All things Niagara Falls tourism…
Chris gets a daily email from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! with an interesting fact. The one he got yesterday mentioned Niagara Falls:
The frozen waterfall of Mount Beardmore in the Antarctic has a height of more than ten thousand feet—sixty times that of Niagara Falls.
Mount Beardmore is essentially now a high glacier, but that sure is tall! Niagara Falls would look puny next to it.
As many of you know Harry Oakes was one of the big names in Niagara Falls 70 years ago. There are many things in the city named after him, and his family still operates the attractions and hotels on the south side of Clifton Hill (HOCO stands for Harry Oakes COmpany). The original Harry Oakes was murdered in the Bahamas, and no one was ever convicted of his murder.
Apparently the FBI was involved in the investigation, and the FBI web site has 3 PDFs you can download with information on their investigation.
The FBI conducted an investigation into the death of Sir Harry Oakes. Initially, it was thought that Sir Oakes was murdered by a member of his family in Nassau, Bahamas, sometime in August of 1943. The FBI learned, from a source who knew Sir Oakes, advised that Oakes was found dead from natural causes in his apartment on July 23, 1943. Sir Oakes’s nephew was charged with his supposed murder, but was not convicted.
A common thing for people to collect is a postcard. The Edsen Breyer Postcard Museum is an online-only collection of, among other things, old Niagara Falls postcards. There are some great postcard pictures of:
Here is a LiveJournal entry for someone who goes by kenville:
We went on a family outing to Niagara Falls yesterday. It’s been a while since I’ve been there, maybe even not since our anniversary the year before last. A lot of changes on both sides of the border.
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