@pablorenoir I don't think that's fair. He didn't need and didn't want it. It was forced on him. in reply to pablorenoir # I'll also try to post a couple of screenshots # Well, that's all for tonight. It was a great show. I know a few people who were there tonight, so I'll try…
From the Niagara Falls Review: A renowned Canadian highwire walker who has been trying unsuccessfully for decades to walk over Niagara Falls said Nik Wallenda’s proposal to cross the Horseshoe Falls next year will have to be cleared by an “onslaught” of government officials on both sides of the border if it’s going to happen….
From the Niagara Falls Review: It was supposed to be famed wirewalker Jay Cochrane’s fourth summer performing in Niagara Falls. But now he’s making other vacation plans. What would have been a spectacular daily walk from the top of the Skylon Tower to the top of the new Niagara Falls Hilton on Fallsview Boulevard was…
Well, it’s about time I did a state of the blog address. The best way to determine how a web site is doing, is by looking at the stats. No matter how you look at it, Access Niagara and the Niagara Falls Blog are growing well. First, here are the stats (as of the end…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The $40,000 cost of hiring police to close Clifton Hill every day “destroyed†plans to bring tightrope walker Jay Cochrane back to Niagara Falls this summer, says Coun. Wayne Thomson, a go-between for Cochrane and tourism operators. Tourism operators had been making arrangements to bring Cochrane, “The Prince of the…
From Niagara This Week: Letting world-renowned tightrope walker Jay Cochrane walk his fine line over Niagara Falls would be an appropriate way to celebrate the glorious cataract’s natural wonder and its long and rich history, says a St. Catharines film maker who hopes to capture the historic event through the eye of his lens. “When…
From Niagara This Week: A bid to have high-wire walker Jay Cochrane back in Niagara Falls walking over Clifton Hill this summer seems like it won’t be getting off the ground. Cochrane, who was in the Falls last summer for daily tightrope walks near the Skylon Tower, was hoping to return to Niagara Falls this…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Famed wirewalker Jay Cochrane still wants to make Niagara Falls his retirement project, but a proposed walk across the river could be in the works for 2009 instead of next year. After another summer spent performing in Niagara Falls – his third in six years – Cochrane was hopeful the…
On Monday I was at Marineland being filmed/interviewed for a document on Niagara Falls. Local documentary film-maker Jay Cheel is putting together a documentary on the state of the tourism industry in Niagara Falls, and asking how Jay Cochrane would impact the industry. I showed up at Marineland before it opened (9 am) and met…
The Associated Press has an article that has been picked up by a number of newspapers. This link is to USA Today: For more than 40 years, visitors to this tourist town have gazed upward to a fiberglass likeness of 19th century tightrope walker Charles Blondin occupying not only his fabled wire, but his place…