From the Niagara Falls Review: George Stathakis was one strange individual. Born in Greece, he arrived in the United States in 1910 at the age of 26. Working as a short-order cook, he lived in St. Louis for a time before moving to Niagara Falls, N.Y., then Buffalo. Stathakis was much more than a cook…
The Buffalo News had a nice write-up about Wayne Newton’s performance at the Fallsview Casino: You can thank Wayne Newton for Cirque du Soleil. You can thank him for the Celine Dion extravaganza and the Elton John blockbuster. For the Blue Man Group, the theme park explosion and the nightclub and restaurant boom in the…
On Tuesday I received the latest email promotion from the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. There is a Thanksgiving promotion along with a Halloween promotion: You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.
The Little Caesars that will be opening on Victoria Avenue is coming along well. All the signs are up on the building and most of the interior work looks complete. I suspect it will be opening very soon. Up until recently the Victoria Avenue Beer Gareden sign was still on the window, but I’m not…
From the Niagara Falls Review: A memorable summer comes to a close for Cirque Niagara this weekend. After five months, the high-flying tourist attraction will pack up and head home to Russia Sunday. But not before making a hefty deposit … and a promise to return. At 1 p.m. in the Main Tent today, the…
From Niagara This Week: Niagara Falls took on a pink hue Saturday night to illuminate the importance for women to detect breast cancer in its early stages. Country-singing sensation LeAnn Rimes stood at a pink podium at the Edgewater Tap and Grill and flipped the switch turning the water rushing over the city’s world famous…
From the Miami Herald: My trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls differed from my two previous last-minute trips in one significant way: Instead of buying a package trip, I booked everything separately — flights, two hotels and a rental car. I used opaque sites — Web sites where you don’t know the hotel, airline or…
I commented a while ago that HOCO had put up some new signs for Dinosaur Park Miniature Golf. It turns out that at least one of the signs was temporary. Beside the large T-Rex, there is now a nice neon sign that turns/spins at night. I also noticed that the torches on the main sign…
From TheStreet.com: The rush of standing right next to Niagara Falls, close enough to feel the spray on your face, is an unparalleled experience. When you consider that there are few natural wonders left unpaved or unfenced in this country, these thundering falls are even more impressive. Niagara won’t disappoint, whether taken in from the…
I hope you all read the article in the Globe and Mail about Greg Frewin. It had some great information on him and how he ended up in Niagara Falls. There were also some unexpected interesting tidbits. One of those was information about who owns the land. In a previous posting, Dan and Rick had…