Comments on: The Borscht Belt: Then & Now https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/ Reuse. Rehabilitate. Restore. Architectural salvage and repurposed pieces for the home. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Reclaimed Home: Green Low Impact Housing Renovation of New York, Brooklyn, New Jersey https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-32006 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:27:16 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-32006 […] see: Borscht Belt. Then & Now. addthis_url = […]

]]> By: RH https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8329 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:08:47 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8329 Actually…you just brought up an interesting point. I wonder which they would be more reluctant to give up: the tea or the Guinness.

]]> By: iloveupstate.com https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8327 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:02:19 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8327 it’s true! it’s true! they really like TEA.

]]> By: RH https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8316 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:44:47 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8316 Thanks for the info! Now I can pretend I know something about Beacon. Since I split my time between here and Brooklyn, I’m always out of the loop. People are like “How could you not know that? Don’t you live here?” And I’m like “Well…”

Irish boys drinking? I never heard such a thing!

]]> By: iloveupstate https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8307 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:37:19 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8307 my words got cut off and my typing sucks…my parents owned one these joints…

]]> By: iloveupstate https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8306 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:36:21 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8306 I had a short-lived career as a chambermaid at one of the Irish resorts…I was more interested in drinking with the cute boys than cleaning rooms though…

Is this the part where I admit my parent’s used to one of these (not one you mentioned though)? My Dad fired me because I couldn’t make a bed to save my life. I short-sheeted everyone.

]]> By: Priscilla https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8304 Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:27:28 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8304 Walk on the Moon

Bungalow colony was 4 miles S of Beacon off of 9D towards the river—Dritsas Lane(he owned the diner on Main Street) 8 bungalows 7 Jewish families and one goyish family.

there was a Hotel Beacon—a summer camp with a large cement building and many wooden bungalows—casino–lake etc

it was affiliated with the US Communist Party as closed down during the McCarthy period in the early 50s–we were adjacent to the hotel–1/2 mile away

I’m Priscillas’s husband and we went up there from 1951-mid 70s

Passed by the area about a month ago and the road from 9D was all grown over

]]> By: RH https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8298 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:06:21 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8298 Ok, what Viggo Mortensen film are you talking about?
Where was there a bungalow colony in Beacon? That’s where I am now. Didn’t know the Jews did Dutchess County.

]]> By: Priscilla https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8293 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:06:58 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/02/the-borscht-belt-then-now/#comment-8293 I attended a Catskills Institute conference about five summers ago. I thought it was very informative and bittersweet. I think I was the only shiksa there. We bought a house up there mainly because I thought Viggo Mortensen would come by and sell me blouses (among other things).
My Jewish husband spent his summers in a bungalow colony in Beacon.

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