Goldstein & Sunshine
Were Hotel Icons
If the remains of the former great Grossinger Hotel could
talk they would certainly offer many great memories about former well known
employees Louis "Lou" Goldstein and Morton "Morty" Sunshine.
Louis passed away April 2 and Morton died April 26. Both men
were in their 90's.
Lou Goldstein served as Activities and Entertainment
Director and this is where he honed his famous version of the "Simon Says" game
while Morty was popular at the hotel as its general manager.
Goldstein while attending college at Long Island University
became quite a notable basketball player there and this actually brought him to
the Catskills and Grossinger's.
Lou and his famous "Simon Says" game created many TV
appearances on shows such as "Be Our Guest", "Mike Douglas", "Celebrity
Superstars", "ABC Superstars", "John Davidson Show", "Merv Griffin", "Dick
Clark Show", "Battle of the Networks Stars", "Kids Are People Too", "Wonderama",
"Canadian Superstars", all over 125 television appearances.
During his years (1948-1986) at Grossinger's Lou did half
time shows for the NBA, NHL and baseball featured his nationally known "Simon
Says".
Lou was certainly an icon of this area and everywhere he
worked he always make the audience laugh.
Morty in his early working days worked with his father and
then went out on his own into advertising and publicity. He went back into the
hotel business and opened The Doral Hotel and Country Club in Miami and then
went on to open hotels in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
In 1964 Jennie Grossinger asked Morton to come to
Grossinger's to help out following the death of Harry Grossiner. In addition to
serving as general manager for over 7 years he was also the general manager at
the Granite in Kerhonkson.
His passion to teach got him his Master's degree at Empire
College and he taught at both the Woodbourne and Sullivan Correctional
facilities. He also became at NYS inspector at Monticello Raceway testing horses
for drugs.
Monty also loved raising Great Danes for several
years.
These two outstanding professionals will long be remembered
for adding so much over the years to the historic Sullivan County hotel
industry.
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