history of Buffalo

PostDateIcon January 3rd, 2008

As I do more research for the new bike taxi tours I’m planning to offer in the 2008 season, I am enjoying the process and have found a lot of interesting stories about Buffalo’s rich history. I even found an archive of old photos online, and I spent an hour just looking at old pictures last night. Great stuff.

So now I’m thinking, I should be taking notes, because I might like to write a bit more than the booklets that I give out with the bike taxi tours.

PostCategoryIcon Posted in Buffalo, bike-taxi, history, writing

One Response to “history of Buffalo”

  • Marti Gorman says:
    January 3, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    Hi –

    Interesting blog.

    Your plan to offer bike taxi tours and to write about Buffalo caught my eye.

    Among other things, I help run Buffalo Tours, a joint project of the Preservation Coalition and the Landmark Society — and in the process of creating a single portal for tours of Buffalo in 2008.

    I also own Buffalo Heritage Unlimited. We published the GardenWalk book & DVD, Oakland Place: Gracious Living in Buffalo, and most recently Postcard Views: A Walk Down Main Street, Buffalo, New York, circa 1910 (www.buffaloheritage.com) and also distribute Canisius College Press publications, including Classic Buffalo: A Heritage of Distinguished Architecture, Buffalo Memories, Preserving a City, etc.

    Feel free to contact me at 716-903-7155 for more info about these endeavors or about Buffalo By Choice (www.buffalobychoice.com) or the Buffalo Homecoming (www.buffalohomecoming.com) aka Buffalo Old Home Week. And please consider attending the next Happy To Be Here Hour on Monday, Jan 21 from 6:00-9:00 at Prime 490 on Rhode Island and Chenango.

    Cheers!

    Marti

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