Monday Morning December 13, 1937 Digging out

[WNYresident]

This paper was a good read...

Monday Morning December 13, 1937

We had a snow storm in December.







Santa Claus Headquarters Clear:

[WNYresident]

Sightseers, whose appetite for snow was not satisfied bt the worst December snowfall in the history if Buffalo, decided when the sun came out yesterdaythat it would be a good time to see if stories about ten feet of snow in the suburbs were true, and hampered the efforts of hundreds of snow fighters in opening roads, but considerable progress, nevertheless, was made.

[WNYresident]

The Aftermath:

The effect of the last week's blizzard continued last night to be much apparent. Upper left, traffic stall in Delaware Avenue as Buffalonians wend awheel in an effort to get glimpses of deep snow scenes in the Kenmore area. The picture was taken at Delaware and Avery. Upper right, the new Diesel plow brought to Buffalo by the I.R.C and unloaded last night. It is seen doing a good job of clearing Vulcan Street, between Niagara and Tonawanda streets. Lower left, the municipal playground at Elmwood and Mang avenues, Kenmore, where the Village of Kenmore, is dumping snow which has been removed by power shovel and truck. Seated on the "bulldozer" which is piling the snow is Albert Sowinski. Lower right, Ann Avery Walbridge if 174 Highland Avenue greets the photographer through the huge icicles on the porch at 19 Vorhees Avenue.

[WNYresident]

Your Roads - Where's This?

Some idea of the great task of highway clearance following the big snowstorm last week can be gained from this picture, taken yesterday in Sheridan Drive, looking east from Colvin Avenue. The work of opening even a narrow passage in the highway has been hampered by the presence of many stalled and abandoned autos.

[gorja]

I read 33" in the city. Was there 10' of snow in the burbs?

[WNYresident]

[WNYresident]

Frozen Lollopop

Mrs. Edna Butt is one Kenmorite who seems to enjoy the four-foot snow which fell there, and samples a giant icicle formed by yesterday's thaw. The photo verifies the depth of the snow.

Alan Bedenko commented on flickr.com

She died in 2002.

From Legacy.com

November 29, 2002, of Williamsville. Beloved wife of the late Alfred W. Butt; dearest mother of Wayne (Rosemary), Gary (Elaine) and Jacquelyn Lorenz; sister of Bernice (Harry) Newbigging, the late Sylvester Blum, late Agnes Salefske, late Mildred and late Esther Blum; also survived by ten grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Private funeral services are being held in the BURY & ROBERTS FUNERAL HOME. Entombment Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Donations may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Published in the Buffalo News on Dec. 1, 2002
- See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/buf....nhs06Iiw.dpuf

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/buf...um&pid=1306686

[WNYresident]

Ontario also is recovering from Blizzard.

Bus, auto traffic on main highways returning to normal after six days of storm.

Use fire truck to take food through snow.

Twenty-two destiture families in the Sweet Home Road section get aid.

[WNYresident]

Most important highways out of Buffalo now open.

[WNYresident]

Employing plows steam shovels and trucks, Kenmore yesterday began emerging from nine-foot snowdrifts that buried main highways and streets in the north suburbs. Workmen clearing the way the drifts were hampered greatly in their work by thousands of motorists who despite previous warnings attempted to visit snowbound sections. Police faced an almost impossible task to turn back the curious. Mayor Clifford F. Lane of Kenmore last night reported that, despite the traffic congestion much progress has been made in reopening main highways in streets in the village. Pictures show equipment at worked clearing away the snow in Delaware Avenue near the Kenmore Village Hall.

[WNYresident]

[WNYresident]

Sightseers find Kenmore really meant its warning.

They ignore edict of Mayor Lane, then learn they cannot get into village.

[WNYresident]

Man who saw lincoln dies.

[WNYresident]

Short biography

Kit Klein was born in Buffalo, New York and started competing on the local level. Later, Klein finished first in the 1500 metres event and third in the 500 metres competition at the 1932 Winter Olympics of Lake Placid, where speed skating for women was a demonstration sport. She also participated in the 1000 metres event but was eliminated in the heats.

She also won the 1,000 m race, as well as the overall bronze medal, at the Unofficial World Allround Championships in Oslo, Norway in 1935. At the 1936 first official World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Women in Stockholm, Sweden, Klein won gold.

After the 1936 Winter Olympics, Klein toured Europe before sailing home. During the voyage home Klein actually threw her skates overboard to mark her retirement from competitive skating. Towards the end 1936, she married Dr. Thomas "Tom" Outland of Sayre, Pennsylvania and the couple settled down in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. For a while, Klein toured around North America with the Ice Follies skating show. After her husband's retirement in 1967, they moved to Holmes Beach, Florida, where Catherine "Kit" Klein-Outland died in 1985 at the age of 75.

Klein-Outland was inducted in the National Speedskating Hall of Fame in 1964, and posthumously in both the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_Klein

[WNYresident]

Flint & Kent was an upscale department store based in Buffalo, New York. It had its roots in a dry good store opened in 1832 by Benjamin Fitch at 288 Main Street in that city. It was named Flint & Kent in 1865. In 1897, it moved to its flagship store at 554 Main Street, to a building that was designed by noted Buffalo architect Edward Austin Kent, who would perish on the RMS Titanic. In 1954, the company was sold to Charles Jack Hahn, whose father owned Sattler's. The company was sold in 1956, to The Sample.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_%26_Kent