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Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Landmarks
ISBN 13 : 9781626193017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Glory Days of Buffalo Shopping written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Landmarks. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History of major retailers in Buffalo, New York"--
Author : Mardi Oakley Medawar
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1612327702
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Glory Days of Buffalo Egbert written by Mardi Oakley Medawar and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western Writers of America’s Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award Tall, vain, elegant, the Crow were perhaps the most handsome of the Plains tribes. They were superb horsemen and fierce mystic warriors, implacable enemies, unshakable friends. A French-Canadian trapper, Renee DeGeer was a loner before he came to the Crow. He became one of them when he married the beautiful Tall Willow, only daughter of the principal chief, and started their magnificent family. But all too soon they and the whole Whistling Water clan found themselves in a fight to the death with other tribes competing for dwindling land and facing a white culture that threatened to overwhelm them like a river in flood. Now, as surely as the sun must set, the glory days of noble warriors and roaming hunters were coming to an end. THE GLORY DAYS OF BUFFALO EGBERT A magnificent novel that brings to life the moving story of the Crow nation “A must read. If you haven’t yet read it, get it. It’s a fine reading experience.” —Allan W. Eckert, author of That Dark and Bloody River
Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781430313861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Nine Nine Eight written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of many of Buffalo's original stores and the people who built them.
Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Michael F. Rizzo
ISBN 13 : 1386004170
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Download or read book They Call Me Korney written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Michael F. Rizzo. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during Prohibition this is one of Buffalo, New York's most blood-soaked crime tales. This is the story of the bloody reign of Polish gangster John "Korney" Kwiatkowski, which ended with one of his friends in the electric chair. Before the end came, Korney masterminded robberies all over the city, leading a gang of violent thugs, dubbed the Korney Gang, while he maintained a facade of gentility. With names like Ziggy, Bolly, and Smithy, these bootleggers, murderers, and robbers introduced Buffalo to violent crime with the introduction of the machine gun. No one was safe, including law enforcement, as the Korney Gang blasted their way out of every incident. Through careful research of newspapers, court transcripts, and genealogy, the story of this gang slowly emerges.
Author : Shane E. Stephenson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439656339
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Buffalo's East Side Industry written by Shane E. Stephenson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Buffalo was incorporated as a city, the East Side represented a vast forested area and farmland that would one day be booming with industry. By 1832, the beginnings of the major arterials of Genesee, Sycamore, Broadway, William, Clinton, and Seneca were there. These streets were laid out in 1826 and represented the seeds of the East Side's explosive growth. The development of railroads and the Buffalo Belt Line, constructed in 1883, created a semicircle pattern that outlined the East Side. Industries began sprouting up, eager to use their proximity to the belt line to transport wares all over the country. Immigrants from Germany, Poland, and Ireland, along with African Americans from northern and southern states, began establishing their lives around these industries. Access to land, water, roads, and rail lines and eager immigrants and natives looking for work led to the development of Buffalo's East Side industry, an immensely diverse industrial base and workforce.
Author : Shelton Johnson
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1578051819
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Gloryland written by Shelton Johnson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A work of extraordinary imagination and sympathy, a journey from slavery to the mountaintop, perfectly realized.” —Ken Burns, American filmmaker Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of black and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave—but his self–image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Exiled for his own survival as a teenager, Elijah walks west to the Nebraska plains—and, like other rootless young African–American men of that era, joins up with the US cavalry. The trajectory of Elijah’s army career parallels the nation’s imperial adventures in the late 19th century: subduing Native Americans in the West, quelling rebellion in the Philippines. Haunted by the terrors endured by black Americans and by his part in persecuting other people of color, Elijah is sustained only by visions, memories, prayers, and his questing spirit—which ultimately finds a home when his troop is posted to the newly created Yosemite National Park in 1903. Here, living with little beyond mountain light, running water, campfires, and stars, he becomes a man who owns himself completely, while knowing he’s left pieces of himself scattered along his life’s path like pebbles on a creek bed. “Seen through the fresh eyes of buffalo soldier Elijah Yancy, Yosemite is Gloryland, his true home. Shelton Johnson has written a beautiful novel about Elijah’s journey.” —Maxine Hong Kingston, author of China Men and The Woman Warrior
Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423549X
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Gangsters and Organized Crime in Buffalo written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of Buffalo, NY's mobster and mafia history. Local mob expert reveals gangsters' stories, hangouts and more. Buffalo has housed its fair share of thugs and mobsters. Besides common criminals and bank robbers, a powerful crime family headed by local boss Stefano Magaddino emerged in the 1920s. Close to Canada, Niagara Falls and Buffalo were perfect avenues through which to transport booze, and Magaddino and his Mafiosi maintained a stranglehold on the city until his death in 1974. Local mob expert Michael Rizzo takes a tour of Buffalo's mafia exploits everything from these brutal gangsters' favorite hangouts to secret underground tunnels to murder.
Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Explore Seattle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Fifteen Minutes written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Explore Seattle. This book was released on 2023-11-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we allowed to scrutinize public art, even if the public doesn’t pay for it? It only took the city of Buffalo 15 minutes to shut it off and five days for Mayor Jimmy Griffin to tear down Billie Lawless’ sculpture "Green Lightning" in 1984. It may have had something to do with dancing neon figures that resembled Mr. Peanut. But, to this day it’s unclear if the artist tricked the city or the city acted hastily. For the first time, through interviews, court documents, and press clippings, the story of "Green Lightning" is told. The story of "Green Lightning" is a cautionary tale about the importance of public art education. If the public is not aware of the different meanings and interpretations of art, they are more likely to react to it in a negative way. It is important for people to understand that art is subjective, and that what one person finds offensive, another person may find beautiful.
Author : Chana Revell Kotzin PhD
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143964389X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Jewish Community of Greater Buffalo written by Chana Revell Kotzin PhD and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish community life in Buffalo began in 1847 with the founding of Temple Beth El. A dominantly German Jewish community transformed in the 1880s as Eastern European Jews settled around William Street. Intense religious and commercial vibrancy emerged with new synagogues alongside Jewish grocery stores, kosher butchers, clothiers, and more. From this east side milieu, lyricist Jack Yellen (Happy Days are Here Again) and composer Harold Arlen (Over the Rainbow) emerged as part of a new generation shaping local and national American life. On the west side, Temple Beth Zion, the Jewish Federation, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service, and Rosa Coplon Jewish Old Folks Home built institutions on and around Delaware Avenue. Jewish areas in Humboldt, North Buffalo, Kenmore, Amherst, Getzville, and Williamsville developed over time. Camp Lakeland continued earlier traditions of summer camping. Throughout the 20th century, Jewish Buffalonians made their marks as entrepreneurs, distinguished lawyers, award-winning writers, and Nobel Prize scientists, among other careers. The Jewish Community of Greater Buffalo showcases Buffalo and Niagara Falls Jewry over the last two centuries.
Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Michael F. Rizzo via PublishDrive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Rex Carlton Mysteries Box Set written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Michael F. Rizzo via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first three books in the Rex Carlton Mysteries series, Bloody Valentine, Double Rush, and Screaming in the Night. Rex is a bike messenger in Buffalo, New York that finds himself in predicaments with vampires, mobsters, and a serial killer.
Author : William Patrick Dean
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476630151
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Ultra-Large Aircraft, 1940-1970 written by William Patrick Dean and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, a unique transport aircraft was built from the parts of 27 Boeing B-377 airliners to provide NASA a means of transporting rocket boosters. With an interior the size of a gymnasium, "The Pregnant Guppy" was the first of six enormous cargo planes built by Aero Spacelines and two built by Union de Transport Aeriens. More than half a century later, the last Super Guppy is still in active service with NASA and the design concept has been applied to next-generation transports. This comprehensive history of expanded fuselage aircraft begins in the 1940s with the military's need for a long-range transport. The author examines the development of competing designs by Boeing, Convair and Douglas, and the many challenges and catastrophic failures. Behind-the-scenes maneuvers of financiers, corporate raiders, mobsters and other nefarious characters provide an inside look at aviation development from the drawing board to the scrap yard.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Western New York Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy W. Kneeland
Publisher : Images of America
ISBN 13 : 9781467125970
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Buffalo Blizzard of 1977 written by Timothy W. Kneeland and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blizzard of 1977 is still remembered in Western New York, especially in Buffalo, which received the brunt of the storm. The blizzard occurred during the most extreme cold the area had ever seen, accompanied by some of the largest winter snowfalls on record. The blizzard struck with little warning on Friday morning, January 28, 1977, and the blowing snow and extreme cold paralyzed the Buffalo area until the first week of February. The storm made travel impossible and stranded thousands of people across the region, while snowdrifts buried houses up to the second story. This is a story not only of survival, but also of community. Neighbors helped neighbors, radio stations relayed messages and provided crucial information, and countless individuals donated their time and equipment to bring needed medicine or food to shut-ins across the region. The blizzard occurred during the most extreme cold the area had ever seen, accompanied by some of the largest winter snowfalls on record. The blizzard struck with little warning on Friday morning, January 28, 1977, and the blowing snow and extreme cold paralyzed the Buffalo area until the first week of February. The storm made travel impossible and stranded thousands of people across the region, while snowdrifts buried houses up to the second story. This is a story not only of survival, but also of community. Neighbors helped neighbors, radio stations relayed messages and provided crucial information, and countless individuals donated their time and equipment to bring needed medicine or food to shut-ins across the region
