The Catskill Resort Hotel pool before.
    
   

How the Catskill Resort Hotel pool looks today. (AARP NEWSLETTER)
    
    
   

In its glory days, Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel outside Liberty, N.Y., was a
glamorous vacation scene frequented by celebrities. Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth
Taylor got married there, and it was the inspiration for the fictional resort in Dirty
Dancing, the iconic 1987 movie starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.

Now the owner of the non-operational hotel has applied for state funds to clean
up the acres of contaminated ruins and recreate a grand resort on the grounds,
according to the New York Times.

For the new Grossinger’s, developer Louis Cappelli of Westchester, N.Y. told
the Times he imagines a golf course, yoga classes and chalets — not the
bungalows where Baby and Johnny danced in Dirty Dancing and had the
time of their lives.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1938.

The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida 
on this day in 1988. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.

Pope John l was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little over a month in office on this day in 1978. The 65-year-old pontiff, born
Albino Lusicni, had apparently died of a heart attack.

Game one on this day in 1954.

Jerry Lee Lewis is 83 today.

Singer-songwriter, and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, often known by his nickname,
The Killer, has been described as "rock & roll’s first great wild man. He was
expelled from Southwest Bible Institute for the called “devil’s music”.

Jerry Lee Lewis has been the last living member of the Sun Records Million
Dollar Quartet.

TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1957, 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students
were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children
had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because of unruly white mobs.

On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson collapsed after a speech in 
Pueblo, CO. The speaking tour was in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

On this day in 1897.

William Cuthbert Faulkner
(September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962)

Michael Kirk Douglas is 73 today.

Michael Douglas won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role
in the 1987 film Wall Street. He reprised his role in the 2010 sequel
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. His other notable film credits
include The China Syndrome (1979) Basic Instinct (1992) and Falling
Down (1993). He is the son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1952, Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At the time
he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.

Richard Nixon and family dog Checkers. 

On this day in 63 B.C.

The Lewis (Left) and Clark (Right) expedition ended their trip to the Pacific
Northwest on this day in 1806.

Freud died on this day in 1939.

Freud’s couch.

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is 68 years old today.

Known simply as The Boss, rock legend Bruce Springsteen hit fame in
1975 with his critically acclaimed album Born to Run and again in 1984
with his rock anthem "Born in the U.S.A." He won his 20th career Grammy
Award in 2009 when his song "Working on a Dream" took Best Solo Rock
Vocal Performance. Springsteen felt deep alienation while attending high
school and did not appear at his graduation. He failed his physical
examinations after being drafted to fight in Vietnam and never served.

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a spy-fiction television series produced by
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television and first broadcast on NBC. It follows
secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn (center and David McCallum 
(left), who work for a secret international counter-espionage and law-
enforcement agency called U.N.C.L.E. The series premiered in 1964 and discontinued its run on January 15, 1968. It led the spy-fiction craze on
television, and by 1966 there were nearly a dozen imitators.

David Keith McCallum, Jr. turned 84 on September 19.