Merry Christmas! [From the Niagara Falls City Historian]

Wishing all a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2015. May everyone be safe, warm and happy this holiday season! 

Enjoy some of these images from The Ghost of Christmas Past in Niagara Falls.  Have any that you’d like to add? Please send them along! theniagarahub@gmail.com 

“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!” – Charles Dickens

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Mayor E. Dent Lackey – Christmas 1971

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Santa at Rainbow Mall 1983

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Festival of Lights c.1982

The Niagara in LaSalle 1903

“The Niagara” built in LaSalle 1903

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Beir’s at Christmastime c.1970

Winter on Niagara Falls c1900

Niagara Falls Ice Bridge c.1900

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Main Street, Niagara Falls c.1975

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Festival of Lights 1982

Lackey Plaza 1977

Lackey Plaza 1977

[All photos courtesy of the Niagara Falls Public Library Local History Department.  Find them on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/LocalHistoryNFPL]

Comments

  1. Anonymous says:

    Brought back great memories!!! Thank you <3

  2. anonymous says:

    I heard that there was a great ice bridge last winter, but didn’t get down there to see it. Does anyone have a good photo of that to share?

  3. Anonymous says:

    Outstanding views! Thank you, Niagara Falls! I have missed you!

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