Atlantic City Still a Popular Destination

Everyone wants to be where the action is, and the popular gambling and vacation destination of Atlantic City is no different. Real estate is at a premium on the Jersey Shore, and Atlantic City attracts and accommodates 500,000 tourists who visit each year. Oftentimes, this competitive environment can create corporate disputes and work-related personal injuries. Let local attorneys, Seeger Weiss, be the first you call for legal counsel. Atlantic City’s

Famed Boardwalk

Besides a gambling and popular vacation hot spot, Atlanta City is also known as “Monopoly City” for its historic ties to the game of Monopoly. As a child, Monopoly game inventor Charles Darrow spent vacations in the beachside city. Most of the "real estate" for sale in the game is based on actual streets in Atlantic City—the most popular being the Boardwalk, which was also the priciest real estate in the game.

The first boardwalks were built to keep sand out of beachside hotel lobbies. Once hoteliers realized how popular the boardwalk was, its length was extended considerably, and historically reached a length of more than seven miles. A hurricane destroyed much of this original boardwalk, and it is today at a much shortened walkway.

The first was built in 1870, with 12-foot wide sections laid directly on the sand. Removed at summer's end, the planking was widened in 1880 and again in 1884 and 1890 before the new version was installed in 1896, a 40-foot wide structure with herringbone-patterned decking raised off the sand, reinforced with joists and lined with railings.

The length of the boardwalk, before the 1944 hurricane was about 7 miles and extended from Atlantic City to Longport, through Ventnor and Margate. Today, it is 4.12 miles long and 60 feet wide, reinforced with steel and concrete. The combined length of the Atlantic City and Ventnor boardwalks—the boardwalk now ends at the Ventnor/Margate border—is about 5.75 miles, now the world's longest boardwalk.

There's something special about the boardwalk, even 135 years after the first was built. Its lively walkway, open only to pedestrians, is flanked by casinos and storefronts on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.

Today, the boardwalk is fundamentally the same, but its sights have changed. Instead of the famous diving horse into an above-ground pool to the amusement of countless onlookers, there’s a Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum, a Korean War Memorial, a handful of arcades and dozens of Mom-and-Pop T-shirt shops and food vendors.