We all know that Buffalo is home to the Sabres and the Bills, but what other fascinating facts will we find about “The City of Good Neighbors” in the latest installment of...
Buffalo has been a pioneer in many aspects, not only in its architecture: Thanks to its proximity to the powerful Niagara Falls, it was the first city to feature electric street lights in 1886. The Hotel Buffalo (originally known as the Statler Hotel) was the first hotel in the world to have a private bath in each room, and grain elevators were invented in Buffalo in 1842. Buffalo was also home to the biggest office building in the world, the Ellicott Square Building, which opened in 1896 and held this title for 16 years...
The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum is the only surviving historical carousel factory in the world still open to the public. In North Tonawanda there were once four carousel factories where thousands of carousels were produced. There are less than 150 all wood carousels left in the world. One is housed in The Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum...
Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated in Buffalo, New York and not in the nation’s capital. An inauguration that doesn’t take place in Washington, D.C. is very rare, and Roosevelt was sworn-in in Buffalo because President William McKinley was shot while visiting the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in the city. After McKinley died from his mortal wounds, Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 26th President of the United States in the Wilcox Mansion, which is now a museum dedicated to the inauguration and other happenings from that era. The beautifully restored mansion combines old and new by displaying exhibits from the Pan-American Exposition and offering some fantastic interactive features that make it fun to learn more about the inauguration and the events surrounding it...
This was one of the most surprising Buffalo facts I learned: In the early 1900’s, Buffalo had more millionaires per capita than any other city in the United States! That was around the time when Buffalo was an important railroad hub and stop along the trade route from East to West, plus the largest grain-milling center in the United States. When the St Lawrence Seaway was opened, replacing the Erie Canal as the most significant waterway in the region, and Amtrak rerouted trains to nearby Depew, the steel industry and grain milling declined and consequently, Buffalo’s prosperity dropped. But you can still see many of the millionaire’s mansions along Delaware Avenue, which was known as Millionaires Row back in the day...
The electric chair was invented in Buffalo and created quite the buzz (pun intended) in the execution industry… if there is such a thing. Buffalo dentist Alfred Southwick saw his invention as a humane way of ending one’s life. The verdict's still out on that one...
It is illegal to throw a snowball intentionally at someone's head in Buffalo...
Due to state laws, a fine of $25 can be issued for flirting in public on a Buffalo street...
Spittoons are required by law in every Buffalo business...
No summer days in Buffalo have hit triple digit temperatures, as the highest local temperature ever recorded was 99 degrees on August 27, 1947...
Let's hope the Jets are “hot” tonight against the Sabres! Go Jets Go!
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Ok lets just play like we did in the 3rd yesterday boys. Shity weather again here, going to be slippery but i spotted someone who loves it .
