Wing

That's fugly

First of all the architecture of the PINES is hideous. Its butt ugly and no wonder why it died. Are you serious?

Hee hee hee!!! "Butt ugly" is one of my all-time favorite phrases! 8`-)

Geez, that IS butt ugly. I think of the Catskills resorts as having these majestic towers and spires...this looks like my old elementary school!

Yeah, architecturally it reminds me very much of a place called the 'Holiday Motel' in Torquay where we stayed a couple of times when I was but a nipper. Similar 1960s architecture, leaky flat roofs, flat-pack cardboard furniture, horrid colours. It too was 'minging' (as we say in England!) and it too died lol...

That's what they did in those days. The shorter building is the Hampshire and when they needed more room they built the Savoy but with an entrance from the Hampshire so all were dry in the rain.

In some ways I still feel very sad for this place. Most of the places I stayed in as a child weren't especially pretty... the often deteriorating resorts and holiday parks of the South Coast of England, seeing out their twilight years by catering for the few too stubborn or too poor to jet off to 'the continent' like everyone else...

You don't care when you're ten or eleven that the carpets are threadbare, the decor is twenty years out-of-date or that the place is surrounded by the peeling hulks of hotels and boarded-up shops that have already succumbed to the inevitable.

Sadly I suspect there's no-one going to step in and save the Pines from the bulldozer - those flat roofs have undoubtedly doomed the place. Looking at the shots it seems that almost every one has failed, resulting in almost unbelievable water damage that would cost millions to even start putting right :(

Hey, what's with all the butt hating? My butts not ugly...

Those buildings, however, are hideous! They look like something that Wright would create in his nightmares!

Believe it or not, this used to be the 'in' look for winter resorts. I know of several that were used for training in these sports and quite a few looked this ugly.

Looks like my high school..........

That's "Art Deco" architecture, for ya. Either you love it, or hate it. When my family stayed here , I was just 6. I remember thinking it looked like an office building.

This shot of the hotel looks exactly like an elementary school in rural manitoba Canada
wierd. just wierd.

Very different look from the outside.

The two story wing is probably from the 1940's or 1950's. The four story building is straight out of the 1960's or early 1970's (what color is that anyway, Harvest Gold?). Older resorts (such as the Pines) always tried to do more modern add-ons that almost never related to the original structure. Whats really weird about this place is the use of pastels everywhere, especially in the mountains, thats a new one on me.......

On another note, the taller building kind of looks like public housing to me......just a thought.....

This Place reminds me of a resort in Canada called Fern, only Fern is still open even with very gross pastel colours on the walls! I Think it opened in 1890, or thats what the people who work there and own it say! Its acually really nice inside, A lot better then The Pines and any Holliday Inn. It has like 3 Out door pools and an Indoor pool, has really good food and in the winter in has DOGSLEDING!!!!! : ) PS: It's near the town of Orillia

Ohh And by the way theve had like a billion reno's there so it's all band New!!! :)

looks more like a school or a hospital

The facade looks like my old high school, just change out the yellow for orange

Hi Denise! This palce looks like it could be a school, hospital or office building but not a resort. Very institutional like most buildings in the 60's. People thought that it was beautiful architecture back then. Its horrible!