From the Welland Tribune: Green Oaks trailer park residents have lost their bid to have city hall get between them and Marineland owner John Holer, who is evicting 47 families from the Stanley Ave. property. But some say the attention they raised might help Niagara Falls renters in the future. “They don’t want to protect…
A while ago I found this Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Souvenir Guidebook. The subtitle is “A password to the strange, the bizarre & the unbelievable”. I don’t think it is specifically for the Niagara Falls location, but in general it highlights a lot of the strange things that Ripley’s Odditoriums exhibit. I don’t know…
From the Niagara Falls Review: City councillors are putting the pressure on provincial candidates, with an election looming, to secure the long-term future of Casino Niagara. But Liberal MPP Kim Craitor, Conservative challenger Bart Maves and local NDP president Sharon Shearing say the issue has been settled – it should stay open. “Nobody has ever…
From the Buffalo News: Niagara Falls tourism officials customarily say that their city draws 8 million visitors a year, but a new study may show the figure may be larger than that. A consultant estimates 7.3 million Americans visited Niagara Falls last year. Longwoods International is still working on numbers for Canadian and other foreign…
Like many of the attractions on Clifton Hill, I’ve been to Dinosaur Park Miniature Golf lots of times (perhaps a dozen). I went when it was located right on Clifton Hill (before Boston Pizza and the Great Canadian Midway came along), and have played it in its current location. I’ve always thought the grounds were…
There is some work going on at the Skylon Tower. I don’t know what it’s for (maybe because of the fire?)…
I’ve posted a couple of times about the changes at the Travelodge in order to make room for a snack bar of some sort. Well, the place still doesn’t look very fancy, but at least it has a name: The Pit Stop.
Last week I received the latest email newsletter from the Falls Avenue Resort.
Chris posted previously that Jay Cochrane, a well-known funambulist, would be doing walks from the Hilton hotel to the Fallsview Casino and a walk from the Fallsview Casino to the Skylon Tower. As you can see by the pictures below, the wires are in place and ready to go. The wires are hard to see…
The St. Catharines Standard has an editorial about car idling and its environmental impact. It also mentions Niagara Falls. I’m sure this is a common problem in essentially all tourist areas: I spent two summers working in the Clifton Hill tourist area of Niagara Falls, and the number of people I witnessed idling their vehicles…