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OFFICIAL BLOG OF NIAGARA FALLS TOURISM |
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THE GENERAL BROCK HOTEL AND TWO GREAT SHOWS
By George Bailey
2008-11-04 19:14:49
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One of Niagara Falls landmarks is the Crowne Plaza Hotel, originally named the General Brock Hotel. It’s Niagara Falls’ oldest hotel built in the late 1920's and still one of the classiest with a top notch view of the falls from your room. This Niagara hotel had lots of attention over the years.
When Marilyn Monroe wasn’t filming the movie ”Niagara” in June of 1952, she stayed for two weeks in Suite 801 of the General Brock Hotel. Customs officers from the Rainbow Bridge across the road reportedly brought binoculars into work for those two weeks.
A year later in the same month, the first live TV broadcast in Canada was made from the roof of the hotel. Host of the Today Show Dave Garroway interviewed politicians and paraded couples on a Niagara Falls honeymoon live for two eight-minute segments. They were aired each hour for the three hour show. CBS Affiliate WBEN-TV of Buffalo carried the segment. Any one still hanging around that remembers this?
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