Wow, Niagra Falls

[AngelicKim]

I just got this in an e-mail and with seeing so many photos in galleries of Niagra Falls I thought everyone would appreciate it.

The photo was taken in 1911 when it got so cold that The Falls froze over. Can you imagine how cold and for how long it must have been for Niagra Falls to freeze over. I have heard stories about it but here is a photo of it.

Enjoy. BRRRRRRRR!!
http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1K8XRZ31JDPJJjExDdifdqKiPMUq0_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1K8XRZ31JDPJJjExDdifdqKiPMUq0)

[mom to 4]

Wow! I had heard that it once froze over, but I sure don't think I would venture out on it even if it were 6 feet thick!!!!!

[tbrannon]

I got this in an email the other day myself and was just wowed. Neat to actually see it completely frozen over. And I am with Colleen on not venturing out on it. My clumsiness would probably be slip and slide over the edge. EEK!

[AngelicKim]

My thought at that time would also be not to go out on the ice. My bigger concern might have been that if Niagra Falls had frozen over than Hell probably had too and we were all in trouble. :D

[graficalicus]

N-I-A-G-A-R-A F-A-L-L-S!

Slowly I turned....... step by step...... inch by inch.......

My wife just got back from NF, strangely enough. She didn't take me with her this time though (it was a work-related seminar).

[Winsunn]

Just looking at that photo makes me cold. Oh, how I would love to take a picture of my family in front of that amazing backdrop.

[Daviskw]

Graficalicus… you must be Moe…. I’m more like Curly… Thought I was the only one here old enough to remember that.

Today those folks would be in court for child endangerment.

Butch

[AngelicKim]

Butch, I knew what Grafi said looked familiar. Thanks for pointing it out. It has been bugging me. Now I'll have to go through my Stooge's CD and see if I have that one.:D

[Wendy]

That is a stunning image ... it realy must have been cold :eek:

Wendy

[rtronick]

Check out this link:

http://garygreen.blogspot.com/2006/08/when-niagra-falls-froze-over.html

Randy T

[jo]

Somewhere among all the old photographs in shoe boxes I have pics from when they shut off the flow over the American Falls to shore it up a bit -- maybe 35 years ago or so. I have to look through those old photos one of these days.

[nkeevers]

Kim, you are cracking me up! I was kinda thinking the same thing.

Great picture!

[jazzfisher]

Sorry,
It wasn't the Stooges, guys---it was Abbott & Costello........:D

[AngelicKim]

Guess I won't find it in my Stooge's CD's then:D

[Buffalo Tony]

I live about 20 miles from the falls. the american side of the falls has frozen a few times in the past 100 years or so because a huge ice damn forms in lake Erie slowing the flow to a fraction of what it should be. They now put an ice boom in the lake around Thanksgiving so this no longer happens. The Canadian side of the falls is much bigger and the flow of water is many times that of the American side. It has never frozen but an ice bridge does form at the base Niagara river at the bottom of the falls. Just thought I would chime in on this thread.

Tony

[graficalicus]

actually:

"No, Bud and Lou didn't originate the "Niagara Falls" (a.k.a. "Slooowly I Turned") routine; it is an old burlesque bit. As A&C screenwriter Harry Crane explained in the book, Abbott and Costello in Hollywood, "That [routine] is a burlesque classic; all the comics knew it, and there were even several different versions of it." That's why the Stooges were able to do the "Niagara Falls" version of the routine in their short, "Gents Without Cents," while Bud and Lou did the "Pokomoko" version in their film, "Lost in a Harem." Both films were playing in movie theaters late in 1944! Years later, Bud and Lou did the "Niagara Falls" version with Sid Fields in the "Jail" episode of the team's TV series. That's on Vol. 7 of of "The Abbott and Costello Show" released by Shanachie Home Entertainment and available from Abbott and Costello Collectibles."

(from http://www.dlmweb.com/news69.html )

I distinctly remember seeing the Stooges do it, too - it really was a popular skit.

filmography:
Gents Without Cents (1944) - The Three Stooges
Lost In A Harem (1944) - Abbott and Costello (trigger word: Pokomoko)
The Ballet (1952) - I Love Lucy (trigger word: Martha)

I have too much time on my hands sometimes....

Graficalicus… you must be Moe…. I’m more like Curly… Thought I was the only one here old enough to remember that.
I remember seeing the Stooges do it in a rerun! Not in the theatre! I just had a birthday, but I ain't THAT old! :cool:

Actually, I think I'm more like Curly Joe, the forgotten Stooge... "Shemp" is actually the Americanisation of the Latin "Graficalicus: to draw pictures with small dots of light" . . . . and man, I'm full of it...:D

[Daviskw]

well here is the answer.... we are both right...and wrong...lol

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/slowly.html

[chas3stix]

Nyuk,nyuk,nyuk,
Great bit of movie trivia,Grafi.....:D
Chas

[Daviskw]

Grafi you must of posted why I was typing.... good stuff... I do believe you do look like him

[mom to 4]

I was trying to remember just where I remember the slowly I turn routine. I thought it was abbott and costello (one of my favorites from my childhood .. I belive both were from NJ, one from Asbury Park.....only one town over from the wedding!).

I used to love watching their movies when I was a kid. Although my husband is a big three stooges fan, I am not. I like the Abbott and Costello type humor!

Amazing how funny they were and there was NEVER a foul word in their routine. Just good clean fun!

[Daviskw]

Abbott and Costello …..My favorites from childhood too Colleen… Hold that Ghost was the one I loved the most.

Sure beats Dumb and Dumber… darn showing my age tonight.

Butch

[mom to 4]

Oh, Butch I loved that one....and there was a Navy one too wasn't there....boy, it has been a long time....bringing back good memories! Dumb and Dumber is just plain stupid in my book. Funny thing is........One of the guys in that (jeff Daniels????) played George Washington in "The Crossing" It was about Washington crossing the Delaware. I thought he was excellent in that ....can't imagine why he would do Dumb and Dumber...money, I guess.

[chas3stix]

Coleen,
Jeff Daniels had a part in RV with Robin Williams....kinda funny.
Chas

[msbrad]

From a gal who lives in Florida that is beyond my imagination. I would love to see something that cold..I think(?)
m

[AngelicKim]

M, I am sure I can speak for many us of who live in areas that get that cold if not colder, in that come January or February many of us will gladly trade places with you.:D :D