![]() The film tells the romantic story of a young woman (played by Jennifer Grey), named Francis "Baby" Houseman, who falls in love with a dance instructor named Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), while on vacation in 1963 at a resort just like Grossinger.īefore it finally closed in 1986, the hotel encompassed a complex of 35 buildings on 1,200 acres that served 150,000 guests a year at its height. ![]() One such visitor was Eleanor Bergstein, writer and producer of Dirty Dancing, who vacationed there with her family. Hundreds of thousands of vacationers made their way to the Catskills to visit the spot. Grossinger's heyday was after World War II, according to the Associated Press. ![]() The fire is still under investigation, according to the Liberty Fire Department. Once the fire was out, an excavator was brought in to knock down the remaining pieces of the building, officially ridding the Catskills of what remained of the Grossinger Hotel. The Liberty Fire Department Facebook Another angle of the fire at a building on the Catskills' old Grossinger's resort.
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