Today, the hamlet still contains a number of bungalow colonies.
Through the 1950s, farms, large hotels and bungalow colonies dotted the community.
Anyone else would recognize it from their grandmother's bungalow colony.
The bungalow colonies, for example, were not just clusters of cottages around a lawn but a distinct culture.
When he was a kid, the Catskills had millions of these places, bungalow colonies.
In its heyday there were numerous summer hotels, bungalow colonies, and boarding houses.
As in the past, the vast majority of people flocking to bungalow colonies are Jewish.
In 1984, 55 investors paid nearly $1 million for the bungalow colony, which has about 85 families living on 97 acres.
There were bungalow colonies every few hundred feet on either side.
Police officials said that in the insular world of the bungalow colonies the guests often let down their guard.