As a result, Mr. St. Joseph's campus on Harlem Road is canceling all elective surgery today.
Check-in's only being in mutual funds for 30 minutes.
Check-in's now down 31 points right now at 18,563.
So that's about 2.7 at 50,92.
The board told me he didn't follow up with the board so I gave him a big indicator that the work should go.
And then the crowd was not happy.
I can tell you that they were not happy at all.
I'm asking if you are able to tell them whether we're going to do this or not.
It will affect you, Mr. St. Joseph.
Let's find out what's going to happen on Tuesday.
Do you want to say anything?
No.
Okay, that's good.
Just these two.
The rest of them are going to take three weeks.
Okay, that's good.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm excited.
My father came to this country and I think it was oh god I got I can't I had the dates
but I don't remember well my dad was schooled in Sicily to make shoes and to repair shoes
so he didn't like the glass company he didn't like working on assembly lines so he started
repairing shoes and corning and at that time according being a small little town there wasn't
enough room for a bunch of guys fixing shoes so he came to Buffalo he was a good nobody there
wasn't a guy today I don't care anybody even back when they're prime in Buffalo all their shoe
repairmen nobody could light a candle to my dad I mean he was the best I mean not because he was
my father because I seen his work and I seen other people's work my father was terrific I mean you
know nobody did work like him he was meticulous he did everything right he didn't take no shortcuts
he bought the best materials he didn't work on time and he worked I mean he worked he was in the
store at five in the morning he'd go home until nine ten o'clock at night I mean he really worked
and it showed him what he did and it kind of rubbed off I guess I do the same thing you know so
but he always said if you do good work fair price and good materials you'll have people and that's
the truth and we do it's quite the guy what was his name Joseph we're the same Giuseppe Giuseppe
Bavisotto that's his name he was quite the man and then they had a couple of these they took pictures
of these I did a couple of things for the news like I said for the newspaper many years ago there
was oh this photo here okay here oh yeah you could tell you about this this is kind of interesting
there's my father that's his younger brother my Frank and my uncle Sam my father Sam Gaetano
and Pietro they all came from Sicily together with my grandmother Frank Stella and Walt they
were born here well you remember years and years ago there was a program called the 64 million
dollar question and then there was a shoemaker this guy Gino Prado he was the other this is the
original one he signed it he was he was on the 64 million dollar question and he won the big prize
and he was a shoe repairman and he toured the country he came around to different shops and he
came to our shop when we were at the 1516 and he took a picture with my father and my uncle Frank
and my uncle Sam they were working yeah that was pretty eventful that was kind of a neat thing
and everything I have in the store is American made except for my leather soles which I buy out
Italy one cement I buy from Germany and everything else is American some rubber that
back from it comes from Italy also but it's an American company but yeah and I look for it
it's cost more but I don't care it's it's American I don't want to buy no Chinese or
Korean or Russian stuff because it to me it's garbage and but that's how it goes like some
of these shoes up here like these these are $800 shoes men's some of those men's shoes there
they're 400 bucks so that people are buying good shoes and even the inexpensive shoes are worth
repairing you know if you buy them like say for 20 bucks or 30 bucks or 40 bucks putting a pair
of heels on for $13 or $14 it's still worth it you know for ladies work interviews I had with
Buffalo spree magazine and the Buffalo news and a few things went along the line only because I'm
probably less of the Mohicans you know so I guess maybe that's where it came in I don't think many
people want to work 15 hours a day you know even though it's your own which is okay but it's not
like you're making multiple you know big money yes but it's all right I'm happy that's all that
counts I don't know we moved from the west side up to here went to school went to hutch tech
took architectural engineering which is a good school I like I love that that was a great
education there I always liked working with my dad and when my mother passed away she died young
so I helped my father and just kept on working I don't mind I like what I do here other than
getting married having four kids and driving you crazy and other than that my life is probably
not very eventful really tell you the truth other than that I don't know it's mostly been centered
around working here yeah it's kind of like you know that's right it is kind of like a routine my
wife says I'm I was predictable but I guess maybe I am when it comes to you get up every day you go
