DO COUNTY SALES TAX RULES SHORTCHANGE BUFFALOMARY PASCIAK
Just up Walden Avenue, on the corner of Dick Road, stood Twin Fair Kiddieland in the parking lot of the department store. In Niagara County, Page’s Kiddyland at Packard and Military first stood to help draw customers to the Simon-Gulf gas station and then the Whistle Pig restaurant. One...
At this time, the City was working on building City Hall and moving out of the combined City-County Hall on Franklin Street (now referred to as Old County Hall). In 1929, the City would receive its share of the City-County Hall building value when the County took it over. The City’...
More than 300 jobs were lost with the closure of the store as well as the warehouse behind the store across Washington Street. We’re in the final chapters of AM&A’s history now, with the Bon-Ton’s never ending going out of business sales in several of AM&A’s former locations. MOR...
The former Mayor’s office was located in the building that we now call Old County Hall on Franklin Street. Old County Hall had originally been shared by the City and the County, but it had been turned over to Erie County during the construction of City Hall. In December 1931, the ...
But it wasn’t until 1948 that Walter Morrison and Warren Franscioni began selling their plastic “Flying Saucers” or “Pluto Platters” at county fairs. Toy company Wham-O caught word of the discs and bought the rights in 1955, renaming them Frisbees. By the mid-’60s, Wham-O Frisbee...
New Jersey is sending 22 members of Task Force One to Erie County in western New York to help dig out of at least 49 inches of snow. Members of New Jersey's Task Force 1 were dispatched Monday afternoon from their headquarters in Wall to assist with the dig-out. ...
I will be presenting again through Erie County’s University Express program this semester! I will be giving another Discovering Buffalo, One Street at a Time talk. I will technically be presenting Part 6 of the talks, but don’t fret, there’s no need to have attended previous talks to ...