1,916 Comments for The Pines Hotel

This is for Laurie Smith - are you related to Cookie? I was a friend of Larry Smith - are you his sister? I lost contact years and years ago ..... I was at the Pines from 1975-1984 as a summer guest.
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It is weird, there is the modern furniture in an abandoned building with the plants on the floor. That is a scary contrast. I think it is really scary for those who remember having stayed in this hotel before it closed!

I have read that the lampshades are gone. Well it's illegal because there must be an owner somewhere. But on the other hand, it's somehow good news, because they are safe from damage. And they are supposed to be valuable, as someone stated. Even if they haven't been discovered on ebay, it does not mean that they are just a souvenir. maybe there were sold in a shop for antique furniture.

Kind regards from Germany!

My Dad ran the ice rink. So this place was a job( athletic staff, life guard, golf course and of course the skating rink) as well as a place to hang out. there were lots of good times. Any of you ex employees remember Joe Black; the guy who taught " the hully gully and various novelty dances"?

The font is "Murray Hill"

The irony is delicious :P

Yeah, this bathroom is cleaner than mine, too.

ross c . did you also play for mel torme ??????????????

oops-damn laptop-anyway i was saying, if you were staying in the rooms in the hallway to the Regency section a good hip-check would open any door. They weren't solid doors anyway-louvered like closet doors!

I had a collection of those keys from all the times I stayed there for our state convention. We all soon learned that some keys fit several rooms or if you stayed in the rooms in the hallway to the

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There are phones just like that (and they still work) in the old, abandoned dispensary on Kennedy Space Center.

I'm sorry I can't hear you over the sink!

Wow I feel old.

Hmm where's that interesting light fixture? Haha

in the 80's I was a member of a group called Rainbow and NY State had there annual "Grand Assembly" at the pines the first 2 years I was in the group (they had been useing it for a while) I can remember being on that stage doing stuff for the group....wow