Steve Cichon
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Buffalo, NY, United States
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[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo almost didn’t smell like Cheerios
General Mills wanted to make Buffalo the world’s largest breakfast cereal producer. In 1939, plans for a $2 million cereal production plant were unveiled for the corner of Ganson and → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Elvis in Buffalo, 1957
While this past weekend’s top box office draw “Elvis” takes some liberties with the life of the “king of rock ‘n’ roll,” a look back at Elvis Presley’s 1957 visit → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: The explosion that ended Buffalo’s flour milling dominance, 1972
For decades, there was more flour milled and bagged in Buffalo than anywhere else in the world – but a deadly explosion and fire changed that forever. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo in the 1940s – before the I-190
When the New York State Thruway built the Niagara Extension of the Thruway from I-90 up through Lewiston, the super highway that would eventually be numbered “Interstate-190” used land that → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Operation Rescue makes Buffalo ground zero in the abortion debate, 1992
Twenty years ago this week, Western New York was still reeling from the weekslong “Spring of Life” protest staged in Buffalo by militant anti-abortion group Operation Rescue. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: 100 years ago, Buffalo’s mayor pleads no contest to Prohibition violations
When the people of Buffalo elected brewer Frank X. Schwab as mayor in 1921, voters knew that Schwab’s Buffalo Brewing Company had been busted for violating the Volstead Act — → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo’s ancient history
The City of Buffalo was chartered 190 years ago this week, and so we begin a several-week look back at the thousands of years of history before Buffalo became Buffalo. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo Braves and Buffalo Sabres tickets from a milk carton
If you are a Buffalo sports fan of a certain age, chances are, at some point, you had a ticket to the Aud because you drank enough milk. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Tony Sisti captures springtime in Buffalo at Albright Art Gallery
Artist Tony Sisti was a Buffalo character and Allentown institution. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: The all-time record snowfall of March 17, 1936
A moonlike darkness descended on the city at the noon hour as the heavy, wet snow fell at close to an inch per hour through most of the day. The → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Buffalo postcard folder, late 1930s
A postcard folder from the late 1930s gives a unique perspective of how things have changed in Buffalo over the last 80 years. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Baseball’s first woman player in Buffalo, 1953
When Toni Stone grabbed her mitt and took to the field as a second baseman for the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League in 1953, she became the first → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: The uniquely Buffalo pastry heart
It might not be one of the top-tier Buffalo-only foods, but don’t tell that to someone who hasn’t enjoyed the flaky, buttery sweet since they were last in town. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Alfreda Slominski vs. Frank Sedita for Buffalo mayor, 1969
The popular mayor was seeking re-election to a third term in 1969 when At-Large Common Council Member Slominski blasted her way through the Republican primary to take on Sedita in → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Downtown's Courtyard Mall faded fast in the '80s
Shops like Gourmet Granny’s and Lotions & Potions, as well as small restaurants like Bagel & Crepes Café, Taters, JC’s Ice Cream & Yogurt, and a branch shop of Fort → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Gleasons Drive-In was dubbed Buffalo’s 'most glamorous drive-in'
The last three Gleasons locations in the area were closed by the mid-1980s. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Jew Murphy’s Omega Café was Buffalo’s coolest hangout
The establishment was regular host to elite entertainers like Bing Crosby and nearly every other big act that came through town, as well as local musicians and actors. → Read More
[BN Chronicles]: 65 years of the “new” Broadway Market (and the market ramp)
It was a big deal when the renovated Broadway Market opened – but the bigger deal was the attached parking ramp. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: Pine Hill, Cheektowaga, around 1920
A postcard created by J. Bianchi & Son Monument Works shows five different places around what is today Pine Ridge Road and Genesee Street in Cheektowaga. → Read More
[BN] Chronicles: The 'terrible stench arising from the Erie Canal,' 1897
The Erie Canal played an integral role in the growth of Buffalo from a tiny frontier village to the eighth-largest city in the country, but for the people who lived → Read More