MsRussellBeebe wrote:
acrossthelines wrote:
I will never forget going to the Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls (RIP, along with that one building with all the plants... that was an awesome place, with the stairs that go up quite a few stories) when I was seven.
The Wintergarden:
Inside:
And the Occidental Building:
They had a light show synchronized with Christmas Carols. I loved the Festival of Lights. I used to come back to Buffalo from wherever I lived (while I was on the mainland) to see this event.
What a shock 20 years later when I brought my former spouse to something I'd talked up for years that was a top 20 AAA tourism spot (bus tours) which fizzled out after corporate sponsor after sponsor bailed, and the vandalism of the displays became rampant.
Yep.
Every time I am in Niagara Falls, I see that building and want to go in it... and then I remember that there's nothing there anymore. Do they utilize it for anything now? The last time I was in NF, I was with my family, and my father had the same reaction of wanting to go in that building because it reminded him of his childhood before remembering that it's not what it was.
And that building with the lights was always my favorite when it came to the displays. I would stand there and watch that for fifteen minutes.
I think the last year that the Festival of Lights was anything worth seeing, I was eleven or twelve. The last time I went, I was nine. They're apparently bringing it back to the scale that it was next year, or so WGRZ said. Yeah, we'll see. I doubt it.