{"id":3767,"date":"2008-08-23T08:53:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3767"},"modified":"2008-08-23T08:54:29","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T12:54:29","slug":"a-nostalgic-trip-to-crystal-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/a-nostalgic-trip-to-crystal-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"A nostalgic trip to Crystal Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t directly related to Niagara Falls, but it does tie in with the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/niagaras-lost-amusement-parks\/\">Niagara&#8217;s Lost Amusement Parks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1675\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When it came to gathering stories about the old Crystal Beach Amusement Park, PBS senior producer Lynne Bader-Gregory had it easy.<\/p>\n<p>All it took was a nudge, and dozens of Buffalo and Crystal Beach residents opened the floodgates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sort of hit the jackpot meeting these people,&#8221; says Bader-Gregory, whose documentary &#8220;Remembering Crystal Beach Park&#8221; premieres on Buffalo&#8217;s PBS station WNED Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone wants to talk about it. If you ask anyone about their memories of Crystal Beach, you can basically sit down and be quiet for the next 20 minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing vintage footage and interviews with some of the park&#8217;s biggest fans, the 45-minute special is a nostalgic look at a playground that united two communities separated by a river. Opened in 1888, the Crystal Beach park was a summer institution for generations of families in Western New York and southern Ontario.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t directly related to Niagara Falls, but it does tie in with the Niagara&#8217;s Lost Amusement Parks: From the Niagara Falls Review: When it came to gathering stories about the old Crystal Beach Amusement Park, PBS senior producer Lynne Bader-Gregory had it easy. All it took was a nudge, and dozens of Buffalo and&#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-3767","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\/3767","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=3767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}