re: #477 Gus 802

The year is not complete without some mayor getting in trouble in Jersey. I don’t remember the Atlantic City scandal. It was a very poverty stricken town before the casinos came in. That doesn’t always translate into new opportunities for the poor however and they’re typically tossed to the curb. We went there a few times as kids before the casinos. Then I went once to throw away 70 bucks. I don’t like the traffic it gets — too many Bennies.

Atlantic City was almost destroyed by the race riots that gripped urban New Jersey in the late 1960’s. It wasn’t so much that the riots did damage but that they chased off the tourist trade that had been the city’s lifeblood. It wasn’t until gambling was allowed that some parts of the city began to recover and others never have.