Buffalo: America's Best Designed City
The story of Buffalo, New York's world class urban design and how today's generation is rediscovering and restoring 'America's Best Designed City.'
Produced / Directed by John Paget, Paget Films
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Executive Producers - Dottie Gallagher Cohen & Ed Healy, Visit Buffalo Niagara
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Visit Buffalo Niagara, Larkin Square, Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, Houghton College, Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., The John R. Oishei Foundation, The Campaign for Greater Buffalo and Block Club.
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CREDITS
Directed, Shot & Edited by John Paget
Executive Produced by Dottie Gallagher Cohen, Ed Healy, Visit Buffalo Niagara Foundation
Historical Images courtesy Buffalo History Museum, Used by Permission
Interviewees
Justin Booth
Stephanie Barber Geter
Chris Hawley
Jill Jedlicka
Dana Marciniak
Bernice Radle
Robert Shibley
Rocco Termini
Tim Tielman
Marcus Wise
Howard & Leslie Zemsky
Original Music by Nelson Starr & Eric Starr
Additional Camera & Still Photography - Nate Peracciny
Gaffer - Nick Earley
Stylists - Dani Weiser, Chary Robbins
Sound - John Davis, Dave Bull
Production Associate - Robin Douglas Paget
Cineflex Aerial Cinematography - Cherokee Walker (Pilot), Travis McMunn (Cinelfex operator)
Remote Control Aerial Pilot - Phillip Johnson
Archival Research - Dana Saylor-Furman / Old Time Roots
Editorial Consultants - Tim Tielman, Chris Hawley, Chris Elisara, Chuck Banas
Title Art & Web Design by Block Club
Title Art Animation by Ben Porcari / IBC Digital
Legal Services - John Horn and E.J. Snyder / Harter Secrest & Emery LLP
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When it comes to Allegany State Park he knows it all
Bob Schmid and Allegany State Park go way back. Bob says this is truly God's country adding I have been coming down here since 1959. As the official park historian, Bob heads up the Allegany State Park Historical Society monthly meetings. He says we do talks, tours, presentations. It is New York's largest state park and the third largest in the United States. Bob may not know every square inch of the 64,800 acres, but he knows more than most. Bob gave us a tour of the Allegany State Park Museum. The building once served as the Larkin Economy Store, and eventually a gift shop and then lay vacant for a decade. In 1995 Bob convinced the park officials to turn it into a museum. He says that Allegany was once a world famous down hill skiing center and that many famous folks have been fans of the park including Teddy Roosevelt and Buffalo Bob Smith. The park will celebrate it's 100th Anniversary in 2021. The Allegany State Park Historical Society has monthly meetings and you can find more information at their Facebook page.
Food Truck Tuesday
For seven months of the year, Tuesday evenings in Larkin Square are the tastiest place in Buffalo. From burritos to BBQ, mac and cheese to milkshakes, Food Truck Tuesday, featuring nearly
50 trucks, is one of the largest weekly food truck rodeos in the country.
ROConnoisseur's Roadtrip - Buffalo, NY Outdoor Spaces and Rooftops
ROConnoisseur’s Roadtrip and his foodie friend Amy Riposo from Rochester A-List head to Buffalo, NY to four locations with fantastic outdoor spaces in this Themed Episode. First they're off to Big Ditch Brewing Company to learn about this unique brewery in Buffalo’s Electric District, then it’s over to Patricks Rooftop on top of 500 Pearl from some 360 views of the city. After that, is an eclectic beer selection from Resurgence Brewing Company and some great burger action, and finally they end our tour of Outdoors Spaces atop the the gorgeous rooftop of the Curtiss Hotel overlooking Lake Erie and downtown Buffalo.
