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Imagining Niagara : The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls
author
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McGreevy, Patrick Vincent.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870239163
print isbn13
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9780870239168
ebook isbn13
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9780585212791
language
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English
subject
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) , Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.)
publication date
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1994
lcc
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F127.N8M43 1994eb
ddc
:
971.3/39
subject
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Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) , Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.)
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Imagining Niagara
The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls
Patrick V. McGreevy
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst
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Copyright 1994 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 0-87023-916-3 LC 93-35720 Designed by Teresa Bonner Set in Granjon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McGreevy, Patrick Vincent. Imagining Niagara : the meaning and making of Niagara Falls / Patrick V. McGreevy. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87023-916-3 (alk. paper) 1. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) 2. Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) I. Title. F127.N8M43 1994 971.3'39dc20 93-35720 CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Several chapters in this book are revised versions of earlier, shorter articles: chapter 2 appeared first as "Niagara as Jerusalem" in Landscape 27, no. 3 (1985): 26-32; chapter 3 appeared first as "Reading the Texts of Niagara Falls: The Metaphor of Death" in Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text & Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape, ed. James Duncan and Trevor Barnes (London: Routledge, 1992): 50-72; and chapter five appeared as "Imagining the Future at Niagara Falls" in Annals of the Association of American Geographers 77, no. 1 (1987): 48-62.
Buck Rogers material 1929-1967, 1969 by The Dille Family Trust and reprinted by permission of the Trust.
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For Helen and her father
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Contents
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
1. Imagining Niagara
1
2. The Distant Niagara
17
3. Death at Niagara
41
4. The Nature of Niagara
71
5. The Future at Niagara
101
Conclusion
157
Notes
161
Index
187
Page ix
Illustrations
1. The Erie Canal
6
2. Prospect Point
47
3. Castle Dracula
57
4. House of Frankenstein
58
5. Map of Niagara Falls, New York, 1846
109
6. Power Tunnel Cross-Section
111
7. Power Tunnel Map
112
8. Power Mural
118
9. Map of Model City
121
10. Map of Metropolis
129
11. Residential Plan of Metropolis
131
12. Metropolis Apartment Building
132
13. "Man Corporate"
133
14. "Master of the World"
143
15. The War in the Air
146
16. Buck Rogers at Capital City
149
17. Niagara City
150
Page xi
Preface
In the winter of 1973, I was working the midnight shift at one of the many factories that line the American shore of the Niagara River just above the falls. A group of my coworkers would occasionally take a drive during our 4 a.m. "lunch" break and return telling stories of their encounters with prostitutes and other "creatures" of the deep urban night. Eventually, I decided to venture out, but alone. Driving along deserted Buffalo Avenue through a string of irrelevant traffic lights, I felt a sudden impulse to go to the falls. I parked near the foot of Falls Street and walked out toward Prospect Point. When the lights of the city faded behind me, I could see nothing through the black, moonless night. But soon I became aware of a sound that gripped me: the seething, relentless rush of the river. Was it wise, I wondered, to leave the lighted city streets in this particular direction? My pace grew cautious. Then, through the trees, I glimpsed the sinuous black mass of the river, rolling out into the darkness: it seemed almost unearthly. I was fixed with awe. A light suddenly shone from behind me, and a human voice warned: "Don't do it!" It was a policeman, performing his job of guarding the boundary
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