| Posted by HauntedPA |
7/26/2004 7:44 PM | remove |
Yep this was the owners house. Also the site of the owners demise as he shot himself, which lead to the closing of resort.
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
7/27/2004 2:46 AM | remove |
The grounds are beautiful; screw checking out the hotel, I just want to play some golf! Honestly the place interests me because of all the ads I saw years ago, and when I first heard it was empty I said "I'm there" However, it seems as though financial probs were not the root cause of the closing eh?
Some folks on the modern ruins message board said they stayed there and besides a great meal, the rooms were awful. No AC. The tub is dirty., e.t.c.
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| Posted by Bratchny |
7/27/2004 3:57 AM | remove |
I think I made reference to the commercials numerous times - that is definately about 90% of the interest right there!!
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| Posted by HauntedPA |
7/27/2004 7:28 AM | remove |
Dukes- You're dead on with money troubles. I added into the main info that the place was about $48mil in debt...a shame really.
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| Posted by Carrie@HPA |
7/28/2004 6:31 AM | remove |
Mt. Airy was built up to this amazing resort from a small roadside motel. Or so those really nice people in Paradise Valley told us ;)
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| Posted by Bratchny |
9/10/2004 6:32 PM | remove |
It is a shame. the resort industry in the north east is virtually "abandoned". Between the catskills, the poconos, and the Jersey shore, it's really a problem. People in the city used to flock to these places, now we just hop on planes bound for places more exotic that Sullivan county. While I love getting far form here, I think there is something comforting about these small towns that once used to play host to thousands of guests throughout the year...
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
9/14/2004 3:05 AM | remove |
They all come up here now; thanks a lot downstate and PA people! Invest in your hotels; My village just stopped being mobbed after labor day; the whole Lake George scene is a frigging nightmare for residents. I just live here, and have no tourist connection; it drives me nuts! But the Adirondack park is the last true remote place in the state. Wouldn't leave in a million years; at the same time you have access to city life, drive and hour and you are in the middle of nowhere.
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| Posted by Bratchny |
9/14/2004 3:46 AM | remove |
The Adirondacks are great, although my experiences in Lake George have been mixed, mostly because of the bursting tourist economy. I spent 6 years in Plattsburgh, so I was more than happy to come back to the city, but had I been trully in the mountains I may have stayed...
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| Posted by Samurai |
9/14/2004 11:46 AM | remove |
for the love of god, Vermont has been invaded by the tourist industry. Actually, I think 'raped' is a better term.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
10/5/2004 11:59 AM | remove |
then you got places like plattsbugrg that survive on the whims of the canadian dollar, abandonned motels abound its nuts
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| Posted by Carrie@HPA |
10/6/2004 10:56 AM | remove |
'Dukes- Try Orlando, Florida in the middle of high summer.
Actully the pocono's still have life because all the friggen 'Yorkers come down there from the city and make driving anyplace a royal nightmare.
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
10/7/2004 1:41 AM | remove |
Not this "Yorker" Carrie! I don't tour anywhere! (except Vegas). Blame the downstaters!
I have the Adirondacks as my playground.
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| Posted by Bratchny |
10/7/2004 12:34 PM | remove |
As a 'Yorker from the city I can honestly say that it's hard to go from the crazy driving of NYC to the Sunday drivers in smaller offbeat towns - we mean no harm, but we only know how to drive offensively!!
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| Posted by HauntedPA |
10/7/2004 1:02 PM | remove |
It was definately the New York City variety of 'Yorker. I swear every weekend we became the 6th borough. It was insane.
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| Posted by Bratchny |
10/7/2004 1:30 PM | remove |
If you've ever spent 2 hours on the Cross Bronx Expressway during a Yankee game, you would understand!!
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| Posted by HauntedPA |
10/7/2004 1:43 PM | remove |
Oh I have! E-VILE road!
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| Posted by Bratchny |
10/7/2004 4:16 PM | remove |
Then you can understand why NYers drive like a bunch of freaking assholes (myself included)!!
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| Posted by 'Dukes |
10/10/2004 5:42 AM | remove |
Swan, I can onlyWISH there were more tourist s like you! Most of the Jersey, Ct people get on my road and drive oh say 25 or 30 in a 40mph zone. I only wish they would drive 60, 65. Bolton is ten miles of 40mph speed limit. In the AM i can do 60 but in the afternoon I folllow a bunch of snowbirds doing 30 !
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| Posted by Bratchny |
10/10/2004 3:44 PM | remove |
I'm not gonna say anything about Jersey people - it's too easy!!
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| Posted by Bfagan |
9/4/2006 2:46 AM | remove |
Okay, place in deep ass debt, it's an expensive resort for honeymooners, so not a popular spot for everyone....owner gets depressed over it all, puts iron to his head, and that's the making of a UE site. Hmmm.
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| Posted by CDSbigsby |
7/1/2007 8:57 PM | remove |
Cool house, shame. I could never be comfortable living in a house I knew someone died in.
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| Posted by itsa2wayst2 |
9/17/2007 11:40 PM | remove |
yes the front of Mr Wagners house, where he DID NOT SHOOT HIMSELF!!! he couldn't raise his hands above his shoulders, go figure. and all that debt was not just his. he had 2 partners and one of the borrowed 2x as much as he paid back. stop blaming the only name you know, remember the SILENT PARTNER.
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| Posted by Drychiolaethau |
5/27/2008 5:08 AM | remove |
I've always been an advocate for less messy suicides anyway. I mean, it's bad enough your family has to find you dead... Add on that to the fact that they need to scrub your brain fragments off the walls and that's just selfish in ways the English language can't express. Hang yourself, overdose on somethng, but, for God's sake, at least have the courtesy to do yourself in in a way that won't add some kind of unpleasant weekend chore for the familly you leave behind. :-(
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| Posted by Drychiolaethau |
5/27/2008 5:10 AM | remove |
Regardless, all these hotels in the Poconos that had to close have legends about owners who offed themselves. How many of them are true? My guess, none. ^_^
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