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A landmark Niagara - Part 3 Crowne Plaza Hotel

The arrival of a film crew Century-Fox 20, in Niagara Falls to take on the spot, the film Niagara. His star was Marilyn Monroe, who with his co-stars Joseph Cotton and Jean Peters, stayed at the Brock Plaza Hotel.

Needless to say their presence at the hotel and the region, has aroused much interest. Incidentally, if you stay in room 801, you are in this room that was Marilyn. 1948 A major addition to the Brock Plaza Hotel has been completed. Two floors have been built on top of the building. They contain additional bedrooms, a new Rainbow Room, an expanded dining room Rainbow and a new kitchen. A bit of television history was made on Sunday, September 12, 1948, when WHEN-TV (now WIVB) Buffalo did a live broadcast from Niagara Falls, Ontario.

This program showed the Canadian and American Falls and the surrounding area. It was the first time Niagara Falls was shown on television. He also posted the first international ever in the Americas. The cameras were mounted on a balcony on the eleventh floor of the Brock Plaza Hotel.

Representatives from both sides of the border have been invited to see the pageant on screens set up in the Blue Room of the hotel. England's Princess Elizabeth, soon to become Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh visit the Brock Plaza in 1951. In 1952, the Brock Plaza has also seen the installation of the first television commercial in a Canadian hotel. In 1958, Princess Margaret of England, following his sister, Queen Elizabeth II marks, becomes another in a long list of royalty to visit the Brock Plaza.

The Brock Plaza underwent a $ 500,000 expansion in 1959, including the addition of the ballroom with crystal chandeliers, wall paintings and oriental rugs. The king and queen of Nepal dinner in the restaurant Rainbow Room overlooking the falls in 1960. They are joined by the Chief of the Brock Plaza, Dr. A. Albert Bonnet.

The Brock Plaza Hotel welcomes its sister hotel in 1966, the Sheraton Foxhead Inn, which is built next door. The 14-story hotel was enlarged and completely renovated in 2000, becoming the largest resort property of Niagara - the Sheraton on the Falls. In 1967 construction began on the Sheraton Motor Inn, later renamed and renovated Skyline Inn, just behind the Brock Plaza.

The owners of the Plaza de Brock build a Maple Leaf Village Amusement Park and shopping center next to the hotel in 1976, the original site of the Oneida Silver Company. The popular tourist destination includes an observation tower falls, Ferris wheel and unique shops and shopping. In 1981, Niagara spectacular winter landscape "lights" for the first time.

The Winter Festival of Lights, which will become an annual tradition of light, celebrating its first year. The Hard Rock Cafe - with a rock memorabilia exceptional collection - opens next to the Brock Plaza on Falls Avenue. It becomes the hot spot for dining in Niagara and observation of celebrity.

Diners enjoy multimillion-dollar memorabilia from the collections of Elton John, George Harrison and Elvis Presley.