June 2006

I don’t remember the Travelodge Hotel (formerly the Quality Hotel) having a Smitty’s Restaurant, but maybe I just missed it:

Welcome to the webpage of the Niagara Falls Railway Museum. Our goal, through our ever expanding collection of railway artifacts and through this site, is to preserve and display the railway history of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The Niagara Falls Railway Museum is an interesting web site that tries to tell the story of the…

You may be familiar with Wikipedia. This is a major web-based encyclopedia project that anyone is allowed to contribute to. There is also a Wikimedia Commons site that provides pictures that are free to use. There are some great images of Niagara Falls on the site: Wikimedia Commons is a media repository that is created…

Rather than drag this out, I’ve decided to just go for it. Sometime tonight I will change the blog over from b2evolution to WordPress. I’ll try to setup some redirects on the server to keep the feeds going, but if you find that you haven’t received any new feeds, then please come back to the…

Sometime over the next few days I will be changing the blogging platform that I use. If you visit the web site to get your Niagara Falls news, then you won’t need to change anything. But if you use an RSS reader (either client software or a web site like My Yahoo!) then you will…

Sometime in the early evening on Friday Galaxy Golf opened. It looks like there is still some work to do on the outside of the building, but they are obviously done enough to have customers. The picture below is from the 18th hole which is upstairs by the ticket booth. The rest of the course…

Seeing the Falls from the Niagara Parkway is nice, but you can’t really get a feel for how huge they are until you get an aerial view. People spend hundreds of dollars a night to stay in fallsview rooms along the wall of hotels that line the parkway. One of the original buildings is the…

The Konica Minolta Tower has been around for over 40 years. After about a year of construction, it opened in 1962. It was originally called the Seagram Tower, and it’s shape was supposed to remind you of a Seagram’s whiskey bottle. I’ve looked around for a picture of a bottle that the tower was modelled…

I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was attending a wedding at the top of the Konica Minolta Tower. Well, actually, I performed the wedding. I have certain responsibilities with the church I attend, and I am legally authorized to perform marriages in the province of Ontario. It was certainly not the typical wedding…

Regular visitor Lisa from Rochester emailed me some information. She called the Imperial Hotel & Suites: Imperial Hotel is shooting for the Golden Griddle to open next week. Parking is free for Guests but $5.00 if you are not staying there. She also called the Quality Inn Clifton Hill: Galaxy Golf and Canada Trading there…