ATLANTIC CITY GUIDE

WELCOME TO ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY

“AC” as many easterners call it, has always been a showplace of "firsts". The first boardwalk, lifeguards, rolling chairs, salt-water taffy, picture postcards, bathing

With a name like Chicken Bone Beach, you anticpate one of the worst
strereotypes of Black life in Atlantic City. But you would be very wrong,
as it represents on of the beach city's most endearing sites ... More

CASINO RESORTS

    BLACK GENESIS

As more European American patrons came to Atlantic City, it increased the need for low-pay workers such as maids, cooks and doormen.  Preceding desegregation,

those jobs represented an economic green light to African Americans ... More

The first Atlantic City Boardwalk, built in 1870, was only 12 feet wide.

It was only designed to keep sand out of the Boardwalk hotels.

Today, Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world ... More

Atlantic City fountain show at The Pier Shops

  BEACHES
Atlantic City Beach features miles of white sandy beach that teams with activity

during warm months; note the historic lifeboats and plentiful lifeguards on duty

and several beach bars with a mix of live and recorded ... More

FAMILY ATTRACTIONS
Though Atlantic City is shifting to more Las Vegas-like attractions,

it maintains a legacy of family attractions such as Boardwalk Arcade,

Royal Rolling Chairs, Ripley's Believe It Or Not ... More

RESTAURANTS and NIGHTCLUBS

Jay Z's 40/40 Club and House of Blues keep it real every night in AC,

but what are other options to get your groove on. Consider ... More

GENERAL ATTRACTIONS

If you visited AC as late as the early 1990s, you recall the Million Dollar Pier.

It has been replaced by The Pier Shops at Caesars with many of the

restaurants are owned by famous regional chefs  such as ... More

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RESEARCH CREDITS:
Lenny Dorsey
Thomas Dorsey

Sheila Umolu

Lysa Allman-Baldwin