Daily Archive for August 15th, 2006

Pure plastic pleasure? You bet

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Graham
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This interesting article from the Globe and Mail is about the author’s trip to the Fallsview Casino. There was one part near the middle of the article that stood out to me:

Fallsview is so tasteful and appealing, it’s almost disruptive — especially when you consider that just three blocks away you can stroll lurid, seedy Clifton Hill and rock out at a stuck-in-the-seventies heavy metal wax museum, marvel at a foam and plaster haunted house incongruously crammed next to a mini Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome, shop at the World Wrestling Entertainment doll store, ride the Pink Panther’s balloon tower (you can’t make this stuff up), or eat cheeseburgers underneath a two-storey-high Frankenstein’s monster.

I think that all reports want to think of Clifton Hill as tacky. Almost the entire south side of Clifton Hill has been renovated (the HOCO Limited side), yet the article didn’t mention that at all. The heavy metal wax museum isn’t even on Clifton Hill, and the haunted house, the dome, WWE store, Pink Panther ride, and Frankenstein are all on the other side of the road.

Biz Buzz: Niagara Falls park gets a seal

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From the New Jersey Star-Ledger:

And you thought your deck had water issues.

Try dealing with the wood walkways and decks at Niagara Falls State Park. Enter the mother of all product placements.

Thompson’s Water Seal — part of the Sherwin-Williams Wood Care Group based in Upper Saddle River — said yesterday its deck and house stain will be used beginning next spring at the Cave of the Winds decks at the park. The deck is a series of stairs and walkways that leads visitors to within 20 feet of the Bridal Veil Falls.

Niagara Falls rushes past clichés, expectations

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From the Toledo Free Press:

Niagara Falls is a 300-mile, five-hour trip, but its power makes visitors feel a planet away from worries and cares.

In a very small area, the Canadian city offers three distinct experiences.

The falls themselves are as mesmerizing as any natural wonder; the thundering sound, the mist swirling into the sky, the unceasing rush of water, are calming and transporting.