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Title: It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians, Agents, and Others Who Lived It by Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer ISBN: 0-15-600238-8 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 24 October, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: a fun book ------catskills institute==========
Comment: This oversize book is full of photos and graphics of the Catskills. It has good information on the entertainment aspect and on the workings and development of the big hotels. There are abundant quotes from the many Catskills entertainers, staff, owners, and guests that the Frommers interviewed. It Happened in the Catskills is a fun book to travel the Mountains with
Rating: 5
Summary: WONDERFUL! aTLANTA Constitution
Comment: In their heyday in the 1940s and '50s, the Catskills, in New York's Sullivan and Ulster counties, were less a place than a state of mind, according to the Frommers. In their wonderful collection of reminiscences by those who worked and played the mountains, anyone who ever vacationed there will find something between nostalgia and heartburn - or, perhaps, just hunger for borscht, the red-beet soup that became a staple at the region's most famous resort, Grossinger's.
Rating: 5
Summary: Engaging Book Is Nearly As Fun As The Era It Celebrates
Comment: While working at the Nevele Country Club, one of the many legendary Catskill resorts covered in this magnificent document, I briefly met Myrna and Harvey Frommer while doing their research. They probably don't remember me, I was too young at the time to offer the kind of history they were looking for, but the pair's enthusiasm and obvious love for the area's resorts and their unique (now long gone) familial atmosphere was readily apparent. When I finally got to read this book, it provided me with a sense of pride for being a part of its history. There's even an ancient picture of my father playing sax in the old Art Kahn Orchestra! But aside from personal connections, this book stands as a definitive oral history of an era. The people interviewed are true insiders, some of them legends in their own right among Catskill lore. And while the book provides some deep sociological perspective concerning its ethnic background, the authors know how to balance this with charming, amazing and often sidesplitting anecdotes. If you ever spent a weekend at Grossinger's, The Concord, The Nevele or one of the dozens of small bungalow colonies, this book will wash you in warm memories. And if you didn't have the chance, it will make you wish you did.
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Title: Remember the Catskills: Tales by a Recovering Hotelkeeper by Esterita Blumberg ISBN: 0935796800 Publisher: Purple Mountain Pr Ltd Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: A Summer World: The Attempt to Build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills, from the Days of the Ghetto to the Rise and Decline of the Borscht Belt by Stefan Kanfer ISBN: 0374271801 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Sullivan County's Borscht Belt (Images of America) by Irwin Richman ISBN: 0738505412 Publisher: Arcadia Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: In the Catskills by Phil Brown ISBN: 0231123604 Publisher: Columbia University Press Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.50 |
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Title: Borscht Belt Bungalows: Memories of Catskill Summers by Irwin Richman ISBN: 1592131905 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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