Boardwalk Playground: The Making, Unmaking, & Remaking of Atlantic City: How the people of a New Jersey resort built a seaside paradise, los

by David G. Schwartz

The Queen of the Coast. The World's Playground. The Casino Capital of the East. They can only describe Atlantic City, New Jersey. Beloved, maligned, always-hustling since its 1854 founding, the seaside resort has seen it all: first class hotels, popular amusements on the world famous Boardwalk and its piers, Prohibition, gangsters, speakeasies, conventioneers, celebrities, urban pride, urban decay, a casino revival, a casino collapse-and it hasn't...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990001628
• ISBN13: 9780990001621
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Winchester Books
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"