Download or read book Tonawanda and North Tonawanda written by Historical Society of the Tonawandas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the years of 1940 and 1960, Tonawanda and North Tonawanda virtually redefined themselves. The waning lumber industry gave way to manufacturing that accommodated first the war effort and then postwar market demands. After the war, men and women returned to family life, and the baby boom began. New homes, new schools, and new roads were built to serve the burgeoning population; meanwhile, local industries expanded, and new businesses took root. Well-paying jobs were plentiful, as were consumer goods such as televisions, modern appliances, and cars. Community pride was evident, with volunteers swelling the ranks of fire companies, churches, and service clubs. Downtown had dozens of shops, department stores, restaurants, and entertainment venues such as the Riviera and Melody Fair. Tonawanda and North Tonawanda: 1940-1960 celebrates the American Dream, an era when teenagers were rocking and rolling at school dances and hanging out at Zeffery's the Sugar Bowl, and Pee Wee's Pizzeria.
Download or read book The Town of Tonawanda written by John W. Percy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Town of Tonawanda, author John Percy has created an unprecedented collection of historic photographs, illustrating over a century of change. Readers catch glimpses of the town as it progressed from its agricultural era through industrialization, into suburbanization. Located immediately north of the City of Buffalo, the Town of Tonawanda was able to build on the success of that city's nineteenth-century growth. Luckily, the town's development has been recorded on film; many rare and never-before-published photographs are in the collection of the Tonawanda-Kenmore Historical Society, the principal source for this new work. Many of Tonawanda's people made significant contributions to the growth of our nation, particularly in the development of technology. Features of town history are recognized worldwide, like the Erie Canal, the Niagara River, and our aircraft and automotive industries. Organized to illustrate the principal eras during the past century, over two hundred photographs depict the lumber industry, the canal, and the railroads that transformed the village of Tonawanda a boom town. When the village became a separate city in 1903, the rural town developed a great industrial riverfront and the area's first successful suburb, Kenmore. World War II brought even further growth of industry, population, and culture. As we shift gears into the twenty-first century, it is natural to reflect on our area's lively past. This important new volume helps inspire the sharing of memories and stories between young and old, resident and visitor alike
Download or read book The Ganson Street Tigers Go to War written by Frederick T. Adcock and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the dark days of World War II, forty-one individuals from Ganson Street in the industrialized Western New York city of North Tonawanda left all that was dear to battle the domination of the Axis forces. The Ganson Street Tigers bonded on the streets of an immigrant neighborhood during the Great Depression and their camaraderie was cemented forever on the ball diamonds and sandlots of their youth. This is their story, from the heart of Little Italy to the raging battlefields
Download or read book Sundown Towns written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerful and important . . . an instant classic." —The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of "sundown towns"—almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome—that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. Written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America. In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. He revisits sundown towns and finds the number way down, but with notable exceptions in exclusive all-white suburbs such as Kenilworth, Illinois, which as of 2010 had not a single black household. And, although many former sundown towns are now integrated, they often face "second-generation sundown town issues," such as in Ferguson, Missouri, a former sundown town that is now majority black, but with a majority-white police force.
Download or read book Wastewater Treatment Mechanic written by National Learning Corporation and published by Passbooks. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wastewater Treatment Mechanic Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam.
Download or read book The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Scholastic Gold written by Avi and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avi's treasured Newbery Honor Book now in expanded After Words edition!Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an eagerly anticipated ocean crossing turns into a harrowing journey, where Charlotte gains a villainous enemy . . . and is put on trial for murder!After Words material includes author Q & A, journal writing tips, and other activities that bring Charlotte's world to life!
Download or read book American Colossus The Grain Elevator 1843 to 1943 written by William J. Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length history of the American grain elevator, from 1843 to 1943. Eight black and white illustrations, appendix, index, bibliography.
