The Borscht Belt Flickr Pool

  |  December 17, 2013
Schenk's Hotel in South Fallsburgh/photo by 1950sunlimited

Schenk’s Hotel in South Fallsburgh/photo by 1950sunlimited

Normally we save space to promote our own Flickr pool, so you can share your favorite upstate New York photos with us. But we were doing a little research this weekend and stumbled across a continually growing collection of Borscht Belt-related images on Flickr, too. Our regular readers know that we are passionate about reviving the area once known as the Jewish Alps (who wants to make a hipster bungalow colony with us?) but we also think it’s important to remember the past. This pool is full of nostalgic images as well as some heartbreakers from the present.

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