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Can anyone help stop the pain and the hurt? A plea made by an old abandoned house that is falling apart. These were taken up in the Catskill area of New York at my Dad's Uncle's old property.
Plea for help in the ruins..... UPDATED Photos Added
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Re: Plea for help in the ruins.....
Yes it was sad to see it in such ruins.
That is why when I went exploring it; I was moved by the plea for help that someone that came before painted on the wall of the main boarding house....Or maybe it was the house calling out for help! 
I remember as a small boy seeing the houses still in decent condition although long since having been in use. They were from back long before even all the "hip getaways" that the Catskills became known for by NYC folks. Tying to think of the timeline for their use as boarding houses; Let's see.....I am 37 so I was just old enough to be able to remember going there when they were on the verge of being boarded up and my dad is now 78 and it was his Uncle's when his uncle was a young middle age man and he was a boy when it was in full swing use....so that makes it pretty old. LOL
Herer are a couple more of the property.....
Yes it was sad to see it in such ruins.
That is why when I went exploring it; I was moved by the plea for help that someone that came before painted on the wall of the main boarding house....Or maybe it was the house calling out for help! I remember as a small boy seeing the houses still in decent condition although long since having been in use. They were from back long before even all the "hip getaways" that the Catskills became known for by NYC folks. Tying to think of the timeline for their use as boarding houses; Let's see.....I am 37 so I was just old enough to be able to remember going there when they were on the verge of being boarded up and my dad is now 78 and it was his Uncle's when his uncle was a young middle age man and he was a boy when it was in full swing use....so that makes it pretty old. LOL
Herer are a couple more of the property.....
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joecoin
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Re: Plea for help in the ruins.....
Kinda spooky. Could be worse though, could say "Helter Skelter".
Kinda spooky. Could be worse though, could say "Helter Skelter".
wesfrye53
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The black & white phots add character to those old relics!
The black & white phots add character to those old relics!
bigfish31
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It just needs alittle paint.
It just needs alittle paint.
alwayslookin
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Can you say "Blair Witch"
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Can you say "Blair Witch"
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Gypsy Heart
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Those are great photos ....I love theCatskills . The sink looks like it needs a good home....If I come get it can I have it?
Those are great photos ....I love theCatskills . The sink looks like it needs a good home....If I come get it can I have it?
CarolinaDigs
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Gypsy you and I are thinking alot alike here I was just going to post > save the sink !!! It's a jewel 
gypsyheart said:
Gypsy you and I are thinking alot alike here
I was just going to post > save the sink !!! It's a jewel
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How did you know? The Blair Witch was here too and the girl freaked out
when she came by and seen that stick figure hanging from the ceiling casting shadows on the wall!!!!
As for the sink..... it looks better here that it actually was; the property was sold a while ago. I have not been there in a couple years; may already be gone![:-\](https://www.treasurenet.com/smilies/undecided.gif "Undecided :-\")
I will be going back later this fall. I certainly would let you know...
How did you know? The Blair Witch was here too and the girl freaked out
when she came by and seen that stick figure hanging from the ceiling casting shadows on the wall!!!! As for the sink..... it looks better here that it actually was; the property was sold a while ago. I have not been there in a couple years; may already be gone
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Hey, I would be after those light fixtures on the pole. Those are really neat looking. Great shots, does look something out of Blair Witch.
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Hey, I would be after those light fixtures on the pole. Those are really neat looking. Great shots, does look something out of Blair Witch.
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So sad.....back when I was a scavenger (like gypsy) I would have salvaged lots from that place. Things like moldings, wood turnings, old cupboard doors....all that stuff can be made into something else.
Thanks, Davici!
Thanks, Davici!
Montana Jim
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Great pics... I agree with wes... the B&W shots are awesome...
Looks like a place to scavange... did you detect at all?
Looks like a place to scavange... did you detect at all?
Gypsy Heart
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hmmmmm...a little paint...some wallpaper....could be cute
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Back in the day; the place was very active with people passing through on their travels. I have not done any detecting up in that area. I am sure it would produce some interesting things. I am going to go back in the spring to see what has become of the place in the past couple years.
The Catskills in general have really become a graveyard of sorts for old resorts and camps. I was travelling the back roads on the other side of the Catskills and the old Jewish camps can still be seen dotting the landscape. For those that are scratching their heads...."Jewish Camps?" In addition to the resorts that are something right out of the movie Dirty Dancing during the early 20th century, there was also a range of camps based on backgrounds too for young people and families coming up from the NYC. Jewish camps seemed to flourish in the area more than most specialty camps. Here is a brief article that I pulled up:
"Brief history of the "Catskill Mountains" also know as the Borscht Belt.
The “Catskill Mountains” is a traditional vacation land with many summer resorts and camp grounds. During the first part of the 20th century, many ethnic groups (Germans, Czechs, Jews, etc) established summer resorts in the nearby Shawangunk Mountains, located south of the Catskills near the town of New Paltz. However, since the Shawangunk name was both hard to spell and to say, those resorts cleverly adopted the Catskills as their home, thereby capitalizing on the strong reputation the area already enjoyed. The resorts together became known as The "Borscht Belt," a collection of Jewish resorts (Brown's, Grossinger's, etc) in this region.
Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster Counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. Borscht is a kind of beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin. The term Borscht Belt can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
Borscht Belt hotels, bungalow colonies, summer camps, were frequented by Jewish New Yorkers, particularly in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Because of this, this area was also nicknamed the Jewish Alps and Solomon County (a modification of Sullivan County), by many people who visited there. Well-known resorts of the area included Brickman's, Brown's, The Concord, Grossinger's, Granit, Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club, the Nevele, Friar Tuck Inn, The Pines, Raleigh and the Windsor.
With changes in demographic and travel patterns, caused partially by the wide-spread adoption of air conditioning that made the cities less unpleasant in the summer, the area has declined as a major vacation destination. Perhaps the single biggest factor was the decline of discrimination or "restriction" in the hotel and travel industry by the 1960s. Prior to that time, many resorts and hotels, implicitly or otherwise, did not welcome Jews. The replacement of old travel routes such as old New York State Route 17 (superseded by an express highway of the same name, now in the midst of an upgrade to Interstate 86), had left the area with a veritable museum of abandoned or decaying travel-related businesses from the Borscht Belt's heyday.
Today the region is a summer home for many Orthodox Jewish families, primarily from the New York metropolitan area. It has many summer homes and bungalow colonies (including many of the historic colonies), as well as year-round dwellers. It even has its own year-round branch of the Orthodox Jewish volunteer emergency medical service Hatzolah. A few resorts remain in the region, (Kutsher's Hotel, Villa Roma, Friar Tuck, to name a few)."
All in all, the Catskills and their abundance of ruins and abandoned places (as in there were 100s of hotels in the area) would prove to be a great outing for anyone that enjoys detecting/treasure hunting/scavenging.
The Catskills in general have really become a graveyard of sorts for old resorts and camps. I was travelling the back roads on the other side of the Catskills and the old Jewish camps can still be seen dotting the landscape. For those that are scratching their heads...."Jewish Camps?" In addition to the resorts that are something right out of the movie Dirty Dancing during the early 20th century, there was also a range of camps based on backgrounds too for young people and families coming up from the NYC. Jewish camps seemed to flourish in the area more than most specialty camps. Here is a brief article that I pulled up:
"Brief history of the "Catskill Mountains" also know as the Borscht Belt.
The “Catskill Mountains” is a traditional vacation land with many summer resorts and camp grounds. During the first part of the 20th century, many ethnic groups (Germans, Czechs, Jews, etc) established summer resorts in the nearby Shawangunk Mountains, located south of the Catskills near the town of New Paltz. However, since the Shawangunk name was both hard to spell and to say, those resorts cleverly adopted the Catskills as their home, thereby capitalizing on the strong reputation the area already enjoyed. The resorts together became known as The "Borscht Belt," a collection of Jewish resorts (Brown's, Grossinger's, etc) in this region.
Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster Counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. Borscht is a kind of beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin. The term Borscht Belt can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
Borscht Belt hotels, bungalow colonies, summer camps, were frequented by Jewish New Yorkers, particularly in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Because of this, this area was also nicknamed the Jewish Alps and Solomon County (a modification of Sullivan County), by many people who visited there. Well-known resorts of the area included Brickman's, Brown's, The Concord, Grossinger's, Granit, Kutsher's Hotel and Country Club, the Nevele, Friar Tuck Inn, The Pines, Raleigh and the Windsor.
With changes in demographic and travel patterns, caused partially by the wide-spread adoption of air conditioning that made the cities less unpleasant in the summer, the area has declined as a major vacation destination. Perhaps the single biggest factor was the decline of discrimination or "restriction" in the hotel and travel industry by the 1960s. Prior to that time, many resorts and hotels, implicitly or otherwise, did not welcome Jews. The replacement of old travel routes such as old New York State Route 17 (superseded by an express highway of the same name, now in the midst of an upgrade to Interstate 86), had left the area with a veritable museum of abandoned or decaying travel-related businesses from the Borscht Belt's heyday.
Today the region is a summer home for many Orthodox Jewish families, primarily from the New York metropolitan area. It has many summer homes and bungalow colonies (including many of the historic colonies), as well as year-round dwellers. It even has its own year-round branch of the Orthodox Jewish volunteer emergency medical service Hatzolah. A few resorts remain in the region, (Kutsher's Hotel, Villa Roma, Friar Tuck, to name a few)."
All in all, the Catskills and their abundance of ruins and abandoned places (as in there were 100s of hotels in the area) would prove to be a great outing for anyone that enjoys detecting/treasure hunting/scavenging.
COUNTRY GIRL
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Wow great pictures in black and white. I am with the girls, I wanted the light fixtures the most though. What a shame it was vandalized like that, deffinately should have saved her.
By the way that witch pictured made me jump!
By the way that witch pictured made me jump!
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