218 Comments for Heiden Hotel

It's been a little bit since I've been on your site, I've missed so much. Great work, I can't wait ti catch up!

And no wonder they went out of business...$32 and $21 rates for a night?

So, I googled these addresses to look at the homes of the people who stayed at the Heiden back in 1980. Interestingly, I envisioned them leaving their front door and walking to their cars with their bags, all excited or maybe not to go on their trip and stay at the Heiden...

Thanks for sharing your memories! Unfortunately I do not have a photo of the payphone, pretty much everything I shot is up in this photo set.

I wonder if Motts got a photo of the pay phone which was found down a staircase off this hall. It was the only public phone in the place and often had a line of guests waiting for their opportunity to call out.

I am thinking my room was on the right there during the summer of '81. Susan's first comment reflects my experience. Busboys and waiters at the Concord had to work a shift for each meal with a break in between. The day started at 6am with breakfast set-up and ended near 8:30pm after dinner clean-up. Seemed each day of the week we had a different local joint to party at until usually around 1am. We definately burnt the candle at all ends. But the money was good, mostly from guest tips.

I was kinda hoping to see my records in the photos. Though, I was there in '81. Susan, you can offer a fresh perspective on what it was like there. Those capturing the elements and those taking some interest are keeping alive something that exists no more. I thank them for it and encourage them to learn more about the magnificent history of this treasure.

I lived there the summer of '81. At this point the hotel was a boarding house for those like me working the busy season at the large resorts in the area like the Concord. A claim the Heiden could make in its heyday was 'running water' in the rooms - which meant a sink in your 10' x 12' room and the bath down the hall. Many of the guests were college students getting a start on life and the halls were filled with fun and a kindred respect for the hard work and partying we all fit in to the limited hours in the day. This resort had a great run and appeared to be managed with care. While it is easy to see the wrinkles on the surface of this elder lady, look beyond and capture the beauty of a life well lived.

No problem, thanks for lashing out at me and not Herbert Heiden or any of the people who managed this property when it closed and carelessly left all those records behind.

By the way, I'm sure phone books in 1980 also contained these people's name, home address and phone number.

@Susan I hope someone with an art degree could appreciate that others see beauty in a decaying landscape. But then again, maybe that's why you wipe your ass with it?

Thanks for expressing your narrow-minded opinions in the most condescending way possible. Which reminds me, you know what they say about opinions, how everyone's got one...

I want this Photo for my exam

1980:
1) yes it was lovely wainscotting on the bottom half - lovely white as I recall.
2) light golden wallpaper on top half
3) ceiling and sprinkler system was freshly painted white & recently inspected (i made sure before I put my money down)
4) There was sunlight and cool cross breezes and music
5) It was not "in the middle of nowhere" if you could look past your millennial and x-gen stuck-up noses you could imagine a pre-1960 Catskill town flourishing or a post 2020 Catskill town coming back in a different way due to NY city sprawl. But oh ya I forgot ya'll would actually no imagination exvept the negative kind. Vision is not your thing.
You people are despicable the way you disrespect this place as if you have the right ! You never lived there. You never went during its heyday ! How dare you speak ill of it with distain ! How ignorant of you ! You have NO clue how much work the owners did or how they struggled by looking at the decay ! Of course the decay is bad ! ITS DECAYING ! The people who loved it are GONE ! Easy to throw stones at them now, dumbass !
Shame on you.

Yes. Thank you so much Mr. Photographer for not devulging MY personal information ! This was the exact simmer I lived there ! Allan Rubin and Barry Osten were not so lucky. Here's a newsflash to you ... 1980 was NOT a million years ago ! And we don' t want our stuff on thr internet for your entertainment !

Ohhh Jeeezus people ! Nooooh, nobody took that stuff down .... but somebody could have ! YOU could have ... but nobody did ! It decayed ! And no, its not worth a small fortune until somebody tresspasses, steals it, taking it down, polishes it up, and sells it on Etsy, shipping & handling not included - of course ! Wake up to reality people !

Of course ! God knows who snuck in there and did god knows what after the owners closed it up ! It was fine in 1980. Looked not pristien but clean & sufficient !