BUFFALO, N.Y. — Ten years ago this week:
Visit Buffalo Niagara was reporting success with its new effort to harness the power of emerging social media and promote Western New York through a campaign where it asked people to snap pictures of the Buffalo area and send them out with the hashtag #Buffalove14.
Plans were announced to turn the former Westwood Country Club in Amherst into a residential and retail development. The plans eventually fell through, which led the town to purchase the property for a park, the proposed amenities of which sides are still bickering about today.
There was still a lot of talk about a permanent Nik Wallenda attraction in Niagara Falls which a spokesman for NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the governor was "committed to see happen." It has never come to pass.
Ground was broken for the Iraq- Afghanistan Memorial at the Buffalo Naval and Serviceman's Park.
20 years ago this week:
Adelphia Cable founder and former Buffalo Sabres majority owner John Rigas was convicted on federal fraud charges for which he'd later be sent to prison.
Plans were announced for an auction of items from inside the shuttered Memorial Auditorium, including the seats dasher boards, and anything else that could be removed. At the time there were plans to convert the Aud into a Bass Pro store but those plans never materialized.
When asked if there was anything he'd like to get from the Aud, Buffalo Mayor Anthony M. Masiello quipped, "Yeah...I'd like to get back some of the shots I missed when I played there!" referring to when he starred on the basketball court for Canisius College in the 1960s.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry announced John Edwards would be his running mate. The two would go on to lose the election to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.
Isabel Sanford, the actress who starred as "Weezy" in the Jeffersons died at the age of 86.
30 years ago this week:
Changes were coming to masses being celebrated in the Buffalo Catholic Diocese which had many parishioners talking and which are the subject of this week's News 2 You Pop Quiz (the answer to which can be found at the conclusion of the video attached to this story).
Sahlens Meats, a family-run business that produced Buffalo's most popular hot dog was observing its sesquicentennial.
40 years ago this week:
Yogi Berra was the manager of the NY Yankees you could still take your kids to the Oppenheim Zoo on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Wheatfield.
Orchard Park was considering zoning laws to regulate the size and location of satellite dishes, which a growing number of homeowners were having installed to receive signals from satellite television services which were expanding in popularity.
Unlike today's dishes, which can receive signals despite being only two feet wide, the first dishes available for home use were very large by comparison and considered an eyesore by some.
