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Atlantic City Airshow 2010 - Thunder over the Boardwalk

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 06:38:44 +0000

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Event Date: Wednesday, 25th August 2010

Event Time: 11:00am to 3:00 pm

Event Venue: Atlantic City Beach & Boardwalk

Event Presenters: Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa

The Atlantic City Airshow 2010 “Thunder over the Boardwalk” comes back 100 years after the first airshows where hosted by Asbury Park & Atlantic City. This Airshow, which starts at 11:00 am on Wednesday, 25th Aug ‘10 and continues till 3:00pm, promises to be one of the biggest annual events of Atlantic City with a couple of welcome changes this year.

Sponsored by Harrah’s Entertainment, the Atlantic City Air Show comes forth as the best utilization of the wide expanse of the Atlantic City Beach and Boardwalk. Rightly named as the “Thunder over the Boardwalk”, this eighth annual event of Atlantic City is presented by the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa. A crowd of 750,000 is estimated to witness this mesmerizing display of maneuvers, heart-stopping feats, formation flying, aerobatics and solo routines of military and civilian pilots.

The entire Atlantic City beach & boardwalk seems like a human jungle with millions of tourist flying down from across the globe to get a lifetime experience of witnessing aircrafts being maneuvered by young pilots in the most astonishing ways & advanced jets thundering across the wide Atlantic City skyline.

The key attraction however this year will be the fascinating “Flying Fearless” exhibit celebrating the centenary anniversary of New Jersey airshows. The exhibits will be held at the following locations:

Atlantic City Historical Museum: Daily from 10am – 4pm (609-347-5839)

Atlantic City International Airport: Terminal Building (609-645-7895)

Best Place to Watch Airshow:The best part about this airshow is that, it can be enjoyed from anyplace on the AC Beach & Boardwalk. However, the best places to get a bird eye view of the airshow are undoubtedly the Atlantic City Boardwalk hotels like, Boardwalk Bally’s Atlantic City & Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.

For Handicaps: For the handicapped, a special viewing area would be available at the pavilion at Montpelier Avenue & the Boardwalk.

Every Which Way You Can – Travel To Atlantic City

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:22:12 +0000

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Gaming City is a very public-transportation-friendly place. Well it has been made so. With so much to do here the city planners and hoteliers here have worked on making it easy-come easy-go. Which is why there is good travel service for Atlantic City.

Travel companies drop you off at train or bus terminals at 13th and Arch streets. Coming from New York City takes about 2.5 hours. You have NJ Transit, Greyhound and Academy Bus Lines that start off from the Port Authority Terminal on 41st Street and Eighth Avenue. They reach Atlantic City at the new Municipal Bus Terminal, two blocks from the Boardwalk.

Some bus services offer direct transportation to a number of casinos. Most casinos offer bus packages that include value-added premiums. Buses depart from most major cities like New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. As well as from Pittsburgh and Harrisburg in Pennsylvania. These are very convenient for day visitors who want to spend a day at the casinos and go back home.

Having a car makes it easy too. With two major interstate highways close to Atlantic City the run is easy enough from near by places. The Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway are convenient. From Philadelphia the trip takes 1 hour. New Yorkers can take the New Jersey Turnpike and be south bound to the Atlantic City Expressway. You can find inexpensive parking at the casinos.

Within the city the Jitney or minibus is a convenient form of public transportation. Operating 24 hours, year-round they run along Pacific Avenue, a block from the Boardwalk. You can do the entire length of the city and stop at major attractions. Routes include the Marina area and with a 2 $ fare they are a real steal.

Jack Of All – Sporty Atlantic City

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:40:48 +0000

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Atlantic City could get you enjoying a host of sports activities - from motor sports weekends to USTA Professional Circuit Events. And in between you also have sporting activities like - Indoor Racing, Offshore Powerboat Races, Insight Race Across America, Atlantic City Marathon Ocean Swim, World Championship Boxing, AC Archery Classic, NJ State Wrestling Championship, and of course the well known Atlantic City Marathon not to mention the National Cheerleading Competitions.