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Curtiss Hotel
210 Franklin St, Buffalo, NY 14202
Big Ditch Brewing
55 E Huron St, Buffalo, NY 14203
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Patricks Rooftop @ 500 Pearl
500 Pearl St, Buffalo, NY 14202
Resurgence Brewing
55 Chicago Street, Buffalo, NY 14204
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“Gypsy Dance”, “Venice Beach”, “Nimbus”, “Heartache”
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Visiting The Buffalo Naval & Military Park
Visiting the Amazing Naval & Military Park in Buffalo
Canwiches: Charlie The Butcher - Buffalo, NY
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The Last Wright: Preserving Frank Lloyd Wright's Legacy
By 1908, Frank Lloyd Wright was considered the most innovative architect in Chicago. He traveled to Mason City, Iowa, to design a unique business block- a bank and an adjoining hotel, facing a park.
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Soon, scandal and tragedy would ruin his career, but the Park Inn would remain, one of his last Prairie style structures. This unique film traces the life, death, and possible rebirth of a Midwest downtown through the prism of the Park Inn.From 1926 to the present, the Park Inn witnessed alterations and downgrading, while Mason City dealt with an economic downturn in the 1960s and a decaying reputation in the 1970s. While the city struggled to fund renovations of the Frank Lloyd Wright hotel in the 1990s in an effort at heritage tourism, it also attempted an economic revival with a $20 million tribute to the musical comedy The Music Man, which was set there. As a last resort, the city decided to place the Park Inn on Ebay. Which vision of Mason City will prevail? Through a blend of rare archival footage, period music and a comparative look at stunning Wright masterpieces in the Midwest and Japan, The Last Wright raises issues of the sustainability of landmark structures and offers a provocative, ironic tapestry of a century in an American city.
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Architectural Historian Jack Quinan on Frank Lloyd Wright
In conjunction with the exhibition, Frank Lloyd Wright's Samara: A Mid-Century Dream Home, featured in the Gallery at Penn College, renowned architectural historian Jack Quinan lectures on Wright and Samara. Quinan, founder of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and author of five books on the famed architect, examines Samara in the context of a representative selection of Wright's Usonian houses of differing typologies and eccentric geometries.
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Modern architecture | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:00:39 1 Origins
00:03:55 2 Early modernism in Europe (1900–1914)
00:10:14 3 Early American modernism (1890s–1914)
00:11:48 3.1 Early skyscrapers
00:13:29 4 Rise of Modernism in Europe and Russia (1918–1931)
00:14:35 4.1 International Style (1918–1950s)
00:17:00 4.2 Bauhaus and the German Werkbund (1919–1932)
00:20:25 4.3 Expressionist architecture (1918–1931)
00:25:22 4.4 Constructivist architecture (1919–1931)
00:29:23 4.5 Modernism becomes a movement: CIAM (1928)
00:32:46 5 Art Deco
00:34:58 5.1 American Art Deco; the skyscraper style (1919–1939)
00:36:47 5.2 Streamline style and Public Works Administration (1933–1939)
00:38:40 6 American modernism - Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, Richard Neutra (1919–1939)
00:41:11 7 Paris International Exposition of 1937 and the architecture of dictators
00:44:21 8 New York World's Fair (1939)
00:45:20 9 World War II: wartime innovation and postwar reconstruction (1939–1945)
00:48:16 10 Le Corbusier and the iCité Radieuse/i (1947–1952)
00:50:02 11 Postwar modernism in the United States (1945–1985)
00:50:59 11.1 Frank Lloyd Wright and the Guggenheim Museum
00:53:13 11.2 Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer
00:54:35 11.3 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
00:56:25 11.4 Richard Neutra and Charles & Ray Eames
00:58:19 11.5 Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and Wallace K. Harrison
01:00:49 11.6 Philip Johnson
01:02:12 11.7 Eero Saarinen
01:04:57 11.8 Louis Kahn
01:06:55 11.9 I. M. Pei
01:10:17 12 Postwar modernism in Europe (1945–1975)
01:13:56 13 Latin America
01:17:41 14 Asia and the Pacific
01:20:51 15 Preservation
01:22:03 16 See also
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New York State Senate Session - 05/06/14
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Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
New York State Senate Session - 05/07/14
New York State Senate Session - 05/07/14