I remember the Bertenthals. At least in the 1940s. 5207 Route 32, Catskill, NY, 12414. The fabled Catskills resorts, with their fabulous nightclubs, began to die when the jet airplane started carrying vacationers to Florida and the Caribbean in the 1960s. made the resort immortal. Evidence enough that the Golden Age had come to an end. I spent summers at Wodas with my mother (and have photos from the war years when we stayed upstate to be safe) as well as working there from the 1950s until I started medical school in 1962. I was hoping Stephanie might remember me and could fill in some of the blanks. Not sure how this system works but I am responding to Phil the Zaldin name is familiar and I will ask my cousin Burt who is very much alive and in his mid 7s (our birthdays are on day apart but I am 4 years older). 12/20/2020 02:19:30 pm. Thank you, My grandparents operated the office the lake house on Briggs Highway in the 50s. Laurels Hotel and Country Club, Sackett Lake, Monticello, N.Y. I spent the first 25 summers of my in the Catskills. Home-grown Borscht Belt entertainment provided America with a rich supply of comedians, musicians and performers. My mother was Gladys Lane a professional singer who worked the Borscht Belt summers & performed in Lakewood NJ winters. Many people vacationed in the Catskills and it main hall for the photo exhibit and a shock. After I read your email, I googled Arrowhead Ranch and it seems a woman named Rose Barnett purchased the property in 2017, and its now Arrowhead Ranch and Retreat, which is some kind of a music venueand it may not even be the Lake Plaza propety, maybe another hotel. It was a nice but relatively small place. a musicians music stand from the orchestra sitting crooked in the The good times lasted until the 1960s and 1970s, but the 1950s were the best decade in terms of profitability. Do you remember the address? Happy to respond to any questions or any comments, but as I indicated dueling memories are difficult at this point. has By the end of the forties, May was in debt not sure if she didnt know how to handle it but I tend to think that as the war ended the economics of going to the Catskills was changing and she had taken out loans for those improvements to the property. They were both at my wedding in Brooklyn in 1985. We also lived in Windsor Park when I was about 5. As indicated in the article, the New Roxy closed in 1966. Frequented by athletes, entertainers, and wealthy businesses, this resort fittingly adopted the slogan Grossingers Has Everything for the Kind of Person Who Likes to Come to Grossingers. However, the resort today lies in ruin. graffiti and, in general, made a colossal mess of a long ago What no one realized, though, was that If you have photos can you please send them to at eryan@me.com. My uncle Sheldon is living in Virginia now. A rancid smell of decaying food filtered down the carpeted corridors from the kitchen. Her husband had been a successful businessman in the china business. My brother went to Woodstock, he was 6 years older than I. Perhaps the best metaphor is that Route 17, which used to run right through the hamlet is now bypassed, all because the single traffic light on that interstate had to be avoided. Sometimes the answers are discouraging (Dont. I was very friendly with their daughter, Stephanie. He visited the Loch Sheldrake Inn, Goldbergs, and the Overlook, each of which had recently closed. As a really little kid, I would hound Bob Rubinstein to give a ride in his 56 Ford pick-up or a ride on the yellow and white Cub Cadet tractor. Catskills, or brought their fame with them. People in their audiences might be taped reminiscing My experience up in the Catskills started in 1965 And has continued to last. Greene and Freddie Roman. My dad is gone, and my sister is five years younger and doesnt remember much either. Life was a little bit different in Utah in the 1960s. At the turn of the 19th century the celebrated Jewish resort area started in the Sullivan and Ulster County Catskills. anyone know about Holtzmanns Bungalow Colony in Lake Huntington? Its missing the chaos, the freedom, and the comfort of seeing the same families year after year. County officials became aware of the trend at least as early as 1962 by which time the so-called Kennedy slide had caused a nationwide credit crunch and economic downturn so the area wasnt alone. that up. Thanks for thoughts. I remember the daughter was called Freddy. Eco-friendly burial alternatives, explained. Does anyone remember a resort owned by the Rosenbergs During the fifties or Shustons resort in Livingston manor? Would be nice. I am still good friends with my counselor from 1970. One such hotel, Sokolows Mount Vernon in Summitville, had torn down walls in some of its outer buildings in order to provide large recreation rooms for visitors to use on rainy days and had added roadways, electrical connections, and plumbing hook-ups to campsites. I was a rock musician and I struggled with a Fake Book to play lots of songs I didnt know. Thats the way I look at the renaissance of the Catskills.. A bygone time that I am glad to have been a part of and wish my children could have experienced. Catskills Resort History: The Beginning of the End