Posted on 09/16/2014 6:13:32 AM PDT by C19fan
Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino closed its doors early Tuesday, the fourth Atlantic City casino to go belly-up so far this year.
When it opened on May 14, 1984, Donald Trump called it the finest building in Atlantic City, and possibly the nation.
But since then, The Donald has left town and cut ties to its casinos. And the Plaza, like many Atlantic City casinos, has seen better days.
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Have never been to AC, and now that my home state of PA has casinos, why would I want to?
Some of those casinos would not exist without tax subsidies, making them welfare leeches instead of productive businesses
AC has no purpose or relevance any more.
I remember a story yrs ago about a woman who was being forced out of home because Trump wanted the land for a hotel/casino. Don’t remember what ever happened in the end.
What originally made AC was the Sunday Blue Laws in Philly. Someone worked all week only to find the saloons closed on the one day he had free. What to do? Go to AC on a train with cut rate fare and enjoy the booze that flowed there all the time. Later, when prohibition kicked in, liquor was openly served at AC. For awhile, gambling in the East could only be done legally at the AC casinos but now is available almost everywhere.
Many years ago, I won a sales award, and the prize was a weekend in Atlantic City, staying at Resorts..the weekend it opened..For those who may not remember..it was the first casino in AC...The hotel was mobbed, and there were thousands lined up on the Boardwalk waiting to get in...the cops and fire dept limited the number for safety purposes. I’m siting at a blackjack table...the crush of people in the aisles was unreal..like the subway at rush hour. They allowed others to play behind gamblers...at one point I had FIVE total strangers mirroring me...left the table after an hour..it was a zoo...got up the next morning at 5..to go for a run on the beach..it was still like sardines...yet you could see even back then it wouldn’t work..because if you went one block off the boardwalk, the city was a a mess..looked like Detroit does today
It is on the ocean?
The Nation Harbor in MD’s future.
It was inevitable, they made smoking in casinos illegal.
The smoke bone is connected to the drink bone and the drink bone is connected to the gambling bone.
Can’t smoke in AC? Try Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun (north) or any of the other choices south of AC.
Screw the unions who passed the no smoking policy..
‘What a dump.” —Bette Davis
Would make a good orphan home for the illegal immigrant children to assimilate in the USA...
So Christie comes to Maine and tells us how to improve our economy.
“because if you went one the block off the boardwalk, the city was a a mess..looked like Detroit does today”
Many years ago, on a round-robin trip from NC to the Poconos for a ski trip, my wife and I stopped in Atlantic City for New Year’s Eve. We had a room at a motel further out but didn’t bother to unload everything from the car as we were running late. We hit the casinos after parking a block or so off the main strip.
We wanted to be in a casino at midnight but to be honest, it sucked just standing around with hundreds of other waiting partiers. So we left. We wound up in a little hole-in-the-wall bar frequented by casino workers...had a blast. Got royally blitzed and stayed until into late AM. Finally went back to the car to find the driver side window smashed in with a brick...most of the interior hanging clothing including ski clothing was gone. Luckily, we had an umbrella laying beside the driver seat that blocked the trunk release lever so they didn’t get into the trunk.
Did the police report thing, etc (the Atlantic City police station on New Year’s Day, drunk, peed-off is not a good a place to be). Besides, we had no window glass and it was COLD.
But the REAL eye opener the next day, after driving back to the area we parked in, was realizing...we were lucky we got out of there alive.
Talk about third-world.
The Indians are taking their revenge.
Actually, Trump wanted her property to build a parking lot for limos.
Another sign of Obama&co work no jobs no spending.
She recently sold the house for much less than once offered. She was never forced out.
The complex was at the center of a major eminent domain court case in the mid-1990s, when Trump Enterprises sought to obtain the property of Vera Coking, a retired homeowner whose house was adjacent to Trump Plaza.[15] In Coking vs. C.R.D.A., Donald Trump, and Trump Plaza, Mrs. Coking was victorious,[16] and plans to build a limousine parking lot on her property were thwarted. Mrs. Coking was represented Pro bono, by Institute for Justice (IJ) [17] IJ is a public interest law firm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Plaza_Hotel_and_Casino
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