Growing Up at Grossinger's

By: Tania Grossinger

Narrated by: Laura Giannarelli

From 1919 to 1986, Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel provided a summer retreat from the city heat for New York's Jews, and entertained the great, the near-great, and the not so great, Jews and Gentiles alike. A melting pot of the Borscht Belt, sports, and show-biz worlds, loyal visitors included Red Buttons, Rocky Marciano, Eddie Fisher, and Jackie Robinson. Tania Grossinger grew up there. In her fascinating insider's account of life in the hospitality industry, she sheds light on how hotel children keep up with the frenetic pace of life, and how they come to grips with the outside world (which intrudes now and again), sex (happening in every room), and, occasionally, their intellectual interests. Growing Up at Grossinger's is both a wonderful coming-of-age story and a sentimental reading of a chapter of the Jewish experience in America that has now closed.

©2008 Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Fascinating look at a famous hotel in the Catskills

I love the history and I learned so much about Jewish culture especially in the 1940s to late 50s

Deceptive

This book has nothing to do with the Catskills and that period in history. It was like listening to someone’s grandmother tell old bland stories. She could have grown up anywhere for that matter . Barely spent anytime delving into the history of the place. Missed opportunity.

Not for me

Sorry but this was just boring for me. It was nothing more than someone relaying their experience growing up but there were no key moments and no important stories to tell. It was not engaging, amusing, or even interesting. I had to stop 1/2 way through the book because nothing held me to the story, if I can even use that term.
Sorry. I don’t like criticizing others work but this book just did nothing for me.