https://youtube.com/shorts/AxXCVjrpx8Y?si=Hhfgs8rGtJiPtwL0 #OnThisDay In 1959, Buffalo Wildroot Co. is bought by Colgate-Palmolive. Wildroot, founded in 1911, used to produce hair care goods. Following their sale, the factory at 1740 Bailey Avenue…
https://youtube.com/shorts/FR9L7HnHu6s?si=UpTj3uPzMP3dhxRV #OnThisDay In 1974, Lynyrd Skynyrd performs in Buffalo State's New Gym with Duke & the Extremes. Lynyrd Skynyrd would come to perform in Buffalo a handful of times with…
https://youtube.com/shorts/GAWHXr5ms3E?si=4IBW-oobdePPiYXN #OnThisDay In 1995, The Buffalo Jills, cheerleaders for the Buffalo Bills overwhelming vote to becomes the first NFL Cheerleaders union. The Jills were also the first NFL Cheerleaders to…
https://youtube.com/shorts/L9--EWiYDS4?si=XnbUZWP2igl-nR3F #OnThisDay In 1965, The Beach Boys perform at Kleinhans Music Hall with the Frontiersmen. This was their second time at Kleinhans, playing a year prior. Notably, this was during Glen…
https://youtube.com/shorts/DtDSud__Lgc?si=WQgTFUwpjKSgxWRG #OnThisDay In 1974, The Prudential (Now Guaranty) Building is heavily damaged by a fire, gutting its upper five floors. Around this time, the building had also grown dilapidated and…
https://youtube.com/shorts/z7ab70I1jlQ?si=KCeHz4WSORN2GPJU #OnThisDay In 1981, Cheap Trick performs with UFO as their supporting act at Shea's Buffalo Theatre as a part of their Dream Police Tour. Did you go to this…
https://youtube.com/shorts/bBTP0YAxbJg?si=Q3wb4mvVvf4m72g2 #OnThisDay In 1978, Patti Smith Group performs at UB's Clark Gym. Earlier in the day, Patti Smith had held a free poetry reading at Buffalo State. Did you get…
https://youtube.com/shorts/sDJeosmhmZw?si=n6xDMmBV9plTq_Gz #OnThisDay In 1973, Al Green performs with The Main Ingredient at Kleinhans Music Hall the same night that Blue Oyster Cult plays a show with Estus at the former…
https://youtube.com/shorts/t1PmXwKdac4?si=uoG6g0JlFwYNSXn_ #OnThisDay In 1974, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt perform at Cansius College. This performance was Browne's first of seven shows performed in Buffalo, wheras this was Ronstadt's second of…
https://youtube.com/shorts/VeAcqcENfG0?si=MdgC9RMPytrZ0ydu #OnThisDay In 1991, Neil Young and Crazy Horse perform at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium with Sonic Youth and Social Distortion. A commenter on this Concert Archives page said "Anyone who expected…