The Hole Truth : Freddie's Doughnuts and the Krispy Kreme Connection

...The rumors have been flying like fritters for decades, in coffee shop banter and across the Internet. "I'm close with Freddie's family," bluffs an anonymous forum member, "And they say his glazed recipe was copied by Mr. Kreme!" Or my personal favorite: "Freddie sold the recipe to Krispy Kreme and his family gets a penny for every glazed doughnut sold." If a deal that sweet ever existed, I would have known by now. In fact, I'd own an eclair-shaped island in paradise. That's because Freddie was my grandfather, founder of Buffalo's dearly departed doughnut emporium.

To read more of Jason Maier's story, see page 9 of the Winter 2009 Heritage Magazine.

Driving Buffalo's Heritage to the Future: The Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum

The James Sandoro Pierce-Arrow Love Affair

The image of a Pierce-Arrow was first etched into Jim's memory when he was around three years old. Jim lived on Lisbon Avenue between Eggert and Bailey. The grandfather of the next door neighbor was a chauffeur for a wealthy family. The family, in time, gave the grandfather their Pierce-Arrow, since after WW II, tires were difficult or nearly impossible to get. And there, the boy next door notice the vehicle up on blocks in their garage. "There was always this magic about that car," Jim relayed wistfully, and added, "We were always told not to play on the Pierce-Arrow," which of course only added to his fascination. "Why was this car so important...that I couldn't play on it?" He added, "I can still remember being impressed with the immensity of the car and the smell of stale gas from storage."

To view the rest of this story by Donald B. Hutton see page 14 in the Winter 2009 Heritage Magazine. Subscribe now!

 

The Progressive Architecture of Lewis F. Allen

Lewis F. Allen (1800-1890) is well recognized as an important figure in Western New York History. He was one of the founders of the Buffalo Historical Society and was president of the Erie County Agricultural Society when it organized the first Erie County Fair (1841). He was a large Grand Island landowner and an experimenter in livestock breeding and fruit tree raising. Allen, however, is not generally known as an architectural theorist or a precursor of functionalist architecture.

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In his classic work The Arts in Modern American Civilization, first published in 1948, Kouwenhoven shared his discovery of Lewis F. Allen's book, Rural Architecture, published in 1852. He refers to the book as a "forgotten volume which did more to shape the course of ordinary house building than many a more pretentious and less salty book."

To read more of this story by John H. Conlin, see page 24 of the Winter 2009 Heritage Magazine.

 

 

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