and claims to have plans for ts one, however when we were last there no signs of progress were to be seen. lasonya  Gender: Female  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 5 on 6/18/2010 12:55 PM >   a few more pics... click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view click to view shadowbot  Location: Massachusetts Gender: Male  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 6 on 6/18/2010 5:20 PM >   Good stuff! I love the escalators and the old fridge. Whats up with the dollar bill? lol. I wish you'd post the pictures directly instead of having them as a pop-up gallery though. [last edit 6/18/2010 5:23 PM by shadowbot - edited 1 times] My explorations documented on flickr: http://www.flickr..../8528952@N02/sets/ sybertag  Location: Buffalo, NY Gender: Male  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 7 on 6/18/2010 6:25 PM >   Posted by shadowbot I wish you'd post the pictures directly instead of having them as a pop-up gallery though. duly noted. =] I just figured with so many the gallery would be easiest to view. macgruder  Location: Northern NJ Gender: Male  |  |  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 8 on 6/18/2010 8:31 PM >   nice find! at least you made money while exploring, unless the dollar was placed there by you. Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 50mm 1.2, Canon 28mm 1.8, Canon 16-35 f2.8L http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenbley/ AJHalliwell  Location: Stow, Ohio Gender: Male Ra Ra Ah-Ah-Ah, Ro-Ma Ro-Ma-Ma...  |  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 9 on 6/18/2010 8:37 PM >   Posted by shadowbot Good stuff! I love the escalators and the old fridge. Whats up with the dollar bill? lol. I wish you'd post the pictures directly instead of having them as a pop-up gallery though. My thoughts exactly on all points. Escalator is my favorite part, I have yet to explore a skyscraper-style building in a downtown urban area. I have tended towards forgotten, off in the forest medium-sized buildings. But excellent job. lasonya  Gender: Female  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 10 on 6/20/2010 8:44 PM >   the dollar was there already. Placed by a previous explorer we're assuming. Must have been there quite a while though since there were no signs of anybody being in there for a long time Shawn W.  Location: Niagara Falls, NY Gender: Male Optimistic Pessimist  |  |  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 11 on 6/20/2010 10:48 PM >   If you two ever feel like making a return trip, may I tag along? What is a rebel? A man who says no. - Albert Camus gr8fzy1  Location: Waterbury, CT Gender: Male Fewer and Fewer...  |  |  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 12 on 6/21/2010 3:14 AM >   Lol, is the dollar still there? Softly creeping through Empty hallways decades old, glimpsing history. sybertag  Location: Buffalo, NY Gender: Male  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 13 on 6/21/2010 3:23 AM >   Posted by Shawn W. If you two ever feel like making a return trip, may I tag along? Yea definitely, we have been meaning to go back. we are usually free on weekends, so pm her or myself anytime you wanna check it out and we can set something up. And no, the dollar was our treasure at the X, so we took it lol. Castle3411  Location: Penfield, NY Gender: Male  |  Re: High rise department store. <Reply # 14 on 6/27/2010 11:29 PM >   Adam, Meldrum & Anderson Company (AM&A's) was a chain of department stores based in Buffalo, New York. It was an institution to generations of shoppers in the Buffalo area. The company remained family owned until its sale to The Bon-Ton in 1994 Bob UER Forum > Archived US: Northeast > High rise department store. (Viewed 665 times) All content and images copyright © 2002-2024 UER.CA and respective creators. Graphical Design by Crossfire. To contact webmaster, or click to email with problems or other questions about this site: UER CONTACT View Terms of Service | View Privacy Policy | Server colocation provided by Beanfield This page was generated for you in 125 milliseconds. Since June 23, 2002, a total of 741556806 pages have been generated.