This segment originally aired live on December 23, 2014. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on August 28, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.
For several years, Marisa Scheinfeld, photographer, has been photographing old resorts in the Catskills. She talks about what's left now and what it says about the area's former glory. Also, Alan Woinski, editor of the Gaming Industry Daily, talks about what it takes to make a casino successful, and what the prospects are for the Montreign Casino Resorts project planned at the site of the old Concord Hotel in Sullivan County.
