[Impala64ssa]

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Lot's of famous people stopped here over the decades. Even Zippy the Pinhead



When I was a kid still living in da Bronx, we'd stop here whenever we travelled up to the Catskills, even though the Thruway was already built. Their food was that good. About 10 yrs ago some investors from the UK were considering buying the place, restoring it and turning it into a biker bar and grille, but that fell through when they determined the building was beyond repair. Sad to see it go

[Fish Speaker]

Route 17 was the main East-West thoroughfare through the Southern Tier of New York. Other than I-90, the only multi lane road that went East-West.

[Deplorable American1776]

The Red Apple was nice...it was as iconic than the Motel on The Mountain that we drove past every trip to Pennsylvania to visit relatives before I-84 was open.

[Wuli]

We once had friends that lived in Tuxedo. They moved there to get better digs for their money, so they said, but I think what they saved on their housing they spent on the commute into and back from Manhattan five days a week.

And yes, I remember the iconomic Red Apple on Rt 17. Never ate there but passed by it many times.

[1Old Pro]

a midway point for New York City travelers headed to the Catskills

In the early 1900s, when Jews and other minorities were banned from upscale hotels and beaches around New York City, the Catskills offered refuge. Every summer, families fled their cramped apartments for the mountains