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Robert Wurtz
rwurtz114660mi@...
Mar 1, 2002 3:29 pm
More than restaurants and dept. stores! Bet I remembered more than YOU ! If you don't remember this, you're too young anyway. This is a time we can feel good...
Help! Can someone jog my memory again? The Jimmy NAPLES that I remember as having been quite a legend in the Buffalo of my father's generation -- i.e. just...
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SKulp12345@...
Mar 1, 2002 4:00 pm
In a message dated 3/1/02 10:39:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, jmdukesbury@... writes: << One of his sons (name?) was a contemporary of mine at Canisius...
There are two distinct possibilities here. As I remember it, Freddies was right on the corner of Main and Michigan where Michigan ran off at a 45 degree angle...
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Nancy Webb
nlangdonwebb@...
Mar 1, 2002 5:08 pm
Thanks Robert, I remember everyone but the Fort Apache Playset. I do remember getting 4 gallons of gasoline for $1. My uncle, Bob Swanick had a Texaco Station...
To follow up on my earlier post and the one below: I would not -- and could not -- in all honesty acknowledge Maxl's as operating an authentic German kitchen....
Primarily to S. Kulp, Jack Dukesbury and Jack Foran: Once upon a time, there were four brothers named Naples: Sebastian, John, Peter and Dan. Sebastian had a...
... I know, I gently suggested to the author that I hoped neither of us ever need a cancer support group. Her larger point was that a tax-paying property was...
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Patrick McGreevy
pmcgreevy@...
Mar 1, 2002 6:20 pm
I don't mean to sound cranky, but sometimes I am frustrated with this list because instead of being about history, it is about uncritical nostalgia. My...
Over the years there have been a number of places that have layed claim to the title of the purveyor of the best "beef on weck" in town. Among those, Bailos...
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gerald puckett
puckaroo@...
Mar 1, 2002 8:18 pm
Yes, I fondly remember them. I'm not certain I remember the newsreels. I was born in 1949. We did get two movies and cartoons for 75 cents at The Genesee,...
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SKulp12345@...
Mar 1, 2002 8:59 pm
In a message dated 3/1/2002 1:21:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, pmcgreevy@... writes: << would find it more interesting if we dealt with the...
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Mark Wozniak
mwozniak@...
Mar 1, 2002 8:59 pm
... (etc., deleted to save space) I remember drinking Queen-O (from the Queen City!) which you had to mix from the syrup provided in glass bottles. They had...
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Robert Wurtz
rwurtz114660mi@...
Mar 1, 2002 9:21 pm
OK Mark' lets make it both pop and nostalgia - How about the Vernors plant on Main Street? But where was it? Near the Teck theatre? bob ... From: "Mark...
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gerald puckett
puckaroo@...
Mar 1, 2002 9:52 pm
Patrick, in my opinion, if I'm free to give it, you are free to speak of "the horrors of Buffalo's past", as you put it, just as Bob is free to speak as he...
I sure wish Hess & Bements was still there. They had the best chocolate ice cream--ever. I think you can still buy "skippy cups", but I don't think they call...
Oh wow, Robert, have you brought back a lot of memories!!!! ... We always bought these from the local mom and pop grocery stores. I always wanted them in the...
I remember those Henry's resturants. They might have been a few cents cheaper than MacDonald's because my Dad usually took us there. Anyone remember Frizzies?...
Glass pop bottles... Coke and Pepsi... These I remember from a machine outside my father's Gulf Oil service station on East Delevan before it burned in a fire...
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Gerald E. Bailey
gbailey@...
Mar 1, 2002 11:15 pm
This is the first time that I have used this email address and do not know if I can get information on my Bailey family. This Bailey family came from Ireland...
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Borzanothers@...
Mar 1, 2002 11:16 pm
... Hmmm. But who are Cecil and Beanie? Otherwise, my memory is holding up just fine. Speaking of the sweetness of other times, who else knows the Buffalo...
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Ron Huefner
rhuefner@...
Mar 1, 2002 11:23 pm
... Cecil and Beanie were cartoon-type characters on a children's TV show in late afternoon. I recall watching it after school but before dinner. Beanie was a...
... From: "Bruce Jackson" <brucejackson@...> To: <unlisted-recipients:>; <no To-header on input> Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:18 PM Subject:...
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Ron Huefner
rhuefner@...
Mar 1, 2002 11:27 pm
--On Friday, March 01, 2002, 3:21 PM -0500 gerald puckett ... All phone numbers were like this. Regent was a Lancaster exchange. When my family moved to...
Mine was Amherst...AM- 3754 which later became TF2-3754... I lived in Cheektowaga about a mile south of Amherst and a mile east of the Buffaly city line....
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Karen L. Kolb
klkolb@...
Mar 2, 2002 12:06 am
... They were Fizzies, and we not too long ago wondered about them, when lo and behold I saw them at a local Wilson Farms. So I grabbed a few, took them home,...
Someone mentioned Eli Konicoff and his Dixieland Band earlier. It sounded familiar to me and now I know why. I asked a friend about him and he said he used to...
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Karen L. Kolb
klkolb@...
Mar 2, 2002 12:28 am
I seem to remember that Eli Konikoff and his Yankee Six played at a club on Eggert Road near Niagara Falls Blvd. right behind Northtown Plaza, but I can't...
