A very interesting posting and one that hearkens back to an essay regarding the preparation for the Pan-American Exposition in the official magazine of the...
Great for those starting out... ... http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ... ===== Cynthia Van Ness, MLS, bettybarcode@... New...
I once posted an excerpt from a professional travel writer's account of Buffalo. He found us pessimistic and glum. The year was 1916. That post, with a full...
For those who don't already read the Buffalo report, a conversation about demolishing buildings, with special focus on 844 Main. I'm appalled but not surprised...
I had the "privelege" of a tour of the Erie County Holding Center with my class in a criminal justice community class. I had heard of the tunnel and always...
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Bob
rwurtz114660mi@...
May 3, 2003 1:27 am
Laurie, I have trouble visualizing how that could have been built as you describe it.Eiterh something was used for a false ceiling (to keep the dirt from...
One brief comment: I suspect the tunnel predates Czolgosz (1901). He was tried and executed within about 6 weeks of shooting McKinley, hardly enough time to...
... Cynthia is correct. According to "A History of the Old County Hall" by Alison Kimberly, available at http://ah.bfn.org/a/franklin/92/kim/kim.html "In 1891,...
There are many tunnels running under streets downtown. I remember alot of red brick mason work when the rapid transit was being put in. There's an old tunnel ...
... That's the AM&A warehouse on Washington. I know that tunnel well, since I actually worked inside it! It is quite commodious.The supply room for the store,...
For the out-of-town list members: While you're in town visiting old haunts & searching for ancestors, here's what else is going on. I think I posted this link...
For the out-of-town list members: While you're in town visiting old haunts & searching for ancestors, here's what else in going on. I think I posted this link...
Hello, Neither an article in Western New York Heritage nor a web search reveal a first name for Thaddeus Joy's partner in the early shipping firm, Mr. Webster....
During their courtship and the early years of their marriage (1955-1960)my parents would often make day trips to Buffalo, or spend a weekend there (after they ...
May 6 -12 is "National Nurses Week". Congress has also declared the same week as "National VNA Week" in honor of all of the Visiting Nursing Associations...
Yes, it still exists. In one of several reincarnations, it is now known as the Sphere Entertainment Complex. A very nice mid-sized concert venue, something...
Go, nurses!! Buffalo women have played leadership roles in the provision of health care services here since day one. I'll wager that if you delve deeply...
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Schalk, Mike
cdnmd@...
May 6, 2003 12:47 am
Question 2: Did they re-tain any of the rather baroque interior that the Studio Arena worked around? Answer to an unasked question: I went to a postcard show...
More proof for the "Buffalo: Not as Bad as Detroit" logbook: http://www.detnow.com/news/0305051204.html I know airborne manhole covers can kill you, but this...
Some traces of a baroque interior remain but much has been changed. From the front you'd think it was a fairly new building. The National Gypsum building still...
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AGithler@...
May 6, 2003 3:22 am
I believe that it was pronounced "chaze ah-me", at least at our house....
I played in a band at the Chez Ami. Everybody seemed to pronounce it Shez Ami. Not good French, but that was the local pronunciation. Jack Blanchard ... ...
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Bob
rwurtz114660mi@...
May 6, 2003 11:42 am
I remember "shaise, as in chaise lounge, ami. b...
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rgar726284@...
May 6, 2003 6:41 pm
The correct pronunciation is "shayzahmee" and I remember it well. My parents took me there when I was about ten years old and I was completely taken with the...
The Buffalo Preservation Board has given ADM Archer Daniels Midland (http://www.admworld.com/) the green light to demolish the unique Great Northern Grain...
H. O. BRUNN AND HIS DIXIELAND JAZZ CRACKERS. A true Buffalo story. I played piano in Harry Brunn's band "H. O. Brunn and his Dixieland Jazz Crackers" in 1950's...
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BuffaloHistory@yahoog...
May 7, 2003 3:30 am
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