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As twelve-year-old boy growing up around Vermont Ave, Vincent McFaul already knew he wanted to work in a theater. His neighbor suggested that he try taking a job during his summer vacation at the theater box office - that theater being Shea's Garden Theater and that neighbor being Michael Shea.
Vincent McFaul continued working for Shea's - and when he graduated college, he became the manager of the Shea's Criterion, the Shea's Hippodrome, the Shea's Buffalo, and after Michael Shea's death in 1934, now in charge of the Buffalo Theaters Inc. "It's the only job I've ever had and it's the only business I know anything about."
Photo Credit: The Buffalo Times - May 16, 1926
"You need grit and gumption to get anywhere in the theater business!"
Photo Credit: The Buffalo News - March 2, 1949
“A properly conducted theater is of the same importance to a community as a school or church. Such a theater contributes to the general welfare of the community, because wholesome recreation is essential to its well being.”
Photo Credit: The Buffalo Times - July 15, 1934