Has Anyone On The Board Ever Gambled In Atlantic City?

quote:

---

Is there a lot of crime there?

---

there wasn't when the commodore was running things...

It’a a dump few blocks away but great hoagie places

Took a bus in from nyc twice. The bus ride there isn’t bad (direct to casinos), but the bus terminal on the way back is a depressing site. Not dangerous, just sad.

quote:

---

Because he’s dumb as shite

---

I am dumb as shite for capitalizing the words in a title? Are you sure I am the dumb one?

LINK here

shut the frick up you stupid piece of shite, no one want to talk to you

quote:

---

its on the east coast and close to NYC.

---

I would have thought this would bring enough business to the area to make it a "small Las Vegas".

quote:

---

OWLFAN86

---

Blow me you stupid fricking moron.

quote:

---

Does it have a lot of entertainment other than gambling?

---

This was some time ago but it didn't really have anything approaching the scope of Vegas as far as entertainment other than gambling. There were only a couple of big casinos there. Trump had two of them and despite what business genius in chief may say, they were struggling. I'm sure its improved since then but it wasn't anything like Vegas. Atlantic City, what I saw of it, seemed like a dump but again it was their offseason in terms of it being still winter. It might be popping there in the summer. I wouldn't say AC is dangerous more just depressing but I think Vegas is kind of depressing too.....

As I say, it has probably gotten better but at the time the casinos were more downmarket and there wasn't anything else there. its probably a lot better now and would probably be fun in summer when you can get out on the boardwalk etc.

quote:

---

despite what business genius in chief may say, they were struggling

---

For anyone who is going to jump in and defend him, forget him being president for a moment, this isn't a political opinion or statement..

There is a series on Netflix called "Dirty Money" and one of the shows in the series is why I started this thread. It talked about Trump, but there was a specific part about Atlantic City.. Evidently he and some other guys were going to be primary investors in the Taj Mahal, but evidently the other guys were killed in a plane crash or something.. But he had to eventually file for bankruptcy. And this was the part that made me curious about the state of Atlantic City today.

Evidently, when he filed for bankruptcy, he left a lot of contractors high and dry, but it did open under him right? They mentioned that the investors who bought it after it went bankrupt, didn't put much money at all into keeping it up. It became.. I guess. run down..

With that said, I was just curious if the locals keep the casinos open in AC or do people travel there specifically to go to the hotels and gamble.

I think Trump's casino forays were one of his few business failures. Too lazy to look it up but believe he had to restructure via a BK. He and other developers overbuilt and I think Trump, in typical Trump fashion, wanted to build the glitziest casino ever but the money was made on downmarket gamblers, mainly retirees coming in from Philly and NYC to throw money at slots etc. The money was made on the mass market not exclusive high rollers...and Trump paid up for big attractions like boxing to draw to his casino,,,,,and yeah a lot people of got hung by Trump when he ran them through bankruptcy.....but he really had no choice...Trump misjudged the market, over-levered, and too make matters worse it was the early 1990's and the country was in a nasty recession. I think Trump licenses his name to a lot of his properties and doesn't put much equity in a lot of his deals and the casinos like that......