The Catskills - Older Hotels and Recollections
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 พ.ค. 2013
- Since the early 1900's, the Catskill Mountains in New York State, held a special attraction for immigrants from Eastern Europe. Known commonly as the "Borscht Belt", the style of living, together with the hotels that catered to it, have all but vanished. As the soundtrack song says: "what was, was, and can never be again." Here is a look back, at the older Catskill hotels from the 1920's thru the mid '60s.
A child of the Borscht Belt...My mother was born in So. Fallsburg, my parents met at Shawanga Lodge in '46. Our friends owned most of those hotels..A lot of the older looking hotels were re-done and modernized and were quite different from the photos in this video. Most of the hotels were family owned and the kids didn't want to continue the legacy of running a hotel...Almost nothing left and heartbreaking to visit what once was a magical place to grow up.. I had forgotten some of these places ever existed...what a beautiful video...thanks!
+Sandra Shatkin I love hiking in the Catskills it is so beautiful there - I wonder why they couldn't have unified two or three rooms into condos and sold them and the remodeled cabins to retires and other people who love the Catskills instead of abandoning the structures?
I remember when they tore down the Concord back in 04. It's just crazy how everyone just abandoned this area. Only an hour or so from NYC and so beautiful, where does everyone go? Only the Hunter/Jewitt area seems to survive these days for summer fun.
I guess you just can't go back. The Borscht Belt in its heyday offered something for everyone. Those were the golden years. Remember staying at the Concord a couple of years before it shut down. The place was getting seedy looking what with poor maintenance and such. The golf course was still in excellent shape but you could sense that the Catskills was a dying place. How sad!
Those hotels were great in my teens and 20's. Had singles weekends, skiing. Was awesome.
I think it was the jet travel getaways that killed those hotels. People started traveling to warm location getaways in the winter.
OY! Its geven alright...music sounds like a funeral dirge...I can hear my bubbeh say "Gib ah KEEK!" (LOOK!) there's the IrvingsVille Dining Room...At the Midnite Buffet you could get KISHKE with shlishka - I remember when the ambulance took Moish Mishkowitz away with a perforated ulcer.
Would love to see these places now.....
I read that they are gonna tear down Grossingers and build a new casino with golf courses.I think the hotel is gone now.
Shuttered. Burned down. Demolished. So many of them. It's depressing.
Deborah Bliss I have seen several of them in the last few years.