All these of course offer a thrill out of the ordinary and Atlantic City primes up regularly to facilitate every one to join in and enjoy the sports. In professional sports Atlantic City Surf is its professional baseball team. Its a member of the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball. Not affiliated to the Major League Baseball, the Surf plays home games at Bernie Robins Stadium (former Sandcastle).

From 1998 to 2006, the Surf played in the South Division of the Atlantic League of the Professional Baseball. It was here that The Surf won the first-ever Atlantic League championship in 1998 while also hosting the inaugural Atlantic League All-Star game.

But what have they been doing lately might be your question. Atlantic City has never really enjoyed much success as a venue for professional sports teams. Baseball has been no exception. So if this sport is your choice as more than just an enjoyable pastime you could consider joining the team or league sponsored by Atlantic City.

On February 26, 2008, the Atlantic City Surf named former Major Leaguer Cecil Fielder as their manager for the 2008 season. Hopefully this could be the start to a good season.

Atlantic City – Higher Learning

admin — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:08:44 +0000

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Atlantic City offers good opportunities for thorough education from school onwards to distinct streams of knowledge for higher education. With plentiful facilities ranging from fundamental schooling to graduate and doctoral degrees there is a lot of choice in this New Jersey precinct.

Both public and private education facilities can be accessed. There is a wealth of public schools spread throughout the region. And you have alternative schooling besides the public school system with a few private institutions and charter schools as well. Besides you also special educational services to cater to special needs.

The Atlantic County Institute of Technology (ACIT), located at Mays Landing, is one of the top comprehensive technical educational facilities here. ACIT offers students the chance to either join the Academy or study the shared-time programs. Adults can join technical programs through the Evening School while regular students can access the 4 Academy and 17 career programs.

Atlantic city is known for its student population to continue with their studies well ahead on to colleges after completion of school education. For them the city offers the Atlantic Cape Community College as a great choice. The two-year public college with its campus in Mays Landing and a branch in Atlantic City has thousands of students enjoying ACCC’s facilities. You have here more than 40 transfer and career degree programs. Interestingly you do have here casino education and culinary arts programs too!

Besides you also have four year programs available at Pomona campus of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. This award-winning educational resource holds the distinction as the state’s sole public college to be nationally ranked as a “selective liberal arts college.” Stockton College has both undergraduate and graduate degree programs with equal stress on athletics, clubs and organizations.

Rainforest Cafe - A Wild Place to Eat!

admin — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:32:27 +0000

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Atlantic City has every kind of food on its platter. You name it and there’s a place for it. No matter what type of food you like you will definitely find it in Atlantic City. With so many restaurants to tempt you its really difficult trying to figure out where to eat.

But there is one place that you might relish and not forget in a hurry. The Rainforest Cafe located on Trump Plaza right on the Boardwalk offers an unmatched dining experience. An adventure begins the moment you step in! Entering the dining area is like walking into a jungle. There’s a canopy of lush foliage overhead, wildlife along the way, and even a thunderstorm in the distance.

When you are out with family and kids you are looking for fun. This place has fun and food. A truly unique restaurant you enjoy walking through the most realistic indoor rain forest ever created! You eat with gusto as you have fun in the amazing surroundings, cascading waterfalls and beautiful giant aquariums.

This is not all. You soon savor fresh, original menu selections, influenced by the cuisines of Mexico, Asia and the Caribbean. Also on the menu are Mexican, Italian, Cajun or Caribbean flavors that get you going back again. Rainforest Cafe’s menu of traditional American fare along with the exotic makes you realize you have it all right there - at one place.

Suited to all ages Rainforest Cafe has open hours for lunch and dinner -each day, year round. Once inside you can expect to spend at least four to five hours here! The whimsical tropical ambiance of cascading waterfalls, animatronic jungle animals and fluttering butterflies along with delicious seafood, salads and exotic beverages is quite a treat for the senses.

