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Atlantic City Photo Gallery
Sandscape, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S.A.
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Latitude: 39.34194 to 39.36417
Longitude: -74.42325 to -74.48298
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Area code(s): 609
Zip Code(s): 08400, 08401, 08402, 08403, 08404, 08405, 08406
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One of America's oldest seaside resorts,
Atlantic City is most famous these days as a weekend gambler's Mecca.
It's the East Coast's answer to Las Vegas, and home to many of the same
names: Caesars, Bally's, Sands, the Tropicana. Tourists come by the millions
(more than 33 million of them, to be exact) to try their luck at the city's
12 casinos -- 9 of which line the world's first oceanfront boardwalk, opened
in 1870. The city itself began life in 1854 and celebrated its 150th
anniversary in 2004 with a lot of fanfare.
Despite its historic pedigree, Atlantic City went to seed in the years
following World War II, abandoned in the wake of cheap and easy air travel
to Florida and the Caribbean. In the 1970s, in a last-ditch effort to
reinvigorate this once-proud Victorian vacation resort, the state of New
Jersey instituted casino gambling -- and the unconventional urban-renewal
plan has been something More...
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New Jersey: Atlantic City Region: Atlantic County: Atlantic City