Niagara Falls - Flow Stopped,1969

[@dwayners13]

I love the way the older cameras capture that time period, there is just something about them that is so cool.

[@deansikora7280]

It's not the camera it's the film. Over time film will deteriorate and loose its color and sharpness if not stored properly. That's why when you see some tapes of television programs from the sixties and seventies they looked washed out. It all depends on how well they were stored. Quality of cameras and color film were pretty good back then.

[@YaqubXYaqub]

@@deansikora7280 theres no way you replied to a 9 year old comment

[@namznej]

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..

[@Invrexs]

LMAO

[@ShayCat]

namznej #5 is by far the best lol

[@Dravan151]

namznej sweet list

[@buggy_bak]

+namznej funniest answer ever haha

[@christopherorourke6362]

Number two is very funny, but given Walmart would do anything to put a store where they want to.

[@nintendo9231889]

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

[@MyMary55]

I remember when they did this I was 15 yrs old, amazing

[@sheltv100]

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.

[@Eric7100]

Yes, they could easily do so if they wanted to. In 1955, they did stop part of the Horseshoe Falls. There are pics online.

[@79Testo]

Very interesting. Good camera too for 1969. I'd like to see them stop the flow of the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.

[@bobsit1945]

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.

[@matteastwood87]

Bob Sit we dont give a shit, why tell us

[@k.s.333]

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.

[@amm9696]

My parents took us there for this event. I was too young to remember much, other than my older brother jumped a railing and went where he shouldn't have.

[@MrKarat65]

The footage wasn't recorded with sound, what you hear is the projector playing the film back on a screen.

[@crazyjaybe]

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

[@Alvarado20002009]

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

[@kvol1668]

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

[@thatfeeble-mindedboy]

Sounds like a diesel engine idling to me. There are tons of hour-long recordings of all kinds of things that people find relaxing that are posted on youtube.

[@whitbywoohoo2]

I so remember this as a child when my parents took me here on the way through to a trip to New York state. My father said to me "have a good look at this because you won't see this again in your lifetime!"

[@deansikora7280]

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

[@mattlorentz1988]

That had to be a sweet site to see no water flowing

[@daveni2]

I remember seeing this I was 9 years old the image I remember was much clearer though lol

[@panergary]

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.

[@daveni2]

my Dad and I were on the Canadian side so we just had a great panorama of it. I remember it so clearely more like when I was in my teans in the mid 70s hard to believe it was so long ago.

[@s.k.p.1204]

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.

[@chinesebytyler7349]

Thank you 😀

[@bobsit1945]

Originally from Niagara Falls, now living in Panama City Florida. Was stationed at Philadelphia Naval Hospital at the time and was unable to get home to see this event (wish that I was able). Have some old slides that my parent's took at the time, very interesting

[@britoca]

this must have been quite the site! how awesome must it have been to walk along the edge of the dried American Falls...

[@stupagia26]

That's what I first heard that the Corps of Engineers were trying to decide if they should remove it or something but they figured out that if they did, the falls would turn into rapids that much sooner.

[@Trashfished]

cameras an 8 cylinder.

[@Von-Wilhelm]

They also had the technology to send men to the Moon in 1969...

[@wieland12]

Von Wilhelm makes me think we peaked and have been going down hill ever since

[@Reubenhubert]

I was there when I was nine, too. It was the only time my mom let us go below the falls.

[@SuperSuperswan]

Great video

[@AwesomeCoasters]

Incredible what man can do, aint it? Who knew we would one day become able to stop the flow of a humongous waterfall?

[@pauldisher5398]

if you where to go over the falls you would hit the jaggerd rocks below or does the water come up over the rocks?

[@novaheart7]

That is AMAZING!! I never knew thy had technology to do that in 1969...

[@zedmelon]

@SharperImage check out construction of the Hoover Dam. There are probably others (some Chinese dams are absolutely massive), but I saw a documentary (History channel?) years ago about Hoover. Pretty impressive stuff.

[@markbirchette8740]

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.

