This is a fireworks day. But things have changed in 70 years. We had firecrackers going all day long - playing cowboys and indians with extra gusto. I can remember met Dad having the bigger sized firecrackers and playing with them. And then there would be a huge display in the school field at night. There would be a big crowd to see the display. All gone now. Hardly any fireworks for sale. They used to be in all the stores, easily available.
When I searched for what happened to fireworks, Wikipedia shows up as the top hit with the list of fireworks accidents and incidents. I bet they are something! Check them out HERE. They start in 1869 with a fireworks factory explosion and continue to the latest in North Macedonia in March 2025 with a nightclub fire that killed more approximately 60 people. Somehow they lit fireworks indoors. The deadliest one looks like 1977 in China with 694 people killed at a public hall.
Last year, Toronto had a stor of a "fireworks fight" on Victoria day with young people shooting off fireworks across Bloor Street West - one of Toronto's mai streets.
Here's how fireworks are managed in Canada today: "Fireworks are not allowed in parks or on beaches," the city's website says. "You are also not allowed to set off fireworks in a street, a parking lot, on a balcony, or on any private property that is not your own."
On the positive side, this would be Niagara Falls' big night with both sides likely having fireworks displays. Watch out for the traffic on the QEW!
Maybe my "Blue Dahlia" looks enough like fireworks.
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