{"id":1123,"date":"2006-11-15T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/11\/15\/oakes-removing-falls-tower\/"},"modified":"2006-11-15T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T14:26:02","slug":"oakes-removing-falls-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/15\/oakes-removing-falls-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakes removing Falls Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?504\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After about 40 years of providing a panoramic view of everything Niagara Falls has to offer, the Falls Tower Ride &#8211; previously known as the Spiral Tower &#8211; will be permanently coming down this week.<\/p>\n<p>The removal of the tourist attraction is a part of Harry Oakes&#8217; redevelopment plan. Oakes, president of HOCO Entertainment and Resorts, owns attractions along the south side of Clifton Hill&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The tower (which was built in the mid-1960s) can hold 16 people. The Skywheel can carry 240 people,&#8221; said Oakes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: After about 40 years of providing a panoramic view of everything Niagara Falls has to offer, the Falls Tower Ride &#8211; previously known as the Spiral Tower &#8211; will be permanently coming down this week. The removal of the tourist attraction is a part of Harry Oakes&#8217; redevelopment plan. Oakes,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}