Grossinger's Abandoned Resort. Liberty NY
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- Опубликовано: 22 мар 2010
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Urban Exploration into the abandoned ruins of Grossingers Resort in Liberty NY.
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These videos break my heart. I’m 64, with a history of going to the Catskills every summer as a kid.
I grew up in Monticello, NY. Grossinger’s was a big deal in the 60’s and 70’s. The Catskills was a wonderful place to live.
Such terrific photography of such an amazing place. This place should have been preserved.
I grew up in the Catskills and when I was a kid I hated it! The only time there was anything to do was in the summers when the people from the city would come up for the summers there are a lot more hotels with history in those mountains even a castle that my grandfather help build just outside my home town if Roscoe as I get older now and living in sw fla I miss those mountains sometimes!😢 it truly is a shame to go home and see just how much things have changed! I’ve been all over the world and truly have to say there is something Magical about those mountains I use to live in
Worked there 30 years ago in the mid seventies as a night auditor. Owners were great to work for. So sad to see it like this. Best job I ever had. It was my first out of college.
The memories I have from there are unforgettable. My funniest being, my friend and I swimming down to the window in the deep end, making funny faces at the folks looking into the pool.
I'm crying.. just beautiful..
This is too heartbreaking to watch . Like many of you I visited the great Grossinger’s long ago and my memories are crystal clear of her beauty so seeing her in such a state is quite sobering.
Beautiful and haunting.
I use to go there every summer in the early 70's until the early 80's.... what
wonderful times those were..... all the great entertainers, the dancing, the food etc.... it was glorious being there.... now there are the memories..... and it's so sad to see it abandoned like this.... such a majestic place with a horrible end.... makes me want to cry for the loss of a beautiful and grand place. Also went to the Concord (which was larger than Grossinger's) and is now defunct also. Only the memories are left.
+Misha Sandro My Uncle worked there and my Dad was a bellhop in the 1950's in the summer. A very strong connection to my family. Very sad that it ended this way.
+Sally Cannon yes.... a very sad death indeed.... I can almost hear the laughter and gayety of yesteryear.
70's too, till around '80 at the latest. :)
i live in loch sheldrake which is like 5 miles from that resort and everything in sullivan county is trash now what a shame
Hi, what a story! Lot's of memories. Unbelievable almost how it turned out this way. From Europe, greetz!
Excellent photos. The pool is truly eerie. We used to go there every winter.
Holly crap. Someone with good taste in Music. VAST - Lady Of Dreams.
I have families that still live in Liberty and Monticello. I was just there in March visiting. (2015)My aunt was just talking to me about the Grossingers hotel. I use to baby sit in the early 70's and took swimming lessons in the indoor pool... Those were the days.... Many beautiful memories!!!!! I now live in Orlando..
Excellent photos!
Well done...one of the VERY rare occasions when the music is appropriate
9 years ago u still reply?
very moving and sad for a time that will never return
well done
Marvelous video,with haunting music...so sad the Catskill resorts,are now bygone history.
This is so sad. Grossingers was such a lovely place. I remember as a kid going to the barrel jumping each winter with my family. Also going downstairs and watching the people swimming in the pool. The youth group from church use to go there and swim each winter also.
Beautiful architectural photography of the ruins. Very well done.
Thank you so much Mason! So glad you enjoyed :)
Very nicely done!!
I love the then and now pool photos.
Wow 8 years ago u still reply?
Great captures of such a once upon a time beatiful resort. RIP Grossinger's
10/10 for the photography!
What a shame :( What a terrible waste
Went there July 1962, my Pastor Jerry Cardo knewa Mrs. Grossinger, I was blown away, Golf Course was a monster killed me and my dad.Was forced to dance with somebody's grandmother.Lots of stuck up wealthy teenagers from Westchester County.
OUTSTANDING! This is one joint I would just sit me and down a six pack by the old ass pool and let the ghost of memories soak into my wretched soul. Just fascinating. I have NOOO life BTW.
great music
it reminded me of titanic too. Very Good Video
Such a shame.
So glad these images were recorded 10 years ago before the property was further damaged by vandals. Now most room shown here are covered in graffiti.
This place is beautiful!
I just recently started reading up about the “borscht belt” after hearing about it on a Seinfeld documentary. I live in West Virginia and had no clue about the Catskills. I have found it VERY interesting and sad that something so wonderful and successful is now gone. The Catskills sounds like it was amazing! And the history and culture goes to show just what can be accomplished in America! I just wish I could go back in time and witness just one day of the food, entertainment, and the feel of being family to everyone.
this is history and it needs to be saved
So sad, people could be living in these abandoned homes.With the right tools,people could come together & repair.Would be excellant for people who were put out of their homes, fell on hard times, & need a pick me up.To live,not go to waste.So sad.
Well done, good theme music
i was there in 1974 on a senior trip it was beautiful..so sad to see it abandoned..i had such good memories there..
I love the flash back photos to present
Another casualty of the Borshct belt. So many lovely resorts laid waste by changing tastes and the jet.
those pools were gorgeous! especially the indoor one. What a great video.
It looks like it was quite a place at one time.
