Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Monday, September 28, 2020

get happy here

I thought this sign was worth a poem and a laugh.  The poem can be seen below.

photo 2009

 Get Happy Here

that’s right

you can get happy here

get cash back fast

can’t beat the deal

you saw it here first

step right up

get happy here


leave all your worries behind

no more cash flow problems

just head to the window

get happy here


we pay for your happiness

you pay us for the privilege

it’s a win win situation

get happy here


we are the happy people

spreading happiness everywhere

give us a call

and we’ll create

a happy package

just for you

spread the word

get happy here



Saturday, September 26, 2020

royal chef restaurant

located on main street beside the Jenns store.  Main street had many vacant stores, it was pretty depressing when I walked around the city.  We were there for only five months, stopped for the winter because I didn't want to drive then.  We arrived in Oct 2009 and left on March 1st, 2010.  

photo 2009

Friday, September 25, 2020

jenss department store

Jenss was a small chain of department stores in Western New York State. The company was founded in 1887 by the Jenss brothers in Lockport, New York.  On September 15, 2000, Jenss closed all of its department stores

photo 2009


Thursday, September 24, 2020

celenza florists

closed after 42 years in business.  I don't know what year it closed.


photos 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Sunday, September 20, 2020

mural

experimental plane flying over Niagara Falls


photo taken 2009

Saturday, September 19, 2020

Main Post Office

Niagara Falls is a historic post office building located at Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York. It was designed and built 1904–1907, and is one of a number of post offices in New York State designed by the Office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, James Knox Taylor. The two story building is constructed of white Vermont marble on a granite base in a French Neoclassical style with Beaux-Arts details.



top photo taken 2009
bottom photo courtesy of Pubdog

Thursday, September 10, 2020

the betty

in Niagara Falls is coming back — as apartments. What had been “The Betty” — a curved, three-story building on Main Street in Niagara Falls — may soon find a new life as a mixed-use development. ... SJI Main acquired the building from the Pallone Family L.P., who owned the building for more than 80 years.  Info courtesy of skyscapercity website.  The story is from 2019.



photos taken 2009