[Lee Stewart]

Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, USA

What a cryin' shame. The indoor pool of Grossinger's Hotel. In November of 1968 my mom was offered the position of Director of Corporate Sales at Grossingers. We left Forest Hills, NY and moved to the hotel. I graduated high school from Liberty Central High. I had my own room in a different building from mom. Mine was in the staff quarters while hers was in the executive staff quarters which was part of the main hotel. I became friends with Mark Etess who was Jennie Grossingers grandson. He later went to work for Trump in Atlantic City and was killed in a helicopter accident. My business partner and I had gone to AC and I ran into him - a week before he was killed.

I had numerous jobs at the hotel: waiter, bar waiter, carhop, lifeguard (at the indoor pool), bus driver and eventually became chauffeur for Paul Grossinger and his wife who maintained an apartment in NYC. I would go back and forth to NYC from Liberty about 2X per day driving Grossinger family and VIP guests. Drove a brand new Lincoln 4 door.

One of the side benefits to moving to Liberty was the ability to see my grandmother (my mom's mother) who lived about 15 miles away in a town called Loch Sheldrake.