Download or read book History of Buffalo Music and Entertainment written by Rick Falkowski and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Buffalo Music & Entertainment from the 1830s to the early 1980s. Covering Canal Street & Christy's Minstrels, The Pan-American Exposition, Theaters (vaudeville, burlesque & movie), Crystal Beach & other amusement parks, Nightclubs of the 1930s - 1960s, Big Band Jazz, early radio & television, Classical Music, 1950s rock 'n' roll bands & radio, Folk Music, 1960s Buffalo Sound Bands, 1960s Teen Club Bands, Behind the Scenes (music education, music businesses & manufacturers), music clubs in the 1960s & 1970s, The 1970s rock & commercial rock bands, Original Music Scene, Jazz, Blues & R&B in the 1970s & early 1980s, Country Music, Ethnic Music (German, Irish & Polish), bands and clubs of the early 1980s and over 125 historic photos.
Download or read book Coasting on Wheels written by Gordon Westover and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most incredible relationship known to the human race is the communication between the mortal and the immortal. Love speaks, we listen. We speak, Love listens. And in this seemingly simple exchange of words and Words, Heaven and earth touch, and the ordinary becomes Extraordinary. Have you ever wondered; Does God speak? Can we hear Him? What does He say? What does His Voice sound like? The Voice of Love answers your questions. This most amazing little book brings to light the miraculous for our mundane lives, and challenges us to make a difference in our world! 'The Voice of Love is open, vulnerable, honest, insightful, transparent, and life changing!' Jim McIntosh, KPDQ Night Life Talk Show Host 'The personal stories are so transparent and honest that the reader is infused with hope and invited on their own journey towards intimacy with the Voice.' Larry Kennedy, Pastor, NWCF
Download or read book The Long Walk written by Brian Castner and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming. Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned.
Download or read book Let Em Go Pee written by Paul Swisher and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let ’Em Go Pee: Practical Advice for Those Who Dare to Teach is a delightful must-read for teachers and aspiring educators! Chock-full of inspirational stories and commonsense guidelines for building and managing a successful career, Let ’Em Go Pee provides a fail-safe recipe for teachers who strive to create a vibrant, productive, and controlled learning environment. Drawing on thirty-two years of experience as a secondary education science teacher, Paul Swisher shares his list of “secret ingredients” necessary for achieving and maintaining classroom management, communicating effectively with students, parents, and peers, and skillfully blending academic rigor and responsibility with enthusiasm, goodwill, and fun! As the cocreator of Kan-Jam and a professionally recognized singer-songwriter, Swisher adds to his flavorful concoction by mixing in pinches of appetizing spices related to achieving success as an entrepreneur and artist. For those who dare to teach, this debut offering from the mind of Paul Swisher will undoubtedly provide a delicious bite of sustenance!
Download or read book Variety Obits written by Jeb H. Perry and published by Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Tonawanda written by Donna Zellner Neal and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-guided historic walking and driving tour.
Download or read book Head Bus Driver written by National Learning Corporation and published by Career Examination Passbooks. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Head Bus Driver Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to study. It provides hundreds of questions and answers in the areas that will likely be covered on your upcoming exam, including but not limited to: operation of motor vehicles, including motor vehicle and traffic law; maintenance and repair of motor vehicles, including tools and test equipment; bus driving practices and techniques; bus driver record keeping and scheduling; following directions (maps); supervision; and more.
Download or read book North Tonawanda and Tonawanda written by D. F.] [from old catalog] [Robbins and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Niagara Gorge Belt Line written by Gordon J. Thompson and published by Chapter Pub. Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published 2000 by Niagara Frontier Chapter National Railway Historical Society, Inc., this book is a pictorial showcase of the interurban streetcar line ... that ran along both the American and Canadian sides of the Niagara Gorge from Niagara Falls, 1893-1935. Over 100 b & w photos and maps of this streetcar excursion line. Center inset is a color 2 1/2 page fold out panoramic view of Niagara Falls and gorge which was published in 1932. Photos include breathtaking views of the Falls and mighty gorge, historic trolley, bridge, and historic railroad buildings. Pictures include scenes just feet above the rapids-impossible to see by car or foot. Edited by Gordon J. Thompson, this book is a compilation of over 15 years of research. Many pictures are from extensive private collections. Current visitors to Niagara Falls will wish the 11.4 mile railroad which ran just feet from the gorge rapids was still in operation."--NFCNRHS website
Download or read book Data Book Operating Banks and Branches written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
