Buffalo's West Side of the 1970s remains indelibly etched in my childhood memories because it was a simple yet prosperous time in Buffalo's rich, cultural history. It represented a special time when the West Side resonated with an old-country, Italian cultural flavor that was prominent in everything we did in our daily living.

Importantly, it was a socially significant and progressive time when Italian-Americans came together, galvanizing, sometimes by necessity, on the West Side to forge a new American identity while collectively maintaining the proud cultural, vocational and religious values instilled and experienced in sunny Italy.

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