** As the Erie Canal's original Lake Erie terminus, Buffalo became America's eighth largest city. To emphasize that heyday heritage, Buffalo has excavated and revived its largely abandoned canal bed as Canalside, an urban park and recreational development where you can catch a concert or rent kayaks.
In Victorian times, the Canalside was where crews of east-bound Midwest grain freighters were paid -- and where their wages were squandered on booze and floozies.
Larry Mruk, who leads walking tours for Explore Buffalo said this is the spot that inspired the folk song "Buffalo Gals" They were the painted ladies who would come out at night and dance by the light of the moon.
What was the song George Bailey and Mary Hatch had in "It's A Wonderful Life?"
Well... Something I Definitely Did Not Know About That a Song. --Cooter
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