Atlantic City Parks – Outdoor Pleasures

admin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:20:50 +0000

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Besides other more prominent attractions that make Atlantic City better known you do have here some sedate outdoor pleasures that are especially charming for children and older people. Tired of sauntering on the promenade or being glued to the slot machines many people love to visit the few parks around here.

For one Atlantic City is not really lush with green areas. So the few places offering the outdoors are well loved. The beautiful Cape May is where you could head for to enjoy a jaunt in spacious parks and gardens. Cape May nestles in the backdrop of the beautiful scenery of Point Straight Park.

The Nature Center of Cape May features prime beach and marshland. The Park harbors the natural habitat for migrating sea and shore birds thats brings tourists and enthusiasts in thousands to observe these avian creatures. The Leaming’s Run Gardens located here recreate life as it used to be in the 18th century.

Close to Atlantic City the park covers 200 acres of diverse landscape featuring shoreline, dunes, marshland, islands and forests. You can even enjoy fishing that is quite good here. Also at hand are plenty of walking trails and of course the Cape May Lighthouse with a museum and a visitors’ center.

The Oscar E. McClinton, Jr Waterfront Park is also a great place after being cloistered in the gaming halls. This waterfront park features 4 acres of manicured lawn areas surrounded by colonnades and walkways. With a children’s play area, a boardwalk promenade and a central pavilion for sitting and viewing the sea it makes for an attractive detour.

These parks and gardens are open from Memorial Day to Labor Day, daily from dawn to dusk. Admission is free.

Newsworthy Atlantic City

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:23:55 +0000

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News reports for February 4, 2009 state that Atlantic City may shortly have wind energy besides the solar energy to power the Atlantic City Convention Center. You may not have ever thought of Atlantic City going “green” but it is happening.

Atlantic City, N.J., is probably not the first place that comes to mind for environment friendly measures. But as far as the Convention Center goes, Atlantic City is about as green as it gets. It has the largest solar rooftop in the country and the second largest in the world, and it has plans to build a wind turbine.

This January, the Atlantic City Convention Center unveiled its new 2.36 megawatt solar roof, with some 13,000 solar panels that cover 300,000 square feet of roof. Solar energy generated by the roof panels will go directly into the building, which the city owns, and account for about 26 percent of the building’s power.

Convention center officials are researching the feasibility of constructing a wind turbine on the 31-acre property. The wind turbine would generate close to 20 percent of the center’s power. If the wind turbine is constructed, close to 50 percent of the convention’s center energy will come from renewable sources, with savings passed on to the customer.

It appears Atlantic City’s commitment to the environment extends to recycling as well. Last year the center recycled 45,180 pounds of paper and cardboard; 3.4 tons of glass, plastic, and aluminum bottles and cans; 47,198 pounds of carpet; 2,881 pounds of computers; 2,043 pounds of wooden pallets; and 5,574 pounds of electrical equipment. Its Green Going all the way for Atlantic City Convention Center.

Atlantic City – From Spa Town to Casino Dens

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:45:51 +0000

Bathing Pavilions. Beach, Atlantic City, NJ. Library of Congress, ca. 1904 - Courtesy http://www.nps.gov

It was the engineer Richard Osborne who named and designed Atlantic City. Realizing the potential of the location In early 1850s, Dr. Jonathan Pitney visualized it as a health resort spa. In 1852, along with a group of business investors he obtained the railroad charter. This brought the Camden & Atlantic Railroad to Atlantic City.

The City has never looked back since that memorable undertaking. Situated on the site of Absecon village it was duly incorporated in 1854 as Atlantic City. The resort/spa town succeeded beyond anyone’s imagination! Wealthy families from Philadelphia and other places on the East Coast flocked to the new resort.

The beaches of the town were reinvented by the creation of the first boardwalk in 1870. Townsmen laid wooden planks upon the beach so that it could be enjoyed even during hot summer days. Along with the boardwalk came eateries and amusement stands to make Atlantic City a major tourist attraction.

