In December I wrote about my recent visit to Niagara’s Winter Festival of Lights, and said that I would follow up on a comment I made about the marketing of the event. Well, here it is. My mom and dad brought us to Niagara when we were kids, before the Festival of Lights was a “thing”. Then…
I don’t know what it looks like inside (there is still construction going on), but there is now a sign on the outside of the Fallsview Casino for Shoeless Joe’s:
From Niagara This Week: Nik Wallenda has done something no one has ever done before: crossed the Horseshoe Falls on a tight rope wire. The seventh generation Flying Wallenda had said crossing the falls had been a childhood dream of his. On Friday night, that dream came true when he completed the stunt across Niagara…
Did you know J D Salinger liked to go to Niagara Falls? http://huff.to/hpcTjb #
Earlier this week I received the latest email newsletter from the Falls Avenue Resort.
From NorthJersery.com: Our trip started with sightseeing on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, then we toured Toronto, had family fun-time on Horseshoe Lake in Minden and shopped in Kingston. (I know this isn’t much of an article, but it’s always good to see Niagara Falls mentioned. It means some people came and they are…
From the Niagara Falls Review: It was like a sunny island in the midst of gloomy seas — a happy news story at a time when most of the news, especially if it came from the European war front, was decidedly depressing. That “happy” story was on the front page of The Niagara Falls Review…
These new signs/banners were just put up along Victoria Avenue over the last few days. They say "The Clifton Hill http://twitpic.com/2197bd # RT @20pfm10: Jun 30, 1859: French acrobat Charles Blondin walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. http://viigo.im/437L #
From the Niagara Falls Review: … So when he packed it in this week, we also knew something was wrong at the Niagara Parks Commission. But what? Gale, bound by a confidentiality agreement signed by all Parks commissioners, says he can’t tell anyone. Jim Williams, the commission chairman, says Gale took issue with an unnamed…
This isn’t specifically Niagara Falls related, but I figured I’d include it in case there is anyone interested. American Heritage has an article that talks about the history of restaurants at the top of towers: Around 1960 John Graham, Jr., a Seattle architect best known for large shopping centers, proposed a tower with a restaurant…