[BN] Chronicles: Gleasons Pressure-In was once dubbed Buffalo’s 'maximum glamorous drive-in'

After operating the Hello-Boy Pressure-In on Mount Hope Road in Rochester during the Fifties, Ward Gleason introduced digital curb carrier to Niagara Falls Side road with the hole of Gleasons Pressure-In at 1090 Niagara Falls Blvd. close to Sheridan in 1960.

Dubbed Buffalo’s “maximum glamorous drive-in,” they promised a carhop would deliver you your order inside 3 mins. And with its signature sandwich, the Hello-Burger – two juicy beefburgers crowned with golden melted cheese, a mound of lettuce and tangy secret-formula sauce, all on a toasted double-decked bun – Gleasons temporarily grew with places opening at Sheridan close to Delaware and at Primary and Top streets in Buffalo in the midst of what’s now the Buffalo Niagara Clinical Campus.

Gleason advised the Courier-Categorical in 1966 that “other people laughed” when he made up our minds to construct a “suburban drive-in” that was once “by way of the perimeter of the downtown core.” He known as the 90-car car parking zone at the back of where his “secret weapon.”

A fireplace on the authentic Niagara Falls Side road location in 1974 ended a 14-year run for Gleasons there – which was once later reopened as Fundy’s.

Along side the Buffalo Hilton and WKBW-TV initiatives, the final new Gleasons opened in 1978 at 28 S. Elmwood Ave. as a part of the rejuvenation of the realm at the back of Town Corridor down towards the water. That location, the only at 1000 Primary St., and a location within the Side road Mall have been the final 3 places, every of which had closed by way of the mid-Eighties.

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s popular culture historical past for BN Chronicles, has written six books, and teaches English at Bishop Timon – St. Jude Top Faculty.