The Aud main entrance box office hdr

A shot of the old "Aud"s box office windows,

I was kicked out of here after this shot LOL

The front door was open the whole time I was walking around shooting and when I had completed the whole exterior I went and did the two lobby shots thru the open door.

I ventured inside and made the one shot of the box office windows when a worker showed up and then kicked me out.

Police were there too LOL

 

The War Memorial Auditorium ,

here in Buffalo,NY the city has just started demolition of the old place

and I will be shooting as often as I can to record the process.

 

It was a place I spent many days and nights.

I've watched many sports teams there including being a season ticket holder ( 5 seats for myself-wife-2 kids and M-I-L ) for both the Buffalo Stampede and the Buffalo Sabres until it closed.

 

They also had many AWESOME concerts here.

I saw bands from 1968 ( Jimi Hendrix opening for The Monkees -> WTF ??? )

up to when it closed.

Other bands we saw there multiple times were:

Frank Zappa , Pink Floyd , The Grateful Dead , Eagles / Don Henley , Eric Clapton , ZZ Top , Alice Copper , Fleetwood Mac , King Crimson , Savoy Brown , Jethro Tull , Foghat , Peter Frampton and a ton of others.

Led Zepplin was in there too LOL

 

The Aud info

Opened October 14, 1940

Owner City of Buffalo

Construction cost $2,700,000

Architect Green and James (1939)

Capacity :

Basketball: 18,000

Hockey: 16,433

Concerts - almost 20,000 - my estimate including floor seating

 

Sport Tenants

Buffalo Bisons (AHL) (1940-1970)

Buffalo Sabres (NHL) (1970-1996)

Buffalo Braves (NBA) (1970-1978)

Buffalo Stallions (MISL) (1979-1984)

Buffalo Blizzard (NPSL) (1992-1996)

Buffalo Stampede (RHI) (1994-1995)

 

Done