The Los Angeles Leaf Blower Wars

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The leaf blower is one of the most hated objects in the modern world.

If you've lived pretty much anywhere in America in the last 40 years, you probably know their motorized wine.

They're loud, they pollute, and how important is a leafless lawn anyway?

In a lot of towns and cities, the gas-powered leafblower has been banned.

In others, there are strict guidelines on where and when they can be used.

But in Los Angeles, California, the leafblower has never gone quiet.

That's That's reporter Phil Corbett from a podcast called The Wind.

In 2024, the state of California banned the sale of gas-powered leafblowers.

But this most recent development is just the latest shot in the Los Angeles leafblower wars.

This is a fight that goes back decades.

A fight that's kicked up questions about labor rights, environmental concerns, and ideas of beauty.

In 1970s Los Angeles, it was common for people to hose down their driveways.

Homeowners, renters, and gardeners would wash dirt and leaves and whatever else out onto the street.

But a serious drought in 1976 and 77 spurred many Californians to start saving water and stop hosing everything down all the time.

And as it just so happened, to meet this moment, a new piece of machinery was introduced to America.

There's a lot of things we like to do outdoors, like golf, gardening, and backpacking with Echo.

The Japanese company Echo debuted what they called the clean-up machine.

In fall, it rounds up a yard full of leaves in no time.

We use it year-round for garden grooming, sidewalk, patio, and driveway sweeping.

Works great for snow blowing too.

Originally invented as a crop-dusting device in 1947, Echo soon realized that this machine had some serious leaf-moving properties.

Fallen leaves had long been one of the main enemies of the perfect American lawn.

At first, this clean-up machine, aka leaf blower, seemed to solve the problem perfectly.

A drought-friendly way to move leaves and debris off your yard.

That commercial shows a person with a backpack engine setup, a big hose coming out, blowing leaves across a green lawn.

What you can't really tell in that commercial is that these things were loud.

These things were loud.

Before the leafblower, people were using gas-powered lawnmowers too, but adding another engine to a full lawn cleanup meant double the noise.

By 1989, some estimates say that about 1 million leafblowers had sold in America.

But while they were ubiquitous, they were also almost universally hated.

This noisy little machine could be used more often than a lawnmower, even daily.

And some people wouldn't even use it to make leaf piles to bag up and remove.

They just blow leaves into the street, or in the case of dust, up in the air.

Through the 1980s, facing pressure from homeowners and constituents in quiet neighborhoods, many city councils had introduced or passed outright bans on the leafblower.

From From the start, Californian cities stood at the forefront of the war against the leaf blower.

And the most high-profile ban in Southern California was in, you guessed it, Beverly Hills.

In Southern California, there was a celebrity cast of characters speaking out against the blower.

Not exactly household names today, but people who were well known at the time.

One of the main proponents of the leaf blower ban was Peter Graves, the main actor in the original Mission Impossible TV show.

Besides leaves and dust, just what do blowers blow?

Things better left on the ground.

This is from a PSA that Graves recorded.

Pesticides, fertilizers, spores, molds, fecal matter, insects, dangerous chemicals, allergic fungi, and more.

The video shows a man blowing leaves outside of an open window.

Just inside, a baby is taking a nap.

The evidence is mounting.

Leafblowers are dangerous.

But for all of their loudness and fumes, the leafblower was also very fast at removing leaves from a yard.

And for the people who were not just maintaining their own lawn, but many lawns, this speed was a big deal.

Like a regular small house, maybe half an hour, 45 minutes.

But a big house, you're gonna spend like an hour or two hours.

This is Jaime Aleman.

And we are at my place on Sunland, California.

How long have you been a gardener?

Over three years.

I met Jaime in his hilly Southern California neighborhood.

Horse tracks marked the mud where a sidewalk should be, rows of ranch houses, more pastures and native plants, then manicured lawns.

In 1989, Jaime Alemann left his job and office supplies to start his own landscaping company.

His father-in-law gave him a handful of clients, and he remembers the first time he ever used a leaf blower.

It's a good thing to blow the leaves and fast you do that with a blower and it looks clean and nice.

A landscaper often starts their business when an older gardener gives them a few houses or clients.

Through much of the 20th century, a lot of the gardeners in Los Angeles were of Japanese descent.

