![]() A few weeks after its griddle was turned off for the last time, Cash Cunningham visited this Your Host location at Main and Tupper, to auction off kitchen equipment, classic diner booth seating, and even the cash register. The others were opened up to the auction block. The place operated as “Our Host” for years. The last 11 stores closed and the company filed for bankruptcy in 1993.Īs Your Host liquidated, several locations were sold intact and continue to operate as restaurants similar in manner and menu to Your Host, including one on Delaware Avenue near Sheridan Drive, where the biggest change was taking the “Y” off the sign. A sign of the restaurants popularity and success: When Durrenberger died in 1968, he left an estate valued at $4.5 million.īut after 49 years in business, just as Your Host had replaced Deco, Your Host was being replaced by more convenience-based coffee shops and fast-food restaurants. Durrenberger built the company into the large restaurant chain generations of Western New Yorkers remember. Your Host started with a hot dog stand on Delaware Avenue in Kenmore in 1944 by Alfred J. These were generally cleaner, newer and brighter than the older Buffalo chain restaurants like Deco they were slowly replacing. Steve's Buffalo roots run deep: all eight of his great-grandparents called Buffalo home, with his first ancestors arriving here in 1827.īy Steve its height in the mid-’60s, there were 31 Your Host restaurants across Western New York. Why? Western New York’s embedded in his DNA. When you browse the blog here at Buffalo Stories LLC, you’re bound to not only relive a memory– but also find some context for our pop culture past– and see exciting ways how it might fit into our region’s boundless future. The 25-year veteran of Buffalo radio and television has written five books and curates The Buffalo Stories Archives- hundreds of thousands of books, images, and audio/visual media which tell the stories of who we are in Western New York.Ĭichon puts his wide range of professional experience-from college professor, to PBS documentary producer, to radio news director, to candidate for countywide elected office-to work in producing meaningful interpretations of the two centuries worth of people, places, and events that make Buffalo the unique place that we love.įrom the earliest days of the internet, Steve has been writing, digitizing, and sharing the stories and images of all the things that make Buffalo special and unique. He writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. writing about the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. Steve Cichon is a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves.
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