September 9, 2014 by John Conway 109 Comments Many of the 75 or so people at a recent Catskills History and Preservation Conference were shocked to hear that the Catskills ' heralded resort industry has been in decline since 1965. Hi, Ellen. Louis Cohens Orchard Colony (in the last years of its life-it was run down), Bob-Eds (The Rubinstein Family were wonderful people. I definitely remember Mike I think he showed us a frog dissection near the pool! Have to say that was pretty special for a 10 year old kid! entertainment mecca. The aluminum markers measuring roughly 32 by 40 inches will be fabricated by Sewah Studios at a cost of about $4,000 each, Klinger said. Photographer Marisa Scheinfeld documents the ruins of abandoned Catskills resorts. Two boys Burt and Ronnie. If you want more details (albeit biased and incomplete my comments) there is a book by Maria Scheinfeld The Borscht Belt with 3 pounds of nostalgia, a lot of accuracy as far as it goes, but leaves out some of the minutiae and perspective (again my thoughts). Hi John my family owned the Youngs gap hotel did u know my great grandma Anne holder and my great aunt& uncle Dotty & Frank Spector? Do you know the exact location? Please email me at osaintilien55@gmail.com I would gratefully appreciate it. Jay. Trying to keep up with the prosperous giants like Grossingers and the Concord, they have gone heavily into debt for Olympic swimming pools, indoors and outdoors, ornate lobbies and glittering nightclubs, Bigart wrote. trips to the Catskills in the old days. So nice to hear from someone else that stayed at Lake Plaza. In the era of hippies and rock-and-roll, kitschy summers in the Catskills lost their allure. Today, I believe the Edgewood House is a church camp, the store is part of a ghost town and the railroad is no more. Your perceptions aside, it is a demonstrable fact the economy of the Sullivan County Catskills began to decline as early as 1958. She came to this country with her brother Sam Woda. You are so right-I really miss the Concord..and all the entertainers now gone with the wind as they say. Thank you. I was at Cold Spring Cottages and Bob- Ed from age 1958 to about 1966. What is wind chill, and how does it affect your body? These institutions shaped American Jewish culture, enabling Jews to become more American while at the same time introducing the American public to immigrant Jewish culture. This is the story of an area of 250 square miles, approximately an hour and a half drive northwest of New York City, which over the course of last century became a resort phenomenon unlike any other. sam and sally sodas son ronnie, and daughter celina were my cousins. Thanks Walter. Legions of young men and women used the Catskills as a springboard to successful careers and marriages. But by the time I moved to New York, in 2011, the glory of the Jewish Alps had long faded. At first, they are shocked, but then, It was said That the Catskills was hotter than putting present day las.vegas and Atlantic city together. If you do know anything or have any information. Date Updated Feb 27, 2023. The area PS. of the Borscht Belt as the culmination of a long history. Thanks for your insights on the Kennedy slide have not heard of that. Hi John. I also went with them the following spring for what must have been Passover. I heard it was on Ulster Heights Road, Ellenville? I had forgotten I had written this last year. A singular hush, betrayed only by the occasional romping of crickets or the stomping of a stray hen on the greensward, fell this Labor Day weekend on the rococo precincts of the New Roxy Hotel, Bigart wrote. Blissful escapes to the mountains of New York became the stuff of legend in many Jewish families. I expected to return next summer, but the hotel became the victim of Jewish Lightning & burned to the ground. And yet these days most historians agree that the Golden Age of Sullivan Countys tourism industry, which began around 1940, came to an end around 1965, and they cite a number of reasons for choosing that particular year. Scheinfeld is spectacular. My mother had a family friend, an older woman named May Zuckerman who owned a large beautiful home outside Wurtsboro on old Rte 17 toward Masten Lake near the cutoff road to Yankee Lake. i took my friends to discos during woodstock in 1969, and they loved it. Likely given our ages and incomplete memories I am not going to give my version or what I remember about Wodas and the various family members. Hi Dan, funny story! Its so good to hear you speak of the hotel. they never actually cleaned up the decaying buildings and nightclubs. I know that the era of oid is gone but Im hoping that the Catskills will still be a popular vacation choice for many people for years to come! exhibit, open through April, is a walk through entertainment history. Please feel free to email me ASAP so i can get it to who it belongs!! of the abandoned hotels because she is a local resident and knows a There are two pictures of abandoned My family and I used to vacation at the Lake Plaza every summer from the late 50s to e mid 60s. I remember Ronnie and his sister Celina. Bob would deliver milk and eggs to our apt in Queens in the late 60s after the season ended. I have a giant box of family photos that I am planning on going through with my sisters when this pandemic lets us get together. My father (Harold Birnbaum) had the bar concession with his cousin (Heshie or Jackie Cohen, Im not sure which) and my mother was the singer/pianist (Elaine Fein Birnbaum). Grossingers soon flourished into a grand destination so large it had its own airstrip and zip code, with arenas for tennis, ice skating, and skiing (it was the first resort to use artificial snow in 1952). Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. I think youre right about the road ending there. Subscribe! My grandmother had a very large family and it seemed that there was always some other family members there. These 11 Photos of Utah in the 1960s are Mesmerizing. The main building is clearly an old hotel. Does this remind you of your childhood? I ask my mom. I wanted to do this exhibit to show that the whole area today The sign used to say Hood Ice Cream Orchard Colony Luncheonette. This 21st-century revival is unfolding at places like Scribners Catskill Lodge, a repurposed 1960s motor inn. Does anyone know what hotel used to be there? She added a small building with a little stage at one end for theatricals and it was called the Casino for all the card playing. Can we bring a species back from the brink?, Video Story, Copyright 1996-2015 National Geographic Society, Copyright 2015-2023 National Geographic Partners, LLC. The Community Today, Louis Cohens has three bungalows and the main house still standing. The counselors were Harriet and Elliot Vines. Is Burt still with us? My aunt on the Sanford house bungalow colony in South Fallsburg probably through 76 or 78. The roughly 5,000-year-old human remains were found in graves from the Yamnaya culture, and the discovery may partially explain their rapid expansion throughout Europe. But theres nothing left of it, or of Mishkins. My mother does not remember who owned the hotel in the family. It wasnt necessarily a straight line decline, but rather one of ups and downs through 1965, at which time the decline became more precipitous. Hi my grandparents met at the New Roxy in the early 1940s as my mother was born in 1945. Youre the only person who remembers Lake Plaza. I recall going with my parents and sisters for Rosh Hashanah one year. I was born in 58 and have amazing early childhood memories of the place and our bungalow. Photo: The New Roxy Hotel was one of several Sullivan County resorts that closed during the 1966 season, signaling an end to the regions Golden Age of Torusim. Hi Richard. I have something that might be of interest to you and your family You mentioned that your Great uncle was Frank Spector? Now I have the name of the road for the next trip. You just cannot hear the AM and PM bugle calls of Camp Weelock or the stench of the chickens from Tepfers Farm when the wind came from the east. She sees the ruins My daughter goes to Stagedoor Manor Camp in Loch Sheldrake. route 17, to spend the week or even the summer there (most of the I have a terrific picture of your grandfather Moe with my mother and father Sylvia and Ben Bartels at the Gap. Borscht, a beet-based soup popular with Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants, was a colloquialism for "Jewish". May was a tough old bird, hard working and a great cook. Could have been owned by Bermanns, or Brenneman, something like that. Unfortunately a fire destroyed the hotel at the end of 76. Bob-Eds became Camp Capri and then the property was sold to NYC firemen. There should have been a number of tables, or cases, full of Shirley passed in 2005 after a very long illness (cancer) Ida lived til almost her 90s in 1990. Thanks so much for your response and all the info you have shared with me. So interesting! I worked for three summers (1959 1961) at the Sunset Springs Hotel in Haines Falls. Some owners had no funds to do so. I dragged my mom, Debi, with me to find out. The movie Dirty Dancing Scrolling through these comments I read that Ronnie died in a motorcycle accident. I was 13 in 1969, and I do remember the reveille bugle calls for camp, lol ? Impossible to fathom. One of Earth's loneliest volcanoes holds an extraordinary secret. Does the camp still exist? wild, colorful graffiti decorating the walls and the barren concrete When school let out, they would pack a car with bedding, kitchenware, and clothes and move to the Catskills until Labor Day. I havent lived in New York for many years, and would love to return. He also teaches writing at New Jersey City University. But in recent years, boarded-up storefronts have been dusted off as ice-cream parlors and taco shops. For anyone else reading I was up there from the 40s thru the 60s on a regular basis worked as childrens waiter, busboy and waiter from 1955-1962. Sorry, I dont recall your grandmother. Are there pictures online or any web links you recommend? By the late 2010s, their predictions had proved right: New hotels, restaurants, and shops had sprung up in the mountains. their fabulous nightclubs, began to die when the jet airplane started I have heard stories about Loch Sheldrake and the area and believe that my great-grandfather Jacob Silverman is buried in a Jewish cemetery in Napanoch or Warburg. formed colonies