Camp Love

For a fixed price, families could gorge on all-you-can-eat kosher meals, play shuffleboard, tennis, golf and swim. Or in the case of ‘‘Baby’’ Houseman, the heroine of ‘Dirty Dancing,’ fall in love with the camp’s dance instructor.

But as flights and modern air-conditioning became more accessible in the 1960s -- when the coming-of-age movie was set -- the decline set in.

Marisa Scheinfeld, who grew up spending summers at her grandparents’ condo at Kutsher’s, said she is all for anything that will ‘‘bring the economy back into the county.”

“It’s never going to be what it was,” said Scheinfeld, a photographer. “But I do hope that the development at Kutsher’s will yield jobs for sure and more people traveling up there.”

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