Abandoned Catskills Resort - The Desecrated Remains of the Pines 

Wow. This made me think I was watching a trip through the sunken Titanic. I worked at the Raleigh and the Concord in different bands in 1974 until 1985. This made me so depressed. There will NEVER EVER be another time or place like the Catskills even if they do get gambling. I played trombone for so many singers and comedians. Those were the days.

I WAS THE ATHLETIC DIRECTER AT THE PINES WHEN HANK LEEDS WAS THE HEAD OF ACTIVITES SANG AT NIGHT WITH THE LOUNGE BAND AND DID THE LIGHTS IN THE WEDGEWOOD ROOM

I used to go there as a child with my entire family.. Aunts uncles cousins.....sad watching it

all your videos are always so beautiful. ♥ thanks so much again! :D

My parents were seasons guests in the mid to late 70's. When I got too old to stay with them in the Regency I worked as a pool boy and stayed in one of the cabanas, later I became a Bellhop worked at the Chalet and stayed in the Ritz. One winter vacation I even worked the toboggan run. For me the Pines was a place of many firsts. It is hard to look at the videos of what is left and not get emotional. Bong Head

Awesome footage! I grew up down the road form the Pines, spent time in the 1980-early 1990s at the night club & on the ski hill.

Love this video, music fits all the scenes just right, goood work!

:( Its sad to see, I am young and never experienced the Catskills in there heyday. I only can see what is left now.

Really love the before and after shots.

Very sad. Extremely well done!!

What a shame. I was there for an Archdiocese of NY CYO convention in the winter of 1981 (I was about 16 yrs old) I distinctly remember the "Theater" room which was the center of much of the Convention (voting for Arch CYO leaders, etc). And I also remember the walkway between parts of the building. The resort and accommodations were in excellent shape. So sad to see it fell in to such disrepair.

Great video! I love the old resorts. Before and after pics always appreciated! Thank you!

If anything, it's about showing respect for the huge efforts your fellow man has put forth, in trying to creating something of value. And even more than that, something that may have been someone’s dream. I always think about the brick layer who placed the brick, went home, told his wife about it, and came back the next day to do more. Or the person who finally had the money to start building, how excited and optimistic they must have been the day it construction was started, the dreams they must have had. Those sentiments are important, and mean so very much, we should all show respect for them, because the ruins are often the only thing left to show that it happen, that people made good efforts. When you think of a deer in the forest, do you think of a prancing, gleaming sunny day, or do you think of a rotten corpse on the road side? We are adults, so we show respect, and acknowledge both paradigms What we should all avoid doing is kicking it with our boot and making fun of it.

I love Urbex. Sad to see this place fall apart but there is beauty in decay.

Another sad thing is that most of those elderly folks in the old videos are dead and gone now.

Brilliant choice of music for this video. I loved it when I heard it in The Book of Eli, and it fits so well for this abandoned hotel; truly haunting. It is so incredibly sad to see a place that once thrived fall into such ruin. So many years of vacation memories gone forever. I would like to go there with a bucket of turquoise paint and cover up all that obnoxious graffiti in the pool. Excellent video. You deserve more views than you have gotten.

I think videos like this and of abandoned amusement parks are the hardest to watch because they are both places of so many happy memories and to see the state they're in now is almost heart-breaking. This video is very well-done and the music from The Book of Eli is so perfect. Would love to see you do another vid of some other resort.

Seeing this beautiful old hotel left to rot makes me physically sick to my stomach!!! When it's popularity ends or somebody who doesn't want to be bothered with the place thinks it's "served its purpose", why can't the hotel be repurposed into affordable low income housing for the elderly, disabled and especially for our disabled vets? But no, it's easier just to let it all rot away, out of sight, out of mind!!!! It's no wonder so many people think America is the most wasteful country in the world today!!!

Another excellent video! The clips and interviews of times past are really amazing. Keep up the good work!

Awesome music! Matched the "feel" of the video perfectly! In some sense, it's sad to see things like this occur. But, times change. And, if you don't keep up with that change, then you're going to be left behind. And, for many of these resorts, that's what happens.

It's all just a memory...the area will go back to nature...these communities will forever be sleepy little communities again...maybe not a bad thing...the days of wine and roses for New York have been over for a while...I suspect the Poconos' is facing the same fate....time marches on.

Me and my grandmother were watching this video and thinking about the time The Pines was lively and everyone vacationed there. We talked about how sad it would be to have this generation miss out on a beautiful place such as this. I imagine people had a wonderful time there. And to those who did, I'm glad you got to cherish those wonderful minutes, hours, and days (Possibly weeks) up at The Pines.

so sad its ended up like that :( could be fixed up and either used as a resort again,or for shelter for misplaced people,

Great video! I've been there many times and each year it slips further and further away. Its so sad to see. Now the indoor pool is gone, I'm sure the rest isn't far behind...

Reply to Old Uncle Bob:Your explanation of why these places all died around the same time makes total sense.Owners kids and customers kids didn't have any interest in them anymore.So they died out like the patrons did.Air conditioning and home entertainment @ home was a real game changer.The Jewish kids simply did what everyone else did too and stayed in town.Plenty to do without schlepping to country now as you perfectly stated.😀

this is really good.

Haunting. Loved the ski lift segue.

love it!

Great music selection from one of my favorite movies - The Book of Eli

I heard it was cheap airline travel that contributed to the demise, of these wonderful Catskill's resorts..

"Yes, summer is never a bummer at The Pines…"

In one of the earlier videos on YT the theater was nowhere near as collapsed. Or vandalized....as all the tables were still covered in a thick layer of dust standing upright.

GREAT MUSIC ANTIQUITY ......FROM BOOK OF ELI.......SO SAD ......THE PINES ARE EVEN 10 TIMES WORSE TODAY NOT MUCH LEFT....ID LOVE TO SEE IF BRIDGE OVER POOL IS STILL THERE

When I was a kid I use to work at what was then an all Jewish CC in Latham NY. It was called Shaker Ridge CC, and it still exist today with an open membership. There is no reason the same couldn't have happen to the Borsht Belt.

isn't it beautiful? Between my video and this one the level of decay and destruction is crazy. I watch this and see every piece that scrappers stole away. The base of every table in the Persian room. Every air conditioner unit from the Savoy building. Every pipe in every baseboard heater in every hallway. Maddening.. such a waste. I know the costs got too high to keep it... but still such a waste.

how long has it been closed for? what 15 to 20 years? sad i have seen the other videos it looked so pretty in its hay day

There is so much that could have been salvaged or sold to people before others came in and destroyed alot of the place.

Is there a wikipedia page for this hotel? I can't seem to find one.

Air-conditioned apartments, color tv, lots of entertainment available without a schlep to a hotel. That, coupled with terrible property management by the heirs, brought the demise.

Does anyone have photos of this before? It seems a waste that no one want's to rebuild if. I do believe that resorts will come back one day.

its sad of how much it has changed...but wat happened here???

Same thing happened to the Roman Empire, get used to it.

The last one is being torn down this week or next week,Kutschers.

5:03 is a cool scene

when did this resort close

yes, what happened.

Who's the guy singing around the 2:30 mark?

to me tat place looks look like total loss for the most part, unless thet gut the place