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 feetâ€â€sixty times that of Niagara Falls. Mount Beardmore is essentially now a high glacier, but…
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…
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: the incline railway with the Minolta Tower in the background (and no other hotels) old aerial views of the Falls the…
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.