Location location location !
When autonomy is returned to the states — as it must be, the one-size-fits-all socialist federal government resigned to the dung heap of history — we’ll again see places like this.
My family had a mandatory standing order to stop and eat at the Red Apple Rest any time we were driving past it - mostly from Brooklyn to my Aunt’s house in Monticello, NY. This was during the 1960’s and 70’s. A tradition I tried to follow even into the 80s.
Back in 1993 I had occasion to drive by on a trip to Watertown, NY and I brought my camcorder. I got these shots of the place, which was still open 24 hours at the time, under the second owner.
This was a landmark for hikers in adjoining Harriman State Park; sad how that stretch of Route 17 in NY kind of withered after the Thruway was built (though there are still some nice areas up there).
Advocates are fighting to prevent casinos from being built in nearby Tuxedo NY, pointing how many places didn’t benefit at all from the prosperity promised by them.
To be honest, the Thruway was a huge improvement over the narrow, winding Route 17.
The guys on American Pickers would kill for the apple sign.
There were wonderful places like this... .before I84 was built in New York, there used to be on Route 6 a hotel called Hotelon the Mountain...what a place. iI still love to find local places to eat....
I used to commute for work from Highland Mills to Suffern for a brief time in the 80’s. Route 17 was a much more interesting route instead of the Thruway’s monotony. I used to notice this mostly deserted classic landmark and wonder about its history.
I liked to imagine it in its day with the hurly burly of a bustling clientele and mourn for the people that are gone and the Catskill era that is gone forever. One could almost still see the spectral cars parked. I suppose I have an easily activated imagination!
At any rate, many thanks for the post.