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View From the Stage

I guess purple was their color of choice. The lighting guys had a nice little booth there.
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Lighting? I thought that was a cannon to blow the bad comedians off the stage when they were getting booed!
Bugout
Tue 06-07-2005
old spotlight...:)
griffyn
Thu 06-16-2005
I love it. This place is the coolest.
Nauseous
Thu 10-06-2005
Purple was the color of royalty in ancient Persia. Apparently, purple dye was the most expensive and most difficult to make. I guess that's why they made the Persian Room purple.
Trep
Sun 11-13-2005
NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER !
Alan
Sat 12-10-2005
As a teenager, I spent a couple of weeks a year here as part of a student organization. Spoke to a packed house from that very stage. My last visit there was in 1991 - I've been wondering what ever happened to this place. Thank you for sharing the pictures with us.
echa73
Fri 01-06-2006
Looks like the type of lounge Alan King and David Brenner would do when they were desperate."this inflation is terrible isn't it? Oh her? she's my wife.Take my wife please.....t-BOOM SNARE
David
Sat 01-21-2006
ohh lucky you got there before the ceiling started falling now.now theres a big gross mess all over the floor :(
_liss_
Tue 03-21-2006
I am just amazed how much stuff has been left in the building to rot.
C
Mon 03-27-2006
I know it, theres a lot left there. The owners of the building should have a sale. $20 per car load. Theyd make a fortune. But either way people will sneak into the building and steal stuff either to keep as souveniers or sell on e-bay.
JLP
Tue 03-28-2006
..I'd be interested in just the spotlight.. that thing's all metal and glass, so it won't fall apart. Even now, it'd be worth 'bout $300-$500.
foxtrot_xray
Tue 04-11-2006
Id buy the colored star light and the gold curtains.
JLP
Wed 04-19-2006
i would've loved tp play a tacky joint like this....bad lounge heaven. i would have to wear a polyester shirt with lapels the size of pizza slices...
pat ratchet
Sun 05-28-2006
I loved that colored star light!
Scott
Thu 06-08-2006
"Here's looking at you kid"...
The first thing that popped in my head.
Its like, a final good bye at the last show, the last preformance the preformer would ever see such a view... So... tragic.
Oh God... soo... cliche lol
Jessica
Thu 07-06-2006
all i can think of is "the shining" did they film any part of it here? I thought they might have, idk
Kurt
Tue 07-11-2006
I was one of the lighting "guys" at the Pines. I was also one of the lifeguards at the indoor pool - early 80's. Was offered the additional part-time job when the regular guy screwed up with a major headliner act - he was drunk or high and the spotlight was everywhere except on the singer.
Dona
Thu 08-03-2006
Sounds like the spotlight op at the high school production I'm currently running...
Richard
Sat 08-05-2006
This shot here really reminds me of a resturaunt in disney world. It is in tommorrow land and there is some robot alien things playing on the stage.
Brian
Sun 08-20-2006
is this a condemned stage for redundant performances?
jb
Wed 09-27-2006
That would be a cool place to have a deep purple concert.
D.J
Tue 10-17-2006
lmao @ D.J.
i think they should have painted most of those old asylums with this color, i love it and think it is soo much more calming then that "gag green" or "atrocious turquoise" they used

i really want to paint my ceiling this color now
Katee
Sat 01-13-2007
if anybody goes up in the spotlight room there are paper cut outs of bats on the wall
randy
Sat 02-03-2007
" Polka Fest 98" The final show
Joe
Sun 03-04-2007
What was really the last show??? Did they use the hall after the hotel had closed?
Joe
Sun 03-04-2007
smoked more spliffs than I'd care to remember(if I could) in that little spot-light room. Saw more dodgy gigs and listened to some awful music. Thanks for the photos. I see the staff rooms haven't changed much in 20 years
A-Staff 85-87
Tue 10-09-2007
A-Staff, I was a hostess in the Persian Room during '85-'87. I remember the shows, some were funny, others painful. It's amazing to see these photos, it brings back so many memories (however brief my time there.) I can't believe the place is gone. I hope everyone has moved on to better things.
Underage Bartender
Thu 03-06-2008
I worked as a cocktail waitress 1986-87, does anyone remember Jerry the manager, Hector the bartender or Angie, Michael? How about Speedy Garfinkel (think that was it). What a blast we had...so sad to see it like this.
"Sam the man"
Tue 06-24-2008
That room. in the late 60's - 70's was the greatest !!! Compared to smaller hotels, this was first class, air conditioning, set seating and tables, levels so all could see, soundproofing puffy walls, I worked my first "big hotel" Summer job there in the lounge. That Summer, I saw Count Basie, and many other big bands and big names perform in that Showroom.... what a sound.....
Jerry Perell
NY Rhythm Entertainment
Jerry Perell
Tue 07-08-2008
I remember that view. We followed Bill Monroe on that stage in 1988. It really did look grand back then, in a way only possible in the Catskills. Our mandolin player backstage was impressed that Shecky Greene probably used the same mirror he did to get ready.
Rich
Tue 09-16-2008
Full house...
PlantMonster
Mon 09-29-2008
The final curtain call, but unfortunately, no encore
arose_is4ever
Thu 10-23-2008
and again, the ceiling is gone, there is no glass left everything is in disarray.
awinell
Fri 05-22-2009
i too worked on stage and on spot lights.was also on the athelic staff (lol) . brings back lots of memories for me as well. Zach if you read this i hope you are doing well.
tim
Fri 10-23-2009
Dirty Dancing was filmed on location at Lake Lure, N.C., and Mountain Lake Hotel and Mountain Lake near Pembroke, Va.
Vampyr
Wed 06-23-2010

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