The bowling alley of the abandoned Homowack Lodge in Spring Glen, New York. This area of the southern Catskills was once known as the Borscht Belt due to its. Watch the latest Featured Videos on CBSNews. View more videos on CBS News, featuring the latest indepth coverage from our news team. Vis9B0ZNbnFoFdwNtiOjjuG5I.jpg' alt='Watch Judgment At Nuremberg Online Judgment At Nuremberg Full Movie Online' title='Watch Judgment At Nuremberg Online Judgment At Nuremberg Full Movie Online' />Watch Postcards of Mid Century Resorts Transform Into Their Abandoned Ruins. In idyllic places like the Catskills and the Poconos, the 5. America. This was where newly suburban denizens went on vacation, flocking to lakeside resorts straight out of Dirty Dancing. But over the years, the people stopped coming, and the resorts closed. Watch Judgment At Nuremberg Online Judgment At Nuremberg Full Movie Online' title='Watch Judgment At Nuremberg Online Judgment At Nuremberg Full Movie Online' />Now, their moss covered ruins look like a tomb of the American dream. Photographer Pablo Maurer stumbled upon a few of these resorts while exploring the abandoned Penn Hills Resort. Once a honeymooners destination, the so called Paradise of Pocono Pleasure closed in 2. During his visit to the deserted resort, Maurer found an old matchbook adorned with an illustration of the Penn Hills pool at the height of its popularity. He looked at the illustration and then at the ruins of the pool and came up with the idea to photograph the current state of similar abandoned spaces that were once depicted in old postcards. For the next couple years, Maurer traveled around the Poconos and the Catskills, searching for resorts hed seen in postcards bought at antique shops and on e. Bay. His journey not only became a treasure hunt, seeking out the most dramatic ruin porn, but it also became a time traveling adventure. Maurer went looking for the spaces where a vibrant dining room or fun filled bowling alley once existed. Instead, he found moss covered caverns and graffiti coated ruins. The Catskills in particular are a truly stunning, beautiful place with this overarching melancholy thats hard to put your finger on, Maurer told Gizmodo. But like so many other formerly grand places, you see glimmers of hope and rebirth along with the blight. Thats one way of putting it. By superimposing his photographs of the ruins onto the postcard images, however, Maurer does help highlight the grandeur that once existed at these resorts. You dont need to imagine the lounge chairs by a now empty and polluted pool. You can see them in the postcard, lined up next to bright blue water and a diving board. Watch Tommy And The Cool Mule Hindi Full Movie. As one image dissolves into another, you can almost feel yourself transported back to the 6. Maurer explains that these resorts failed for various but sometimes related reasons. Airfare became more affordable allowing the general public to be a bit less local with their vacation time, he said. Tastes changed, and many of them did not evolve with the times. So they decayed. But there are still those glimmers of hope. Some resorts, like Grossingers and the Penn Hills Resort, have new owners who might decide to revive them. After all, the Catskills and the Poconos are becoming revitalized as young people rediscover the humble wonders near cities like New York and Philadelphia, places their parents might have gone or something they saw in a Patrick Swayze movie. Theres a chance the decrepit state of these once fantastic places is only temporary. You can see more of Maurers photographs, coupled with the postcards that inspired them, over at DCist. And you really should check them out. 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