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Dirty Dancing

Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 20:45 BFH Uncategorized 28

If you lived in New York 30, 40 or 50 years ago you most likely visited Grossinger’s, the upstate Catskill mountain resort that was the backdrop for Dirty Dancing.

The golf course is still there, and when you head to the clubhouse you have to drive through the idyllic vacation spot graveyard.

It’s sad to see these pictures.

There was a NY Times article a few weeks ago that said they were going to try and get it going again.

Can you go home again?

28 Comments on Dirty Dancing

  1. Of course you can’t go home again. They even made some rhymes about that fact back in the day.

    But it’s capitalism. People wanted to go there, then they didn’t. If they bring it back, it’s going to compete with 80 dollar tickets to Miami and places like Great Wolf lodge that has an entire indoor waterpark.

    Basically I’m saying I’d rather restore the bar from Roadhouse than the pool from Dirty Dancing.

  5. The last time I visited Squaw Valley CA, and this was years ago, they had removed the animated Smokey Bear, who informed us that only I could prevent forest fires. It had been there for decades. It was quite crushing.

    So no. You cannot go back home.

  7. The Upper Picture – What Happened ? Are These are New Yorkers ?
    If so What Happened ? They Are Tan – Fit – Dressed Perfectly for the Beach and They Look Relaxed… All Of Them !

  8. I thoroughly detest seeing before and after pics of once-great places that are in ruin. Hate it! I am so incredibly nostalgic about places. My hobby is restoration of house parts — making them shine and be useful and in working order again. I saw a picture of another grand hotel — I mean really grand — and it wasn’t yet at the state of being dozed over. I can’t remember where it was but I think it was built in the teens or 1920’s somewhere in the northeast. To supervise and work on a project like that would be my idea of nirvana.

    I’d only want to see someone take on a project like this one, above, if they could really put the money that is needed into it. Nothing half-way. I think it would draw. Who says they can’t do a water park, too?

  9. PHenry-
    Growing up in the 50’s, I’m amazed to look back at Chevrolet cars from 56,57,58,59 and 60. Our country could actually design, retool and produce on that scale back then. Alas.

    But maybe we can go back home some, or at least start-
    His name is Smokey _THE_ Bear!
    (another obamaism to destroy our heritage)

  11. If they restored this place they’d make a mint just based on the history and novelty. Throw in a 5 star restaurant with killer food, maybe some low brow dance clubs. Managed properly I think it’s a winner. Figuring out your demographic is a moving target anymore though. Ha, I’m just a dumb machinist wad do I know.

  14. Toby Miles. I often wonder why I can’t buy a brand new spec 57 Chevy Apache pickup, modernized mechanically and climate controlled. I don’t want a refurbished vehicle. I want a brand new 57.

  17. We’ve been to a few “hot” in their day resorts and hotels that had been modestly updated butimproved with additions of new amenities. The old character of the structures was maintained.

    One of my favs was a place called Pineapple Beach in St. Thomas in the ’80s. It obviously had been built in the late ’40s-early ’50s. One could wonder what those walls could say about the people who visited through the years.

    Another favorite was a little motel in the Keys, and another was the Tanque Verde Ranch in the Rincons.

    I loved every old re-grouted tile on the walls and the overly deep bathtubs that had had showers added to them in old historic hotels also.

    Those places had character and weren’t cookie cutter.

  19. You can’t go home? Nonsense. I am home, wherever I am, and so are you. You can’t go back, just like you can’t eat a ham sandwich twice. Forget the old ham sandwich, it’s gone, turned to an unpleasant substance, find a beef sandwich instead or a taco. Tacos are very good.

    This lust for permanence is a very silly thing, really. We’re all going to die, rot and turn to dust, the sun will go cold or explode, or whatevs. We have our place in space and time, here and now. It’s home. This instant, here, now, it’s home, a process, a journey, not a cold dead stop.

    Look after yourselves, your families, friends and strangers as best you can, let them into your home, and God bless.

    Jeez, I’m driveling on, must be the fabulous Alentejo I just found on sale. In my home.

    PS: “Alento” 2010, Monte Branco, Portugal.

  22. OMG, Plantsman, that was my first thought! Especially the last two pictures. I just finished reading the book, “Chernobyl 01:23:40” by Andrew Leatherbarrow. His pictures were so eerie.

  24. I think they should turn it into a Mecca for Muslims Stateside. It’ll be popular as hell with the tolerance and diversity demographic.

    Then blow it up. Preferably while occupied.

  27. Oops, don’t want to hob-nob with types who need this amenity.

    The hotel offers: “Two Model S Tesla 80-amp single phase charging stations and one Clipper Creek model HCS 32-amp output charging station available 24/7 in the back parking lot near the lower level meeting entrance.”

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