That time when Toronto was in love with Niagara Falls Toronto NiagaraFalls
Flying into Toronto from the south across the lake, you might get lucky and see Niagara Falls. You need a west-facing window seat, of course. But if you know where and when to look, you can't miss the, rumbling away just 50 kilometres from the CN Tower — two wonders of the world separated by half a lake.
The heart-shaped jacuzzi tubs are mostly empty now, residual metaphors of a place down on its luck. These days you go to Niagara to gamble, to revive old love in a falls-view suite. And you always come back broke.It wasn't always the case. Toronto has had its eye on the Falls from the very beginning. 50 kilometres and two million litres a second will do that.
Mass unemployment in the industrial sector during this period solidified the tourist industry even as the war years would eventually restore factory/power jobs. If Niagara previously had an identity crisis, the tension was mostly resolved by the 1950s.Well before any of this, the Falls were already the place to go for rich Torontonians.
Less than a quarter of these places remain, but modern Niagara Falls was born during this period, and its remains are still on display in the form of The Cadillac Motel, The White Rose Motel, and the A-1 .If you drive far enough along Lundy's Lane, you pass the QEW and things get progressively more sketchy. This is where the strip clubs are. The Sundowner. Cristal Club. Here you rent rooms by the month. This is the residue of the motel boom.
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