But throughout the 80s and 90s, that began to shift to mostly Latin American gardeners.

Their Their circuit of clients became known as La Ruta, the root.

The difference between failure and success for a gardener is all about speed.

They get paid per lawn, and the margins are already small.

Using a blower instead of a rake means they can work a bigger circuit of lawns in a single day.

But as Jaime began his business and expanding La Ruta, tension had been building for almost a decade.

Word began to spread through the community that the Los Angeles City Council was seriously considering a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.

I remember the whole thing when

this thing started.

We were kind of upset because they wanted to take one of the best tools to clean the house.

Jaime saw this proposed ban as an obvious threat to his young business.

And he started to ask around, looking for some advice on how to fight it.

This is actually like a Hollywood story, to tell you the truth.

This is Dr.

Alvaro Huerta, associate professor in the urban and regional planning department of Cal Poly Pomona.

But back in 1996, he was a young Chicano activist from Boyle Heights.

Alvaro had a small group of activist friends who took on some big issues, like getting UCLA to provide financial aid to undocumented students.

One night, around May of 1996, Alvaro was drinking with some friends watching a boxing match when Jaime Aleman came up and confronted him.

Jaime approached me.

He was like calling me out.

And then he said, you guys act like you're from the Raza, the community, but here we are, you know, the Jardineros, the City of LA wants to take away our leaf blowers, and you guys are

not doing anything.

Like, what are you going to do for us?

Jaime asked Alvaro to take on the fight to save the leaf blower.

I just said yes, not knowing what I was getting into.

Pretty quickly, Alvaro and a small group of friends and activists sprung into action.

Since gardeners are independent contractors and self-employed business owners, this would not be a traditional union labor kind of fight.

But they wanted to show that they were united.

And so the Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles, or ALAGLA, was born.

And Jaime joined right away.

We got together in different areas, because there's gardeners all over.

So we have meetings here in the Valley, West LA, Hollywood, and all over.

Alagla's opponents were no small adversary.

Not only were these leafblower bands widely popular among non-landscapers and people who enjoy sleep, but this one was about to become law.

It seemed that the city council had a lot of momentum.

So So, this bill, it took, let's say, six months, a year to get to that point.

So, we got there like at the 11th hour.

On a spring day of May 1996, not long after Jaime approached Alvaro, the subject of leafblowers came up in Los Angeles City Hall.

On the balance of the regular agenda, item 9 is an ordinance first reading which would prohibit all gas-powered leafblowers within 500 feet of a residence.

This is audio from Los Angeles City Council in 1996.

The chambers were packed.

The leafblower ban had been generating a lot of buzz, and the person championing this effort was Council Member Marvin Browd.

Society is going through many, many changes, and one of those changes is that more people are working in the home.

Again, this was pre-pandemic, pre-video chat 1990s, but there was a growing number of people working by phone and running businesses out of their houses.

As Council Member Browdy put it, the leaf blowers were disruptive.

And how we measure that is by the number of complaints that we get, and we get very, very many.

So he proposed a simple solution.

It's a one-line ordinance, and it in effect says that gasoline-powered leaf blowers are prohibited.

Though noise seemed to be the animating factor, Councilmember Browdy laid out three reasons for the law, which echoed the complaints in other cities.

Number one, the sound of leafblowers.

It drowned out dinners on the back patio, it interrupted phone calls, or perhaps worst of all, it woke up the entire neighborhood at 7 a.m.

on Saturday mornings.

Number two,

the dust.

For decades, Los Angeles had been trying to address air quality issues.

And leaf blowers were blowing all types of dust and particulate matter into the air.

Which is related to reason number three,

emissions.

Gas-powered leaf blowers run on a small two-stroke engine that even by 1996 standards was polluting and inefficient.

In short, it was a trade-off.

You could have lawns with fewer leaves on them or cleaner air and quieter neighborhoods.

But if this ordinance seemed like a no-brainer to some, city council hadn't really thought about who was on the other side of these blowers.

People like Jaime Alemann.

As a landscaper, he was understandably nervous about this crackdown on a tool that he used every day.

So yeah, we have to raise the prices.

We want to spend more time, and as long as they pay more, that's okay.

If you were a landscaper with a wealthy clientele, this change might not affect you too much.

