Thanks for your help this morning! Here’s what you came up with:
1.) In the winter, you can leave your car running, go into Tops or Wegmans, come out, and it’s still there!
2.) Buffalo wings!
3.) Short commute: can get anywhere in 15 or 20 minutes
4.) Bills/Sabres gear is acceptable at any type of restaurant
5.) We are the most giving city (City of good neighbors)
6.) Every weekend, there’s something going on and it’s often FREE.
7.) Erie County Fair
8.) Architecture…great buildings.
9.) Sahlen’s Hotdogs
10.) Underestimated Summers
11.) The Goo Goo Dolls
12.) Ralph Wilson Stadium, 1pm on a football Sunday
13.) Smell of Cheerios along Rt. 5
14.) Niagara Escarpment and it’s Wineries
15.) Living next to the lake, beautiful sunsets
16.) Italian/Allentown Festival
17.) Rick James. RIP Superfreak
18.) 1 M & T plaza
19.) Forest Lawn Cemetery, the nation’s largest inner city cemetery.
20.) Summer Construction season, progress is happening, people are working.
21.) Darwin Martin House
22.) Shakespeare in Delaware Park
23.) Weber’s Mustard
24.) Miss Buffalo
25.) Loganberry
26.) People think Irv Weinstein is still on Channel 7
27.) You can see your sports heroes in the same bar you hang out in after the game.
28.) We put the word “The” in front of everything for traffic
29.) You can leave at 7:30 and get to NYC, Boston, Baltimore, Philly, D.C, by dinner, and get to Toronto, Detroit, Pittsburgh by lunch!
30.) Taste of Buffalo
31.) Chefs
32.) Niagara Falls, it’s not BLO, but we will take credit for it
33.) High School sports get reported in the Buffalo News
34.) Bars are open till 4am
35.) Duffs/Anchor Bar Wings
36.) Concerts from Artpark to Buffalo Rocks the Harbor
37.) The Churches of Buffalo
38.) Mighty Taco
39.) Charlie the Butcher
40.) Tonawanda Canal fest
41.) Tim Horton’s on every corner
42.) Bison Chip Dip
43.) Dyngus Day
44.) Broadway Market
45.) Buffalo Bandits
46.) Going to a Bison’s game and almost often being able to sit where ever you want
47.) Always someone willing to dig you out
48.) Lawn Fete’s
49.) History of Buffalo
50.) KanJam
51.) Shea’s Performing Arts Center
52.) SPCA
53.) World Class Fishing
54.) Basilica in Lackawanna
55.) The People
56.) Sponge Candy
57.) Women & Children’s Hospital
58.) 4 Seasons (Even though one of them is far too long)
59.) Construction Season
60.) Inner Harbor shaped like a Buffalo
61.) Roswell Park
62.) The Avant Building
63.) Neighborly border/ Friendly Rivalry with Canada
64.) Jim’s Steakout
65.) Albright Knox
66.) Buffalo Museum of Science
67.) Always a mall within 10 minutes
68.) Affordable dock rates for Boaters
69.) More chocolate shops and makers than a city our size would normally have
70.) Wing Fest
71.) UB Center for the Arts
72.) Being able to deal with snow like no other city (SNOW DAYS)
73.) Snow days off from school
74.) Neighborhood Pizza Joints
75.) City & County Park System
76.) Having Bills and Sabres as your next door neighbors
77.) Ted’s Hotdogs
78.) Cazenovia Park
79.) Buffalo Zoo…Big enough for the kids, but you don’t have to kill yourself to cover it all
80.) Polish Festival
81.) Beef on weck. Beef on wick too, for those who spell it that way
82.) Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
83.) Elmwood Strip
84.) Tons of local ice cream shops to choose from
85.) Millers horseradish
86.) Rich Products (Whipped Topping)
87.) High School Football on Fridays
88.) Chip Strip
89.) Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens
90.) Wilcox Mansion, Teddy Roosevelt Inaugural Site
91.) Hertel Ave Restaurants
92.) For the most part, it’s one of the safest places you could ever live
93.) Downtown parking…even though, we think it’s expensive, other cities are much much more
94.) Eden Corn Festival
95.) Letchworth State Park
96.) Home Grown Hockey Players
97.) Christmas Decorations at Salvatores Italian Gardens
98.) Buffalo Naval and Serviceman’s Park
99.) Andersons Ice Cream and Roast Beef
100.) Our modern yet easy in, easy out airport
101.) Chiavetta’s
102.) You! The Buffalonian’s who helped come up with this list J
