Daniel M. Dumych

Niagara Falls: Volume II (Ny) (Images of America) Daniel M. Dumych First edition

This book portrays Niagara Falls as it once was between the mid-1800s to the late 1960s. Once a small tourist town, a great industrial city was built based upon the very thing that first attracted

visitors; the Falls became a revolutionary source of

hydroelectricity. After World War II, however, the

city's industries gradually declined and, one by one,

relocated to other parts of the United States. The late 1950s and 1960s show a paradoxical time for the city. An immense new power station was constructed immediately north of the city, while "urban renewal" methodically destroyed the city's beloved, albeit by then grossly neglected, Falls Street business district, leaving behind a confused patchwork of vacant lots.