He founded the Freezer Queen frozen food company in Buffalo in 1958 http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2006/07/03/daily46.html Buffalo Business First -- Freezer Queen to close and founded the Darien Lake theme park after purchasing 500 acres of land in Genesee County, New York in 1964, owning the resort and slowly developing it into a major amusement park until he sold the resort in 1983.