to work you go home then you relax but when I'm here I actually relax when I'm here even though
I'm working him I feel like I'm relaxing so once in a while you get a couple of customers that
drive you crazy you know they other than that everything is okay when you deal with people you
gotta you gotta take them with a grain of salt and like my dad said the customer is always right
so no matter what happens yes sir yes man we'll take care of it it's not so much the shoes it's
not the money it's the people I enjoy my customers I enjoy talking to people I've seen families here
where they got married now they have kids their kids are coming in you know you see that that's
wonderful and shoes it's to me shoes a shoe I mean you fix one you can fix a hundred oh but
it's the customers it's the people behind the shoes that's important you know talking to them
and now that neighborhoods changing you get new people coming in we have different families now
there's a lot of Iraqi families or Iranians we have Somalis and we have some Vietnamese they're
all new people and they have different stories and that's kind of nice to hear them and they're
struggling they're trying they remind me back when we were kids when our family was trying my
grandmother and they couldn't speak English you'd have to go and try to interpret for them and
these people are trying so they're becoming good Americans and it's changed demographics
have changed you know where the immigration was from Europe now it's coming from the east and
the south so you know so it's it's good as long as they're good people and they work hard that's
all it counts become good Americans we never really went any place for vacation except we
would go to Corning New York we would take the train and go see our family down in Corning
and that was quite a nice ride on the train that was kind of an experience thing we did
that a few times not much and then in the summer we are that was on the Bavisotto side of the
family on my mother's side of the family we would have we'd have a family picnic at Ellicott Crick
and my father and my mother's brothers because they had five sisters and three brothers there
was a debunked my cousins they only had we only had three or four cars in the family at that time
and they would drive back and forth dropping off at people at the park and we'd spend all
day having a picnic you know with family and of course it wasn't being what we were Italian we
didn't have hot dogs or hamburgers you know we had lasagna eggplant and all the good stuffs
pastas and everything else and my cousins we would always play ball and run around
and I used to tell my uncle Mariano I says and my uncle Gus I says hey I says those kids over
there they got hot dogs and hamburgers you know I goes what do you want to eat that stuff for
he says garbage he says we got sauce and look at all the good food we have I says I know but you
know so following year goes we come back again those kids are out there we're playing and they
always ask what do you got to eat you know and we always tell them we got the same old stuff so
my uncle he says we got a surprise for you kids I go what's the surprise what do you see so later
in the evening we had hot dogs we each got a hot dog and a hamburger and a bottle of Oscar pop it
was those little small bottles of pop because we had wine to drink in and whatever else to drink
and my cousin Bernie she looks at me she goes you know Joe we finally became Americans
I thought that was kind of funny well I should have I always feel God makes me do things for a
reason and I kind of say to myself if this is what you want me to do I'll do it I'll do it for
the best I can and that's all I could ask and I think because of that you do something and I think
God takes care of you and you move along so that's what's important and there's always going to be
little glitches in life I mean you know that I don't think anybody goes through life without having
some complications or some type of things and as long as you have the strength and the fortitude
and the knowledge you go forward that's that's about the best thing you can do I guess maybe
having more education would have been great I guess you could never have enough education
but again I see people that have a lot of education they're not worth two cents so who knows
but yeah hurdle annual has changed it went from the 50s booming then the 60s it kind of died off
and then it kind of came back a little bit kind of died down now it's gangbusters and the reason
it came back really has been a good stock of people here good people good doubles good hard
working families and again too because we've had a lot of good stores now they've come back the
antique shops made it nice because they didn't want to pay the high rents on Elmwood down so they
came up to Hurdle Avenue and they've helped out and we have a good theater we've always had a nice
theater and then we've got a lot of good restaurants Hurdle Avenue is restaurant row and barrow so
that helps out but for us it's always been a good shoe repairing business it's always been great
here even with all the shoe repair shops we've always had good business I was gonna wear them
this weekend