I have seen many videos of abandoned places but what gets me is when a place is abandoned, all the things left behind like the furniture and decorations. Most is trash by now but a few items could be worth a lot of money if it is cleaned up.
Great photos! Nicely done!
my high schools senior trip was there in 1980 from long island
Walter, you did such an amazing job photographing the VASTness of the property, I return to view this regularly. 4 years ago I referred to this piece as my aural and visual crack and still feel the same. You have virgin photographs, prior to the ugly vandalization and tagging that took place. How sad to think this beautiful icon no longer stands. Be well. -Suzanne
very well done.. impressive.. while watching it all that I kept saying was "this is so sad".. being one of many who grew up in the area (never actually being inside).. I always wondered what fancy folks were there.. and now I see this?? just breaks my heart... I get an odd feeling of .. one day.. is this what all we know will look like? ~ I hoep not.
thank you again...
As a child growing up in Brooklyn, NY I spent many a summer at this resort with my family. Your images and the music was so bitter sweet. Grossinger's was a special get away that brought happiness to so many. It's so sad to see that it is now nothing but a decaying mass.
awesome job on this cool music and excellent mixture of the occupied/unoccupied images very haunting
Wow this place is huge!! There looks heaps of stuff that can busted up there! It would be an urbex smashfest paradise.
heelfan1234
I remember my swimming lessons in the indoor pool. Later as a teen I babysat there every friday and saturday night.
fits this video perfectly
shame such beautiful places end up like this..
Well done......
Absolutely beautiful video. Haunting but amazing. Well done.
It's all tagged up now.
Actually it’s totally gone now. They tore down the entire complex a year or two ago. :-(
Im going there right now and buying it and going to restore it NOWWW!
Just came from listverse and it said this place was the inspiration for the hotel in Dirty Dancing and comedians like Mel Brooks, and my fav Danny Kaye once performed there. While watching this I thought wow Mr. Kaye himself once walked these halls and maybe even sat at one of those chairs in the bar. Truly awesome and sad at the same time. :(
i like the music, starts of kind of with a creepy feeling and then turns into something showing what it used to be
After watching this video, I feel compelled to clean up my room.
what a ghostly film ! i kept thinking of titanic...first class presentation
I was at Grossingers in 1981 to see the Eddie Fisher show. It is so sad to see the way this lovely hotel looks now. I remember the photos hanging on the wall in the lobby of all the famous people who came to Grossingers. I have seen photos where Eddie Fisher blew up the Playhouse. It must have brought back some wonderful memories to Eddie at the time.
The song is "Lady of dreams" by the band Vast.
A fantastic video indeed. Great photography, with a mind grabbing track. "Artistically coordinated to bring the spirit and sense of demise through your soul and back."
Matt A.
Being in my late forties and having spent the 1979-80 school year in Liberty, I'm just old enough to remember the tail end of the town's prosperity. My brother and I learned how to ice skate at Grossingers, and we look back fondly on being taken shopping at Sullivan's. It saddens me to see Liberty in such a prolonged state of decline, and that nobody was able to come up with a plan to keep Grossingers viable.
My grandma learned to skate there too. She skated with an Olympic ice skater who would practice there (Sonja Henie). My grandma still has her skates.
As a kid, grossingers, nevelle, flagler, kutchers and browns.
It's a shame what is happening to this country and our state. Your video depicts the future like a post economic holocaust, like one of those History/Discovery channel shows about life after we're gone. What can we do to stop the bleeding?
slowly returning to nature.
Yes, it inspired Dirty Dancing, but then the movie was filmed in Lake Lure NC.
Wow. Places like this are so fascinating, Poignant and sad. Thanks for uploading!
Grossinger's was definitely among the grande dames of that area, along with the Concord and Kutsher's. There was even a Grossinger's brand rye bread you could purchase in the supermarket. I think that's how I first learned of them. Kutsher's, by the way, remains open. If I ever again visit the Catskills, I plan to drop by.
Where dancer Ginger Sherrin met millionaire Sid Berry......the rest is history.
The Pools, and atrium's are Grand structures, even in the aftermath!
The music goes so well with the images. Nicely done. I want to go there and shoot!
I discovered this song because of you, must be going on four years ago now. for that I thank you with the most sincere and heartfelt gratitude. that you accompany this waltz with some of the most poignant imagery to be found on the web is hella bonus doe
Thank you so much Chris! So glad you enjoyed! :-D
Poignant! Very nicely done. Your video underscores the futility of trying to hold on to anything "forever." The juxtaposition of past and present is particularly well done. Thanks for the great work!
What a shame to let a beautiful place like this be let go. Another example of Conienance over quality. I bet in it's hay day , it was the place to go for vacations. So sad.
Unfortunately, this is a common site in the 'Catskills' - once important resorts before the days of air conditioning and the need for close getaways have turned to abandonment. Places like this are littered around the region.
Hi, thats a really good video and sad. I grew up and live in the catskills and there are so many of these places just falling into decay it's a shame. This used to be THE place for people to come with there family on vacation.
There's still a few of the catskill resorts left tho. I work at the one that was called "The Granit" but they renamed it now.
