1,916 Comments for The Pines Hotel

is this a condemned stage for redundant performances?

this is so early 80s, that pred8s email,cell phones,dot coms et all

I worked as a Lifeguard/Cocktail Waitress at the Tamarack Lodge and other Catskill resorts during the 80's & early 90's. The Jewish singles weekend were a nonstop party. Especially at the Concord. Let's not forget about The Pines Chalet at night. The summers in the Catskill's were like no other!

No, it's mold or algae.

Is this place dripping with asbestos? (Don't mind my spelling)

I find it odd how this bathroom is still perfectly intact. All of the buildings that I have been into have been vandalized to the extreme!

This room looks like people still drink there today. Any idea why this place was shut down?

I do not believe that stealing things from abandoned buildings is wrong. If you try to get the stuff as while they are renovating, some dumb security guard or worker on a power trip with nothing better to do tells you to get out of the dumpster because "Its just not allowed" or "Because you'll get hurt and sue us"

Stealing is wrong, no matter what.

Except that you're wrong -- Motts has visited several places that are in fact getting renovated and/or restored. Yes, in most of these cases the abandoned places are destroyed, but in some they are saved... thus your initial premise is faulty.

The end of an era! What a shame.

i have tremendously fallen in love with this website. your photos are insaney beautiful...im in awe

Andrew, your post reminds me of Unit 731, the Japanese bioweapons unit that operated in China during the War of 1937-1945. App. 1 million people were used for the most brutal, and hideous of medical experiments there, such as pressure chambers, live dissection, and victims were used as test animals for plague organisms that the Japanese later dropped from warplanes over Chun'king, a city they failed to conquer because of the powerful Communist Army there.
Unit 731 headquarters were Harbin, in beautiful Heilungjjiang Province. In 1945, when the combination of the Chinese Red Army, the Soviet Army, and the North Korean guerillas overwhelmed the Japanese defenders and crushed into Harbin, the surviving members of Unit 731 dynamited most of their facilities, and machine-gunned over 36,000 prisoners still held in it's compounds. Of the 1 million who entered the facility, only 9 survived when they escaped.
The next day, a crack DPRK (North Korean) assault force entered Harbin, spearheaded by a column of T-34 tanks. They were followed by troops of the Democratic People's Anti-Japanese Alliance: Soviet Union and Chinese Communists. The remaining Japanese soldiers who failed to evacuate the city on time were quickly slaughtered, many impaled on the tips of the Communist bayonets. But the doctors and scientists who headed the Unit 731 program fled justice, by plane only a few hours ago.

"Nobody puts baby in a corner"!

Because this was a staff house. Curtains were a special treat.