Author : Dave Dyer
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 0815652062
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Steel's written by Dave Dyer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trying to solve a family mystery, Dave Dyer uncovered a massive stock market scandal that had been forgotten by history. His great uncle Clayton Pickard vanished in 1923, and, in the process of researching him, the author found a collection of thousands of original documents and photos from Clayton’s employer, the L. R. Steel Company. The documents, unopened since 1923, told the fascinating story of a visionary entrepreneur operating in the boom-town environment of Buffalo. Steel’s is about the rise and fall of the retail empire created by Leonard Rambler Steel. Like a Silicon Valley tycoon, he sprang into new ventures with enthusiasm and foresight. At its height, his chain store operation had 75 stores spread over 61 cities in the United States and Canada. He hired women in management and elderly people in his sales force, and anticipated some of the retail models that are used today by global companies such as Ikea and Wal-Mart. His most remarkable insight was to recognize the marketing potential of the new medium of silent film. In 1921 he created a 3-hour film about his life and company that was screened for free all over North America. The movie, a precursor to today’s infomercial, attracted prospective buyers for the 5,000 salespeople who sold the company’s stock. Almost 60,000 people bought the stock, three times the number who bought into Charles Ponzi’s better-known scheme. Eventually, his big ideas became too grandiose, such as developing Niagara Falls into a permanent international exhibition dedicated to commerce and technology, and the investors lost all their money when the company collapsed in 1923 amid fraud charges. With no other published accounts of this scandal, the story told in Steel’s was doomed to be lost forever until the author discovered the document trove that brought it back to life. The remarkable creativity and foresight of the founder makes for a fascinating tale of failure by someone who had what it takes to succeed. The L. R. Steel Company could have been Wal-Mart, but ended up like Enron.
Author : Gary Pooler
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039130259
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Crystal Beach written by Gary Pooler and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The memories within the millions of people who experienced Crystal Beach, even just once, will never be lost.” One of Canada’s greatest entertainment centres existed for one hundred years in an isolated little village in one of the southernmost corners of Ontario, just across the lake from Buffalo, New York. Nicknamed “Buffalo’s Coney Island,” the Crystal Beach Amusement Park swarmed with American visitors in its mid-century glory days, and its stories were carried all over the world. A Crystal Beach resident since childhood, Gary Pooler takes readers behind the scenes of a world class amusement park, combining local history, sports journalism, true crime, and North American folklore to create a unique picture of the quirky Crystal Beach community, both in and “out of the park,” through its geographical and social history. These collected stories tell of the life and times in an amusement park resort community—a summer-long carnival, illegal prizefighting in the nearby sand hills, world class entertainers and athletes, featuring the likes of Jesse Owens, an eccentric traveling minstrel, vaudevillians settling in the village, police scandals, bootlegging, and even murder. Pooler chronicles the gradual decline and closure of the amusement park and the effect this had on the village, and illustrates the community’s triumphant renaissance in recent years. Harrowing and nostalgic, Crystal Beach: Out of the Park is a rare and vital historical record and a spirited exploration of Crystal Beach in all of its various shades and stages.
Author : Len Hilts
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Timmy O'Dowd and the Big Ditch written by Len Hilts and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1988 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1800s, young Timmy O'Dowd and his city boy cousin must forget their differences and pool their energies when the Erie Canal is damaged by storms.
Author : Michael F. Rizzo
Publisher : Michael F. Rizzo
ISBN 13 : 1386747130
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Double Rush written by Michael F. Rizzo and published by Michael F. Rizzo. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buffalo Mafia is a well-known myth that permeates the gray city streets. Talk of its presence and actions have been discouraged or scoffed at for years. Yet for Rex Carlton, that myth is going to become very, very real. As the lead bike courier for Zippee Messengers, Rex rides these city streets every day, delivering important correspondence while dodging both pedestrians and cars. When he accidentally slams into a stranger, Rex is unaware that he has crossed paths with an influential mobster, or that his life is suddenly on the line. A chance encounter and a dropped bag throw him down a rabbit hole of danger, intrigue and Mafia connections that could rock the entire city to the ground. Includes discussion guide.
