After a particularly humiliating experience at a Catskills hotel in the early 1950's, he quit show business.

To support themselves, residents run a thrift store, an antiques shop and a Catskills hotel, among other businesses.

He still plays the Catskills hotels, on the Jewish holidays.

My husband and I have been describing it for years as feeling like a tired Catskills hotel, comfortable but down on its luck.

But the old joke about the Catskill hotel where people complain that the food is terrible and the portions so small may not hold true here.

She spent summers at the Catskill hotels where her father, then a trumpeter, had gigs with the big bands.

Do Catskill hotels serve too much food?

The velveteen swivel seats in the nightclub of a Catskills hotel, circa 1965.

She was 13, he was 18, and the two crossed paths at Spring Lake, the Catskills hotel owned by his parents.

His father, Earl Tunick, operated a photo key-chain business in Catskills hotels.