All things Niagara Falls Tourism (attractions, dining, accommodations, etc)
Over the last couple of weeks we’ve received complimentary passes for the following attractions:
We’ll post our thoughts on each as we go.
Both of these signs are currently on the side of the Hershey store as well as in the ground outside Planet Hollywood on Falls Avenue:
The City of Niagara Falls
Public Meeting
Date - May 16, 2005, 7:00 PM
Council Chambers, City Hall
4310 Queen Street, Niagara Falls
File - AM-03/2005
City Council will consider an application to change the official plan and the zoning by-law for these lands, to permit
A 229 metre (751 foot) tall hotel and observation tower on 5705 Falls Avenue with the parking in the balance of the adjacent lands owned by the applicant.
Additional information and a copy of the written notice available by contacting the planning & development department
City Hall, 8:30 - 4:30, Telephone 356-7521
The City of Niagara Falls
Public Meeting
Date - May 16, 2005, 7:00 PM
Council Chambers, City Hall
4310 Queen Street, Niagara Falls
File - AM-05/2005
City Council will consider an application to change the zoning by-law for these lands, to permit
An increase in building height from 15.8 M (52 ft) to 41.7 m (137 ft) for the garage behind the Skyline Brock Hotel, for a new waterpark. Also, an increase in building height from 10.7 m (35 ft) to 34 m (112 ft) for a series of enclosed pedestrian bridges
Additional information and a copy of the written notice available by contacting the planning & development department
City Hall, 8:30 - 4:30, Telephone 356-7521
We have previously reported on the rebuilding of Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks on Victoria Avenue.
For many years, one of the most recognizable city landmarks was the fiberglass figure of tight rope walker Blondin, who was the first funambulist to cross the Niagara Gorge on a tightrope. Blondin had been seen crossing Clifton Hill on his tightrope for more than 40 years when he was taken down when the original location for the Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks closed.
The figure has now be re-erected across Victoria Avenue with a fresh coat of paint and a new cape.
Read the write up from the Niagara Falls Review
Blondin has a new home perched high above Victoria Avenue, near Clifton Hill.
Photo: Mike DiBattista, The ReviewBlondin returns to skyline
Wax museum preparingBy ALISON LANGLEY Review Staff Writer
Local News - Thursday, May 12, 2005 @ 02:00NIAGARA FALLS – Blondin is back and he’s better than ever.
After a four-year hiatus, the famed tightrope walker has returned to the heart of the tourist district, this time perched on his tightrope across Victoria Avenue in front of the new location of the Louis Tussaud’s Wax Museum.
Construction is still going on at the new museum. However, Blondin was put back in business Tuesday night.
“This is the first time he has seen daylight,” Tim Parker, general manager of Ripley’s in Niagara Falls, said Wednesday morning.
The fibreglass figure had been a familiar fixture on Clifton Hill for more than 40 years.
The metre-and-a-half tall statue was taken down in the fall of 2000 after the museum closed its doors.
With work on the new facility almost completed, Blondin was taken out of storage and given a complete makeover.
“He looked a little old when we took him down. So, we rejuvenated him with a fresh coat of paint and a new cape,” Parker said.
The large swashbuckling cavalier that welcomed visitors to the museum is also returning.
The massive figure is scheduled to be installed at the new site tonight.
The new Tussaud’s museum is set to open in June.
The 125 wax figures, which had been stored at Ripley Entertainment head office in Florida, are back in town awaiting the completion of their new home.
“We won’t be bringing them in until every last speck of drywall dust is gone,” Parker said.
The original Tussaud’s opened on Clifton Hill in 1959.
It was an instant success and was credited with launching a new era in the tourism industry as it spawned a number of themed museums and other family attractions in the area.
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