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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
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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
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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
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Bump


6 posted on 08/25/2014 9:56:20 AM PDT by lowbridge
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I’m reminded of “Motel of the Mysteries”

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7 posted on 08/25/2014 9:59:01 AM PDT by tanknetter
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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.'')
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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.


9 posted on 08/25/2014 10:15:54 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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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?")
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"No one puts Baby in the corner"
11 posted on 08/25/2014 10:25:12 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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The Concord still offers Golf, I’ve played the Monster.
http://www.concordresort.com/
Some history here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Resort_Hotel


18 posted on 08/25/2014 10:53:10 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Good Bear Hunting in Sullivan County now.


21 posted on 08/25/2014 11:05:57 AM PDT by onona (My mind = gallimaufry)
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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)
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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.


36 posted on 08/25/2014 1:29:23 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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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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