Louis Onetto, who owned a macaroni manufacturing works on Broadway near Michigan for more than 50 years, came to Buffalo in 1866. Those early sons of Italy were northern Genoese, but in the decades to come, the massive numbers came from southern Italian places like Sicily and Naples. “The ...
Jeannie and Elizabeth were Chandler and Susan’s grand-nieces, but they were eventually adopted by Chandler and Susan when their parents moved to Michigan. Jeannie and Elizabeth took the Wells name and were treated as a part of the Wells family. In 1858, the Wells family built a red brick ...
In 1883, the City Ship Canal was extended to allow the Buffalo Creek Railway Company to create a series of canal slips at what we now call Tifft Farms (Lake Kirsty is remnants of those canal slips). The City Ship Canal was partially filled in during the 1950s when Ohio Street was chang...
common in old postcards. Concrete Grain Elevators Grain Elevators Jack Knife Bridge, Kellogg Grain Elevator… This is Michigan Ave, just past the new casino heading away from downtown. Jack Knife Bridge. Given the number of different postcards I’ve seen of this bridge, It must have been ...
In remote mountain communities cut off by Helene, … Dire warnings to flee as Hurricane Milton begins … ‘The Office’ actor cancer-free after 2023 diagnosis Language, lack of money and fear are matters of life … North Carolina lawmakers pass $273M Helene relief … ...
At the time, the Fifth Ward was bounded by Broadway and Eagle Streets, between Michigan Avenue and approximately Fillmore Avenue. While Mr. Hager was Alderman, one of the issues for the entire country was how to deal with the Civil Rights Amendment passed after the Civil War. A Black man ...
Little Caesars was started by a husband-and-wife team in Michigan in 1959. Today, it is one of the biggest pizza chains in the United States. The company truly took off in 1979 when it coined its famous phrase "Pizza! Pizza!" and started selling two pizzas for the price of one. Tod...
Little Caesars was started by a husband-and-wife team in Michigan in 1959. Today, it is one of the biggest pizza chains in the United States. The company truly took off in 1979 when it coined its famous phrase "Pizza! Pizza!" and started selling two pizzas for the price of one. Tod...
April is National Poetry Month, and whether through involvement in some poetry related group activity on the state or chapter level, or by some action taken as an individual, each and every one of us can do something positive during this special month to enrich our own lives poetically and ...
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