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Catskills' Glory
Starts To Fade

HAROLD JACOBSON

Special to The Jewish News

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course, ranked by Golf Digest as one
of North America's leading resort golf
courses, had 45 holes which could be
traversed by players or joggers and
walkers (on special paths) savoring
the undulating landscape.
An outdoor swimming pool con-
taining a million gallons of water was
the focal point of the resort's summer
activities. There, as many as 800 peo-
ple not only sunned themselves,
swam, bathed and frolicked, but

n his book Catskill Culture,
Phil Brown cites 914 resort
hotels that once dotted the ver-
dant hills and slopes of Ulster
and Sullivan counties, those conge-
nial playground principalities about
two hours' drive from Manhattan.
The resort that had the most pow-
erful persona among the many hotels
"in the mountains" (the code
word for the Catskills) was
the Concord, a mammoth
2,400-room structure situat-
ed on Kiamesha Lake.
A terse news release from
the Seneca Financial Group
indicated recently that despite
an ambitious financial restruc-
turing plan, the majestic
Concord has had to close its
doors.
This marks not merely the
closing of a hotel but the
eclipse of an era.
The Concord Hotel Resort
and Golf Club was, in terms
The Concord
of size, style, cuisine, amenities
and excitement, unduplicated.
Its 2,400 rooms were double the
socialized during the endless days of
size of the average hotel room. The
summer with hotel habitues who
Concord's main kosher dining hall
came from every state of the Union,
could, when expanded to its full
Canada, Europe and Asia.
complement of tables (as on
The hotel's magnificent glass-
Passover), hold 5,000 guests. Its glatt
roofed indoor Olympic-size swim-
kosher facility (added in recent years)
ming pool, saunas, whirlpools and
could seat another 500.
steam baths served as a social rallying
When the dining hall was closed,
point when temperatures slipped.
guests could find something light to
The hearty among the winter visi-
eat (as well as to-die-for ice cream) at
tors took advantage of the Concord's
the Concord's lower level cafeteria.
ski lifts, its modest but nonetheless
Meals were multi-coursed and
challenging downhill terrain and its
sumptuous. Menus for breakfast,
indoor skating rink. There were also
lunch and dinner never featured
cross country trails.
fewer than 20 choices. Aficionados of
The really dedicated sports people
the kitchen could, for example,
could exert themselves summer and
choose five kinds of differently pre-
winter in the challenge of the
pared herring at breakfast; and dinner
Concord's 40 tennis courts (24 out-
menus inevitably included an embar-
door, 16 indoor), where pros gave
rassment of riches when it came to
instruction on the finer points of the
gargantuan portions of poultry, meat
game.
and fish, with seconds on demand.
The U.S. Tennis Association favored
The Concord fed you well but it
the Concord as the venue for many of
also provided ample opportunity to
its tournaments. Physical fitness buffs
work off the extra calories. Its golf
favored the hotel's fitness center with

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