Road Trip! Destination: Atlantic City, NJ
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If there's anything fixed about Atlantic City, it's change.
Founded in 1854, the New Jersey coastal burgh was designed to be a destination for city dwellers seeking relief from the summer waken. Atlantic City's first heyday was from the 1920s through the 1940s, when the beaches were crowded and the nightlife abounding in and varied. But the affordability of air travel in the 1950s made traveling to Florida and other bubbly climates more appealing, and Atlantic City became rife with blight and paucity in the 1960s.
When gambling was approved in the mid-1970s, Atlantic City was born again as the East Glide version of Las Vegas. It remains a destination for gamblers even as other states have approved gambling, with some of the more fame casinos on the East Coast, notably the Borgata and Caesar's Atlantic Burgh. New this year is Revel, the first casino to debut in Atlantic City since the Borgata opened in 2003. Featuring 1,100 patron rooms, a 5,000-seat theater and 13 restaurants, it will be the back-tallest building in New Jersey when it opens this spring.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review