I vacationed there as a boy, and worked there as a teen-ager. Mrs. Maisel was a look at the Catskills that was like it was but on steroids. As a staff member I met my wife of 57 years.
I, as a non-Jew think that the Borsch Belt culture was cool! ❤👍😊 I know that this is about the Borsch Belt resorts; but during the day, just about everyone went to camps or resorts There were also many non-Jewish resorts in both the Catskills and Adirondacks as well as on the Finger Lakes and Great Lakes back in days of rail travel. It was not unusual for middle-class families (at least mama and the kids) to spend the entire summer in these places since the cities of the era were very polluted and extremely hot. Less-wealthy families could opt for a semi-vacation where they tended crops for farmers. In particular, many poorer German immigrants opted for this in the Mohawk valley where hops and other high-maintenance crops were grown. The women and girls would stay in little camps/shanties/cabins or in curtained-off areas of a barn (animals stayed outside in the summer months*) and the boys sleeping in a tent. The women organized themselves to cook the food in a communal fashion. Many of these people originated from farms in Europe, sometimes from the same areas within the tiny German states (pre-1870 Germany) or within the Austrian empire. Families would return year after year and developed deep friendships with the other visitors and a knowledge the local people. When factories began to locate outside of NYC; this knowledge came in handy for those who wanted to emigrate outside of NYC. _____________________________ *The stone (and later concrete) floors and walls of these barns could be cleaned/scrubbed and painted with lime paint (disinfecting properties) In those barns, the animals stayed on the ground-level floor during the winter and the upper floor (loft) was used to store hay and grain for the animal's winter food. During the summer, these lofts would be empty or nearly empty. The lofts were gradually refilled with the first and second cutting of the hay (and a third cutting in a good year-- cooperative weather)
The government's subsidizing of air-travel and then it's deregulation (resulting in lower fares) destroyed the passenger train business in the USA There a still a few passenger trains but no service to places like those (now defunct) resorts or even smaller cities/towns along the lines where the major ("express" - for lack of a better word) passenger trains run.
This was not my experienceas pictured here in the Catskills. We were a lower middle class family so we rented an affordable small bungalow in various bungalow colonies. I never visited any of the nearby hotels.
i wish they didnt close the nevele but i remember last time i went there which was a few years before it closed the golf course was run down it was sad but i still love the nevele
I was six. Watching it from Smith Elementary in the Akron Kenmore neighborhood. She went to fairlawn and Simon Perkins then Firestone high. I didn't understand really what was happening. Teachers screamed.
A remarkable woman indeed. I love that beautiful pic of her (not in this video) where she was weightless her wild hair going everywhere yet she was being adorable with the "Hi Dad" sign. I was a 23 year old sailor with a crush on Judith aboard ship when the news came in about the disaster. I had to find a place to be alone and weep. I hope they name a tech school after Judith - she is still an inspiration.
Brains and beauty,she was the complete package. She first stood out to me when I seen her and realized how gorgeous she was. Her personality seemed awesome rest in peace astronaut Judith Resnik
