Chris gets a daily email from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! with an interesting fact. The one he got yesterday mentioned Niagara Falls: The frozen waterfall of Mount Beardmore in the Antarctic has a height of more than ten thousand feetâ€â€sixty times that of Niagara Falls. Mount Beardmore is essentially now a high glacier, but…
As many of you know Harry Oakes was one of the big names in Niagara Falls 70 years ago. There are many things in the city named after him, and his family still operates the attractions and hotels on the south side of Clifton Hill (HOCO stands for Harry Oakes COmpany). The original Harry Oakes…
A common thing for people to collect is a postcard. The Edsen Breyer Postcard Museum is an online-only collection of, among other things, old Niagara Falls postcards. There are some great postcard pictures of: the incline railway with the Minolta Tower in the background (and no other hotels) old aerial views of the Falls the…
Here is a LiveJournal entry for someone who goes by kenville: We went on a family outing to Niagara Falls yesterday. It’s been a while since I’ve been there, maybe even not since our anniversary the year before last. A lot of changes on both sides of the border.
As Dan mentioned in a previous comment, there is a new snack stand beside the House of Frankenstein. It’s called Dr. Frankenstein’s Brain Freeze (Dan called it Frankenstein’s Sweet Tooth). They sell popcorn and slushies. There used to be a currency exchange booth there. I guess with the US dollar being where it is, there…
To follow-up on some of the discussion on Marineland, I found a site that lists all of the captive orcas (killer whales) in the world as of August 20, 2007. As of that date, there were 48 in captivity (a smaller number than I expected) at 13 locations, with 4 of them at Marineland. Here…
Someone posted about their trip to Niagara Falls on their Yahoo! 360° blog: Yep, back again. This time it’s from our excursion to Niagara Falls. It was a whirlwind trip but, we all made it back in one piece. On Saturday we visited Andrew’s friend Sandra at her place near Niagara on the Lake. It’s…
From Hospitality.net: From a 1930s honeymoon to modern family fun, Niagara Falls Tourism’s â€ŔVisitors Blog†offers an engaging way to view the Falls through the years with photos, video, and personal stories from Niagara vacations. The Visitors Blog is an innovative feature of Niagara Falls Tourism’s recently re-launched website, which also include its own television…
From nowrepublic: My family and I must be some of the last people to see Niagara Falls. Whenever I mentioned we were headed to Niagara I would inevitably hear “oh I remember going there when I was ten” or “I went there forty years ago and it was great.” Well I have to say I…
From the Buffalo News: A book that showcases the exploits of criminals like the late mob boss Stefano Magaddino and killer William Shrubsall might not be everyone’s idea of the best way to interest tourists in Niagara Falls. But the authors of â€ŔNiagara Falls Confidential: Murder, Mayhem and Madness in the Honeymoon Capital of the…