A LiveJournal user, “soopageek”, is reposting some things that were posted years ago, before blogging became very popular. He recently posted about his first visit to Niagara Falls, originally posted August 8th, 2003. It is nice to read people’s first impressions, and there are also some nice pictures.
WGRZ, the Buffalo NBC affiliate, has a nice video on their web site of Niagara Falls: Two on Your Side photojournalist Kyle Johnson captured an amazing view of Niagara Falls on Saturday night. Kyle was in the neighborhood to pick up a great “weather shot” for our weekend broadcast with Ron Plants and Andy Parker….
A few weeks ago there was a strike from some union workers on the Hilton construction site, so that delayed the work. That seems to have been resolved, and the work continues. Also, I took a picture of a trailer a couple of weeks ago and thought iw as for the work being done at…
Yesterday (Friday, July 13, 2007) Niagara Falls (NY) was featured on NBC’s Today Show as part of their America the Beautiful series. I didn’t see it, but there has been lots of coverage of it online. The Today Show has several features on their web site (part of MSNBC): Today Show American the Beautiful site…
From the LA Times: After recent trips to Spain and Ireland, and cruises to Alaska and Panama, I racked my brain for a jaunt worthy of our 35th wedding anniversary. After all, for our 25th, we’d stayed at a seaside resort on the Big Island of Hawaii. How could we top that? “How about Niagara…
The small tea shop on Victoria Avenue, Fall 4 Tea, has changed their sign. The sign used to take up the entire up part above the door, but now it is smaller and you can see the brick work. Still on the topic of Fall 4 Tea, when I search for that, there are currently…
I was at Marineland yesterday and took some more pictures of the new Topple Tower. You can click on the images to see a larger version. This is a picture of the ride and surrounding area Since I was there last Friday, almost all of the paving stone has been put down. As you can…
From Niagara This Week: City council wants to see renowned high wire walker Jay Cochrane take his act over Niagara Falls. Cochrane, in the city for the third time during his 50-year career, has his sights set on crossing the gorge for what he said would be the swan song of his career. And the…
I have nothing official to back this up, but I thought I’d pass along what I’d heard… The Pilgrim Restaurant on Clifton Hill will be closing for good on October 15. As was discussed (see this comment and the ones that follow) back in January/February, the Hilltop Motel building was sold. There was some thought…
Come on, can’t this place make up its mind? The former Travelodge that became the Lodge Near the Falls that became the Country Hearth Inn & Suites that became the Lodge Near the Falls now has a sign out front that says Lodge Inn & Suites.