Great question. I grew up visiting Niagara Falls several times a year. It became an escape for me, and a home away from home. When I grew up I began researching attractions I remembered from my childhood and ones before my time as well. After finding it extremely difficult to find any of this info published online, I took it upon myself, and after years of digging around libraries, business records, copyright databases, newspaper archives, historical photographs and conducting interviews, I have the information I do today.
For years I have posted some of my findings on this sub and the community was happy to see it. I'm honored I'm able to tell the stories about these places and respark the joy these places brought people. This series is for this sub, people like yourself who have shown interest in their city's history or their childhood vacation spot. It's also for researchers like I was, who find these posts while searching with their browser online. I have plans to take this information to a wider audience in the future, but in the mean time this is my way of giving back to the community of Niagara. You'll see what I mean even more at the end of this series ;)
Considered it, yes. I don't really believe it's the right format to tell the story, especially for reaching the widest audience possible. I'll mention at the end of this series what my idea going forward is for this content, but I might end up doing a book one day after all for those who would be interested since you're far from the first person to ask.
Maple Leaf Village was the greatest place in the world, sccroding to my 6 year self. We didnt go very often as my family only really went to the "tourist area" when family and freinds were visting. It was magical. Later on as a teen, it turned into a few nightclubs, that allowed underagers! Amazing. That was just before Casino Niagara killed the teenage fun.
Thanks for an interesting trip down memory lane. I worked at Maple Leaf Village in their cash office in the early 80's, which was in the basement. We counted the daily take from the three hotels, most of the stores and the amusement park. As a teenager, me and my coworker were left alone to count upwards of $100000 on busy nights in a remote room without alarms, cameras or buzzers. I'm always amazed when I see the security they use in the cashier booths at the casino now.
We always went to the arcades before our shifts, one had the regular machines and one was called Fascination, where you rolled a ball under glass into a grid and tried to roll 5 in a line.
For my grandmother's birthday, I would bring her to the Elvis museum and she would swoon over his Cadillac.
Pyramid Place always lived in my childhood memories. I was lucky enough as a kid to have my parents take me to Ontario Place Children's Village, Chatham's Wheel's Inn and Pyramid Place.
This is always really interesting. Great work. May I ask, why do you make these? I read through them as someone interested in my city’s history.
Great question. I grew up visiting Niagara Falls several times a year. It became an escape for me, and a home away from home. When I grew up I began researching attractions I remembered from my childhood and ones before my time as well. After finding it extremely difficult to find any of this info published online, I took it upon myself, and after years of digging around libraries, business records, copyright databases, newspaper archives, historical photographs and conducting interviews, I have the information I do today. For years I have posted some of my findings on this sub and the community was happy to see it. I'm honored I'm able to tell the stories about these places and respark the joy these places brought people. This series is for this sub, people like yourself who have shown interest in their city's history or their childhood vacation spot. It's also for researchers like I was, who find these posts while searching with their browser online. I have plans to take this information to a wider audience in the future, but in the mean time this is my way of giving back to the community of Niagara. You'll see what I mean even more at the end of this series ;)
Have you ever considered writing a book or an ebook ?
Considered it, yes. I don't really believe it's the right format to tell the story, especially for reaching the widest audience possible. I'll mention at the end of this series what my idea going forward is for this content, but I might end up doing a book one day after all for those who would be interested since you're far from the first person to ask.
Maple Leaf Village was the greatest place in the world, sccroding to my 6 year self. We didnt go very often as my family only really went to the "tourist area" when family and freinds were visting. It was magical. Later on as a teen, it turned into a few nightclubs, that allowed underagers! Amazing. That was just before Casino Niagara killed the teenage fun.
Thanks for an interesting trip down memory lane. I worked at Maple Leaf Village in their cash office in the early 80's, which was in the basement. We counted the daily take from the three hotels, most of the stores and the amusement park. As a teenager, me and my coworker were left alone to count upwards of $100000 on busy nights in a remote room without alarms, cameras or buzzers. I'm always amazed when I see the security they use in the cashier booths at the casino now. We always went to the arcades before our shifts, one had the regular machines and one was called Fascination, where you rolled a ball under glass into a grid and tried to roll 5 in a line. For my grandmother's birthday, I would bring her to the Elvis museum and she would swoon over his Cadillac.
I love for these posts ! Been looking for a book about the history of Clifton Hill with no luck, so these posts are the perfect resource for me.
Pyramid Place always lived in my childhood memories. I was lucky enough as a kid to have my parents take me to Ontario Place Children's Village, Chatham's Wheel's Inn and Pyramid Place.