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The bar next to the theater, with some trippy carpeting.
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This bar was known as the Wedgewood Room. Back in the 70's Speedy Garfin and the Garfin Gathering played during the summer. Wonder Woman star Linda Carter was a singer in the band.
db
Mon 02-21-2005
That is the original carpeting, or at least as old as the early 60\'s.
D Jordan
Wed 05-25-2005
I worked with Speedy during the summers of '77 and '78 and I remember this room very well. Very fond memories. When I was with the band, Linda Collins was the vocalist. I joined the Garfin Gathering after Linda Carter.
Rick G.
Sun 06-26-2005
after a few drinks that funky carpet would have me "garfin"
triniphen
Fri 08-19-2005
Whatever possessed them to use that carpet type is beyond me other then the time it was ..
Skye
Fri 08-19-2005
AUGHHHH!

Though I guess you wouldn't care after a few vodka and cranberries. Plus the carpet pattern would hide any vomit stains.
derelict sensation
Sat 08-20-2005
I lOVE THE PINES!!!!!
Nauseous
Thu 09-29-2005
The Pines really needs its very own horror novel. Your photos are seductively spooky.
Tamara
Sun 10-09-2005
I couldn't imagine having to look at that carpet smashed
Lola
Thu 10-20-2005
I spent many a night watching Speedy, my dad, there.
josh g
Wed 10-26-2005
Most of the time, I couldn't see the carpet for the smoke. Great memories of things above the carpet though.
"Speedy" Garfin
Thu 10-27-2005
I LOVE the pines. It has like a "shining" charm to it.
Alexxx
Sat 11-05-2005
We should all have a Road Trip to explore The Pines.
JLP
Wed 11-16-2005
That'd be cool.
Twug
Wed 11-16-2005
C'mon road trip road trip
JLP
Wed 12-07-2005
Complete with wood panelling walls.
Hey_Vanity
Fri 12-09-2005
Hey Josh G , Speedy's son...I actually babysat for you...and of course Speedy...what more can a person say but..."It's a grand night for singing!". And yes...that carpeting was a bit puzzeling even back then ! But we were there..........
Cindy
Sun 12-25-2005
If I could get into this hotel, Id take the stuff from this bar and furnish my basement with it.
JLP
Mon 01-02-2006
after 26 summers, and a thousand memories, I moved to Kutshers,where 2006 may be the last summer there.
Speedy
Fri 01-06-2006
70's era all the way i could see John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever. DISCO!!!! Stayin alive stayin alive ah ah ah stayin alive.
Billy Stephens
Thu 01-19-2006
Nixon Vietnam Era "I am not a Crook".
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Billy Stephens
Thu 01-19-2006
Wish I could put that entire bar right into the trunk of my Cadillac and redecroate my condo with it.
JLP
Sun 02-19-2006
I played in Speedy's band back in the 80's and played the Pines for four summers. Met my ex-wife there...must have been the carpet
David R.
Tue 02-28-2006
thats not the bar is it? isnt that the coffee shop where we played go screw your neighbor
randy
Wed 03-01-2006
i retract that last comment the coffee shop was down the flight of steps next to this bar
randy
Thu 03-02-2006
Someone should make a video tour of this hotel, Id buy a copy, along with souveniers from the hotel. I want to see it and grossingers for myself once it gets warm out again. I'll just set my Caddy's GPS for the pines and have a road trip.
JLP
Fri 03-10-2006
BACK IN THE 80S WHEN I WORK THE PINES WITH HANK LEADS SOCIAL STAFF. MIDNIGHT SHOW WITH SAL RICHARDS AND AND MANY DATES WITH VERY FINE WOMEN.
TOM TOM
Fri 03-31-2006
Back in the (early) 80s when the A staff was the Gay staff...
We get it Tom Tom- you got laid in the 80s. Now turn off your caps.
T
Fri 03-31-2006
So sorry you have problems with gay"s. I am not gay and if i was.Wait a minute!! Why am i explaning to some one who has a identity proplem. Just bring back the past. Be nice.
Tom Tom
Wed 04-05-2006
Won't bring it up know more.
Tom Tom
Wed 04-05-2006
Aww, Tom tom it's OK. I just thought it was funny that you had post after post about the female guests. I'm sorry. I'm sure you have great memories of your times there. Michael B was A staff back then, wasn't he? Was a very good friend of mine.
T
Thu 04-06-2006
Thank You!! I reallly don't remember Mike B, over the weeklend i will think about it more wile i"m trout fishing. Its been so long so many things i forgot except you know what which i promise i will not bring up. Any way have a nice weekend I'll be on next week.
Tom Tom
Fri 04-07-2006
How could anyone forget Michael? He was a lifer! Hee, I said "lifer". JK, love ya Mikey. Besides, by most standards I probably came pretty close to being one myself.
Anyway, I wish more people would leave a post when they stop by. I know they are all lurking!
T
Fri 04-07-2006
Hey Smitty- Who's workin' late?!
I'm pretty sure it's Dina's turn!
T
Fri 04-07-2006
I still can't remember Mike, could you tell me what he looks like and what years he was working at the pines? There was a name Rick Newman on the stage chat who i remember, he was stage mang.
Tom Tom
Mon 04-10-2006
TOM TOM we gotta love ya. if we do a road trip i get to ride with you.
bluicecorvette
Mon 05-01-2006
That would be fine, i live in N.J. My family lives in Middletown N.Y. I will pack a lunch. Boy this is getting to be very interesting.
Tom Tom
Tue 05-02-2006
Please read my comment on (FRONT DESK KEYS.
Tom Tom
Tue 05-02-2006
TOM TOM , cool. diet coke. lots of coffee. no tuna. how much room in your car? i pack heavy. maybe Lynne can ride with us too. or should we rent a partridge family bus?
bluicecorvette
Tue 05-02-2006
I wanna come too
JLP
Tue 05-02-2006
JLP Hi. dont you have the thing in your car for directions? maybe we should ride with you, That way TOM TOM could show us all the places he took his lady friends.
bluicecorvette
Wed 05-03-2006
TOM TOM you broke a lot of hearts huh?
bluicecorvette
Wed 05-03-2006
No i did not break any hearts we all had fun. Please lets not get on the subject any more i made a promise. Anyway if i have time today i will call the tax office in fallsburg
Tom Tom
Wed 05-03-2006
Yeah the GPS system, the caddy's dead though :( But the GPS will be in whatever I get next
JLP
Wed 05-03-2006
I had no time today to call the tax office. Will try thursday. don't need gps i know how to get there.
Tom Tom
Wed 05-03-2006
JLP. time for a corvette
bluicecorvette
Wed 05-03-2006
TOM TOM sorry...my lips are sealed forever. will you still pack lunch?
bluicecorvette
Wed 05-03-2006
A corvette, I wish.
JLP
Wed 05-03-2006
this bar seems to have a scorcese /
bada bing vibe going on
pat ratchet
Sun 05-28-2006
Little slow tonight, eh Lloyd?
Mike
Thu 06-08-2006
What the!!!!
Tom Tom
Fri 06-09-2006
Hey, T - by any chance were you a waiter back in those days? With an end room in the Ritz? Comments I've seen you post sure sound like an old friend.....
Dona
Fri 08-11-2006
I think I may be! You can email me at l82bedagain(at)yahoo.com
T
Wed 08-16-2006
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.
T
Wed 08-16-2006
Speedy Garfin...if you should come back to this site and look at the Wedgewood Room carpeting once again...please e-mail me - I was that crazy blonde that would always request that you do "Along Came Jones"...what you did with that Clarinet..well we do have our memories...e-mail me at Doreen4remax@aol.com ...If Kutchers is still around in the summer of "07" I will come up there with my hisbamd and my children just to see you and enjoy your "Along Came Jones"... You were and still are the best!!!!

