Dang, my brother worked a summer at Grossinger’s in the Seventies.
A Walk on the Moon is a great (R) coming- of-age movie about a summer at a borscht belt resort in the Catskills at the cusp of many changes. Diane Lan, Liev Schreiber, Viggo Mortensen.
Amazing. I actually assumed all these places still existed. I remember one of my Jewish friends in college had a little clock that looked like a log and had “Grossinger’s” written on it.
once jackie mason is gone schtick will be dead.
Sad it wasn’t kept up, this was a piece of American History. Many performers honed their acts there. When radio, and then television was develped, there was a gold mine of talent already developed from years performing here. Those were the people that made radio and television what it is.
This would be worth seeing if it was simply decay and neglect. But these pictures look like vandalism.
Uhhhhhhh...where are they?
For others, click the "postage stamp" picture immediately below the top picture.
Apt parallel to the Borscht Belt: Negro League Baseball.
There was a resort in Northern Arkansas that a friend took me to a few months back. He said it was a big deal in the 40s but now there’s nothing there. I can’t remember the name of it.
Another resort in Arkansas that went belly up was Dogpatch, USA.