Catskill Hotels - Hardcover

Singer, Allen; Richman, Irwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1531607624 ISBN 13: 9781531607623

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2003

Synopsis

At one time, according to the Catskill Institute, there were more than a thousand hotels spread across the mountains of Greene, Ulster, Delaware, and Sullivan Counties. The Catskills were an exciting world full of pleasures to be enjoyed, with summer and winter activities characterized by entertainment, food, sports, card playing, and food again. Catskill Hotels, with a collection of some two hundred images, tells the story of this world, which began with America's first resort hotel, the Catskill Mountain House, continued with places such as the world-famous Grossinger's, and can still be found today at Kutsher's Country Club, the Mountain House at Lake Mohonk, and a few other hardy resorts.

About this title

About the Author

Irwin Richman has spent all or part of sixty-five summers in the Catskills. The author of The Catskills in Vintage Postcards, Hudson River from New York City to Albany, and Sullivan County: Borscht Belt, he is a professor of American studies at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg. In Catskill Hotels he takes us through the silver age and the golden age of one of America's great resort areas and invites us to learn and to share memories.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1531607624
• ISBN 13: 9781531607623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130