A coloring book of historic buildings in Buffalo New York. All illustrations in this coloring book were adapted from the book Buffalo Illustrated: Commerce, Trade and Industries of Buffalo, published in 1890 by Anderson & Gillette and the Courier Printing Company. The copy used to create this book as well as many other wonderful items can be found in the SUNY Buffalo State College Archives and Special Collections.
From the roof of AM&A’s in 1960, very few of the buildings seen here would still be standing a decade later. While the venerable Buffalo retailing names like Tanke and Ulbrich, which dated back to the 1850s and 1870s, would hold on until the 1980s, the buildings they’d called home for generations would not. Most of the block was torn…
To Prepare the Juice:
Crush fully ripe plums. (Do not peel or pit). Add 3/4 cup of water, bring to a boil, simmer, covered, 10 minutes. Place in jelly cloth or bag; squeeze out juice. Measure 3 cups into very large saucepan.
To make the jelly:
Measure sugar; set aside. Place saucepan holding juice over high heat. Add powdered fruit pectin; stir until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a full rolling boil; boil hard 1 minute, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat, skim, pour quickly into glasses. Seal at once.
Notes
*note recipe indicates using Paraffin to seal the jars. That is an outdated way of canning/ preserving. I have purposely left out processing time to make the jelly "shelf stable". Instead I would suggest storing the jelly in the refrigerator.
I really hate falling into rabbit holes and today I blame the guys over at Forgotten Buffalo.com (and facebook) for today’s rabbit hole. The Rainbow Centre mall was part of the dystopian future envisioned by the proponents of Urban Renewal (aka tear down any interesting 19th century buildings and replace them with stuff designed by Brutalist style flunkies). I can’t fault the designers of the Rainbow Center too much- the inside was modern and very cool- the outside had all the stylings of a soviet era parking ramp (well considering that it was built inside of a parking ramp…)
Why yes, Google Street view comes in handy again…
This lovely view is what people coming from the falls itself would see- again so inviting:
The first view of the parking ramp err mall from Canada:
And people wondered why people think of the American side of the falls as being ugly…
When photographers James and Karla Murray revisited the shopfronts they had documented in their Disappearing Face of New York book they found many replaced by chain stores, banks and luxury apartments