Maisel did a midnight stint at The Concord). Grossinger’s, Kutsher’s, and The Concord dominated the hotel scene – giving comedians like Buddy Hackett, Sid Caesar, Henny Youngman, and later Billy Crystal, Jerry Seinfeld, and Joan Rivers a launch pad for their careers. The Catskills grew so popular, by the 1950’s and ‘60’s the area was affectionately referred to as “The Borsch Belt.”

Will arrange transportation to Bethel Woods (for a fee)įrom the 1930’s on, hoteliers have capitalized on the beauty of the Catskill Mountains, opening up resorts that drew a mostly middle-class Jewish clientele from New York City (90 miles away).

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I was waiting for them to bring one of those big checks over and had a plan to see if I might be able to get a few words from the winner, but believe it or not, the commotion was done fairly quickly, and I thought it might be weird for me to introduce myself to a stranger who just won some major money asking for his thoughts. A little over $10,000, that's what was going on!Īs coins scattered across the screen, with the words BIG WIN flashing below, more people started gathering around the big winner who had just won one of the jackpots.

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