I walked on the dry bed. I was in high school then. There were plans to stop them again / bridge repair, however the pandemic prevented it from happening. The are talks of resuming those plans again in the near future.

I think it freaked some people out to find skeletons and bones of suicide victims.

We come to falls once a month at least! today is 2022 Sep 3

Thank you 😀

Fantastiskt Par

16MM film. I was 3 and living in VA at that time. Millions of coins, that would include thousands that were silver and even gold. Last silver coins at 90% silver was 1964. Always a curious tradition why folks throw coins into water. I remember doing it for luck when young. Lol! Luck doesn't exist.

I was 12 when they blocked the flow. Actually visited the falls with my parents and saw this.

Ok this is American side, I thought they stopped Canadian horseshoe falls which is quite difficult

Oh amazing place tubig saan Yan.

I just love it

My mom and dad went to Niagara Falls in July or August that year just before they were married. I have a picture of her standing in front of the Canadian falls. I will mention this to her the next time I see her and see if she remembers, but likely not since her memory is not good any more.

Ah yes, I remember they borrowed my Fisher Price camera to record this video

Hi - would you be able to contact me please re. the footage above. We'd be interested in featuring it in a television programme. Many thanks, [email protected]

Poor crawfish.......

I wish we had footage of the november 1969 dynamite release from upstream! Now THAT would be cool.

Harry Gent? Are you kidding me?

Next year will be 50 years since it went dry. I would love to see that happen again. But you cannot stop the Canadian Horseshoe falls.

What is this.

So happy I found this footage. Thanks for sharing

3:45 We're ready for our close up, Mr. Gent...

YES WE HAVE OUR NEW FLAG WE MADE SURE WE GOT THAT IN 1965

*Rainbow Falls is now AFK*

People nowadays: GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!

Oh jeez, why did those women even bother coming to a music event when they couldn't stop yapping for the whole song???

From the Falls (NFHS Class of 64) but been living in Florida since retiring from the Navy in 1988. Was in the Navy's Hospital Corpsman School at Naval Training Center Great Lakes IL at the time of the shut-off and missed it, wish I was able to see it.

The sound of that camera is ridiculously relaxing for some reason.

Quand je visionne ce vidéo ça me rappelle tellement cette merveilleuse été de mes 14 ans Que de beaux souvenirs et qu'elle belle complicitée et d'amitié entre tous ces visiteurs! Toutes ces belles découvertes de traditions et culinaires Ce serait Magic et magnifique d'avoir un musé de l'expo 67 pour se remémorer tout ces beaux souvenirs inestimables Merci à tout ces responsables de cette inoubliable été 1967 !!!

I wonder how many dead corpses they found down there....

I was 7 years old - we lived in Connecticue and went on a summer vacation - camping and driving. I'll never forget that trip!

How Sway?

Hi there, I just wondered if Mr Gent is available to contact, I would love to use this as part of a documentary I am currently making on Muhmmad Ali, he visited Toronto in 1966. If you could get back to me that would be great! All the best, Chris

I met the cutest french Canadian man who was about 20 named Robert and all my friends and his friends went back to his beautiful home. His family apparently were affluent. It was a lovely home.

I was there when I was 20 years old. It was a great time. I met some french canadians and we partied at a club. There was an entire amusement area with a disco. I'll never forget that trip. It was grand.

My relation went out there and got coins weathered from being thrown in.. they are white, wonder what they re worth or how to find out

Wow, a big chunk of the horseshoe on the Goat Island side has gone. Besides that, the erosion doesn't seem so bad. The old Hennapin picture makes me think it was so much faster before the reservoirs. About a foot a year they say.

For all those wondering they did this to make the American Falls bigger so once the cut off water supply they realized that the rocks were supporting the piece of earth behind it so the falls would of crumbled as soon as they realized this they let the flow come

Nobody's nose is buried in a tablet or other electronic device. People are actually experiencing thing AS THEY HAPPEN. How can this be?????? They must be suffering from their inability to be connected to the World Wide Web at all times. What a strange and alien place and time!!!!!

Top 5 reasons for turning the falls off: 5: To dispel the myth that the entrance to Batmans cave was behind the falls. 4:Someone forgot to pay their water bill. 3. They didnt shut it off. The great lake that feed the river dried up. 2. To reroute the water so Walmart can build a store there. 1. And the number 1 reason: To gather all the coins people threw in thinking it, like many water fountains, was a giant sized wishing well..

Lol they're hardly ever down to a trickle obviously you don't live around here. They always divert around 60% or so and at peak tourist hours for a small amount of time at full flow but such a mass amount of water you can't even tell unless you see it back to back. Down to a trickle that's retarded lol

Truth is the falls are nearly shut down each night to fill the reservoirs for the power generators. The engineers cleared the debris to enhance the view of the "American Falls" because they were becoming an eyesore. It is not unusual to see the falls at a trickle at 3 am. The Canadians have a dam upstream that they raise each night and the Americans have pumps upstream that look like towers for their pumps. You can see these on Google Earth.

Very, very strange because this place is like lost his life...the water is life!

ha ha ha! reduce erosion! thats just natural, and how the falls exist!

It is very interesting to watch the video of it in action and then the pictures. Amazing STUFF!

the american side of the falls was man made it wasent made then yet

if you look closely at 00:6 you can see lots of rock at the bottom,they had to get rid of that

I wonder if that is really the real reason the did it.

I grew up on the west island, and Expo '67 was a magical place for an 8 year old boy. Thanks for the look back :-)

What really caused the stoppage since there were no present of snow at that point?

Those rocks looks like raw Gold.

thanks for the info really cool to look at tho