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...clock on a sparkling summer morning, and over on the Boardwalk they are already crowding into the casinos-thousands of Ali Babas in brightly colored polyesters, searching for treasure in those vast air-conditioned caves. Dice are rolling, cards are turning, and there are hands attached to most of the slot machines, which occasionally gratify with spurts of change. It is the busiest time of year in the new Atlantic City, which has high hopes of becoming the Las Vegas of the East, and the ebb and flow of the surf has given way to an even more soothing sound...
...each one had its stalwarts. Joblin used to stay across the street, in fact, at the By the C. There is a parking lot there now, and two houses beside it have also been turned into asphalt. Most people drive to Atlantic City, and parking spaces near the Boardwalk, where the Montpelier is, are at a premium. A fourth house, now empty, will soon be torn down too. The woman who owns it was offered $300,000 last year, Shuster observes, but held out for $325,000. After she closed up last winter, someone broke in and ripped...
Memories on the porch tend to dwell on the glory days, when Atlantic City was fixed in the national consciousness as the middle-class playground, and the "prospect of a stroll on the Boardwalk-better yet, a ride in a wicker rolling chair-warmed the days all winter long...
...states under President Reagan's "new federalism." Said Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus: "There is some apprehension on the part of the Governors that we are getting the short end of the stick." Said Tennessee's Lamar Alexander: "We have nothing to go dancing up and down the boardwalk about...
...associate editor of Progressive Architecture, maintains that "the buildings of Harborplace are a mash of cliches ?high tech, antique store, postwar modern, 19th century band shell and pavilion-by-the-sea?not well reconciled to each other nor resolved in themselves." Miller likens Harborplace to "Atlantic City's boardwalk with a touch of Disneyland...