I linked to an article last week about the 50th anniversary of Roger Woodward going over the Falls. Here is some more coverage of the anniversary: Toronto Star – Fifty years since the ‘Niagara miracle’ WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo – Anniversary of death-defying plunge Niagara Falls Review – Miracle of Niagara
From the Tonawanda News: Roger Woodward still remembers how bored and lonely he was that day, July 9, 1960, until a family friend invited him for a boat ride on the upper Niagara River. Seven years old then, he didn’t even know where he was going, but he was sure it would be a good…
From the Buffalo News: For 150 years, stunt performers have been drawn to Niagara Falls to test their courage, showmanship and sense of balance on a thin wire suspended far above the powerful currents. Tightrope walking is rare today and has been banned over the falls by governments on both sides of the border. But…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s a leather-bound relic stuck on the top shelf of a basement room at Oak Hall. It’s tucked behind a sheet of plastic, barely noticeable among the binders, filing cabinets and film canisters. But it just might be the most impressive autograph collection in Niagara Falls. The first signature in…
I saw a few people tweet about this yesterday, but didn’t get a chance to retweet or blog about it. From Wired.com: 1848: Niagara Falls stops. No water flows over the great cataract for 30 or 40 hours. People freak out. The falls were already a tourist attraction by 1848, and villages had grown up…
An eBay user has an auction for a postcard from 1934 that shows the area that would be the current Maid of the Mist plaza (at the base of Clifton Hill) with the Falls in the background. Neat!
From Wired.com: Niagara Falls is a beautiful marvel of nature indeed, but urban planners were more interested in the falls’ potential to generate copious amounts of electricity. Of course, to produce power, the project needed a reservoir with a pumping plant, which would require land. Robert Moses, a famously elitist urban planner, didn’t wish to…
On Saturday, Sherman Zavitz‘s column in the Niagara Falls Review was about when ice has frozen over the Niagara River right near the falls. Unfortunately the piece wasn’t online, so I took a picture of it for you to see. Occasionally the Review does this, so the only way to ensure you get it is…
I came across a web site called Theme Park Brochures. They post brochures and maps of theme parks (obviously). There is only one thing from Niagara Falls that I can see, and that is a map from 1999 from Marineland. You know, for all of the complaining that we do about how little Marineland does,…
From Niagara This Week: A total of $850,000 will soon be pumped into the historic Toronto Power generating station. Niagara Falls MP and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson unveiled a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque Friday, in addition to announcing the federal government will chip in a $425,000 infrastructure investment as part of…