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The Catskills and the Borscht Belt
Catskill Mountains, New York
The original uploader was Daniel Case at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Jewish families shut out of other resorts built their own in these mountains, and by the 1950s several hundred hotels and bungalow colonies ran a circuit that trained most of American comedy, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, Jerry Lewis, Rodney Dangerfield. Air conditioning, cheap flights and the end of restricted resorts emptied it within a generation.
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