{"id":7543,"date":"2018-01-01T18:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T23:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2018-01-01T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T23:18:05","slug":"new-yorkatlantic-city-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/new-yorkatlantic-city-38\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Atlantic City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/2018\/harrahs_lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/harrahs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/harrahs.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/harrahs-624x494.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>Harrah&#8217;s casino, Atlantic City, (4&#215;5 film) &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n<p>Atlantic City was built on a barrier island (Absecon Island), and for most of its history, was oriented to the boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean &#8212; a grid of streets with names anyone who has played Monopoly knows well. The backside of the island was mostly low lying wetlands.<\/p>\n<p>The first casinos were built along the boardwalk, though few gamblers were interested in getting their feet wet in the surf, or navigating the crime-ridden streets of the city. And these being self-contained realms, access to highways was more important, and several casinos were built in the Marina district along Absecon Inlet at a safe remove from the city proper.<\/p>\n<p>At one time, Donald Trump owned four casinos including the Trump Marina, which was sold at a fire sale price a few years ago. It&#8217;s now the Golden Nugget &#8212; the parking structure to the left in the photo above.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/business\/index.ssf\/2011\/05\/atlantic_city_trump_marina_bec.html\">NJ.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Swatches of colorful new carpeting were laid down in hotel hallways to show what will eventually replace the more drab patterns consisting of tens of thousands of interlocking letter &#8220;T&#8221;s, beneath the &#8220;Trump&#8221; name on each room door.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have been working on removing everything that says &#8216;Trump,&#8217; but it&#8217;s overwhelming,&#8221; said Amy Chasey, a Golden Nugget spokeswoman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrah&#8217;s casino, Atlantic City, (4&#215;5 film) &#8212; \u00a9 Brian Rose Atlantic City was built on a barrier island (Absecon Island), and for most of its history, was oriented to the boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean &#8212; a grid of streets with names anyone who has played Monopoly knows well. The backside of the island was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7546,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions\/7546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}