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Hoot with Bob Halperin--Idler's Back Room...
Hoot with Bob Halperin--the Idler's Back Room...
...Esther Halperin, 77, who wears the kind of art deco glasses that curl at the sides, spent her honeymoon in Atlantic City in 1925, at a kosher hotel on Virginia Avenue. She had two older sisters, and her parents refused to let her marry before they did, so she was forced to elope. "We only had 2½ days," she recalls. "We were married on a Tuesday, and I had to be back Friday night to light the candles. My in-laws were very religious." Her husband, who became a manufacturer of burlap bags, died two years ago. "He loved...
...began The Rolling Chair Song, but today almost all the chairs are gone, and the best place to find them is in a third-floor lounge at Caesars Boardwalk Regency, one of the eight casinos. "Up until two years ago, they were lined up along the Boardwalk," says Halperin. "You'd rent one for a season, and you would see all your friends there. I miss that. But they won't allow anything that will keep people out of the casinos...
...dislike about the new Atlantic City. Lorna Shuster, for example, is annoyed by the big increase in costs. "We were told our taxes would go down," she says. "Instead everything has gone up about four times. They lied to us." "The old people have been thrown out," adds Esther Halperin. "And they expected to die here...