Atlantic City Seeks New Image: Las Vegas's

[Intheknow]

Originally Posted by hbraithw

Like he's the first politician to get caught with a prostitute in the history of the world. If your not white what are you?

No, but he might be one of the few who was set up by political foes to oust him from office. Instead of concentrating on improving this City our politicians spend time on this nonsense.

[acplayer]

For decades Atlantic City was probably the best place in the world for children to vacation and/or live. In the picture you can see two theatres just on this one block of the Boardwalk when A.C. had over a dozen theatres in town. You can see the children feeding the pigeons.



Fast forward to the present and this is what Atlantic City offers for children and families where children now feed the beggars.

[block944]

Except for the borgota AC is a crap hole to bad they have to furlough rooms now too


From the Star Ledger:
Lack of guests leads Borgata to close rooms in Water Club Hotel

The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City is taking hundreds of rooms at its Water Club hotel out of service on Tuesdays through Thursdays because of low demand.
The casino also shuttered most of the posh year-old hotel’s 800 rooms on those days last March. They were reopened when bookings picked up over the summer.
…
The lower demand comes as Atlantic City’s casinos have struggled with a weak economy and increased gambling competition in Pennsylvania and New York.

[block944]

Originally Posted by Intheknow

Native American.

No wonder he likes the casinos!

[Intheknow]

Things are looking bleak for the Casino industry- everywhere. I don't think Revel will open anytime soon,if ever. A few Casinos may have to pack it in this winter. We have yet to hit bottom in AC. and it's pretty bad now! Business is slow, real slow and with the amount of debt these Casinos hold trouble is brewing.

Isn't that "no-legs" Johnson in that picture?

[acplayer]

The problem is that everything that made Atlantic City attractive, unique and special is gone.

Here you can actually see the ocean from the Boardwalk and the gorgeous architecture of the Blenheim, whose concrete was personally poured by Thomas Edison. (now Bally's bland shoebox)



Edison also used to fish out the window of his friend's house, Captain Young, which used to be on the end of the Million Dollar Pier, which is now Caesars Pier One.



In 1960 you could actually shop and go to the cafeteria at Woolworths below your affordable hotel room at the Belmont (now a tin shed sellling cheap t-shirts)

[Fabrizio]

Another shot of the Belmont, there in the distance. Some of my finest memories of AC are of the city in winter. To think: people would go there in the winter... to walk on the Boardwalk... to shop. Note the building behind the rolling chair: it is exactly like buildings you'd see on so many main-streets... simple, only a couple of stories, but beautifully detailed.

[Intheknow]

The Boardwalk is now bleak and depressing, no wonder it's deserted, and it's only October wait until February.

New York Times had a piece on AC last week in the business section, "Can Atlantic City raise the stakes". It's going to take more than the Revel opening, which I doubt will happen, to save AC. Simple minded people are controlling AC and its fate.

[JohnFlint1985]

From my last visit in September future Revel Casino

[acplayer]

Great photos of Revel. I hope it gets the financing to complete it asap. A.C. really needs the boost and some kind of good news.

Here's what the Belmont and Woolworths looked like by the early 1980s.


Although it could get quite cold in the winter....


The crowds still came. (And they would still come if there was a reason for them)

[Fabrizio]

The Dennis Hotel .

Looks like a TV transmission... most likely a political race. The card on the right says Frank Blair who was an anchor for the Today Show. Faye Emerson, long forgotton, was a huge television star in the 1950's.

[Fabrizio]

Note the difference between the Revel's blank reflective glass walls on the B'walk compared to the Dennis in the photo above.

So now we read that Revel needs a billion dollars to finish? Wasn't there something about Chinese investors? What's the story?

[cantlisten]

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[66nexus]

The rendering shows some ground level and greenery on the B'walk level. In those pics the glass is immediately abutting the B'walk. I really hope that's not indicative of things to come.

As for the above post, it seems like a Vegas ad, and it seems like it will be deleted.

[acplayer]

What I don't get is why the city isn't doing something with the vacant inlet land near Gardeners Basin where Hackneys and Captain Starns once stood at the end of the Boardwalk. They should have seafood restaurants, sightseeing and fishing tours with trolley service from the Boardwalk to the inlet, the marina and downbeach. So much squandered opportunity in A.C.

Hackney's




Captain Starns


Nice day for a sail




Feeding the sea lions


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