BUFFALO, N.Y. — 10 years ago this week:
Errant reports on the internet that Niagara Falls had frozen over brought flocks of tourists to take in the site, only top learn that it had not.
Buffalo's North Park theater reopened after a an extensive half million dollar renovation.
The Buffalo Bills announced that after six disappointing seasons they were suspending the Toronto series, much to the relief of fans and players alike, who complained about one home game during each of those seasons being played at Rogers Centre.
Then as now, Russian forces had invaded Ukraine and it was also the week that Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared over the Indian Ocean, never to be seen again, under causes which remain as much of a mystery today as they were this week in 2014.
20 years ago this week:
Martha Stewart was found guilty of all charges in connection with the sale of ImClone stock in 2001, for which the billionaire businesswoman, author and television personality would later do five months in prison.
Coleslaw wresting was the latest craze, and in Western New York the ironworkers sculpture had just been erected outside Salvatore's Garden Place Hotel in Cheektowaga. Rus Salvatore, during a Channel 2 interview, explained that he purchased the artwork based on a famous photo of construction workers taking a lunch break while sitting on a steel beam high above Manhattan, from an Italian sculptor for $30,000.
30 years ago this week:
News coverage was intensifying over the Clintons, and their relationship to a failed Arkansas savings and loan involved in a development deal known as Whitewater.
Some congressional leaders were calling for the Clintons to come clean while others raised the specter of impeachment.
Clinton would be impeached but for an entirely different matter than Whitewater.
Boxer Mike Tyson was still serving time in prison for rape, and actor John Candy died at the age of 43. Candy passed away just months after he completed filming several scenes in Niagara Falls for his movie Canadian Bacon, which was released after his death.
40 years ago this week:
NY State Parks Police began ticketing violators in breach of a relatively new law, about which Regional Parks Director Mario Pirastru said the time had come to more strongly enforce.
"It's becoming offensive, it isn't very healthy, and certainly for our tourists who come from around the world, to see something like that, it isn't right for the state park to allow it."
This week's News 2 you Pop Quiz: What law do think it was that Niagara Falls State Park was going to start taking a harder line on enforcing this week in 1984? (For the answer, watch the conclusion of the video attached to this story).
Remember this was back when local governments, seeking to cut costs for snow removal, were using 'work for welfare" crews to shovel sidewalks around public buildings, and when Nicorette Gum was first being stocked on store shelves after having just gained FDA approval. Back then, however, you needed a prescription to buy the first smoking cessation gum approved for sale.
Seatbelt use had become mandatory in New York state, but only for children under the age of 7.
We shopped for groceries at Super Duper, banked at Goldome, and used rolodexes and record players back in those awesome and bodacious days (fer' sure)when it was all News 2 You!
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