Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

Cool. Thanks, OP!

Wow...who named one resort Homowack Lodge?

AKA the jews stopped going to upstate New York and started going to Florida

Interesting, thanks OP.

Here's another. Sutro Baths, San Francisco.

"AKA the jews stopped going to upstate New York and started going to Florida"

No that is not it. By the mid seventies, Jews were welcomed into beach/lake clubs in NY that were previously unaccepting of Jews. That is what destroyed the Borscht Belt.

An analogy is the current situation with gay bars - many closing. Gays in larger cities are comfortable and accepted in straight bars now. Hence the drop in clientele of gay bars and their closing.

There's a really cool series in YouTube called "abandoned places".

Most of it started out as Disney properties but the guy has added more over the years. Really interesting but the episodes are only about 20 minutes long.

Some of the earlier ones are pretty amateurish but after the third one, it gets better.

unbearably gloomy. All those southern Catskills resorts need to be bulldozed permanently.

Sadly, Data Lounge is going the way of the Poconos.

Things like these always make me sad. I think about the lives previously played out there. People being together having fun, being happy.

These are like looking at an entire civilization come and gone. It IS sad. And it’ll happen to all of us someday too.

At the Neveleeeeeeeee

[quote]No that is not it. By the mid seventies, Jews were welcomed into beach/lake clubs in NY that were previously unaccepting of Jews. That is what destroyed the Borscht Belt.

That's not all it destroyed.

R3, just so you know, the Jews are STILL coming to Florida.

Really interesting, OP. Thanks!

Karma for what they did to black people back then

R9

Yeah, racism, bigotry, segregation, REAL FUN! /s

Let’s be honest: The Poconos kind of suck. Yeah those were some cool places but it’s a supply and demand thing. It became easier to travel to better places so these resorts dried up

There’s a little island off the coast of Bridgeport CT. When my mother was a little girl, it was a little beach destination with a boardwalk and bungalows and attractions. Pleasure Beach. When I was a kid, all that was gone but there was still the Polka Dot Playhouse. My mother’s friend worked backstage for a little amateur theater group that performed there, the Polka Dot Players.

The island is a ruin now, and I’m not even sure you can go there anymore. I have such vivid happy memories of Pleasure Beach.

It’s one of the things about getting old that I used to scoff at the old people for: Being sad that a place was gone. Now I get it.

Were the Poconos the place where they had the heart-shaped bathtubs for honeymoon couples?

Yes, r19.

One of my college friends got married and honeymooned there.

She said they had heart shaped tubs and hot tubs.

R18 Pleasure Beach reopened a couple years ago. They razed the remaining bungalows, including my great-grandfather's. I don't think they razed the pavilion yet. I haven't been there in 40+ years since I was a teen we would sail over and have a look. There were squatters and it was pretty nasty but it's a nice spit of sand. I just googled my old hunting grounds from Black Rock up to West Haven. It's pretty amazing to be able to visit virtually like this. When I was a kid there was no easy access to aerial photos and our sense of place and size was different.

It's just sad... and so wasteful. It really shows how we're a nation in decline, and have been for a very long while.

R22

No we aren’t. It shows how we’re advancing past those times where these segregated, racist, bigoted establishments have gone to rot.

Why am I the only one to point this out? Oh yeah, white people secetly want to go back to those days.

Racist and segregated? Ummm, no one wanted the Jews and they had to open their own resorts. The Jews weren't the ones being racist.

R24

Yes they were. I’m biracial. People like me were not allowed to socialize with Jews in this way. They had a much higher status in society (and still do).

“In truth, Jews had ceased being an oppressed American minority, and their relations with blacks had never been marked by equality. Blacks had been the employees, tenants, debtors, students, and welfare supplicants, while Jews had been the employers, landlords, creditors, teachers, and welfare bureaucrats. Jews had done things for blacks but rarely with blacks.”

R23, are you a moron? Just curious. You can desegregate things, or even sell them to other organizations, without just letting them fall into rot and disuse. I stand by everything I said: This is a terrible, sad waste, and it's definitely a sign of a country in decline. One of a great many.