The Cellar: a friendly neighborhood coffee shop, with no coffee and no shop. Established 1990.
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The Niagara Power Generation Station was the first giant plant producing high megawatts for long line transmission.
It's now closed and it's a tourist attraction. You can go down I think something like 90 ft and walk out the 2200 ft tunnel
through solid rock that use to carry the discharge water from the turbines to below the falls.
I had never heard the name Edward Dean Adams before so I had to look him up.
Holy shit he was one of the, or a very close associate of, the Robber Barons, and obviously made a comfortable living. [/sarcasm]
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I never heard of the guy either, but he reminds me of The Donald, who has hundreds of companies under his greedy thumb.
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Being a banker he was sucked up to from the git go, and many of those jobs... uh, positions could be held simultaneously. But paying well simultaneously. He was a below the radar robber baron, at least to us peasants.
As for trumps businesses, there weren't that many before 2018, he had more lawyers than businesses as half his income was from refusing to pay bills saying "sue me"
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Wikipedia has Trump as the owner of the Trump Organization with 500 business entities.
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Al Capone also had hundreds of brothels, speakeasies, and roadhouses that officially did not exist (according to tax lawyers). Apparently Capone did not have enough lawyers. Trump apparently learned.
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Trump is probably the opposite; While Capone owned a bunch of companies with none to his name, Trump has his name on a bunch of companies he doesn't own. The majority of the "entities" he owns are probably nothing more than shells made for one specific transaction.
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Or to avoid taxes.
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