Michael Kolodin was born on July 24, 1956 in New York City and moved to Brooklyn, New York, specifically Canarsie, East 101st and Avenue L. Michael Kolodin lived in Brooklyn for 8 years before moving to Matawan, New Jersey on the NJ shore. Michael Kolodin got into neighborhood fights everyday in Brooklyn as a part of his daily routine. Michael Kolodin was not a great student in school, until high school, when he started to work and saw the value of earning money and advancing in life. Michael Kolodin was also a cub scout and boy scout in troop 66 in Matawan, New Jersey. Michael Kolodin’s first job was a busboy in Keyport New Jersey, known as Ye’ Cottage Inn on the water. Michael Kolodin’s second job was working for the Shop Rite Supermarket on Lloyd Road in Matawan, New Jersey in 1972.
In 1972 Michael Kolodin had one of several lead rolls in the high school production Anybody for Tea and You’re a good man Charlie Brown. Michael Kolodin’s roll in Charlie Brown was the role of Linus and carried a blanket around all day.
During the rest of High School, Michael Kolodin had several other dramatic rolls in high school plays like up the downstair case. Michael Kolodin also was in the chorus as well as the madrigal singers and jazz singers that traveled around to other local schools and performed. Michael Kolodin also played on the varsity bowling and varsity golf teams.
Michael Kolodin worked summers in the Catskill mountains, where his father was a performer in many of the hotels. Michael Kolodin also attended Kutcher’s sports academy in the summer of 1972. Michael Kolodin worked at Kutchers Country Club near Monticello, New York in the summers of 1973 and 1974 as a busboy and waiter. In 1974 after leaving Kutchers attended Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey before setting out on a hospitality career in Cleveland Ohio, with his uncles, Mitchell and Dennis Kolodin who worked as general managers for Holiday Inn and Sheraton. Michael Kolodin got his original hospitality training in Cleveland before returning to New Jersey continuing his hospitality career while working for several Holiday Inns and Sheraton in Newark, New Jersey before joining Prime Motor Inns in East Brunswick, New Jersey, specifically the Sheraton East Brunswick for several years.
Michael Kolodin then became the youngest general manager in for the Sheraton East Brunswick before he became a regional manager being sent to different properties to seek out reasoning and explanation for high food and beverage costs throughout the Prime Motor Inn chain up and down the State of New Jersey. Michael Kolodin then in 1977 moved to Fort Lauderdale Florida where he continued his hospitality career working for the Ocean Manor and Hilton on Galt Ocean Mile on Fort Lauderdale Beach. In 1979 Michael Kolodin decided to change careers and go from hospitality to the credit and collections industry in Oakland Park Florida a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
