![]() ![]() Heart-shaped luv tubs, wax museums, a failing tourist industry, disastrous urban renewal, Love Canal, high unemployment and prostitutes, who, as everyone knew (even my mother), waited on Bridge Street on the Canadian side to catch the cross-border traffic - realities so grim that even the genteel strips of emerald parkland at the Falls couldn’t fully make up for them. It’s a clear winner, particularly in the context of early 1980s Niagara, a place which really did have it all, but in all the wrong ways. I planned my piece carefully and, with the day’s most boosterish tourist slogans in mind, chose my headline: “Niagara: It has it all.” I am twelve years old and win my local newspaper’s writing contest, along with the $100 prize. Freedom crossing, honeymoon spot, casino resort, factory town, Superfund site.
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