If you drive down Rt 31 through Medina / Shelby Center area, where is splits between Rt 31/31A in the Maple Ridge Plaza - there are still signs in the window for Bells. There is a rundown Ames in the same plaza.
@tjfreak I remember Two Guys on Walden long before Wegmans and the Galleria came there. I also recall the Boulevard/Sheridan location. And long before that, they were a big fixture in the NYC shopping scene, along with Alexanders, Korvettes, and A & S.
Twin Fair used to be at Walden/Dick, then it became a Gold Circle, and now... is it a paint store, or a bank or something?
@StukInBuf Sorry to do the whole memory lane thing, I don't run into people familiar with that area from the 60's - 70's very often..so do you remember Fun 'N Games park & the Wild mouse & the Blue Whale car wash ? lol.. & Maybacks
@zipaddo2u The first & last time I got caught shop lifting was in Bells,there was one on Transit rd, south of Maple rd, in E. Amherst. This was in 74 or 75. 4 -10 packs of juicy fruit gum, just as I was stuffing it down my pants a worker passed the Isle..Should have dumped it..as I was exiting, it was the old hand on the shoulder and "excuse me would you come back in to the store".if you got a 10 Cent raise, the guy that caught me probably got 2 or 3 cents back then...
@tommyboy6181 The Dick/Urban location was across from Wegmans, then moved further south on Dick behind Ponderosa in early 1987 at Barnabas. Eventually, Bells went to Quality... and eventually closed down. It's now a medical center.
Bells' original Dick/Urban digs... it's a VALU hardware store.
Ponderosa at Dick/Barnabas... it's the Duff's where Obama was called "hottie" by some gal.
The Wegmans... it was ripped down, and then rebuilt again in 2006. Family members of mine work there.
i remember bells very well, there was one on rochester rd (route 31) in lockport where 77 splits off., and one in north tonawanda where budwey's is now...anyone know of any other former bells locations??
My Grandma is from Buffalo and lives in the Tonawanda area she used to shop there I was wondering if the place still existed but I guess not
safenders 10 months ago
The Bells in the Cleve-Hill Plaza was an independently owned supermarket from late '93-1995, then it became a medical center.
rjflesher 1 year ago
The Bells on Main Street in Williamsville later became Quality and now it's a Tops.
zyber9 1 year ago
I wonder if Canisius' Sunday grocery shuttle went there at the time?
Ian16545 1 year ago
We shopped at Bells in Clarence NY from 1968-1974
85226 1 year ago
One last thing... what was Mayback's?
StukInBuf 1 year ago
one was in batavia too on the east side near the 33 / 5 intersection
whip94 1 year ago
If you drive down Rt 31 through Medina / Shelby Center area, where is splits between Rt 31/31A in the Maple Ridge Plaza - there are still signs in the window for Bells. There is a rundown Ames in the same plaza.
synthetikfunk 1 year ago
@synthetikfunk do you remember Two Guys,Sattlers,Twin Fair?
tjfreak 1 year ago
@tjfreak I remember Two Guys on Walden long before Wegmans and the Galleria came there. I also recall the Boulevard/Sheridan location. And long before that, they were a big fixture in the NYC shopping scene, along with Alexanders, Korvettes, and A & S.
Twin Fair used to be at Walden/Dick, then it became a Gold Circle, and now... is it a paint store, or a bank or something?
StukInBuf 1 year ago
@StukInBuf Sorry to do the whole memory lane thing, I don't run into people familiar with that area from the 60's - 70's very often..so do you remember Fun 'N Games park & the Wild mouse & the Blue Whale car wash ? lol.. & Maybacks
tjfreak 1 year ago
@tjfreak I and my folks moved to WNY in 1980. Within our first 2 yrs. here we've been to Two Guys and Twin Fair/Gold Circle.
I LOVED the bowling alley game at Two Guys!
Sorry, but I don't recall Fun 'N Games park, the Wild mouse, or the Blue Whale car wash all that well.
StukInBuf 1 year ago
@synthetikfunk I know that area. We drove that way to go to a friend's wedding this past June.
StukInBuf 1 year ago
tommyboy6181 1 year ago
@tommyboy6181 ..I worked at the one on Main and Union. I caught a shoplifter, and got a 10 cent raise. WOW!
zipaddo2u 1 year ago
@zipaddo2u The first & last time I got caught shop lifting was in Bells,there was one on Transit rd, south of Maple rd, in E. Amherst. This was in 74 or 75. 4 -10 packs of juicy fruit gum, just as I was stuffing it down my pants a worker passed the Isle..Should have dumped it..as I was exiting, it was the old hand on the shoulder and "excuse me would you come back in to the store".if you got a 10 Cent raise, the guy that caught me probably got 2 or 3 cents back then...
tjfreak 1 year ago
@tommyboy6181 The Dick/Urban location was across from Wegmans, then moved further south on Dick behind Ponderosa in early 1987 at Barnabas. Eventually, Bells went to Quality... and eventually closed down. It's now a medical center.
Bells' original Dick/Urban digs... it's a VALU hardware store.
Ponderosa at Dick/Barnabas... it's the Duff's where Obama was called "hottie" by some gal.
The Wegmans... it was ripped down, and then rebuilt again in 2006. Family members of mine work there.
StukInBuf 1 year ago
i remember bells very well, there was one on rochester rd (route 31) in lockport where 77 splits off., and one in north tonawanda where budwey's is now...anyone know of any other former bells locations??
domirules28 1 year ago