From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Falls Public Library and the Lundy’s Lane Historical Society invite the public to attend an illustrated talk by author Bob Cowan about Sir Harry Oakes. This free presentation will be part of the society’s meeting Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Victoria Avenue branch. Bob Cowan’s book, “Sir…
From the Niagara Falls Review: He called himself Professor J.F. Jenkins – The Canadian Blondin, and during the summer of 1869 it was widely advertised that on Aug. 25, he would cross the Niagara River Gorge on a tightrope using a velocipede (an early form of the bicycle). When the day arrived, it was clear…
Regular visitor SaraAB87 (the one who is so interested in the games at the Skylon Tower) visited the Skylon Tower Fun Centre this week and emailed me the following: I visited the Skylon Tower on Tuesday this week. There was quite a bit of construction going on, they had orange banners up where most of…
This isn’t specifically Niagara Falls related, but I figured I’d include it in case there is anyone interested. American Heritage has an article that talks about the history of restaurants at the top of towers: Around 1960 John Graham, Jr., a Seattle architect best known for large shopping centers, proposed a tower with a restaurant…
A couple of weeks ago I posted a picture of the old Circus World building on Victoria Avenue and reported that a new store was open. Regular visitor Fallsview let us know a few days later that a sign was up and it was called eklectibles. Fallsview was right, it does look pretty bad on…
On Clifton Hill between the Travelodge and one of the haunted houses there used to be a souvenir photo place where you could get your picture take and it would look like you were going over the Falls in a barrel. It’s gone now, and I’m not sure what is replacing it.
Some of the flowers along the parkway have bloomed already.ÂÂ
As was reported previously, that’s a lot of concrete at the bottom of that hole!
Last Thursday I received the latest issue of the Clifton Hill Resorts Update. It contains the same general information as it always does. You can subscribe to the Clifton Hill Resorts Update newsletter by visiting the Clifton Hill Newsletter page.
When Wacky Wings first opened, it received a lot of positive comments here from visitors. Perhaps the honeymoon is over. The place has been closed for about a month. The signs haven’t changed, the chairs are all put away, and there were notices from Niagara Falls Hydro lying on the ground.