Raising prices could lose you a couple of clients, but it might pencil out.

However, if you were a landscaper working in less wealthy neighborhoods, or if you had older clients on a fixed income, this could seriously affect your ability to make a living.

In City Hall, the proponents of the ban came ready to make a point.

They wore matching yellow lapel pens and hammered home the health effects of breathing bad air and emissions.

By contrast, the pro-leafblower side of the room had a lot of empty seats.

A few gardeners expressed concern about their livelihoods, but they were nowhere near near as organized as their opponents.

But the thing about city ordinances is they typically take a few meetings to pass.

So this first hearing, though important to set the tone, was definitely not the end of the line.

City Council would next meet to discuss the leafblower ban in November 1996, and then a vote.

This meant Alvaro and Alagla would have a little time to get creative and mount a counter effort against the ban.

We're very confrontational, non-violent, but very forceful and non-compromising.

Olagla saw that their best chance was to flip public opinion and shift the focus from the noisy, polluting blower to the hard-working gardener.

That's why we started to take it to another level where we were able to engage in political theater.

After the meeting, Alvaro and the others began planning protests trying to attract the press.

They organized a barefoot walkthrough downtown holding brooms to illustrate how this ban would impoverish them.

attention.

And Alvaro remembers, ABC, NBC, BBC, The New Yorker, New York Times, everybody, everybody was covering it.

The thing that started grabbing my attention is the fact that most of the gardeners were Mexican, right, or Latin American.

This is Ruben Ortiz-Torres, an artist and professor at the University of California, San Diego.

He found it symbolic to see these futuristic-looking machines wielded by Latino immigrant laborers.

These laborers had a kind of power.

They are the owners of their means of production.

They own the tools.

They're their own boss with their own company.

So, in a way, owning the company puts you in a different position in your attempt to achieve the American dream.

As national and international news outlets covered the Gardners' protests, LA's public perception of leafblowers became a little more complex.

And going into the next hearing in November, a lagla was ready.

Back at the first hearing in May, the anti-leafblower side was full and organized.

The pro-leafblower side was sparse.

But this time around, the gardeners showed up in force.

Rows and rows of men packed the benches, and several guys who looked like they came straight from work stood at the back of the chamber in baseball caps and denim jackets.

It was like us versus them.

The little guy versus big bad government.

Poor Latino immigrants just struggling to get by against these rich Westsiders who want to sleep in because they're bothered by the leaf blower, you know, that wakes them up at seven in the morning.

We started to expose these contradictions.

At one point, a gardener named Roy Amazu approached the podium with his leaf blower in hand and turned to the audience to acknowledge the gardeners directly.

All the gardeners, please stand up.

As the dozens of men in the benches stood up, the room erupted with applause.

Peter Graves from Mission Impossible was not at this hearing.

But the anti-leafblower aside did deploy their other most notable celebrity, Julie Newmar, the original catwoman.

I'm a movie star, and my gardener doesn't use a leaf blower.

I asked her not to.

Behind Julie Newmar was a crowd of white-haired elders.

I am the much maligned, long-suffering, sometimes hated, upper-middle-class person.

But I'm, ladies and gentlemen,

I am also a single working mother of a multi-handicapped child.

I work at home.

I have to.

And last year, losing two to four hours a week from work, from the machinery, and this year, about 10 to 15 hours.

Then Newmar brought up the existing noise laws that seemed to not stop the blowers, even when they exceeded the decibel level or allowed a timeframe.

She was not happy with the way government had failed to intervene.

But we need laws.

We need laws to keep from hurting each other.

And here's the important part.

Otherwise, we take the law in our own hands.

Thank you.

And I've never broken the law, but I'm thinking, mind you, only thinking about buying a hatchet and smashing a few tires just to let out my anger.

Please don't do that, and please

stand aside and let's...

Because I don't think you hear us.

So far, you've been powerless, powerless to do anything for any of us.

As she wrapped up, Newmar put on her reading glasses and stepped aside.

All right, thank you very much.

While some on the anti-leaf blower side clapped, the gardeners sat quietly.

Newmar seemed to be at her wit's end, and the gardeners would have to figure out an effective response to this impassioned argument.

This time around, the gardeners had a strong, simple message.

This ban would make it hard to make a living.

