I just flew in from Pittsboigh, and boy are my ahms tired!
March 19, 2012 1:53 PM Subscribe
What can you recommend as a good history of the Catskills area nightclubs (the "Borscht Belt") circa pre-WWII to say, the late 1960s?
I've looked at bits of It Happened in the Catskills via Google Books, and it seems to be a pretty great oral history.
posted by neroli at 2:49 PM on March 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by neroli at 2:49 PM on March 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
Not entirely your focus, but Moss Hart's Act One has a few intense chapters on the resorts and their entertainment directors. (My phone is but butchering links.)
posted by Lesser Shrew at 3:06 PM on March 19, 2012
posted by Lesser Shrew at 3:06 PM on March 19, 2012
Response by poster: MonkeyToes, that link is invaluable....just what I was looking for.
And neroli, I've ordered your suggestion through Powells.com.
Lesser, it's funny you should mention Act One: that happens to be my all-time favorite autobiography! I've read it through several times and it never fails to get me right heah.
posted by BostonTerrier at 5:03 PM on March 19, 2012
And neroli, I've ordered your suggestion through Powells.com.
Lesser, it's funny you should mention Act One: that happens to be my all-time favorite autobiography! I've read it through several times and it never fails to get me right heah.
posted by BostonTerrier at 5:03 PM on March 19, 2012
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posted by MonkeyToes at 2:27 PM on March 19, 2012