Graham on July 25th, 2012

@steveblaney1 Cool! I'll stop by next week and take a picture of the new location. Thanks for letting us know Steve in reply to steveblaney1 # I'm walking through Queen Victoria Park and someone just nodded at me and said my name. I have no idea who it was # The Zimmerman Fountain is finally [...]

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Graham on July 25th, 2012

From the Niagara Falls Review: It has had its fair share of ups and downs, but that’s sort of symbolic for the Pile Driver. The Clifton Hill thrill ride that sent those who dared to be shot 200 feet up into the air and plummet back down again at high speeds has been out of [...]

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Graham on July 25th, 2012

From Niagara This Week: Some 60 years before Nik Wallenda walked a tightrope and focused attention from across the world on Niagara Falls; nearly two decades before the Christopher Reeve’s Superman made his famous flight over the mighty cataract to save a young boy’s life in 1979, Marilyn Monroe brought the bright lights of Hollywood [...]

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Graham on July 25th, 2012

As I posted before, the AAAA Royal Hotel is now the Fallsview Lodge. They modified one of the rooms on the Ferry St side to become a small cafe. It looked like it was almost ready to open, and then the other day I saw a notice on the window. Apparently they did all of [...]

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Graham on July 25th, 2012

From the Buffalo News: Perhaps more than any other free, outdoor concert series in Western New York, Hard Rock Rocks Old Falls Street is presented as a community event more than just a big concert with basic concessions. Saturday night, the two blocks of Old Falls Street were filled with puppeteers, in-your-face mimes, vendors and [...]

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