They just look dumb. The 1970-71 Topps basketball cards look stupid for a few reasons. These cards are “tall boys,” which is good news if you’re talking about Old Milwaukee,…
Browsing Category Uncle Steve’s Buffalo
<p>Buffalo Journalist and Historian Steve Cichon brings us along as he looks at some interesting facet of Buffalo’s past, present, or future twice a week on Trending Buffalo.</p>
<p>Steve Cichon looks for Buffalo’s good stories and creative ways to tell them. He’s the founder of Buffalo Stories LLC, where he works with people and businesses to uncover and reap the rewards of their stories well told. For a decade, he’s also collected and shared Buffalo’s pop culture history at staffannouncer.com.</p>
In the 1950s, grocery shopping was done primarily at what we’d now consider small-to-medium-sized grocery stores like A&P, Park Edge, Mohican, Red & White– along with small neighborhood corner stores,…
Maybe the same grandmother who always called the living room “the parlor” also referred generically to any recliner as a “Barcalounger.” The big comfy chair was originally built here in…
Seriously. In September, 1960, Western New York faced a new kind of problem, namely Cheektowaga street hoodlums. “Let this serve as a warning to other rowdies… we’ll throw them in…
Show your love, Buffalo-style
For many, February 12 is the day we honor Abraham Lincoln. Let ’em. For me, February 12 a date set aside for celebrating a different kind of statesman on his…
My friend Libby wrote something the other day which made me think. She was talking about the cold and the gray and the snow, and how we don’t even realize…
The notion that you always get jobbed in the drive-thru is now thoroughly ingrained in our culture. Joe Pesci has one stupid rant about a drive-thru in a movie…
Some classic Buffalo beer ads will set the right mood
Video of the Blizzard of 77 to remind it could be worse