With unfailing warmth and humor, Cissie Blumberg brings to life the struggles and achievements of two generations of Catskill Mountain hotelkeepers whose devotion to pleasing their city guests became legendary. Her book affords a chance to relieve the region's heyday and to look behind the scenes at what made Sullivan and Ulster Counties the nation's largest, most bustling resort area with over 500 hotels and countless bungalow colonies and camps.
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"Cissie Blumberg has this way...young at heart and full of Catskill tales--tall, long, short, square, hip..." -- Evelyn Nieves, The New York Times, May 8, 1997
"I am pleased to know the Catskills hotels and towns will live on in this book." -- Sid Caesar
"This book is fascinating...not only historically accurate...but warm, touching and beautifully entertaining." -- Jackie Mason
"I am pleased to know the Catskills hotels and towns will live on in this book." -- Sid Caesar
"This book is fascinating...not only historically accurate...but warm, touching and beautifully entertaining." -- Jackie Mason
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Cissie's father started a Jewish hotel in a town with an active Ku Klux Klan in 1920. She and her husband took over and enlarged the family business after World War II. Along the way she booked some of America's biggest comedy stars long before they became household names. Her sense of humor and storytelling ability are legendary.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Warm, nostalgic, fun!!!!,
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This review is from: Remember the Catskills: Tales by a Recovering Hotelkeeper (Paperback)
This book takes the reader back to the heyday of the Catskill resort era. The author attacks the cliches about the Catskills, providing her spin on this great era in the resort industry. What makes this book a truly fun read is the humor. This book brought me back to a place that was special to me.
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nostalgia is very worthwhile,
This review is from: Remember the Catskills: Tales by a Recovering Hotelkeeper (Paperback)
ms. blumberg's book transported me back in time to a place that may have remained a hazy memory. her writing was so vivid tha i could half close my eyes and be back on that country road hitch-hiking (it was okay in the 40's} between hotels.laced with the humor of the time, the book is a grabber. i also found myself a little teary at times, not from sadness, but rather from sweet memories. however, i found my self reading more and more slowly as i approached the end. i really wanted more.
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MEMORIES OF GRANDPARENTS, whose flights from "the old country" assured my own growing up in Sullivan's green hills, are fragmented. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Green Acres, New York, Lake Huntington, Loch Sheldrake, Sullivan County, Swan Lake, White Roe, Avon Lodge, Hotelmen's Federation, Lower East Side, World War, Memorial Day, United States, Elmer Rosenberg, Irwin Corey, Labor Day, Cooperative Fire Insurance Company, Danny Kaye, Jackie Mason, North Branch, South Beach, Abraham Lincoln, Ellis Island, Livingston Manor, Sha-Wan-Ga Lodge New!
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MEMORIES OF GRANDPARENTS, whose flights from "the old country" assured my own growing up in Sullivan's green hills, are fragmented. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Green Acres, New York, Lake Huntington, Loch Sheldrake, Sullivan County, Swan Lake, White Roe, Avon Lodge, Hotelmen's Federation, Lower East Side, World War, Memorial Day, United States, Elmer Rosenberg, Irwin Corey, Labor Day, Cooperative Fire Insurance Company, Danny Kaye, Jackie Mason, North Branch, South Beach, Abraham Lincoln, Ellis Island, Livingston Manor, Sha-Wan-Ga Lodge New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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