If you ban this, it's going to kill our businesses.

It's going to hurt us badly.

It's going to affect us economically.

Anytime somebody said anything in favor of gardeners, the room erupted in applause.

A lot of my customers are not movie stars.

We definitely need your help.

So think about that.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

But the anti-leafblower side still had more ammo.

The council president called up Dick Hingson, a representative from the environmental nonprofit Sierra Club.

Quality of life and environmental quality includes especially where people sleep and recreate, those quiet residential areas where we try to find respite.

The Sierra Club was not known for wading into big city issues, but for leafblowers, they would come down from the mountain.

Instead of focusing on noise as a mere hindrance to rest or productivity, Hinkson went big.

He focused on the spiritual value of silence.

We need these areas

as open space and not just for the eyes, but also for the ears and the mind and the heart.

When public comment ended, the fight was handed over to the city council.

And compared to the first hearing, the workers were front and center in many of the council members' arguments, so much so that it was hard to tell what the vote might be.

Some seemed moved by the gardener's concern.

One had clearly flipped entirely, and one even proposed a substitute motion banning loud machines instead of gas-powered ones.

But ultimately, city council voted down the substitute motion, instead deciding to vote on the single-line ordinance.

After a long battle, this was the moment of truth.

City Council would finally decide.

When they brought up the ban on gas-powered leafblowers, it passed easily.

10 votes to three.

It would soon become illegal to use a gas-powered leafblower in the city of Los Angeles.

The Association of Latin American Gardeners of Los Angeles wasn't surprised by the laws, just disappointed.

Alvaro Huerta, for one, found the new ban ridiculous.

Well, there's the noise, there's the pollution.

What I think about that is that they're like exaggerating, right?

You know, we live in an industrialized country and we have to put up with noise.

We have to put up with pollution.

Like go to the mountains or something and then the bears will be attacking you.

So there's always a problem somewhere.

If caught violating the ordinance, gardeners could face a thousand dollar fine and up to six months in jail.

Six months in jail for using a leafblower seemed like cruel and unusual punishment to many, especially for the gardeners themselves, because this threatened their livelihoods.

For a while, they decided to collectively ignore the ordinance.

In defiance of the new ban, the gardeners kept using the gas-powered leafblowers.

And in January 1998, when the law was about to go into full effect, Alagla decided it was time to deploy the nuclear option.

The hunger strike was that was the climax of our movement.

They wanted to delay, if not outright stop, enforcement of this new law.

So they decided to go on hunger strike.

After the break, the LA Gardner hunger strike of 1998.

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On a cold, gray Saturday, January 3rd, 1998, several gardeners ascended the steps of City Hall with big jackets and blankets.

There were 11 hunger strikers.

Around them, dozens of gardeners showed up to support.

Many, including the organizers, set up camp on the front lawn, and they slept in front of City Hall.

Every single day, there was like more and more pressure.

So we started with like 11 hunger strikers one day, and then the next day there's 50.

And then people see it on TV.

The spectacle of dozens of men camping on the lawn, the workers hungry and cold, caught the attention of the press while ratcheting up the pressure on city council.

Alagla wanted city council and Mayor Richard Reardon to repeal the ban.

As the days passed, the men continued their strike.

City Council planned to vote later in the week, not to overturn the law, but to reduce the punishment for using a leaf blower.

Finally, on Wednesday, under pressure, the mayor agreed to meet with the gardeners.

It forced the mayor to meet with us because he didn't want to meet with us before.

And one time, this idiot, he shows up at a hunger strike when we're negotiating with him, eating a hamburger.

Several days in, four of the men had become dangerously weak and dropped out at the request of doctors.

But the remaining seven hunger strikers made it seven days to Friday.

That morning, rain dumped on the city.

Finally, a few city council members and Mayor Reardon pledged in writing to negotiate with the gardeners.

They likely wouldn't stop enforcement, but they did vote to lessen the punishment.

Switches the jail, $1,000 and misdemeanors, and just make it into a fine, a $271 fine.

It's like a parking ticket.

So it was still bad, but it was like a fine only.

It fell short of the sweeping victory Alagla wanted, but a win was a win, at least enough of a win for the gardeners to end the hunger strike and go home.

So at first it was like, these guys are bad.

