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    Buffalo used to be a city filled with millionaires.

    Buffalo used to be a city filled with millionaires. It plans to get rich again by betting against Trump.

    It’s easy to pick on Buffalo: It’s cold, it’s snowy, the economy has been in the dumps for four decades, and the Bills lost four straight Super Bowls. (Just sayin’.)

    But around the turn of the 20th century, Buffalo was THE place to be. It had the most millionaires, per capita, of any city in America. It hosted a World’s Fair. It was a bustling inland port, the terminus of the Erie Canal, with hulking grain elevators and steel mills.

    One of the world’s largest mills used to stand on the shores of Lake Erie. These days, all you hear is the wind roaring off the water. For Paul Curran the managing director of BQ Energy, that’s the sound of opportunity.
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    It wasn't a World's Fair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neubs24 View Post
    It wasn't a World's Fair.

    Yes, it was

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition

    The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York, United States, from ... The Electric Tower (the fair's center piece) designed by John Galen Howard. The Electricity Building designed by Green & Wicks.
    #Dems play musical chairs + patronage and nepotism = entitlement !

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    Quote Originally Posted by 4248 View Post
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-American_Exposition

    The Pan-American Exposition was a World's Fair held in Buffalo, New York, United States, from ... The Electric Tower (the fair's center piece) designed by John Galen Howard. The Electricity Building designed by Green & Wicks.
    My mistake... when I think World's Fair, I think NY World's Fair.

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    Is that the same Shibley who heads the group that proposes building the new train station where the trains can only go in one direction? It should come as no surprise to anyone that he's a college professor. They just love to produce useless studies with useless results. And Zemsky? Isn't he the guy who has taken over the governor's alleged corruption plagued bid rigging scheme disguised as economic development.

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