All of the comments on Laube’s Old Spain and the Great Lakes/Paramount Theatre brought back many memories. The Laube family also had two cafeterias in downtown Buffalo. One at the Downtown YMCA at 45 W. Mohawk Street, and the other at Pearl and Eagle. As to the Shea’s Great Lakes and Shea’s Buffalo – I went to Shea theaters (there were over 30 of them) on an average of 3 times a week in the 30s because my boyhood friends father, William Frank was the maintenance supervisor at the Great Lakes, and his uncle Ed Frank was the Chief Engineer for Shea theaters and had his office in the basement of the Shea’s Buffalo. Some great memories.
All of the comments on Laube’s Old Spain and the Great Lakes/Paramount Theatre brought back many memories. The Laube family also had two cafeterias in downtown Buffalo. One at the Downtown YMCA at 45 W. Mohawk Street, and the other at Pearl and Eagle. As to the Shea’s Great Lakes and Shea’s Buffalo – I went to Shea theaters (there were over 30 of them) on an average of 3 times a week in the 30s because my boyhood friends father, William Frank was the maintenance supervisor at the Great Lakes, and his uncle Ed Frank was the Chief Engineer for Shea theaters and had his office in the basement of the Shea’s Buffalo. Some great memories.