1,916 Comments for The Pines Hotel

I remember those days. I used to go there as a child with my parent s and my cousins. We used to have such fun. I have so many memories of that place. My cousin and I used to talk about taking our kids there someday. It is truly a shame that it had to come to this. Really breaks my heart. I knew it closed down years ago, but never knew it was still up !!! Wow.

My father worked as a bar hop in the 60's mostly during the summers. He said it was good money for a side job. The Jewish ladies loved to tip him big. My sister and I were friends with the Ehrlich children in the late 60's and early 70's. They lived in a house next door and the hotel was our playground. We skated in the rink, swam in the pools, played in the game rooms and had glorious dinners and birthday parties in the sumptious dining room. It was a paradise. I'm so sorry to see it has become yet another abandoned resort. If only it could have held out longer for a rebirth and a renaissance. The photos are absolutely haunting.

all wrapped up into ONE.

I just finished going through all the pictures and these pictures are so sad. to see what the shape of the hotel is in is a disgrace to its former beauty.

Why not start up a website or something dedicated to saving and repairing this building
Its so cool,creepy,wierd and beautiful all wrapped up into that I know id stay here.

looks like someone threw up on the phone then let it in the hot sun for a week.

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

frank is right that shot is creepy as hell and looks like a shot straight out of a horror movie.

this shot is waaaaaayyy to creepy. It almost looks as if someone is going to walk through the door down the stairs and sit in that spooky old chair!

I meant creepy

After seeing the rest of the hotel and the shape its in, this bathroom is so damn creey its just wrong!

I happened across this site by chance and for a person used to abandoned buildings up here in Canada [houses] this site is awesome.

Day2604 - not sure if there was one by that name, but there was a place called Sunnycroft, it was about 45 minutes from the Pines in a town called Shawangunk. It was last active, that I know of, in the 70's. It was a resort with a dude ranch type setting. I lived just down the road from it as a young child and my brother worked there as a teenager. Set at the base of some of the most beautiful sheer white rock cliffs, it was a very peaceful setting. Unlike the majority of the resorts in the Catskills of those days, this resort was not Kosher. It has since been torn down and is now part of the land holdings of the Jehovah Witnesses in the area. Their main farm and printing facility is located just a few miles from the old Sunnycroft Ranch.

a friend and i accidentaly stubeled upon the Pines one summernight wile camping in fallsburgh and it really scared us half to death but i love that kinda stuff

Those red curtains give me the hee - bee / gee - bee's.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

8:51 P.M. / Monday / 30 / July / 2007

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Good Afternoon ! This is the Pines Hotel. How may I help you ?

May I please speak to my son Norman.

I am sorry Ma'am but Norman is assisting one of our guest's who is having difficulty with the shower. And then after that he has to take care of a few cars that have been abandoned in our parking lot.

Oh, I see. Please have Norman call his Mother as soon possible.

Yes Ma'am. Would you care to leave a message for Norman.

Yes sir. Please let Norman know that a plain clothes detective has been to the house this morning. He has a few questions concerning a missing woman from a real estate company in Phoenix, Arizona along with $40,000 of currency. I keep telling Norman to stop talking to these woman who sleep in their cars all night long but he just will not listen.

Yes Ma'am. We sure will give Norman the message. Will there be anything else ?

Oh, I almost forgot. Please ask Norman to pick up my dresses from the dry cleaners after he is finished with work today. And please do not let Norman play in the swamp anymore during his lunch break. I am getting very tired of cleaning the mud off of his shoes every couple of weeks.

Yes Ma'am. Will there be anything else ?

No Sir. Thank you and have a good day.

Yes Ma'am and thank you too. Have a nice day.

i worked at the pines as a waiter from '78-'84,aqnd this definite3ly lookslike my oldroom on the 4th floorof the ritz. it didn't look this bad back then. it was actually pretty nice. staff didn't stay free, but they only took out about $5 a day for room and board. use of the hotel amenities was usually allowed. the money was really good working in the dining room, so there was definitely alot of major partying going on.with the chalet only 1/2mile away in the summer,life was grand.....