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I'm watching the "Sunday Morning" show and they just talked about "The Borscht Belt" up in the mountains of NY. I am surprised that all of those hotels are closed now and just empty land. I was up there once at "The Concord" and saw a gr-reat show~! Any of you all here been there~? When did all of this close down~? I was there like in the 1980's sometime. What are your memories~?
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I'm watching the "Sunday Morning" show and they just talked about "The Borscht Belt" up in the mountains of NY. I am surprised that all of those hotels are closed now and just empty land. I was up there once at "The Concord" and saw a gr-reat show~! Any of you all here been there~? When did all of this close down~? I was there like in the 1980's sometime. What are your memories~?
I too saw "The Borscht Belt" segment and was also surprised to hear those hotels are closed. I know that my great-aunt who died in 2001 went up to the Catskills during the summers of the 1990s.
I too saw "The Borscht Belt" segment and was also surprised to hear those hotels are closed. I know that my great-aunt who died in 2001 went up to the Catskills during the summers of the 1990s.
I won't forget because I had a great week up there. They had a singles weekend, but since it is so far from Kentucky, I went for the week. I forgot who the comedian was, but Andrew "Dice" Clay was there a week before him. I'd love to see him.
One of those nice resort place's is now a retirement home (not nursing, pretty elegant actually, forget what they are called)... and the summer the area is full of vacationing hasidics, who stay at bungalow colonies scattered through the area. On Saturday nights, I believe many gather at Wal-Mart in Monticello and "party". Quite a site all the garbage they leave.. I believe the population of Sullivan county is roughly 70 K and swell's to 250 k during the summer.
They all started to die and go out of business when air travel became common place and more affordable to the NY City folks.Now the native folks have lost a large tax base and pay high taxes on their land.Sullivan county is a prime example around the Monticello area.
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Most pin the end of the Borscht Belt as starting in the mid 60's. As the above mentioned as air travel became common and social norms changed younger people wanted to travel elswhere. Grossingers closed in the mid 80's and the Concord somewhat later, but it has been leveled. This link is for part 1 of 4 on a tv series called Memories of the Catskills Memories of The Catskills -- Part 1 of 4 - YouTube , if you search on You Tube for "memories of the Catskills" you will get a lot of returns with movies that explain what/when happened pretty good. Today several of the large hotels cater to the Hassidic/Orthodox communities. Some like Homawack & The Nevele are there but closed.
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