{"id":2772,"date":"2008-03-31T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/pictures-of-earth-hour-in-niagara-falls\/"},"modified":"2008-03-31T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T01:01:09","slug":"pictures-of-earth-hour-in-niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/pictures-of-earth-hour-in-niagara-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures of Earth Hour in Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night the family piled into the mini-van and went to see how Earth Hour went in Niagara Falls. I guess you could say we did our part for Earth Hour since we didn&#8217;t have our house lights on at all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Here are my observations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Basically right at 8 pm most of the Fallsview hotel lights went off. Within 5 or 10 minutes many more were off.<\/li>\n<li>The red vertical casino lights were off, but the red horizontal lights on the top of the casino were on.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the operations on <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?4\">Clifton Hill<\/a> did NOT participate. As far as I could see, none of the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?68\">HOCO<\/a> properties were participating. The &#8220;L&#8221; in Movieland was off, but I think that was just a coincidence \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?173\">Falls Ave<\/a> properties were participating. The Sheraton was dark, the Hard Rock Cafe guitar was off, and there were minimal lights on at their other attractions<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?53\">Niagara Clifton Group<\/a> properties were participating. Guinness, Fun House, etc had their lights off<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?203\">Ripley&#8217;s Niagara<\/a> properties were participating as their 3 properties were dark<\/li>\n<li>The Clifton Family Restaurant was dark, but still had people inside eating<\/li>\n<li>Going up Victoria Avenue, the Criminal Hall of Fame was dark and the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?175\">Classic Iron Motorcycle Museum<\/a> didn&#8217;t seem to have all of their lights on. Other than that, very few of the &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; places were dark. I guess they need the lights on to compete.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?8\">Skylon<\/a> was probably the latest place to turn off the lights. They even turned off all of the lights at the top. This surprised me as there was no flashing beacon\/warning light. The Fallsview Casino, other hotels, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?24\">Hilton<\/a> crane all had a light that was flashing, but the Skylon didn&#8217;t. I wonder if that was allowed\/safe?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some pictures:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_falls_lighting_off.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_falls_lighting_off.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The lights that normally light the falls were off<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_american_falls.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_american_falls.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The American Falls without lights<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_horseshoe_falls.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_horseshoe_falls.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Horseshoe Falls without lights<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_casino_top_light.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_casino_top_light.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The light at the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?59\">Fallsview Casino<\/a> was still on<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_casino_on.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_casino_on.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The light on the side of the Fallsview Casino was on before 8 PM<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_casino_off.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_casino_off.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The light on the side of the Fallsview Casino was off after 8 PM<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_fallsview_skyline_01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_fallsview_skyline_01.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_fallsview_skyline_02.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_fallsview_skyline_02.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_fallsview_skyline_03.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_fallsview_skyline_03.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?301\">Fallsview wall of hotels<\/a> looked nice dimly lit<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_skylon_01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_skylon_01.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?8\">Skylon Tower<\/a> was still lit up just after 8 PM<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_skylon_02.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_skylon_02.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The top of the Skylon Tower was dark a little later<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_wheel_01.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_wheel_01.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?146\">Niagara SkyWheel<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?140\">Fallsview Waterpark<\/a> and the Kodak Tower at <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?60\">Casino Niagara<\/a> in the background before 8 pm<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/earth_hour_wheel_02.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"earth_hour_wheel_02.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The SkyWheel and Fallsview Waterpark were still lit up after 8 pm, but the Kodak Tower lights were off<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday night the family piled into the mini-van and went to see how Earth Hour went in Niagara Falls. I guess you could say we did our part for Earth Hour since we didn&#8217;t have our house lights on at all \ud83d\ude42 Here are my observations: Basically right at 8 pm most of the&#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-2772","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\/2772","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=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}