Exploring the layered tourist landscape surrounding Niagara Falls for The Baffler’s ‘Aging & Generations’ Issue.
Visitors to Niagara Falls have been charged admission in one way or another since before the American Civil War. There are historic inns that claim to date back to the 1830s; a boat tour that was founded in 1846; and a long lineage of souvenir shops, roller coasters, haunted houses and wax museums of various vintages.
Meanwhile, the Falls themselves stay constant, quietly observing the generations of strange, man-made formations evolving along their edge.
