Buffalo in the 90s: Maitre d’ celebrates 50 years at the Park Lane

By Steve Cichon
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The Park Lane is a well-remembered and much-beloved Buffalo institution. So was “Victor of the Park Lane,” as the maitre d’ of the landmark restaurant was known to generations of Buffalo diners.

A “Maitre d’ with a maestro’s touch,” News Food Editor Janice Okun called him in 1990.

After a brief battle with cancer, Victor Mole died in 1991 at age 69.

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Steve Cichon

Steve Cichon writes about Buffalo’s pop culture history. His stories of Buffalo's past have appeared more than 1600 times in The Buffalo News. He's a proud Buffalonian helping the world experience the city he loves. Since the earliest days of the internet, Cichon's been creating content celebrating the people, places, and ideas that make Buffalo unique and special. 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.