[Mike Darancette]

So, the buffet was not healthy?

[88keys]

But the "fresh air" certainly was? Ha!

I suppose it's good someone has bought up the property, intending to remake it as a "healthy getaway spa"-type place, rather than just have it fall into total decline...but nevertheless, it's sad how so many "old-fashioned" things and places just keep going away.

[bunkerhill7]

Watermelon

[Cowboy Bob]

Nobody puts Baby in the corner!

[Dr. Ursus]

No more stuffing breakfast muffins in their warmup suit pockets for later.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Never saw “Dirty Dancing”, but once, while on an urban exploration kick, I ran across a website which was dedicated to Grossinger’s Resort, documenting how it had falling into disrepair. It was like looking at much of present day Detroit. Just flat out abandoned. Not mothballed, or demolished and the land used for another purpose, just hotel rooms and recreational facilities with weeds growing up out of the floor, collapsed ceilings and trash everywhere. I suppose it is like Atlantic City, things changed (in terms of travel times and relative prices, and thus destinations) and they were ignored in time. Completely.

[Texan5]

I’m not familiar with that type of resort-and being ranch and blue collar folks, my family wasn’t/isn’t affluent enough to afford a holiday at one of those places anyway-but we did have “dude ranches” for fancy people here in this part of Texas-it sort of sounds the same.

When Obama ruined the economy, tourism died and the ones around here were going down into disrepair fast. The smart owners either restocked-literally-and got back into sheep/goat/cattle ranching, or became combination wedding venues/golf courses and hotels, riding schools offering lessons and/or Bed and Breakfast places. Prices to stay there took a dive, but at least these family businesses survived. Maybe these Catskills resorts are trying to do the same thing, but catering to Pacific coast greenies like Texas caters to snowbirds?

[Slambat]

It’s in New York. Who in their right mind would want to go there?

[Gefn]

My mom and dad schlepped my sister and me to Kutchers many times when I was a teenager. It was a cheap vacation from NJ.

I’m sorry it’s closing. Lots of good memories of my youth up there.

[Noob1999]

“Hey Boy; Gimme some fresh chopped chicken liv’as!”

[SuziQ]

If I remember correctly, those resorts were mainly for well heeled Jewish residents of New York City, Philly, New Jersey, and other Northeastern urban areas, who weren't 'welcome' in the WASP resorts of the time. Since times have changed in that regard, and since more people could afford swimming pools in their own homes, there was no need for the enclave, so fewer folks made the trek.

It is beautiful country up there, though.

[Terry L Smith]

So, goodbye to “The Borscht Belt”?

[jpsb]

Lake Mohawk is still privately owned. So this was not the last resort in the Catskills.

[WorkingClassFilth]

It’s been done before - long before.

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hitlers-vacation-destination-built-nazis-finally-sees-tourists/story?id=16613484