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Research your Buffalo, NY USA ancestors & architecture at BuffaloResearch.com. Buffalo's oldest surviving website, founded 1993, run by a retired librarian. Banner image is the City of Buffalo flag.

Plus local resistance stuff.

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Ada Louise Huxtable, Buffalo, and the Greatest Urban Vista

Buffalonians like to quote Ada Louise Huxtable, who pronounced a view in downtown Buffalo, NY as "the greatest urban vista in America." But she never said this. We figured out who did.

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November 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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One of the things I love about #Buffalo is that we fly the Canadian flag in front of government buildings. This is the county office building on Franklin Street.
Two flagpoles in front of the Edward A. Rath County Office Building. One has the American flag, the other has the Canadian flag.
November 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Sorry, just gotta show this off for a minute. It means a lot when others say Good Job. Thank you, Councilmember Golombek.
Proclamation from the Buffalo Common Council to Cynthia Van Ness on the occasion of her retirement from The Buffalo History Museum, signed by Councilmember Joseph Golombek.
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Thanks for a great season, #Buffalo Slow Roll.
The volunteers who manage Buffalo Slow Roll, known as Squad, pose for an end-of-season group photo in orange logo hoodies. Slow Roll is a group bike ride that meets every Monday in the summer and is free of charge.
October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Metadata is a love note to the future
October 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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My neighbors are funny.
Standard yellow & black caution sign labeled to read "Eat Locals," with a stick figure chasing a farmer on a tractor
October 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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It may shock you to learn that people manufacture historical claims.
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I'm a landlord of a pub. Have spun a story that a major literary figure used to drink at my inn back in the 1700s. Completely untrue, but tourists love to visit the pub and sit in his 'seat'. All bollocks, but it's great for business.
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Mobile free library at #NoKings in #Buffalo, NY.
A woman pulls a wagon full of books, labeled "Little free mobile diversity and resistance library."
October 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Here's one I found online.
Title page from a pamphlet reads: Pretexts of the rebels and their sympathizers refuted by the logic of facts: rebellion against free government, as well as against the national union, resulting from the conspiracy of the slaveholding aristocracy, illustrated in the speech of the Hon. Lorenzo Sherwood, delivered before the Unionists of the city of Brooklyn, September, 1864 ; and also in the letter of Governor Hamilton to Pres't Lincoln ; with an extract of the celebrated letter of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish liberator, to his countrymen, on the subject of American slavery and freedom. Printed in 14 different typefaces. These are typefaces, people. Not "fonts."
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Now I understand why the "Trip to the Moon" flying machine looked plausible to audiences at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.
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Leaflet for Trip to the Moon, featuring an artist's conception of a flying machine with the same bulging abdominal form as the flying dragon woodcut from the 1600s.
October 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Heads up, Am-Vets on Elmwood is not accepting clothing. This sign has been out for over a week.
#Buffalo
October 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Tweet from Michael Moore, 2016, reading "Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada, a day reserved for Canadians to give thanks that they are not us."
October 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Because I am ridiculously pedantic, I have to remind everyone that microFILM and microFICHE are not the same thing.
These are not synonyms. Microfilm (with a spool of film) and microfiche (with a pile of sheets)
October 7, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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By way of comparison, the downtown #Buffalo Amtrak station is lovely.
Exterior view of the new Buffalo Amtrak station, with brick walls, arching window, and a canopy for passengers.
October 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Sorely wish I could find this in hard copy. Not found in WorldCat. Advertised in Buffalo Live Wire, March 1924, p. 14.
October 2, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Spoiler alert: wearing my very best dress shoes to my retirement party tonight
View looking down two legs & feet wearing red dollar store Converse knock-offs
September 25, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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How librarians beef with each other.
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Klingon (sorry, I don't know which character) saying, "If life gives you lemons, find an enemy with paper cuts."
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Silo City grain elevators, #Buffalo, NY
Soaring concrete grain silos line up under a blue sky with wispy clouds
September 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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My retirement plan
Cartoon from the 1890s of a woman on a bike, smoking a cigarette, her skirts flying up, knocking guys on bikes out of her way
September 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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This is what I've been trying to establish. Now that photos are abundant & essentially free, people increasingly expect the same abundance from the darkroom era.
September 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Have you ever realized how surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours, hallucinating vividly
September 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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The most spectacular City Hall in America.
#Buffalo
Front of Buffalo's art deco City Hall against a clear blue sky
September 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Squad with ice cream, #Buffalo Slow Roll, Canalside
August 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Please enjoy this absolutely bonkers typography from 1864. From:
archive.org/details/pret...
Title page from a pamphlet reads: Pretexts of the rebels and their sympathizers refuted by the logic of facts: rebellion against free government, as well as against the national union, resulting from the conspiracy of the slaveholding aristocracy, illustrated in the speech of the Hon. Lorenzo Sherwood, delivered before the Unionists of the city of Brooklyn, September, 1864 ; and also in the letter of Governor Hamilton to Pres't Lincoln ; with an extract of the celebrated letter of Daniel O'Connell, the Irish liberator, to his countrymen, on the subject of American slavery and freedom. Printed in 14 different typefaces. Yes, these are typefaces, people, Not "fonts."
August 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Cropped the name & handle because the OP blocked replies and asked that no one offer advice, but if this is you, too, there are USB floppy disk readers on the market for under $30.
August 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM