![[BN] Chronicles: Before Dollar Tree and Big Lots, Buffalo had D&K and Odd’s-N-End’s](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/ea/2ea7ed4a-cfbf-11ed-b195-9b9fbadab1c5/6426d152a701a.image.jpg?crop=1821%2C1024%2C0%2C56&resize=1821%2C1024&order=crop%2Cresize)
The Buffalo market has long been known to retailers and marketers as a place where people love a bargain.
![[BN] Chronicles: Remembering Beef & Sirloin’s 'carnival atmosphere'](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/65/5653250e-c807-11ed-a4ce-fb7021c83306/6419de67aaa18.image.jpg?crop=1809%2C1018%2C0%2C64&resize=1809%2C1018&order=crop%2Cresize)
Back then, you were as likely to say “across from the Westinghouse plant” as you were to say “across from the airport” on Genesee Street. But most people really didn’t need directions to Beef & Sirloin, the old-school roadside stand that was as much carnival as it was restaurant.
![[BN] Chronicles: The New Chicago Lunch, Main near Utica](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/d/e7/de7131fe-14d6-11ed-a25a-7b279981e808/62ed3d2c8ff34.image.jpg?crop=1512%2C851%2C0%2C260&resize=1512%2C851&order=crop%2Cresize)
For more than 50 years, Buffalonians on their way through midtown made New Chicago Lunch a favorite destination for folks all around the city.
![[BN] Chronicles: Tony Sisti captures springtime in Buffalo at Albright Art Gallery](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/a/0f/a0f62630-b087-11ec-affe-a31a53d13075/6244f28ee185a.image.jpg?crop=1572%2C884%2C0%2C216&resize=1572%2C884&order=crop%2Cresize)
Artist Tony Sisti was a Buffalo character and Allentown institution.
![[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo postcard folder, late 1930s](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/88/58846026-9b59-11ec-9d46-137e089d7f1b/6221697a1d568.image.jpg?crop=1827%2C1028%2C0%2C53&resize=1827%2C1028&order=crop%2Cresize)
A postcard folder from the late 1930s gives a unique perspective of how things have changed in Buffalo over the last 80 years.
![[BN] Chronicles: A more peaceful Niagara Square, 1914](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/1/c8/1c875c28-7ba0-11ec-96ac-5fb3ed92496b/61ec304e8236d.image.jpg?crop=1682%2C946%2C0%2C142&resize=1682%2C946&order=crop%2Cresize)
Today, the McKinley Monument in the center of Niagara Square is dwarfed by the skyscraper surrounding it – but that wasn’t the case in 1914, just a few years after it was built.
![[BN] Chronicles: Alfreda Slominski vs. Frank Sedita for Buffalo mayor, 1969](https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/buffalonews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/5/c3/5c35193c-36c2-11ec-9066-93b4ef49145a/6178a67e05f27.image.jpg?crop=1821%2C1024%2C0%2C56&resize=1821%2C1024&order=crop%2Cresize)
The popular mayor was seeking re-election to a third term in 1969 when At-Large Common Council Member Slominski blasted her way through the Republican primary to take on Sedita in the November election.
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