All things Niagara Falls tourism…
Honeymoon Suite will be releasing a new album later this year that they have called Clifton Hill “in honor of the ‘Falls’, where Johnnie and [Derry] started out many years ago. We felt the music had a renewed energy and somewhat of a creative return to the HMS of the 80’s. So we thought the title rather fitting.”
The album cover is a shot of Clifton Hill from quite a while ago. You can see the Falls Tower and Circus World on the left, and the Honeymoon Motel on the right.
From the Buffalo News:
In an age long before cell phones, word spread quickly, and soon, hundreds of people were focused on a spot about 850 yards from the Niagara River shore, about a half-mile from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls.
Looking back were two men from Buffalo, perched atop a scow they prayed would stay lodged on rocks in the roiling rapids.
Ninety years ago Thursday, Niagara Falls, an area where showmen and stuntmen staged many a spectacle, witnessed one of its most memorable dramas.
The Aug. 7, 1918, rescue of James
H. Harris and Gustave F. Lofberg from a barge that, to this day, remains a curiosity for tourists also cemented the legend of William “Red” Hill Sr. as probably the greatest of the Niagara’s rivermen.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
When Bob Gale had to pinpoint who he thinks is responsible for “wrongdoing” at the Niagara Parks Commission, he pointed the finger directly at chairman Jim Williams.
It’s how he answered question No. 12 on the provincial integrity commissioner’s “disclosure of wrongdoing form” which Gale, who has sat on the parks commission for two years, formally filed July 30.
It’s a four-page form members of Ontario’s public service fill out when they want to blow the whistle about a practice they perceive to be wrong.
Someone with a Blogger blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls:
Next stop was Niagara Falls, Canada. We took a boat ride on the “Maid of the Mist” right up next to the falls. We were all literally drenched in spite of the rain ponchos they gave us. It was a pretty incredible sight though. The falls were especially beautiful at night.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
The rusty scow - perched on a small piece of land in the Niagara River about 2,500 feet above the Horseshoe Falls -is a reminder of what could have been.
Today it remains an icon for millions of tourists, easily visible from shore stranded on its perch just above the falls.
It was just around 3 p. m. on Aug. 6, 1918 when a tug owned by the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Co. of Buffalo struck a sandbar, colliding with enough force to snap the line, causing the unnamed vessel it was pulling to drift toward the brink of the falls.
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