They're polluters, the leaf blower, the sound, the pollution, blah, blah, blah.

And then all of a sudden it's like, why are you picking on these little guys?

You know, they're workers, you know, they just want to survive and all that, because we changed the narrative.

Even though public opinion had shifted, the ban on gas-powered leafblowers still became law.

But if you spent any time in Los Angeles over the past 30 years, you'll know that it is not a place free of the motorized wine of the leafblower.

After the ordinance with the reduced fine went into full effect, Alvaro and the rest of Alagla were not yet done with the leafblower wars.

They hatched one final plan.

Since taking the issue head-on with a hunger strike didn't move the city to stop the leafblower ban, they decided to stop using grand moral arguments and just circumvent the thing.

These idiots in City Hall, these morons, these imbeciles, they passed a law banning gas-powered leaf blowers.

Apparently a friend of the group, a lawn equipment mechanic, proposed converting some of the leaf blowers off of gasoline.

Because why don't we convert them into methanol?

So that's what we did.

So we got like 100 gardeners or more even.

convert their machines into methanol because they didn't say repeal motorized leaf blowers.

They didn't say that.

They say gas-powered.

Methanol is not banned.

These converted blowers would still be loud and polluting, but technically legal.

Logla thought that if a few guys with methanol blowers got tickets from the police, that they could get these cases thrown out and ultimately muddy the water on enforcement.

Because how could the police tell if a leaf blower was using gas or methanol from afar?

Finding out would be difficult, time-consuming, and maybe they'd stop checking altogether.

Which is ultimately what did happen.

Maybe it was because of the hunger strike, or maybe it was the general shift in public opinion that did it, but ultimately, the leaf blower ban didn't really work.

The police decided to not enforce the law.

The Gardeners lost the fight in City Hall, but in the end, they won a quiet

actually, maybe not so quiet, victory.

The ban passed, but without real enforcement, the gardeners kept their leafblowers.

The leafblower wars faded into the background for a while, but in 2024, nearly three decades after Olagla's hunger strike, they're beginning to flare up again.

And this time, the gas-powered leafblower might actually be on its way out.

Lawn equipment, you wouldn't believe it, surpassed cars and light-duty trucks as a major source of pollution.

This is Michael Cacciotti.

I'm a five-time mayor, current council member with the historic city of South Pasadena, California.

And he is currently the vice chair of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which aims to control air pollution in a huge chunk of Southern California.

Michael has been a strong voice in the present-day fight against leafblowers.

The science on gas-powered leafblowers is pretty damning.

Putting aside the evidence of significant hearing loss when subjected to that level of sustained noise, the emissions are serious.

According to at least one frequently cited study, using a single gas-powered leafblower for one hour is the equivalent of driving a modern car the 15 plus hours from Los Angeles to Denver.

And the reason is, as you'd probably know, on your cars and required by law in the 80s because of all the pollution in California, then followed by the nation and all the manufacturers to have catalytic converters.

The catalytic converter breaks down many of the pollutants coming out of the car exhaust, which reduces smog.

On the other hand, lawn equipment has no catalytic converters.

And you use gasoline, use two-stroke oil, you mix it up, and it's a toxic combination.

Battery technology and electric leaf blowers have come a long way in the last 30 years.

So the modern day fight is mainly about getting people to switch to electric.

With the new statewide law in California, which bans the sale of gas-powered lawn equipment and other small off-road engines, Michael is working to get landscapers set up with that electric gear.

Some, like Jaime Alaman, are reluctant to make the shift.

The gas blower is fast, but with these tools, electric is going to take us more time, and the job is not going to be as nice as the regular road.

Jaime bought a new electric setup just in case, but says that he'll keep using the gas-powered one as long as he can.

He says it's more powerful, he doesn't have to deal with battery charging, and the electric blower definitely isn't quiet.

No, they're different.

The noise is lower, but the sound.

It's like a higher, like this tiny

like this.

this time around the government did offer subsidies to get gardeners switched and some municipalities made a good faith effort to work with them but in reality the electric leaf blower is at best an imperfect alternative if you remember the three central arguments against blowers noise dust and emissions the shift to electric really only solves the third.

Throughout the fight in the 1990s, representatives from the leafblower manufacturers promised quieter, cleaner machines.

