# the Aud
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [September 6, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477 "2008-09-06T09:52:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Jared](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jared)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/1 "2008-09-06T09:52:45Z")
good read…
Saying goodbye to the Aud Evan Weiner | [NHL.com](http://NHL.com) Correspondent Sep 5, 2008, 9:00 AM EDT
Buffalo Memorial Auditorium saw plenty of big names go through its doors, skating with or against the AHL’s Buffalo Bisons before playing host to the Sabres as an NHL franchise from 1970-1996.
Buffalo is slowly saying goodbye to “The Aud.” Officially known as the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, the old building will be finally demolished in October, but clean-up crews are spending the summer preparing for the final event at the facility that not only housed the NHL’s Sabres, but for about three decades, was the home to the American Hockey League’s Buffalo Bisons.
The Bison franchise was very successful, and the NHL took notice. The Buffalo Majors of the American Hockey Association became Buffalo’s first hockey team in 1930 and lasted three years. But Buffalo was a solid hockey city, and the NHL in the late 1960s began to look at the city as a place in which it could do business.
The old and unused Aud in Buffalo is a remnant of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Works Project Act of the mid-1930s to help get America out of the Great Depression by creating projects which put people back in the labor force. The arena opened in October 1940, and with the building came a new hockey team when Lou Jacobs moved his AHL Syracuse team to Buffalo.
During the next three decades some of hockey’s best-known names – coaches Eddie Shore, Fred Shero and Billy Reay – led the Bisons. There is also a who’s who list of players who played at “The Aud,” including Toe Blake, Doug Harvey, Tom Johnson, Dickie Moore, Jacques Plante and Brad Park as minor leaguers. There is also a strange logo that pre-dates today’s sophisticated marketing techniques. The old Bisons logo was a soda bottle cap with Buffalo scripted in the middle. The Bisons’ owners, the Pastor Brothers, owned the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in Buffalo. The AHL approved the logo.
Early on, the AHL ruled against the owners of the Hershey hockey club when they suggested the team should be known as the Hershey Bars because Hershey bars were made in Hershey, Pa. The Bars became the Bears. The AHL saw no problems with the logo as it was not selling a product other than hockey.
That era came to an end in 1970 when the NHL’s expansion Sabres took to the ice in a renovated arena with a much larger capacity. Buffalo officials literally raised the roof for the new NHL franchise and an expansion NBA franchise, the Braves. The Sabres fared rather well in The Aud, although the team didn’t win the Stanley Cup and closed the building in 1996.
[http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=381170](http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=381170)
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### Author:  [@forthekicks385](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/forthekicks385)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/2 "2008-09-06T09:55:13Z")
R.I.P.
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### Author:  [@91CRXSI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91CRXSI)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/3 "2008-09-06T09:59:59Z")
out with the old in with the new.
sad to see it go, but i’d rather see a new business take it’s spot then an old building just sit there and waste good DT Buffalo space
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### Author:  [@matter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/matter)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/4 "2008-09-06T10:10:46Z")
I worry what will happen to the skyway when they implode, shits like 10 feet away
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### Author:  [@TheKID](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TheKID)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/5 "2008-09-06T10:23:29Z")
> [@Jared"](#):
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> but clean-up crews are spending the summer preparing for the final event at the facility
What is the final event?
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### Author:  [@Boarderx192](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boarderx192)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/6 "2008-09-06T11:08:44Z")
I had no idea that they planned on demolishing it. Sad to see it go.
> [@91CRXSI](#):
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> i’d rather see a new business take it’s spot then an old building just sit there and waste good DT Buffalo space
I doubt anything will be built in its spot withing the next 5-8 years.
> [@TheKID](#):
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> What is the final event?
I would also like to know this answer
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/7 "2008-09-06T11:14:13Z")
Gee only 12 years of being unused, and it’s still fucking standing. Knock the shit down already.
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### Author:  [@Paulo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Paulo)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/8 "2008-09-06T11:15:48Z")
> [@TheKID](#):
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> What is the final event?
I think the writer is referring to the demolition. Sorry, the sabres won’t be having a “Ol’ Times Sake” game.
EDIT - as insanely awesome as that would be.
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### Author:  [@bigwoode](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bigwoode)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/9 "2008-09-06T11:21:39Z")
that would be pretty badass…
over the past 5-6 months i have been stopping by [www.theaudclub.com](http://www.theaudclub.com) and checking out pictures that have been posted from people entering the arena over the years. brings back memories and i will miss that place
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### Author:  [@camarojoe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/camarojoe)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/10 "2008-09-06T12:40:17Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
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> I think the writer is referring to the demolition. Sorry, the sabres won’t be having a “Ol’ Times Sake” game.
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> EDIT - as insanely awesome as that would be.
[http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/420963.html](http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/420963.html)
Auction details coming soon.
I want 2 orange seats!
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### Author:  [@RobtC](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobtC)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/11 "2008-09-06T12:51:54Z")
> [@DrImodium](#):
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> I had no idea that they planned on demolishing it. Sad to see it go.
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> I doubt anything will be built in its spot withing the next 5-8 years.
Are you serious?
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### Author:  [@JustinH](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JustinH)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/12 "2008-09-06T13:23:28Z")
Not sure if I would want seats that had that much ass time…
I can’t even imagine what those things look like after being in the asbestos laden abandoned building after all those years.
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### Author:  [@Carbonfiberhooded](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Carbonfiberhooded)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/13 "2008-09-06T14:38:24Z")
I went in there a few years back (they left the garage open by mistake one night) and had pliers with me. I took out some orange seats but got tired of carrying them and just left them behind. Kinda wish I had brought them out now.
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### Author:  [@forthekicks385](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/forthekicks385)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/14 "2008-09-06T17:00:12Z")
to all those that have played in the aud.🍺i will miss it i got to play soccer there and i ralphed in the away teams bench.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/15 "2008-09-06T17:43:35Z")
I still have my ticket from the final sabres game there back in 96. What a place.
No historians trying to protect it and call it a landmark?
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### Author:  [@91CRXSI](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91CRXSI)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/16 "2008-09-06T19:44:25Z")
they’ve already taken down part of the wall on the side by the 190… too late to save it now.
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### Author:  [@9c1ny](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9c1ny)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/17 "2008-09-06T20:18:57Z")
> [@bigwoode](#):
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> that would be pretty badass…
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> over the past 5-6 months i have been stopping by [www.theaudclub.com](http://www.theaudclub.com) and checking out pictures that have been posted from people entering the arena over the years. brings back memories and i will miss that place
I cant believe how fucked up that place has gotten, looks like it has been empty for 50yrs
Fucking people spraying tags all over everything
RIP aud
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### Author:  [@ineedacar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ineedacar)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/18 "2008-09-06T22:50:58Z")
> [@matter](#):
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> I worry what will happen to the skyway when they implode, shits like 10 feet away
:word: I don’t imagine they will use demo charges on this one. Unless that’s what the article said but i’m too tired to read it right now.
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### Author:  [@Haenszel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Haenszel)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2008, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/19 "2008-09-07T06:04:54Z")
dawn?
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### Author:  [@TheKID](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TheKID)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-aud/54477/20 "2008-09-08T20:32:36Z")
> [@Paulo](#):
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> I think the writer is referring to the demolition. Sorry, the sabres won’t be having a “Ol’ Times Sake” game.
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> EDIT - as insanely awesome as that would be.
Thought it was a possibility because The Philadelphia Spectrum is hosting one last game for the flyers this year although they have been playing at the wachovia center for some years now… However the Phantoms (ahl) have still been playing there so im sure its in much better condition than the aud… Still would have liked something though
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