Re: not really the current Hotel situation

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>It's been a long time since I lived near [Atlantic City], but I have vivid 
>memories before the casinos of the city being a barren, deserted, 
>crime-infested wasteland where no one ventured.  Gambling was 
>legalized on the promise of urban renewal and economic revival.  I 
>think the promise was never met.

You are correct.  I went there are few times for the SJCC in the 1970s
and it was a dump.  It's still a dump.

>30th Street is a magnificent station, although significant parts of 
>it have been sealed off since the '70s.  There used to be a cool 
>small train line from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore: the 
>Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line.  It also went to Cape May Court 
>House, Cape May, and Wildwood.

The train still goes from Philadelphia to Atlantic City 12 times a
day, but it's been a long time since it's gone to Cape May.