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ATLANTIC
City
HISTORICAL CITY ON THE VERGE OF A COMEBACK.
BY LEE GREENE
For
tic City was a place thought of as seedy, if not downright danger-
ous, where only gamblers who couldn’t make it to Vegas gathered around faded green felt tables in dated, smoke-filled hotels.
Well, I can’t say that some of those places don’t still exist on the boardwalk, but some new hotels and entertainment acts are definite- ly breathing new life into the city once known
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a long time Atlan-
as the “World’s Playground”.
Originally founded in the 1850s as a health
and spa resort town, Atlantic City hosted many upscale visitors from nearby Philadelphia and New York City. The railroad that connected the new city to Philadelphia was bringing over 500,000 people a year by 1874. And by the 1920s, dozens of posh hotels were constructed.
Fans of the show Boardwalk Empire will be familiar with Atlantic City during Prohibition
PHOTO, ISTOCK