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==History== The Anchor Bar, on Main Street in Buffalo, New York, was established in 1935 by Frank and Teressa Bellissimo.<ref name="USA Today" /><ref name="CBC"/> It became famous for trademarking the Buffalo-style chicken wing. Frank Bellissimo died in October 1980 at the age of 84. Teressa Bellissimo, who opened the Anchor Bar with her husband Frank, and is credited with inventing the Buffalo Wing, died in her apartment above the bar in November 1985. She was 84. Dominic, the son of Frank and Teressa, who later owned the establishment and actively promoted the bar and its wings, died in March 1991 at the age of 68. On November 20, 2018, Ivano Toscani, owner of the Anchor Bar, died from a long illness eight days before his 69th birthday. Toscani began working for the Bellissimos at the bar in the mid-1970s.<ref>{{cite web|last1=McNeil|first1=Harold|first2=Dale|last2=Anderson|url=https://buffalonews.com/2018/11/20/ivano-toscani-anchor-bar-general-manager-dead-at-68/|title=Ivano Toscani, Anchor Bar general manager, dead at 68|date=November 20, 2018|website=[[The Buffalo News]]|accessdate=January 30, 2019}}</ref>
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