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Re: not really the current Hotel situation

2016-01-08 23:06:20
It's been a long time since I lived near [Atlantic City], but I have vivid 
memories before the casinos of the city being a barren, deserted, 
crime-infested wasteland where no one ventured.  Gambling was 
legalized on the promise of urban renewal and economic revival.  I 
think the promise was never met.

You are correct.  I went there are few times for the SJCC in the 1970s
and it was a dump.  It's still a dump.

30th Street is a magnificent station, although significant parts of 
it have been sealed off since the '70s.  There used to be a cool 
small train line from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore: the 
Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line.  It also went to Cape May Court 
House, Cape May, and Wildwood.

The train still goes from Philadelphia to Atlantic City 12 times a
day, but it's been a long time since it's gone to Cape May.

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