My parents just visited the area and told me that demolition has started on the Pines. Sad =/

sad

I lived it. :-(

anyone else see that orb there

we across that lastnight n it is way overgrown even the road going up to the place is overgrown shit hitting your car n all

i went last night n it was all good

Mid 50s?

Howie, You call a move from the Ritz to the Riverdale an upgrade?!

Another funny Ritz story.. Late one night the fire alarms start going off. We open our doors to see smoke (steam) pouring out from the room at the end of the hall way (what would be the second floor room on the far left in the pic). The guy inside was yelling & cussing. We went in for a closer look- through the smoke you could see the form of a tall thin black guy, completely naked, bending over at the old steam radiator with the broken lever in his hand yelling "how the hell do you shut this mother f*cking thing off?!" Of course nobody was willing to help the naked new guy- we retreated back to our rooms in hysterics instead.
..Or the time the keg broke during a party. We finally got it 'fixed' early the next morning- but it would only flow continuously with beer. What else could we do but to all call in sick so as not to let it go to waste? No staff today Jerry..

There were never any curtains in this area.. it was a mini 'greenhouse' type nook under the stairs that led to the night club.
A fire in the main building? These shots were taken in 2003..

If you think nobody will care if you steal from this place than you have no idea just how bored South Fallsburg PD actually are. They actually investigated the stealing of a pie from the Pines bakery back in the day.. (And when the detective came to the Ritz to question us it was spattered with whipped cream- jinkies!!) I'm going to assume it has only gone downhill from there.
I'm more intrigued by the fact that JLP genuinely seems to want to furnish his living quarters with this debris. How does he drive past any dumpster anyplace and maintain his composure?

Because this was a staff house. Curtains were a special treat.

Actually, Dona reading your other comments you may have been just before my time there (I was there late 80's). It's funny to read how many different generations of Pines employees have all posted the exact same experiences though.

I think I may be! You can email me at l82bedagain(at)yahoo.com

If it was stolen and not taken down by the owners, I'd be willing to bet it was their own hired security. Who else would have the opportunity to take something so large & hard to get to?

Sadly, It's all too true Lynne. I was there. There was an aging old housewife willing to sleep with every bellhop or waiter that was willing to do the job. A little cocaine didn't hurt their chances any either.

Keith, I think it's been done on Trading Spaces already.

To quote Cliff Ehrlich "It's better than sleeping outside"

There were few ways to calm agitated patients before effective psychotropic medications. Hydrotherapy was an effective means of reducing agitation. Its use stopped after the introduction of Thorazine the first effective psychotropic medication. Thorazine not only reduced agitation but hallucinations, inappropriate behavior and anxiety. It was the penicillin or wonder drug in the treatment of psychosis. I think the advent of Thorazine was the first creak in the closing of the doors to these buildings.

You mean you're not going to tell us how many of the Rainbow girls you deflowered in the 80's? ;)

Monty.. remember this? Remember the P!

Well just to the left of the stage there is a huge multicolored "star" light (you can see it in some of the other pictures). I'll bet that would look really tite on the front of your house!

The other one was the Riverdale.

Sam, table for one. I'll tip you next week I promise.

OH, it looked NOTHING like that when we lived there. It was a virtual palace. There was no ice in the toilet bowls, no cockroaches. Really, I swear! And how did that beer bottle get there? What a shame, what happened to the place. To just let it all go to the crapper like that.