Vacationers and invalids coexisted happily in the Victorian-era town, living in ornate wooden boarding houses and enjoying the boardwalk in the rolling chairs that were invented in the city in 1884. The first of a half-dozen amusement piers was built in 1882, contributing to the city’s carnival-like atmosphere.

By 1887, heavy tourist traffic got a second rail line for the city. In 1895 a visitor returning from Europe introduced to local merchants German-style picture postcards which instantly became popular on Atlantic City souvenir stands.

With the first Miss America Pageant held here in 1921, every one had heard of Atlantic City. The Atlantic City Auditorium Hall on the boardwalk opened in 1929. It was in 1929 that Charles Darrow introduced Monopoly, the board game that made Atlantic City’s streets - household names throughout America!

Trivia – Goes A Long Way

admin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:45:48 +0000

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Located in South Jersey, Atlantic City rests hugging the Atlantic Ocean. Sitting pretty amidst marshlands and islands it remains a prime real estate developers dreamland. What began as a resort town has remained an entertainment center that draws people from all over.

Here is some interesting trivia about the city in no particular order.

Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
It is the first Boardwalk created in the US specifically to keep sand out of the hotel lobbies.
Its original summer visitors were the Absegami Indians of the Lenni Lenape tribe.
Atlantic City is a recurring locale seen in the 100 Bullets series.
Characters from the series including Booster Gold and Royal Flush Gang have fought on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.
The Atlas of the DC Universe and other comic sources cite Atlantic City and surrounding region as analogous to Gotham City.
Today the city is better known as a gaming zone.
Ocean Pier, the world’s first oceanside amusement pier was built in 1882.
Atlantic City is home to New Jersey’s first wind farm. The Jersey Atlantic Wind Farm consists of five 1.5 megawatt turbine towers, each almost 400 feet in length.
Atlantic City is famous for its spectacular view of the the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the inspiration for the board game Monopoly with street names coming from here on the board.
Interestingly gambling halted here for the first time since 1978, on July 5,2006. The New Jersey State Government Shutdown Mandated the closure when the legislature failed to present a budget! Due to absence of state regulators gambling was closed. Casinos resumed gambling at 7 pm on July 8 2006.
In 1935, the police in Atlantic City, New Jersey, arrested 42 men on the beach. They were cracking down on topless bathing suits worn by men.

Factually Yours - Atlantic City

admin — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:17:28 +0000

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Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island in Atlantic County, New Jersey. It is approximately 60 miles southeast of Philadelphia and about 100 miles southwest of New York.

Absecon Island measures a mere 10 miles in length while Atlantic City is only 3.9 miles in length. Spread in an area of 11.94 square miles the Atlantic City altitude is 6 to 8 feet above sea level. Atlantic city sandy beaches are famous for gently sloping into the surf.

Located near to well known cities it enjoys easy accessibility. Literally thousands of people flee to the cool shores of this entertainment center. For this reason it has been developed to offer lodging, dining, and all sorts of amusements to people of all ages and incomes.

Attractions like the legendary Boardwalk, Piers, Floor Shows and of course the gaming casinos are main attractions here. Atlantic City has a year round calender of events that is closely followed by the surrounding population.

Long before Atlantic City was founded the island on which it stands was lush with thick woods and lined with dunes. Home of the Lenni Lenape Indians who called it Absegami (little water) island its now known as Absecon Island. Some fast facts about Atlantic City are:

- January 15, 1853, saw the name “Atlantic City” adopted by city founders.

- It has the first Boardwalk constructed in the US, inaugurated on June 26, 1870.

- First picture postcards in the U S were color views of Atlantic City (1893).

- Boardwalk Hall opened in 1929 and was the largest auditorium ever built without support of pillars.

- Atlantic City Convention Center houses the world’s largest pipe organ.

- The Rolling Chairs from late 1800s are famous attractions on the Boardwalk till date.

- The famous boardgame Monopoly when designed for the first time made use of Atlantic City street names.

- In 1898 the Steel Pier opened and was the most widely advertised amusement pier of the world.

- The term airport was first coined in Atlantic City in reference to its flying field.