In the end, he spent a year and a half in California, with nary a sniff at the silver screen; working instead at a shirt factory, department store warehouse, and meat packing plant. “The closest I got to being in the movies, was at the Pantages Movie Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard wa...
The new streets in the Lakeview HOPE VI housing were named for Sally Mae and Rosetta, along with Hope Way (for HOPE VI) and Anthony Tauriello Drive, named for Anthony Tauriello, but we’ll learn about him another day – I wanted to focus on the ladies for today! The redevelopment proj...
Roast beef sandwiches aren’t unusual either, but once again, Buffalo does its thing to make a food its own.This isn’t Chicago-style Italian roast beef and it certainly isn’t that thin, slippery stuff that Arby’s passes off as meat. In Buffalo, a beef on weck features hand-carved ...
Butler’s ownership of the buildings used and occupied by the Buffalo Evening News and the Buffalo Sunday Morning News – 216 and 218 Main Street, the press and composition rooms on Pearl Street south of Seneca Street, the building at West Seneca Street and Lower Terrace that was used as a...
The whole family would work on making sausage at the big kitchen table, and then hang the kielbasa out back—but they’d also butcher hams and other cuts of meat as well. While he was in the frame of mind, I asked him about the Broadway Market, too. In the late ‘20s, His mother...