Comments | breezy48: Memorial Auditorium, once the hottest sport in Buffalo, now being dismantled

breezy48

Memorial Auditorium, once the hottest sport in Buffalo, now being dismantled

Jun 30, 2009 16:09

by Ashley Yager

Riding the Metro rail down to Erie Canal Harbor constantly reminds fans that a very sad end is near for the building that still has the voices of Ted Darling, Van Miller, and Rick Jeanneret reverberating off the rafters.

The demolition of Buffalo Memorial Auditorium has begun this past January. The sporting arena, ( Read more... )

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dragonblk17 June 30 2009, 20:39:23 UTC

Great article Ashley. :D
It's so sad to see it go...I had only been there once. I didn't even enjoy my time there because I was so young and I hated the goal horn.

breezy48 June 30 2009, 20:44:21 UTC

I never went. I was three when they closed it. And this article is way old, from February. :]
I watched them rip a piece down today :[

dragonblk17 June 30 2009, 20:45:41 UTC

This is my first time reading it, so I'm still saying it was good, haha. I went when I was around five or six when my brother was playing a game there.
Aww...I would have went if I had someway to get there. So close yet still so far.

breezy48 June 30 2009, 20:48:36 UTC

Awww! I would've given you a ride (it would have been a tight squeeze)! :[
I have it on video. My brother'll probably upload it later tonight.
I'm going back there after my friend gets out of work :D

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tixxana July 1 2009, 01:40:01 UTC

this makes me really want to go to buffalo, even though the building is being dismantled. :/

breezy48 July 1 2009, 01:48:01 UTC

D:
Buffalo's fun. I really want to go to Detroit.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=125947&id=653752177&l=130abe3234
There's less than that left of it :[ I have a video of them ripping down some of it from today :[