From: lewis@b56vxg.kodak.com (Ken Lewis)
Newsgroups: alt.culture.ny-upstate
Subject: Re: Talking Proud!
Date: 19 Dec 92 21:43:00 GMT
Reply-To: lewis@kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester NY
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> 
>What I miss about Buffalo, in no particular order ... 

Well, I went to university in Buffalo and live in Rochester so your list
does bring back memories..
> 
>* Elmwood Avenue.  
>* Genesee Cream Ale.  Better than any laxative I've ever taken ...
hell we called it the case of the Hershey squirts..

>* Real thick, meaty Chicken Wings.  Only chicken wings from Buffalo may be  
>capitalized.
Rooties Pump room... is it still in business? 

>* Real weather, not this sissy "oh-it's so-cold-it's-only-60" stuff they call  
>weather in New Mexico.
Blizzard of 77.. the tundra off of Millersport Highway!  yeah!   brrrr...

>* 97 Rock, even if most of the music is from dead white guys.

HYPE RADIO!!!

>* Metro Bus/Rail.  

I can't believe they have a railway... they promised one between the Amherst
campus and Main Street  - yeah all we got was BlueBird lines.

>* CFNY, even if it is from Toronto.

CKFM (the FM years are just beginning... )

>* Downtown, especially since they practically rebuilt the place.
They rebuilt it! :-) 


>* AM&A's.
Green Stamps..


>* Irv Weinstein.  "Buffalo blaze busters battle a five bell barn burner in  
>Black Rock..."

Don't forget Commander Tom, Clip (or was it Cliff) Smith and the WEATHER
OUTSIDE!  or how about Barry Liliss (sp?)

>* Cheektowaga.  Everyone needs a suburb to make fun of, or at least a ripe  
>picking ground for stealing lawn ornaments.


>* 1 bar / 900 residents, most open to 4 AM.

yup and McDonalds that stayed open all night..

>* 1 restaurant / 1000 residents, most serving good food.
>* Hundreds of Greek restaurants with two tables and three stools, most open 24  
>hours a day.

yeah I remember one across from UB at University Plaza

>* Real unfranchised pizza.  Domino's don't deliver in Buffalo.
>* Safe neighborhoods, ungentrified parts of the Lower East Side excepted.
>* Cool people.
>* Hutch Tech, among other high schools whose graduates actually know how to  
>read and write.
>* Frontier Liquors.  They have everything and they'll deliver it out to the  
>boonies.
>* Being able to walk practically everywhere, without having to depend on 
>a car for your lifeline.

Yup I did that for 3 years..

>* The Buffalo Fuggin' Bills, the Buffalo Fuggin' Sabres and the Buffalo Fuggin'  
>Bisons.

Buffalo, the town of the frustrated fan....


>* Buffalo Lager.

What about OV ?

>* Walden Galleria.  A showplace example of Canadian^D^D^D^D^D^D^D^DAmerican  
>consumerism.


that is rather new,  Eastern Hill Mall was the place to be before Walden..

>* Buffalo State College.  Maybe UB too, but not as much.  Go Bengals!

Yes all the special-ed gals... UB just didn't have the ladies!

>* Canada.  It's expensive, not as friendly as it used to be, 
>and Crystal Beach is gone, God rest its soul, but it's nice having a 
>foreign country at your doorstep.

yes it is nice..  Niagara Falls Ont. Niagara-on-the-Lake  .. I am glad to still
be able to visit now and again... 

>* Allentown.  Not the city in Pennsylvania, but the neighborhood.
The festival... Rochester tries to compete..

>* Delaware Avenue.  Belongs in a city ten times Buffalo's size.
>* Jimmy D. Fuggin' Griffin.  Mayor for Life (TM), even though nobody claims to  
>vite for him.   
>* South Buffalo.  After all, someone has to vote for Griffin!
>* The Buffalo News, a _real_ newspaper, not one of these colorful no-word-over-
>five-letters-long-everything-in-18-point-type Gannett rags.

What about the Courier-Express..  when there was competition in the news
business

> 
>Please don't ask why I'm in New Mexico if I miss Buffalo so much ... it's pure  
>economics, plain and simple.  
> 

Come on fess up: it's the weather!!!


>--
>   Dan Tasman                                       dtasman@dante.nmsu.edu
>                                                     molson@rever.nmsu.edu
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>   "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree
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                                                                Ogden Nash
Ken Lewis
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