Central Terminal On Route 66
Here's a five minute clip of the way the Central Terminal was, inside and outside, in 1963 on the old TV show Route 66.
This find was completely by accident. Back in the fall of 1963, CBS filmed a couple of scenes in Buffalo and Niagara Falls. My Dad and I were extras in a scene that had us walking on the sidewalk in front of City Hall in Niagara Falls. I was only five years old at the time, but I vividly remember having to walk back and forth a few times until they got a final take.
That episode was scheduled to air in November of 1964, but was preempted by the assassination of JFK. It did reair, but we never saw it and I thought my 15 minutes of fame was lost forever.
Over the last couple years, I've looked for the DVD version of Route 66 and finally found it last year. It was only when I mentioned it to one of the guys at the terminal who's around my age, that I found out that the terminal was also shot in scenes that year! So, I frantically searched through each episode until I found it, had it downloaded and here is the result:
There is sound, but you need to turn up the volume on your computer to hear it. It's so nice to see an undamaged exterior and interior, complete with lamps and cocktail bar!
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11111inBlo
Um, wasn't this same story and the same video on here quite some time ago ago?
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mpitman
The Bizarro World ....
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Martin
cool clip. I think she rushed home from the station though becouse she realized she forgot to pack her butter lamb.
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al-alo
Martin,
do you have any store locations for purchasing a butter lamb? she cant possible visit her family over on Clark St without one.
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Martin
Well, I would suggest the broadway market of course!
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Ike
This was either shown here or at another buffalo blog in the not so distant past
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RisingDamp666
This only adds to the mystery surrounding the Kennedy Assasination. Could Oswald have been paid off by rival networks, knowing that the death of that pill-popping Beantown president would pre-empt a popular TV show? The implications are enormous as it's already believed that the Bay Of Pigs invasion was staged to put pressure on "Mister Ed" during a particularly nasty and competitive fall season. It's believed that Paddy Chayevsky took many of these secrets to his grave. An envelope that he supposedly sent to Jimmy Breslin has also never been found. C.I.A.? Or Gig Young?
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al-alo
I hear this broadway market is the place to get all sorts of great things, including butter lambs! lets all go right now!
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GDC
I already seen this on the Buffalo myspace page....www.myspace.com/buffalonewyork
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Biniszkiewicz
Fun to see. I was in the terminal when it was still open (I think 1978; possibly the year it closed). When this episode was filmed, the terminal was 35 years old. That was 45 years ago. Who knows? Perhaps sky high gas prices and high speed tracks will reinvent the railroads in decades to come. Kudos to all those keeping the place alive these days.
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mmiller
PS - the shot of me and my Dad walking by City Hall in Niagara Falls was not used.
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