[@kizmetgraphics]

dude, i live exactly 10 minute drive from the Falls, even more im the web guy for the main tourist hub, "man" has not done ANYTHING to wreck that wonder, in the 60's the stopped the flow to "see" it would be feasabile to removes the rocks as the base to give it a more stunning appearance, it was decided the cost was too great, so they left it natural, yes power is harnessed from that water, in the lower rapids, way past the actual falls. Which powers most of NYS. and NOTHING was done to alter it

[@18wheeler76]

@Bigwill6363 lol,million of year.the falls were formed during the last ice age about 10-12,000 years ago.the use to erode alot,but since the falls are only going over at 1/4 the capacity they wont erode at all barely.

[@MullerShirzad]

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

[@hippa2dahoppa2]

at 1.52 is that a half built bridge or something, a old bridge maybe?

[@bobsit1945]

Originally from Niagara Falls. Would of loved to have seen it dried up, but unfortunately I was stationed at Naval Hospital Philadelphia at the time. My folks had pictures that I have to this day.

[@99browndog99]

They should have stayed with the project. I think that the American side would be even prettier if they moved all of those boulders from underneath the falls

[@charlesking7331]

Those rocks looks like raw Gold.

[@79tazman]

Thats awesome!!!

[@18wheeler76]

@hippa2dahoppa2 its just an observation deck you walk out on,and then the elevator inside takes you down to the bottom where you can ride the maid of the mist boat almost right up to the falls.

[@DurgaVaraprasad]

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

[@katchavlogs4794]

Oh amazing place tubig saan Yan.

[@derman077]

I hear that was a very good year.

[@RochesterCycling]

The projectors were loud back then to keep school kids from falling asleep.

[@ObviousLedgend]

The horseshoe falls, larger falls, also were stopped in the 1800s because of ice blocking the river. people actually walked over it!

[@947969]

thanks for the info really cool to look at tho

[@hippa2dahoppa2]

wow, so if someone were to go over the falls the rocks directly below could most likely kill them instantly i always thought they just might have a chance if they hold there breath long enough from the current sweeping them so fast but theyd prob be a mangled wreck

[@stupagia26]

I got to see it when I was a high school senior. People think I'm pulling their leg when I tell them that I saw the American Falls turned off. "Yeah, right!" :{>

[@mrsbrown2053]

lol. yes you are correct. reminds me of home movies at grandpas on Christmas.

[@tfont6972]

was this recorded with a lawn mower?

[@geekthinker]

2 people wanted to go over the falls during this.

[@cristinastefaniu7162]

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

[@trickyrick74]

You think they would have thought about doing something about that ugly rock view on the American side back them!

[@jacklindop2704]

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

[@Scotishirony]

Jack Lindop they didn't get rid of the rocks at the base. From a wiki source the American Corp claimed it would have cost to much to have the rocks removed.

[@charlesking7331]

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

[@jenniferrogers2492]

charles king : The Army Corps of Engineers created a dam so they could study whether or not they could remove the rocks. It turned out that the rocks protected softer layers of rock and protected them from erosion.

[@plokoon2660]

The US wanted to remove some of the boulders below and make their falls look nicer but in the end they figured it wasn't worth it.

[@Calwah]

jack hammer camera

[@stupagia26]

I'm sure there were thousands of old and new coins in the channel from folks crossing over two bridges onto Goat Island for at least a hundred years. If I was a construction worker there, that's how I would have spent my lunch hour.

[@RoyalBlue4486]

Old comment but I just read an article that said they found millions of coins and even some bodies.

[@StefenTower]

Why not leave out the projector audio? It doesn't add anything.

[@whiteshell1]

Steve Magruder then you wouldn't have a video. It was 1969, that's how they sounded then

[@kizmetgraphics]

Well it seems you have it blocked or something, geee that sucks, its not like i cant get it from another source....WTF

[@kizmetgraphics]

When you embed this video it either doesnt play or makes browser crash.

[@tkkamele]

I think I saw Jimmy Hoffa!

[@136479a]

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.

[@theone2225]

The falls are never at a trickle like this lol. Not sure where you're getting your information from on that part lol.

