Q: What ever happened to the Pococabana Lodge? I worked there one summer during high school.
T.S.
Dewey, Ariz.
A: The Pococabana Lodge's main building, which had been the hub of the 28-acre resort in Smithfield Township, burned in April 1973, leaving only the out-buildings standing but operational.
After the fire, the owner of the summer resort had planned to rebuild, but he was unable to reclaim the clientele that the lodge had once served, and business went downhill.
In 1976, the Pococabana became the first motel in the area to show X-rated movies via closed-circuit television. Less than a year later, the movies were abandoned for one of the latest fads — the all-water diet.
The Pococabana name remained listed in telephone books through 1982.
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Note from Chris:
(When my family first moved to the Poconos in 1978 my mother drove me and my brother and sister around a lot to check out things. Pococabana, or what's left of it, looked as it does today. Though no one would call it a "fat farm" today, that's what my mom told me it was in 1978.)
