Word: concord
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the floodlights, the slanting floor of the Concord Hotel's coliseum-sized nightclub rose into astonishing distance. The S.R.O. audience, 3,000 strong, was swaddled in mutation mink and choked with pearls; star-sapphire pinkie rings glinted whenever their silk-suited owners shot their cuffs. Even "Uncle Miltie'' Berle was impressed. Onstage last week, he bared the bright new caps on his teeth, leered at the enormous room, and delivered a typically backhanded Broadway compliment: "You think this is something? Next year they're going to build an indoor mountain...
Next year the Concord's Owner Arthur Winarick may have to. Competition in the Catskills is continuous. Million-dollar swimming pools, championship golf courses, lobbies as big as Latin American airports are commonplace now. Grossinger's, affectionately known as the "G," even boasts its own aircraft landing field. If Kutsher's, another high-priced hostelry, should suddenly sprout a polo field, the G or the Concord might be forced to build an artificial sea beach, complete with waves...
...money, big-bill payers demand big-name stars of Broadway and TV. So the Concord shells out $6,500 for one night of Berle; the G imports Pat Suzuki, Robert Merrill, George Jessel (its smaller nightclub keeps its budget down to $2,000 for individual acts). There are some 50 hotels in the Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they...
...Goods. In Concord, Calif., after burglars looted the safe in his restaurant six times, Joe Molino confronted the seventh burglar with an empty safe and a sign: "Please try some other place. We can't stand much more of this...
...this oversight was remedied. Now tourists, folklore specialists and art lovers alike can see in a handsome 240-ft.-long gallery the Old West in all its glory, ranging from an Indian brave's buckskin jacket with porcupine-quill embroidery and the original "Deadwood Stage" built in Concord, N.H. in 1840 to works by such master painters of the West as George Catlin, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Jacob Miller, plus the entire studio collection of Frederic Remington, the greatest of Western painters, donated by the W. R. Coe Foundation along with a $500,000 trust fund to help maintain...