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The Atlantic City Gamble
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Author : George Sternlieb
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1983
The Atlantic City Gamble written by George Sternlieb and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Business & Economics categories.
In November 1976, the state of New Jersey embarked upon a bold experiment when the voters approved a referendum to authorize casino gambling in Atlantic City. Expectations were high: the gaming industry could rejuvenate a dying city core, employment would swell, the tax base would broaden and welfare rolls diminish, tourism might spread through the state, and the cruel spectacle of a poverty-stricken community would be eliminated. The Atlantic City Gamble reports the results of this experiment and evaluates casinos as a tool for economic revitalization, a painless source of revenue. The casinos are enormously profitable--but for whom? The city has paid a huge toll in human and economic hardship. There are 30,000 new jobs, but little spillover into non-casino employment. Crime rates have skyrocketed. Housing has been priced beyond the reach of minority groups and the elderly. In 1982, the casinos paid more than $117 million in state taxes, but much of the projected bonanza to Atlantic City has been swallowed by the industry's need for expanded municipal services, such as police protection. Fears of the old connection between gambling and organized crime may be exaggerated, but few can deny that the gaming industry--with its immense daily cash flow--harbors a vast potential for corruption. The state promoted visions of a glorious rebirth, but it failed to provide a governing mechanism that could produce the promised rewards. Would better planning and research enable any government to cope with such instant large-scale business and the political clout it carries? Economic strangulation has motivated at least eight other states to think about letting in casinos. The decisions they make will have far-reaching social and economic consequences, and must be based on a set of facts as accurate and comprehensive as possible. In searching out the lessons of Atlantic City, the authors have provided a sobering glimpse into the intricacies of legalized gambling.
Atlantic City
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Author : Frank Legato
language : en
Publisher: Indigo Custom Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Atlantic City written by Frank Legato and has been published by Indigo Custom Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Business & Economics categories.
Atlantic City Queen of Resorts or America's Playground - you decide. Come inside and take a new look at Atlantic City today, a family destination with something for everyone and more surprises to come.
History Of Atlantic City
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Author : A. L. English
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884
History Of Atlantic City written by A. L. English and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Atlantic City (N.J.) categories.
Boardwalk Of Dreams
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Author : Bryant Simon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-07-29
Boardwalk Of Dreams written by Bryant Simon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-29 with History categories.
During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay for a mere six hours, and the highway has replaced the Boardwalk as the city's most important thoroughfare. Today the city doesn't have a single movie theater and its one supermarket is a virtual fortress protected by metal detectors and security guards. In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic City's rise, near death, and reincarnation. He turns the depiction of middle-class vacationers into a revealing discussion of the boundaries of public space in urban America. In the past, he argues, the public was never really about democracy, but about exclusion. During Atlantic City's heyday, African Americans were kept off the Boardwalk and away from the beaches. The overly boisterous or improperly dressed were kept out of theaters and hotel lobbies by uniformed ushers and police. The creation of Atlantic City as the "Nation's Playground" was dependent on keeping undesirables out of view unless they were pushing tourists down the Boardwalk on rickshaw-like rolling chairs or shimmying in smoky nightclubs. Desegregation overturned this racial balance in the mid-1960s, making the city's public spaces more open and democratic, too open and democratic for many middle-class Americans, who fled to suburbs and suburban-style resorts like Disneyworld. With the opening of the first casino in 1978, the urban balance once again shifted, creating twelve separate, heavily guarded, glittering casinos worlds walled off from the dilapidated houses, boarded-up businesses, and lots razed for redevelopment that never came. Tourists are deliberately kept away from the city's grim reality and its predominantly poor African American residents. Despite ten of thousands of buses and cars rolling into every day, gambling has not saved Atlantic City or returned it to its glory days. Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, and history.
Atlantic City
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Author : John T. Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2007-01-31
Atlantic City written by John T. Cunningham and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-31 with History categories.
Atlantic City, the resort city of romantic splendor, boasts a rich and fascinating history. Known for its white-sand beaches, vibrant boardwalk, exciting amusement piers, and grand hotels, the city has been the place where teenagers fall in love, return for honeymoons, and later bring their families.
