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Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City
Nelson Johnson
$10.10

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From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this wide-reaching history offers a riveting account of its past 100 years—from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era. A colorful cast of characters, led by Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, populates this stranger-than-fiction account of corrupt politics and the toxic power structure that grew out of guile, finesse, and extortion. Atlantic City's shadowy past—through its rise, fall, and rebirth—is given new light in this revealing, and often appalling, study of legislative abuse and organized crime.

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Boardwalk Stories
Roslyn Bernstein
$17.50

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Fourteen linked tales spanning the decades 1950 to 1970 invite us into the private lives of the colorful denizens of communities like Coney Island, Long Beach, the Jersey shore, and the California beach towns. Set in the shadow of the Cold War, the boardwalk characters, many of them misfits and wannabes, share their joys and sorrows in a world where kewpie dolls and prizes are often the only consolations for lost dreams. Included in the cast are Beverly the queen of the Skeeball arcade, Jollie Trixie the fat lady, Arnold the king of Playworld, Miss Lydia the famous ballerina, and Joey the orphan. Each story is paired with a vintage black-and-white photograph capturing the mood after World War II when a day out meant breathing in the bracing salt air and feeding coins into the machines at the penny arcade.

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Boardwalk in Disrepair
Ami Feller
$19.94

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Anni receives word from the prestigious, pride of Atlantic City s American beauty pageant institution, the Miss Patriotic Organization that they are in need of her talent. She s selected to take over as Tour Manager, traveling across the nation with the country s darling who is crowned to represent style, sophistication, and leadership initiative through scholarship and promoting wholesome ideals. Anni Seller is overjoyed by the new career path handed to her an opportunity of a lifetime the travel, prestige and diversity. The next few months are filled with a plethora of adventure, historically significant happenings, learning experiences and an immersion into the greater good of people; additionally uncovering the underbelly of a few ego-centric control freaks.

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Under The Boardwalk (Costas Sisters, Book 1)
Carly Phillips
$13.99

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I just finished the book at lunch. I have now read everything written by Carly Phillips. I think she's great. The way that Quinn put Ari feelings about her sister first were heart warming. The electricity that was between these two characters was great. Spank the monkey, I could just see in my head the way she acted when Zoe came home. Too funny.

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America's Boardwalks: From Coney Island to California
James Lilliefors
$20.90

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Gaudy, intoxicating, bright, loud, and altogether American: they are our nation¡¦s boardwalks. The boardwalk was first invented so that beach-goers could stroll along the shore in their evening wear without tracking sand into train cars or hotel lobbies. But it wasn't long before the imagination of a country just becoming acquainted with the concept of leisure time transformed the boardwalk into something more.

In America¡¦s Boardwalks, James Lilliefors takes us on a journey along the edges of the country to twelve of its most famous beach towns. Starting in the Northeast with Coney Island, Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Wildwood, and Cape May, we continue south to Rehoboth Beach; Ocean City, Maryland; Virginia Beach; Myrtle Beach; and Daytona Beach. In California, we explore the exotic scenes at Venice Beach and Santa Cruz. Lilliefors traces each town¡¦s history and shows how the boardwalk has been essential to the area¡¦s economic growth, status, and appeal.

This richly documented and illustrated book, however, tells more than the story of the birth and development of boardwalks. Weaving together observations and conversations with business owners, planners, and those who ¡§walk the boards,¡¨ Lilliefors reveals the vitality of the boardwalk as an idea, rather than just as a place. And he introduces us to some of the people who have kept the boardwalk an American institution for more than a hundred and thirty years.

Born at a time when the country was busy reinventing itself as an industrial and economic power, the boardwalk seemed to herald a new way of life¡V¡Vone of relaxation, recreation, and middle-class prosperity. On the nation¡¦s first boardwalk in Atlantic City, you could find everything from a ¡§home of the future¡¨ to diving horses, kangaroo boxing, and the world¡¦s largest typewriter. With no admission fees, boardwalks were also a thoroughly democratic idea, inviting visitors from all social and economic groups to join the same parade.

