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Briarcliff Lodge (NY) (Images of America)

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i grew up with the briarcliff lodge in my back yard and was saddened to see it perish. reading this book, seeing the pics from the glory days and the later pics from just before the building came down, brings the same sentiment as when i view images of the titanic...
somewhere in a parallel universe, the titanic is docking in the new york harbor and it's passangers eagerly await their transfer to the train that will take them up the hudson river to holiday at the briarcliff lodge...
ps: watch re-runs of 'the wonder years' when it's dad's birthday and he's mad at big sister for moving-in with her boyfriend. the name of the restaurant where they go for his dinner is 'the briarcliff lodge.' who is the local resident who must have written for the show and tucked that into the story?

As a person who grew up in the shadow of this historic structure I found it to be very interesting. There is even a picture of the house I was born in on page 67. It brought back so many memories. Nostalgia so thick you could cut it with a knife !