Download or read book Atlantic City Revisited written by William H. Sokolic and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Atlantic City Revisited written by William H. Sokolic and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2006-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Atlantic City written by Frank Legato and published by Indigo Custom Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book History of Atlantic City written by A. L. English and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boardwalk of Dreams written by Bryant Simon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Atlantic City N J written by Atlantic City (N.J.). Bureau of Information and Publicity and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlantic City written by John T. Cunningham and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Boardwalk Empire written by Nelson Johnson and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book History of Atlantic City New Jersey written by A. L. [From Old Catalog] English and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Atlantic City New Jersey written by N. J. Atlantic City and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Atlantic City New Jersey written by A. L. English and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts about Atlantic City written by Atlantic City (N.J.). Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlantic City written by Atlantic City Publicity Bureau, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Atlantic City written by Atlantic City Convention and Publicity Bureau, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up in the Other Atlantic City written by Turiya S. A. Raheem and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other history of Atlantic City has been written to shed light on the migration, motivations, achievements and contributions that black families made in this popular resort, prior to the casino era, until Turiya Raheem's Growing Up in the Other Atlantic City: Wash's and the Northside. This work represents a commitment to community-building and survival against all odds. It is a testimony and proud legacy of a family owned and operated business that has shaped the day-to-day life of resort dwellers who are rarely given credit. Mrs. Raheem's illuminating reconstruction of Northside history will be a valuable contribution to the literature on Atlantic City, NJ. Richlyn F. Goddard, Ph.D., Africana Studies The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey author of `Three Months to Hurry': Resort Life for African Americans in Atlantic City, NJ 1850-1940.Turiya S.A. Raheem (nee, Lillian D. Thomas) tells her family and community's history with love, warmth and humor. Concerning that history, she says, “Our story HAD to be told. We built Atlantic City.” Two other African- Americans, Foster and Goddard, based their doctoral dissertations on the Northside's history, but no one has recounted it the way Mrs. Raheem does in Growing Up in the Other Atlantic City: Wash's and the Northside.
Download or read book Boardwalk Empire written by Nelson Johnson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the politcal rivalries and corrupt practices which led to the creation of Atlantic City, from it beginnings as a quiet beach town to its rise as thriving and lawless city during the Prohibition era to its establishment as a gambling and entertainment mecca.
Download or read book Nucky written by Frank J. Ferry and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
