Daily Archive for August 6th, 2008

Another picture of electric chair…

Here is another view…

As you can see, it certainly doesn’t stand out, but it does seem out of place between Dairy Queen and the other restaurant.

The world as seen by Dan - Accomplishments in Canada

Someone with a LiveJournal blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls (along with other places in Canada):

So, since I leave Canada tomorrow, I thought I would list those things that I have seen and done since arriving here last November…

Niagara Falls: visited 4 times! - including Canadian and US sides of the Falls, the Rapids and Whirlpool Basin, Journey Behind the Falls, Clifton Hill.

Hilton progress (floor 40 out of 53)

It looks like the Hilton is now up to 40 floors.

More riders are feeling the Fury

From the Niagara Falls Review:

Ken Wald has experienced virtual reality rides before, but he says few compare with Niagara’s Fury.

“I’ve been to Disneyland and Disney World, but (Niagara’s Fury) had everything you would want in a ride,” said Wald, who was visiting Niagara Falls from Fairview, Alta., Tuesday with his mother and two children.

The family tested out the Niagara Parks Commission’s $7-million moving-theatre attraction, built over the past year as part of an overhaul at Table Rock.

“It was informative, entertaining and had awesome special effects,” said Wald.

That’s pretty much what Joel Noden, the parks commission’s executive director of revenue operations, marketing and business development, has heard about the attraction since its official opening June 22.

“Attendance (to Fury) has increased 20 to 30 per cent every week,” said Noden, who didn’t provide The Niagara Falls Review with exact attendance figures.

bangalorian: St Catherines, Ontario (9 to 11 July)

Someone with a LiveJournal blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls:

…the next day we went to Niagara Falls–probably the tackiest place I have ever been to. Blackpool is tacky in a slightly depressing but generally charming way; Niagara Falls is so tacky you have to laugh or cry. If you go, visit Clifton Hill. The Burger King is topped by Frankenstein eating a burger–Frank’s head is the size of a Transit van. They have a waxworks so awful that you have to look at the labels to work out who they are (unless the model is wearing a whip and a cowboy hat, which means you can be pretty sure it’s either Indiana Jones or his zombie twin). There is a Rainforest Cafe with a huge steaming volcano on top of it. And so on.