Thanks for the memories,
Doreen :)
DoreenfromNJ
Sun 11-19-2006
Speedy,

When you have a moment drop me a line.

Danny
danny@dannywinchell.com
Wed 12-06-2006
Donna---was there a life guard when you were there---a blonde named Halina?
howie
Wed 12-20-2006
Howie,
Yup - She left a few months after I started there. Right around the same time as the head lifeguard, don't remember his name - just that he was a vegetarian. I ended up the only lifeguard for that winter - 1980-1981.
I don't know what ever happened to Helana, but she was definitely someone you don't forget...... When I first started there I shared a room with her. I was quite happy when that arrangement ended!!!
Dona
Sat 12-23-2006
I went back to the Pines in the summer of 2006 its very depressing.My son went to kutchers camp and I wanted to show him where i spent my summers.....o the memories
mike
Sat 02-24-2007
I loved Speedy Garfin. I use to yell out "Fire and Rain" Laste shows where great too with Sal Richards. Jackie Mason, Freddie Roman. MaL Z..... great times of my life.
Robin
Mon 07-02-2007
With that carpet, it's a good thing people usually don't have hangovers before going to the bar!
Kolfritz
Sun 07-08-2007
anyone remember "rock" the valet guy a t the chalet. you laid a fin on him and you got to park down in front...
slim
Wed 01-23-2008
hey donna; i'm sure i worked there during the same time as you...from '79 through summer '81
howie
Fri 03-21-2008
Howie - yeah, I'm sure we were there at the same time as well - and I think we hung out with many of the same people. Tom (not Tom-Tom from here), Chris, Steve D., Sue, Nancy, etc
Dona
Tue 03-25-2008
Slim - Rock was definitely unforgettable! I heard he is still around Fallsburg, driving a cab.
Dona
Tue 03-25-2008
I bet mad people brought shrooms here. Motts, you are correct, the carpet is exteremly trippy!
Julie
Tue 05-20-2008
I played my last Catskill summer at Kutshers in 2007. So many memories,but I don't linger on the carpets. Living in Nevada for the last 33 years, and still tootin my horn.
Speedy Garfin
Thu 07-17-2008
Big Rock was a bell hop too
Tom Tom
Tue 08-12-2008
My Dad is and was Johnny Greco. He was te emcee at the Pines for almost 30 years. If you were part of the Garfin Gathering for any of that time - 1960-1990 - Please contact me. I'm thinking of writing a book about how cool it was growing up in the Catskills during those years!!
Kippi
Sun 01-04-2009
"Smoke. smoke that cigarette". How well I remember Johnny.
You can e-mail me at Howardgarfin@sbcglobal.net
"Speedy" Garfin
Tue 03-03-2009
Warren used to be one of the bartenders here and in the bar by the dining room, back in the early 80's. I hope he check's this board. He was fun and was one of the employees I remember from when I worked there.
PInes Lifeguard
Sat 03-28-2009
"Speedy" Garfin was headlining for "Slowly" Barfin' wasn't he? lol
Jack_
Mon 12-14-2009
Where's Lloyd?
Tjo
Sun 02-20-2011

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