On this beautiful Saturday morning, we all have a fun reading (and viewing) assignment. Take a look at this post from Dave Seminara and take a trip back into time. Learn about what real hometown pride is. And while you're learning about hometown pride, check out some of the nostalgic promotional videos that our city has unleashed over the years. Until today I had never seen that crazy Boost Buffalo Jingle - "Boost Buffalo, it's good for you. The most modern expressways... Buffalo deserves your appreciation... it's the finest hometown in the nation... Boost Buffalo, Boost Buffalo." Plus, there are some fascinating photos to go along with the overzealous jingle - notice how dirty City Hall was back then?
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From Dave:
"I've moved more than a dozen times since I left Buffalo for college at 17. I've traveled to more than 50 foreign countries and 40 U.S. States and have lived in five countries and seven states. But Buffalo is the only place that I return to at least once every year. My family keeps me coming back, but even if they skipped town, I'd still come back at least once a year. Why?"
Thanks for the post but, frankly, I think it's time to turn the corner on the nostalgia, old rust-belt pictures, dirty river, wide-right and blizzards. As long as we continue to have to endure posts such as this one, where there is such rhetoric and defensiveness about what our city was, we will always be considered "the armpit" (haven't heard that one in a while) of the nation. Thanks to all of you who have left and just love coming back. But had you remained and toughed it out like the rest of us you'd be forgetting about the bad and beginning to embrace the New Buffalo..the one you really don't know about. So thanks again for the post but I prefer looking to the future and boasting about what we are becoming. Enough of the wide-right, Please. You are the ones perpetuating the negative images with posts like these.
i kind of agree. does the lead image for every buffalo story have to be snow and winter?