Speaking Of Atlantic City Recollections Memories
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Author : Compiled by Leesa Toscano and Janet Robinson Bodoff
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-03
Speaking Of Atlantic City Recollections Memories written by Compiled by Leesa Toscano and Janet Robinson Bodoff and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-03 with History categories.
For over one hundred years people have been coming to Atlantic City to swim in the ocean, walk on the boardwalk, and get away from their day-to-day lives..... Return to the halcyon days of the sand and sun as local writers and long-time locals present stories from Atlantic City's heartwarming past.
Atlantic City New Jersey
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Author : N. J. Atlantic City
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Atlantic City New Jersey written by N. J. Atlantic City and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with History categories.
Boardwalk Empire
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Author : Nelson Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-03
Boardwalk Empire written by Nelson Johnson and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-03 with History categories.
Through most of the 20th century, Atlantic City, New Jersey, was controlled by a powerful partnership of local politicians and racketeers. Funded by payoffs from gambling rooms, bars and brothels, this corrupt alliance reached full bloom during the reign of Enoch 'Nucky' Johnson - the second of the three bosses to head the Republican machine that dominated city politics and society. In Boardwalk Empire, Nucky Johnson, Louis 'the Commodore' Kuehnle, Frank 'Hap' Farley, and Atlantic City itself spring to life in all their garish splendour. Author Nelson Johnson traces 'AC' from its birth as a quiet seaside health resort, through the corruption, notorious backroom politics and power struggles, to the city's rebirth as an international entertainment and gambling mecca where anything goes. Boardwalk Empire is the true story that inspired the epic HBO series starring Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt and Kelly Macdonald. 'As good, if not better, than the television series' Independent
Atlantic City Revisited
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Author : William H. Sokolic
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2006
Atlantic City Revisited written by William H. Sokolic and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In 1854, a group of engineers and railroad businessmen drew a straight line from Philadelphia to the New Jersey coast, built a railroad along the line, and created Atlantic City. From the 1850s to the 1950s, the city attracted the creme of American society and the working class alike and gave birth to the beauty pageant, rolling chair, boardwalk, saltwater taffy, jitney, and the successful Monopoly board game. But the onset of air travel in the 1950s and the aging grand hotels brought Atlantic City to its knees. The opening of Resorts International in 1978 and the prosperous gaming business that followed in its wake helped the city rise from its own ashes, and a year-round tourism industry exploded. Garish and opulent casino hotels replaced many of the boardwalk dowagers, and new palaces transformed the once desolate marina section into a vibrant destination.
Atlantic City
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Circa
Release Date : 2019
Atlantic City written by and has been published by Circa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Atlantic City (N.J.) categories.
Atlantic City was born in the mid-nineteenth century and grew so big, so fast, that it captured the American imagination. It was 'the World's Playground'. Its hotels were the largest and finest, its nightclubs legendary, its boardwalk an endless promenade. And then, as it began to fade, the casinos came. And instead of reviving the city they killed it. Chief among the villains in this piece is Donald J Trump, who built his casinos on dunes of debt and bled them into bankruptcy. On the presidential campaign trail Trump boasted of his 'success' in Atlantic City, how he had outwitted Wall Street and leveraged his own name for riches. He would do for America what he had done for Atlantic City, he said. And so it came to be. Brian Rose has documented what remains of the city in the aftermath of the casino explosion. The images are haunting. Atlantic City may never recover. AUTHOR: Brian Rose studied at Cooper Union with photographers Joel Meyerowitz and Larry Fink. His documentation of lower Manhattan over a twenty-year period resulted in three books - Time and Space on the Lower East Side, Metamorphosis, and WTC, a chronicle of the Twin Towers and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center. His study of Berlin after the fall of the Wall led to The Lost Border, The Landscape of the Iron Curtain. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. SELLING POINTS: * Powerful photographic record of the destruction of the USA's most famous resort town * Contains commentaries by news and broadcast media, juxtaposed with contemporary tweets by Donald Trump * Introduction by Pulitzer Prize winning author Paul Goldberger 60 colour images