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wackadoo wabbit

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2. This is near to my heart. I was the co-GM of one of the small Catskills hotels during the 1990s

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Tue Sep 19, 2023, 02:42 AM

Sep 2023

It had been in my husband's family for four generations, and it did indeed start out as a farm.

Virtually all of the guests while I was running it were in their 70s, 80s, and even 90s, and had been coming every year for decades. As they gradually became too infirm to travel and/or died, the hotel had fewer guests and eventually was no longer profitable (the property taxes were insane!), so, like all of the others, it was shut down.

We were one of the very last hotels operating.

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Interesting. I didn't know about the farming experiment aspect of the Catskills! 70sEraVet Sep 2023 #1

This is near to my heart. I was the co-GM of one of the small Catskills hotels during the 1990s wackadoo wabbit Sep 2023 #2