Some of the people i work with used to work at grossingers, and the other big resorts. All abandoned now. They have great stories to tell.
my grandfather bought a place right outside of liberty (white sulphur springs) in 1962....i have been going up there since im a baby and i still go there now...i was there 2 weeks ago....its very sad to see what liberty and sullivan county has turned into...i wasnt around in the 70's as im to yung but i remember the 80's and 90's when it was a place people wanted to go....i still love it there because we have 30 acres and i enjoy peace and quiet...but there is absolutely nothing around anymore, main street is boarded up and every businees is suffering ..almost every house is for sale and its very poor.....taxes are extremely high compared to surrounding counties and all the old timers are gone...main street is full of shady lookin people up to no good......i usually go to jeffersonville or livingston manor to shop....its very sad to see Grossingers this way....last i heard they turned it into a golf course
i live in loch sheldrake and you are right everything is destroyed
I've been obsessed with the abandoned catskill's resorts for about 3 years now, mostly Grossinger's and the Pine's, but unfortunately I live in Indiana and I still haven't made a trip. These places seem more or less like a fantasy to me now, I couldn't even imagine going. I WILL make a trip someday.
very well done.. impressive.. while watching it all that I kept saying was "this is so sad".. being one of many who grew up in the area (never actually being inside).. I always wondered what fancy folks were there.. and now I see this?? just breaks my heart... I get an odd feeling of .. one day.. is this what all we know will look like? ~ I hope not.
thank you again...
Some reasons why the Catskills resorts declined: old guests retired to Florida; yuppies flew to Europe; seniors bused to Atlantic City. In recent years, efforts to implement gambling have provided hope of an area rebirth.
what the hell happened to Sullivan county? they should be rebuilding this, but instead lets go and get casinos here that provide nothing but minimum wage jobs and gambling problems.
Supposedly, the powerful gambling interests in Atlantic City paid a lot of $$$ to make sure that gambling competition never came to the mountains...thus you see a 'wasteland'...so sad!!!
Doubt they will do a casino in the Catskill's.
ANY new casino's in New York will be thought out, very carefully.
The market is saturated. They've shut several in Jersey, because of competition in PA.
If they do build, it would probably be closer to NYC.
Talks and Big plans have been the rule of the day for 30 years. Talk is cheap and if you can pull in a million simply putting together a plan- There you go. Make money on making plans, not actually building and running a huge eyesore.
the thing is that the locals need something to do, not the tourists. how about instead of making us a tourist attraction, you make us a community. teenagers their families need something to do here, not casinos and gimmicks.
The state government put those casinos in. Its called crony capitalism. If you want the foregone back, stop voting for these people.
Locals suffer at casinos..................
What a shame
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this.
Its a shame that a large piece of history in the catskills ended up like this i was born in liberty and remember when the hotel was open
Absolutely excellent, thanks for posting!
Wow 😍😍😍
Friend, the Borscht Belt was killed by air travel, assimilation, and A/C. Suburbia and television also played a role.
My parents, sister and brother went here in late 70's, maybe very early 80's.
My Dad is a magician and the resort paid for all of us to come up for I think
it was like 5 or 6 days, very nice place in its heyday. He did shows there and we had a blast. I was 12 or 13 at the time, now I am 46. It is so sad to see this place in ruins.
maybe they could renovate and turn it into housing?
I am amazed at Ghost Towns but especially the resorts since Dogpatch brought awareness of like a Titanic on dry ground left behind and seems untouched.
very beautiful the music and amazing photography skills moved me
I was at Grossinger's for my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary in 1984. Very sad.
@MegaModelMan Google Catskill resorts. If you're into old buildings or history It's a very interesting story. There's a ton of these abandoned resorts scattered through this area. Vacationing in the Catskills used to be the thing to do!
Thank you for this video; it was well done & brought back many memories. While I was in college, I had a summer job in their dining room. It was a plum of a job, because the tips were the best. They also had 2 kitchens, since they served Kosher food. It's so sad viewing time's effects on the resort industry in the Catskills.
only from the images i would say ....oh what a waste, but now i am curious to see more and will visit your site to get more information to these particulary sad pictures. Sad....becose anyone left those places , and i am sure there are worser places on earth. Even through the traces of decay, vandalism or just neglection, or the fact that natural forces can now rule as they are used to....even so...it looks peaceful ?! But it remains the thought...what a waste of money !
We drove up there today but it was getting dark. Going to try again when it's light out.
So sad
Wow, beautiful! The indoor swimming pool design was ahead of it's time. That could pass as a contemporary interior if it was still in working order. Love the music and photography too :).
Beautiful documentary! Probably will trigger incredible memories for those who visited and worked there for many, many years to come. A few other resorts came back to life, repurposed, for example, by the Transcendental Meditation movement.
Not all Jews visited these places, but certainly many did. I'm not Jewish, but we stayed at the Homowack Lodge in 1978. The only time I visited the Borscht Belt. More recently, my parents stayed at the Villa Roma, also in the Catskills, but owned and mostly patronized by Italian-Americans.
Sounds like 70s mall music.
Vast - Lady of my dreams