there. Grossinger's, a sprawling resort with over 35 buildings, popular with boxing champions of the time, even had its own post office and airstrip. That's not unusual. Resort Worlds Catskill in Monticello, on the site of the former Concord Hotel. There is another picture of floor where the old orchestra seats used to sit. Many establishments had already invested capital they didnt have in trying to keep up with the larger hotels in the increasingly competitive Catskills tourism market. Have already booked to come back in the winter." Reviewed on Oct 26, 2020. Many cite the existence of dozens of hotels in the 1970s as proof that it couldnt possibly be so. Trying to find some evidence of it on Google Earth. carrying vacationers to Florida and the Caribbean in the 1960s. It is a victim of a lot of things, but mainly, I think, as the Bible It was 24 hours a day of fun! I did find some info on them. Im sure we must have known you. people who see the exhibit and many of them are Borscht Belt Or so I was told. In the early 1900s, when Jews and other minorities were banned from upscale hotels and beaches around New York City, the Catskills offered refuge. section to this sad after section. what it was like to see the comics, or listen to singers like Sammy My sister and I were Joan and Janice Goodsmith. Birds have Hey Craig how are you? Anyone know where the Woodbine Hotel was located, exactly? Lot Size 3.2 Acre. Photographs by ERIC BARD, CORBIS VIA GETTY IMAGES. Some sold to Young urban families are snapping up units at the few remaining bungalow colonies, lured by old-fashioned communal living. It was called Pullmans. Filed Under: History, Hudson Valley - Catskills Tagged With: Architecture, Catskills, Cultural History, Historic Preservation, Jewish History, Performing Arts, Sullivan County, Tourism. turned over couches and chairs, with drape rods falling from the The fabled Catskills resorts, with A luxury stay in a bright orange room. Those were the days! Do you remember my grandmother,she was the main cook. It was a vacation Abandoned hotel buildings The Concord hotel, 2005 Kutcher's hotel, 2015 Grossinger's resort, 2015 The Granit resort, 2015 As of the 2010s, the region is a summer home for many Orthodox Jewish families. It was by far the largest bungalow colony and it still has one of the greatest pools! 2. The Pines Hotel in South Fallsburg, New York was built in 1933 and was a popular destination for those who enjoyed winter sports, as it had its own ice skating rink and was a favorite spot for. Please contact for anything. I was up in the area a few years ago and just could not find it. Linda. centers, orthodox Jewish colonies and drug rehab centers. Then, a few years ago, my Instagram feed started filling with pictures of bonfires and Scandinavian-style lodges in the Catskills. She has It was a great place for those of us escaping Brooklyn. Nice memories-I too miss the life we enjoyed a week or so each year-I had my Bar Mitzvah at Sam and Shirley Shriliwitzs New Normandie Hotel down the street from Browns-anyone remember it? If you could check with Allison to see if Stephanie would mind me contacting her, I would be very grateful! In the 1950s and 1960s the Jewish Catskills reached the pinnacle of its history, and starting in the 1970s declined till the point where only a handful of major resorts remain. Many of the old bungalow colonies in this area have been turned into summer camps, but Rosmarins still encapsulates the old Catskills, from its wood-paneled cottages to its Sunday softball games. We also would go into the hamlet where a general store was a wonderland of cool things and pinball machines had all the mesmerizing attraction of todays video games. from just about all U.S. hotels in the 1920s, so hundreds of them The Olympic hotel was our destination in the summers of 74 76. decaying. as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Sid Caesar, Danny Kaye, Alan King, Shecky I remember the young daughter of Shustons whose name was Freddy. My maternal grandparents met at the New Roxy in the 1940s. Has anyone heard of Woolfes Bell-Aire Country Club in Parksville? The Borscht Belt resorts reached their peak in the 1950s and 60s, accommodating up to 150,000 guests a year. That was when millions of Americans stayed at the hundreds of bungalow colonies and hotels in the area. my mother mickey rothstein was lena rothsteins daughter. Big Hand Cafe, St. George. The place had a day camp for the guests children. LOL How come there is no record of the place or history? And it was on rosemond road . At Grossingerswhich had its own airstrip and is said to have inspired the movie Dirty Dancingthe grand ballroom was littered with old menus, and a glass-enclosed indoor pool was marked with graffiti. In 1967, the Youngs Gap in Parksville, once one of the countys largest and most innovative hotels, closed, and by 1968 the Times was reporting that a number of smaller hotels, unable to keep pace with the large establishments and their newer, plush accommodations, had begun taking in campers. Of course, the resort industry was so big and there were so many hotels and so many visitors, it took a few years for anyone to notice.
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