[@136479a]

theone2225 Lived there. Go to the "Falls" at 3am. How do you think the wathe gets to the reservoirs to flow through the generators during the day. From upstream of the falls. Check it out!

[@cpufreak101]

Bill M I'm a local of the area, used to live just 15 minutes from the falls (I'm now closer to an hour) though next time I'm visiting family in the area I might just have to stop by at 3 AM

[@jenniferrogers2492]

Bill M : Haha!

[@AWESOMExxxSMITH]

@@136479a I have been their from 12 to 5am and never seen a trickle in all my years of being their.

[@dvsbstrd]

Damn, that is a loud projector.

[@generalofg3377]

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

[@Alfons1213]

+General OFG 1 guy, 1 woman and 1 deer

[@markbrady8154]

I imagine that all of the corpses would be dead .....

[@oneandonlywoody65]

mark brady offcorpse they would be.😉😉😉

[@kizmetgraphics]

why cant i embed this video

[@thevinnymaster]

Interesting...

[@Jus275]

@TheRemixer05 nope sorry they did. and i think theres a typo there isnt the word better supposed to be fatter

[@rb288015]

@Staypsi YES exactly what I was thinking

[@MyHamsterwheel]

How Sway?

[@gjc82071]

@LouisvilleHI I disagree. It's like record crackle. It adds to the flavor.

[@MumblingMickey]

lol... from erosion that waterfall is now nearly 200 feet further upstream from the bridge! ...although, obviously '69 wasn't a great year for erosion!

[@scottyperinn]

i took a school field trip up there from pennsylvania when i was in the 3rd grade to see that. i remember i got a knife and a pirate treasure chest full of candy as a sovineir mmmmm, not sure what happened to the knife.

[@duckking09]

Fuck. I chose the wrong day to go down on a barrel....

[@jaideedave]

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

[@homergrand99]

least you survived!

[@educatedrock]

I have pictures of that I was there.

[@fisherboy7634]

The U.S. side actually looks decent back then

[@blastromlifyedah]

*Rainbow Falls is now AFK*

[@mclovin4659]

I would've jumped over the rail and collect all coins that people threw in then just turn when I see the water coming back

[@947969]

dude ur camera sounds like a lawn mower

[@matumeriti]

ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee che meraviglia! ^-^'

[@transientdreams]

"Reduce erosion"? That sounds like fish-farts to me.

[@Frta]

i see a lego head on the rocks minute 1:38 in the middle LOL

[@Jus275]

@TheRemixer05 nope im pretty sure we win every olympic event

[@woabeatz9717]

Poor crawfish.......

[@ucamper08]

just think about all the coins that were thrown over????? millions

[@billyr1]

lmao I was thinking the same thing!

[@mymindissmall]

i saw my self,,cool as shit!they found all kinds of stuff in the rocks on the american side the water was deverted to the horseshoe side canadian falls,I remember looking at it the sunday woodstock ended hippies lined up by canadian costumes

[@Kirbii94]

its 40 years ago

[@kizmetgraphics]

I am a completely dick...LOL, i was just waking up and didnt have coffee yet, it was an issue with a script on the same page...please accept my humble apology...... lol

[@meany1023]

lol the american falls? this is in canada isnt it?

[@koolaidchick5555]

ikr..........so weird

[@Jus275]

@TheRemixer05 ha remember when we owned you guys in hockey ya i remember that was hilarious

[@kizmetgraphics]

ignor the troll....lol. it is amazing

[@zeratul575]

amd we havent conquered the deep oceans WHY???

[@TheRemixer05]

Now you are just trolling

[@99browndog99]

@pauldisher You would surely die if you were to try the American side, there's just too many rocks below, but people have survived going over the Canadian side. It Is all in the name of luck, whether you hit a rock or not. I would say that it is pretty close to a 50/50 chance whether you survive or not, if you can swim and handle the cold water that is.

[@colethefunnyfan]

i see a lego head of a guy in 1:38 in the middle

[@alexgbykov]

The place looks quite ugly without water... :)