Someone with a LiveJournal blog wrote about a trip to Hollywood and compared it to Clifton Hill: Hollywood reminds me of Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls. Clifton Hill is the gaudy tourist strip built in the 1950’s to ‘modernize’ tourism in the city by bringing the high cultures of wax museums, haunted houses, and overpriced…
All of the snow that we’ve had recently has me singing “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” to my sons. They laugh, and say, “No Daddy… It’s not Christmas, It’s Easter.” Anyway, all of this snow and talk of Christmas reminded me that I had taken some pictures of the Winter Festival of…
From Niagara This Week: The last time there was nary a light on glorious Niagara Falls was probably during the Northeast blackout in the summer of 2003. Usually bathed in colourful light, later this month the falls will be shrouded in darkness again, this time intentionally along with most of the city, to help encourage…
From the Niagara Falls Review: There will be more mayors in Niagara Falls than you can bang a gavel at in 2014, when the city hosts the Federation of Canadian Municipalities annual conference. It’s the first major convention to book its event for the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre, the $100-million facility to be built…
I just received an email update from Niagara’s Fury. The “click here” link just took you to the main page of the Niagara’s Fury web site.
Yesterday I received a newsletter from NiagaraFallsBestHotels.com. This is a site that doesn’t seem to have any purpose other than it gets good search engine positioning, and it charges sites to be “listed” with them. The newsletter/site promotes various packages that the hotels are offering right now. To subscribe, fill out the form to join…
I’m not sure how the floors are going to be counted, but it looks like the 13th floor is done and they are working on the 14th floor of the Hilton addition.
From the Niagara Falls Review: When Kerry Painter comes to town next month, she’ll find herself in a similar position to where she was five years ago when she took on the job of building a convention centre in Slidell, La. Minus hurricane Katrina, hopefully. … Now, she’s leaving it behind to take on a…
Someone with an AOL Journal has posted some information about Houdini. Included, is some information about the old Niagara Falls attraction: 1968 – The Houdini Magical Hall of Fame was opened on Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. At its opening, this museum contained the majority of Houdini’s personal collection of magic paraphernalia. One…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Perhaps the truest and best example of family can be found at the Ricci home in the city’s south end. Michael and Olga Ricci and their five children dreamed together, worked together, lived together and achieved together. The late Michael, known as Mac, and his wife Olga were pioneers in…