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CBS News And now a page from our Sunday Morning Almanac: May 26th, 1978, 35 years ago today . . . the day Atlantic City tried to change its luck:For that was the day New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne opened the city s first legal casino.Atlantic City had fallen far from its golden days earlier in the century, when vacationers used to frolic on the beach . . <a href=https://www.stanley-cup.ca>stanley mug . walk the famous Boardwalk . . . and flock to the Steel Pier, whose attractions included the Diving
stanley bottles Horses casting doubt on the entire notion of Horse Sense . The beauty contest that became the Miss America pageant began here in 1921.By the 1930s, Atlantic City street names had been immortalized on the Monopoly Board. And in 1964, Atlantic City played host to the Democratic Nat
stanley polska ional Convention.But by the 1970s, changing vacation tastes had left Atlantic City behind -- hence the move to legalize casinos . . . in hopes of re-booting Atlantic City as a kind of Las Vegas East.By 1988, a dozen casinos had opened . . . and the number of visitors had skyrocketed, from 700,000 to 33 million in just 10 years.Unluckily enough for Atlantic City . . . other East Coast cities and states jumped aboard the casino bandwagon, taking gamblers away. Last year, Atlantic City casinos suffered their seventh straight year of declining revenues . . . made worse by a week of closures forced by Superstorm Sandy.Still, in a sign of an Atlantic City comeback, the Miss America Pageant is Jcyu Witnesses feared mass killings at Ohio church where man killed his father
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. AP 鈥?Gamblers crossed picket lines at the Tru <a href=https://www.adidassamba.com.de>adidas samba adidas mp Taj Mahal casino in large numbers Sunday amid taunts from striking unio
air force one n members whose job action stretched into its third day.The stakes were raised by Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union against the Taj Mahal, which was opened in 1990 by Donald Trump but now belongs to his friend, fellow billionaire Carl Icahn.A steady stream of people filed in to the casino lob
adidas samba by off the Boardwalk, braving amplified taunts from picketers and a warning to visitors that dead mice have been found in this building. The sprawling casino floor was busy, although it had about half the crowd that was playing at Resorts, a casino next door that is half the size of the Taj Mahal 鈥?but not facing a strike. Hundreds of dead mice were found in the kitchen of this building! said Benjamin Albert, an organizing director with the union. If you like mice and roaches, stay at the Taj Mahal! If you like casinos that care about their workers, stay anywhere else! Questioned by a reporter, Albert said the union relied upon Atlantic City Health Department inspection reports from March through August of 2015 that found 282 instances of mice or rodent feces throughout the casino.Taj Mahal management did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the city s health department was closed Sunday.In early afternoon, about a dozen people stood in line to check in at the hotel desk for reservations they had made weeks or months earlier, befo