But as multiple council members pointed out in the meetings, they never delivered on that promise of a quiet leafblower.

It seems in some part that this statewide ban is aimed at forcing those manufacturers to come up with better solutions.

Whether or not it works is another thing entirely.

I do believe in those mandates.

That's artist and professor Ruben Ortiz Torres again.

There's all sorts of problems with gas that I don't need to explain.

They should be substituted by machines that don't hold.

We should, again, work on the design, work on the technology.

We should do this in concert with the gardeners.

It's a straightforward idea.

Involve gardeners in the political and design process.

Make sure they aren't penalized for doing the job they're hired for.

And in the meantime, we can ask ourselves if beauty is a leafless yard or a quiet one.

Back at Jaime Aleman's house, we sit in his backyard.

It's a warm Southern California day, and the air over the valley is clear.

You can see a haze toward downtown, and the sun is bright.

What does your dream yard look like?

Like, what's a beautiful yard to you?

A beautiful yard to me is to

see the plants more natural.

You can make a nice yard natural, I mean, trimming natural.

There are leaves on Jaime's lawn, and in the garden bed behind his patio, too.

The plants are beautiful, not too trimmed.

We sit in the shade of a tall leafy tree, and I think back to something Julie Newmar said in City Hall in 1996.

And with my radio full blast, I look out my windows, made filthy by the leaf blowers, and wonder why my neighbor needs a lawn that for 15 minutes is as clean as a billiard table.

There's some mental insanity here.

Jaime's lawn is no billiard table,

but it's nice.

It's crazy.

Right now it's crazy because I haven't got time to weed it.

Yeah, because I mean, you don't have just like a flat lawn and it's really pretty, you know?

It's like...

Yeah, I love it and I enjoy come out here, but I don't like very, very like

manicured.

Manicured.

I don't like that.

As I leave his house, we hear an electric leaf blower start up across the street.

I look at Jaime and nod.

He waves goodbye and I walk down the road and pass the horses and watch the freeway pulse in the distance.

And the leaves fall from the tall swaying trees to land in the lawns below, short and green in the warm winter sun.

99% Invisible was reported this week by Phil Corbett, produced and edited by Nina Potuck.

Additional production by Sarah Bake, mix and sound design by Dara Hirsch, music by Swan Riau.

Fact-checking by Liz Boyd.

Phil makes a podcast at a desk in the mountains.

It's called The Wind, and it's all about listening.

If you like this episode, you might like Whiplaw or Judas Priest on Trial.

Listen and subscribe at thewind.org.

Kathy Tu is our executive producer.

Kurt Colstead is the digital director.

Delaney Hall is our senior editor.

Nikita Abde is our intern.

The resident team includes Chris Barubay, Jason DeLeon, Emmett Fitzgerald, Gabriella Gladny, Martine Gonzalez, Christopher Johnson, Vivian Lay, Bashama Dawn, Jacob Maldonado Medina, Kelly Prime, Joe Rosenberg, and me, Roman Mars.

The 99% invisible logo was created by Stefan Lawrence.

We are part of the Stitcher and Sirius XM podcast family, now headquartered six blocks north in the Pandora Building, in beautiful, uptown.

Oakland, California.

Home of the Oakland Roots Soccer Club, of which I'm a proud community owner.

Other teams may come and go, but the roots are Oakland first, always.

If this episode has you wondering how we ended up with the American ideal of the leafless, perfectly trimmed lawn aesthetic, we've done an episode about that too, way back in 2015.

It's episode 177 called Lawn Order.

It is a good one.

I hope you check it out.

There's a link to that as well as every past episode of 99pi at 99pi.org.

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Sure, they're famous for their wings.

More than that, it's a city with character.

Their waterfront is for making waves.

You can kayak right through the city and zipline among reimagined grain silos.

Buffalo is the kind of city where vintage finds, patio beers, and colorful murals all share the same block.

You can discover modern masterpieces in a museum that's a work of art, and beautifully restored architecture with stories to tell.

And if you're the type to ask for directions, be ready, someone might just walk you there and point out hidden gems along the way.

It's a city where history somehow feels brand new, where your favorite meal might come from a corner bar.

In the community, it's tightly knit, but that fabric includes you too.

Now you know that's Buffalo for you.

Learn more at visitbuffalo.com.

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