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Subject: Re: Any good "fan sites" about Atlantic City?
Date: 23 Oct 2004 13:10:15 -0700
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"Robert J Batina" <rbatina@columbus.rr.com> wrote in message news:<aPged.21619$5v2.17986@fe2.columbus.rr.com>...
> Barry Shiffrin <bshiffrin@stny.rr.com> spewed:
> > Have you ever checked out the museum on the Boardwalk up near
> > Showboat? One of the 2 buildings has a permanent exhibit of AC
> > history.
>
> Unfortunately, I haven't made it up that far in a while. For the last few
> years we've been staying at the Tropicana, and it's rare if I ever wander
> that far up the boardwalk. I know Ocean One had a little photographic
> display of really old AC stuff... I wonder if they moved it up towards
> Showboat when Ocean One closed. That stuff was a little too old for me...
> I just wanna see the stuff that I remember. :)
>
> Probably about the earliest time frame that I'm thinking of, is about the
> same as the footage you see of the boardwalk and casinos in Bruce
> Springsteen's Atlantic City video. I'm a little past 30 now, but since I've
> been going on vacation there with my folks since I was about 10 - I can
> still remember the boardwalk when there were 7 or 8 arcades, and only a
> couple of casinos... heh Playcade is the only video arcade left that was
> there when I started going. I think they might have some of the same prizes
> for their ticket games too. ;)
>
> http://www.candysroom.freeservers.com/bruceweb414.html
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