A ‘Super’ role for the falls

    I reported previously on the Superman Returns promotion where the Superman “S” logo will be lit up on Niagara Falls. The Buffalo News has a short article with some information on the Niagara Falls scenes from Superman II, a picture of Christopher Reeve during the filming, and an interesting tidbit about how he looked.

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      One new restaurant, extra large

      From the Niagara Falls Review: The new Tim Hortons restaurant on Clifton Hill could become the chain’s busiest franchise in the country. The 5,000-square-foot restaurant opened on the Victoria Day long weekend in May. By comparison, the average Tim Hortons outlet is 3,000 square feet. An average store serves more than 1,000 people a day,…

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        Niagara Falls in Spring

        Technically Spring ended just 5 days ago, so I’m not really that late… Several weeks ago I took a series of pictures of Niagara Falls in Spring. This is something I try to do each year (Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005), and although the pictures generally look the same year to year (the Falls…

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          Ripley’s Wax Zone leaflet

          One of the newer trends over the last few years is to have visitors to your attraction make a wax hand. The first attraction in Niagara Falls I remember having this was Movieland Wax Museum of Stars. Not too long afterwards Ripley’s added this to their Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum. Essentially you dip…

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