When growing up in the NY metro area during the 70s/early 80s, I would travel up to the Catskill area to visit some relatives and would notice the signs for the large resorts in the area like Grossingers. I did not realize at the time that was the final sunset for those places. Even back then there were also signs for "YES CASINOS" in a desperate attempt to save the tourist industry in that region. NY is finally allowing casino up there about forty years too late.
1 posted on
08/25/2014 9:42:24 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
My theory is that Woodstock had a lot to do with the destruction of the Catskills.
2 posted on
08/25/2014 9:47:53 AM PDT by
what's up
To: C19fan
The article overplays the Jewish victimhood angle. The Catskills were not certainly not just a place for Jews, and the area had many more than just Jewish kids working there, and certainly more than few gentiles spent vacation time there as well - in both winter and summer. Its probably rather a story of how nearly the whole of Upstate NY has turned into Appalachia thanks to decades of “progressive” government.
Then again, deconstructing history along purely racial lines is a very trendy “academic” them these days.
4 posted on
08/25/2014 9:50:49 AM PDT by
PGR88
To: C19fan
6 posted on
08/25/2014 9:56:20 AM PDT by
lowbridge
To: C19fan
I’m reminded of “Motel of the Mysteries”
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To: C19fan
I understand a lot of Russian mafia types are settling in that area - creating their own communities and taking advantage of the low taxes and population.
8 posted on
08/25/2014 10:05:18 AM PDT by
capydick
(''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
To: C19fan
There was some pretty good comedians that came out of those resorts. It certainly was something to look forward to during a cold winter as a week’s escape from the hot sticky NY city summer.
To: C19fan
Fascinating article, and I can attest to a lot of what is written there. It’s interesting that the enormous cost of new facilities in the ongoing game of one-upsmanship among the resorts is cited as a factor in their decline. That’s what is killing the casino industry right now!
10 posted on
08/25/2014 10:21:04 AM PDT by
Alberta's Child
("What in the wide, wide world of sports is goin' on here?")
To: C19fan
"No one puts Baby in the corner"
11 posted on
08/25/2014 10:25:12 AM PDT by
Mase
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12 posted on
08/25/2014 10:26:28 AM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: C19fan
Just check out the babes.
Hey, that looks like my mom!
14 posted on
08/25/2014 10:34:08 AM PDT by
McGruff
(You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think)
To: C19fan
During my young adult years The Poconos were the place to go. Heart shaped hot tubs and such.
17 posted on
08/25/2014 10:49:38 AM PDT by
McGruff
(You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think)
To: C19fan
18 posted on
08/25/2014 10:53:10 AM PDT by
1Old Pro
To: C19fan
Good Bear Hunting in Sullivan County now.
21 posted on
08/25/2014 11:05:57 AM PDT by
onona
(My mind = gallimaufry)
To: C19fan
24 posted on
08/25/2014 11:22:05 AM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: C19fan
Never been there and so I can’t say if this is practical, but 50,000 bungalows within 100 miles of NYC? Is there a reasonably decent train running or can there be? It’s ripe for commuter residential, imho.
To: C19fan
Is this where they had “summer stock” theaters?
41 posted on
08/25/2014 3:38:22 PM PDT by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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