1,916 Comments for The Pines Hotel

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Donna---was there a life guard when you were there---a blonde named Halina?
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I lived in the Ritz in 1980 & 81 what a hell hole. we had to sleep with lights on so the cockroaches wouldn't come out. There was a life sized mural drawn on my wall of a junkie shooting up--real nice to wake up to.--Upgraded in 82 across the street from the hotel--forgot what the place was called.
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Tom Tom is dead on accurate about the pool at night !!
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As Donna stated above...the cry of "IMMIGRATION" actually happened on numerous occassions. The Kitchen steward Alan (Hunt??) was a total A-hole. The only way to get even was to empty out all the illegals from the kitchen, typically minutes before lunch , as nearly 1,000 guests were about to stuff themselves. The benefit of doing this before lunch was so they'd also be screwed short handed for dinner the same night and breakfast the next morning. It was a helluva payback. That was the poorest run kitchen, the Bd. of health could have shut it down at anytime.
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when its beyond repair, they usually turn it into staff housing--at least that's what it was like from 1980-82
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Like Donna the lifeguard, I too worked at the Pines from 1980 to 1982 as a busboy. What a fun time---great place to work & spend the summer---party at the Chalet & grow up fast. I remember Rock the bellhop & Tom the waiter too....Also my dining room buddies; Gary M. Hi-Guy (aka Jay S., Dave R. & Steve L.
Been vacationing up there at the Villa Roma the last few years.
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I believe in taking souvenirs. And for everyone who thinks stealing is wrong, what are your views on trespassing?! You have to trespass before you can take anything (even a picture).

If I ever make it to The Pines, I'll be sure to take something and something for you too, JLP. :)

The owners of The Pines owe more than 1.8 million dollars in taxes. I think taking a doorknob is no big deal.
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looks pretty ghoulish. why so much space dedicated to this 'house of wax'.
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attack of the aliens of starship troopers
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looks like something right out of silent hill 2!
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The place was renevated in 1996 and by 2006 it's abandoned? What on earth happened?
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Sorry, Sincerely. Tom Tom really is a good guy. I miss him terribly! Where are you TT, you need to defend yourself!
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Tom Tom.... Could you please just have a little respect.... PLEASE? There are people here to enjoy this nice site. It is not respectful of you to the site or the other people on the site for you to be consistently vulgar and insistantly vulgar. Nobody cares about your sex life or wants to hear about it. Do you discuss these things with your mother? Your daughter? The lady checking you out at the grocery store? Think!
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Speedy,

When you have a moment drop me a line.

Danny
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I was the Director of Activities and MC in the nite club from '84-86. Hank Leeds, the legendary previous director disappeared Labor Day '84 and I took over. Anyway, I was given two attached rooms on the main floor in the Ritz. Each pair of rooms shared a bathroom in between (that's the way it was in the old days) ... so I had a 'suite' of sorts. One time I was taking a shower. I'm totally lathered up and someone starts banging on my tub from below with a pipe or something and I hear screaming from the basement. Scared the crap out of me. Turns out the hotel's handyman was fixing a leak and had undone the pipes coming out of my shower. The water was going all over the place. Just another day at The Pines And don't get me going on when the old guy backed his car thru the walkway leading to the Carlton...