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MVT commented about Shea's Niagara Theater on Jan 14, 2010 at 11:04 pm

mgoshea,
Just read your post 1/13/10. Was there ever a collision shop or auto repair in the building? Did the current owner say if any of the original interior is intact? Are they using the building or do they any plans for it? MVT

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MVT commented about Paramount Theatre on Jul 7, 2008 at 9:22 pm

Anyone,

I know this isn’t the exact place for this question, but I will ask any way. I was just back in Buffalo for a visit and took note of the White Bros. Livery incident. The pictures in the paper showed two carved horse heads that were the same color as the rest of the building. My question is I seem to remember a building in that part of town that had two white carved horse heads on it. Is that the same building another structure or my bad memory? If it is another structure please tell me what it is. Thanks.

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MVT commented about Paramount Theatre on Apr 5, 2008 at 12:31 am

Patsy,

After the theatre closed the rear portion that held the actual theatre was razed and that land was made into a parking lot. The Main St. section remained.

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MVT commented about Shea's Niagara Theater on Feb 14, 2008 at 8:16 pm

I am almost positive that the Niagara was a collision shop or some type of auto repair place for a time, but I may have it confused with the Senate on Rhode Island St. That was a collision shop I am 100% sure. Before it became a shooting range. My grandparents lived on West Ave. and was there often.

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MVT commented about Shea's Niagara Theater on Feb 14, 2008 at 7:06 pm

I lived around the corner for a time on Hudson St. I can remember seeing my first news reel and movie there. After the Catholic Church stop running the theater I belive it was turned into a collision shop for a time. On my last trip back to Buffalo it the marque was missing and the place was boarded up.

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MVT commented about Paramount Theatre on Oct 3, 2007 at 9:55 pm

Is there any information or photos of the Lafayette theater located
at 6 Broadway?

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MVT commented about Paramount Theatre on Oct 3, 2007 at 5:19 pm

Just to add to the confusion on the address. I have an old Buffalo street guide. It lists the address for the Great Lakes as 618 Main St. Working downtown at the time the theater went dark my recollections are after a year or the rear portion of the building that extended to Pearl St. which housed the actual theater was demolished and turned into a parking lot; also I know the building was not on the corner. The front portion which held the foyer, main lobby and steps to the balcony was boarded over for years until the City Center Condos took it over. MVT