Even today, these glittering coastal hubs, with their unique blends of people, sea spray, shops, food, and oddities remain a testament to the power of individuality in an increasingly homogenized world.

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Boardwalk Memories: Tales of the Jersey Shore
Emil R. Salvini
$9.99

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Emil Salvini takes you on a splendid literary walk down New Jerseys treasured boardwalks. This book is rich with photographs and stories, new and old, that take you from central Jersey to exit zero. Salvini, like in his Cape May book, offers the perfect combination of history and legend, making it a fun and educational read. I truly enjoyed looking at the pictures in particular, there's even a shot of a very young Danny Devito, look closely!

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The Boardwalk Album: Memories of the Beach
Barbaranne Boyer
$1.91

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A nostalgic look at Toronto's Beach area from 1878 to 1925, with wonderful period photographs of the Boardwalk, the sparsely populated Beaches neighborhood, bustling amusement parks, Kew Gardens, the Old Woodbine, picnics and paddlewheelers, bathers and brass bands.

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A Boardwalk Story
J. Louis Yampolsky
$10.00

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1939. The tenth year of the Great Depression in America. Europe teeters on the brink of war. In Atlantic City, New Jersey--a seashore resort town that springs to life every summer--Jack Laurel comes of age.

At 15, Jack's life is turned upside down by an almost magical convergence of people and events. A mysterious boardwalk entertainer inspires a love of literature, a feud with neighborhood bullies escalates, and innocence is lost. Jack stumbles into commodities trading with two men: one a reclusive mystic, the other a charismatic pitchman and mathematical savant. The musings of a boardwalk fortuneteller set the three partners up to reap unimagined profits--but a house of cards is about to come down around them and, with it, the wrath of an iron-fisted crime boss.

In his first novel, J. Louis Yampolsky evokes the days when Atlantic City was the 'Playground of the World'--the home of gilded Arabesque hotels, parades, pageants, and the famous Steel Pier. A Boardwalk Story is a startling debut from a remarkable new voice in American fiction.

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Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
Bryant Simon
$12.50

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During the first half of the twentieth century, Atlantic City was the nation's most popular middle-class resort--the home of the famed Boardwalk, the Miss America Pageant, and the board game Monopoly. By the late 1960s, it had become a symbol of urban decay and blight, compared by journalists to bombed-out Dresden and war-torn Beirut. Several decades and a dozen casinos later, Atlantic City is again one of America's most popular tourist spots, with thirty-five million visitors a year. Yet most stay for a mere six hours, and the highway has replaced the Boardwalk as the city's most important thoroughfare. Today the city doesn't have a single movie theater and its one supermarket is a virtual fortress protected by metal detectors and security guards.
In this wide-ranging book, Bryant Simon does far more than tell a nostalgic tale of Atlantic City's rise, near death, and reincarnation. He turns the depiction of middle-class vacationers into a revealing discussion of the boundaries of public space in urban America. In the past, he argues, the public was never really about democracy, but about exclusion. During Atlantic City's heyday, African Americans were kept off the Boardwalk and away from the beaches. The overly boisterous or improperly dressed were kept out of theaters and hotel lobbies by uniformed ushers and police. The creation of Atlantic City as the "Nation's Playground" was dependent on keeping undesirables out of view unless they were pushing tourists down the Boardwalk on rickshaw-like rolling chairs or shimmying in smoky nightclubs.
Desegregation overturned this racial balance in the mid-1960s, making the city's public spaces more open and democratic, too open and democratic for many middle-class Americans, who fled to suburbs and suburban-style resorts like Disneyworld. With the opening of the first casino in 1978, the urban balance once again shifted, creating twelve separate, heavily guarded, glittering casinos worlds walled off from the dilapidated houses, boarded-up businesses, and lots razed for redevelopment that never came. Tourists are deliberately kept away from the city's grim reality and its predominantly poor African American residents. Despite ten of thousands of buses and cars rolling into every day, gambling has not saved Atlantic City or returned it to its glory days.
Simon's moving narrative of Atlantic City's past points to the troubling fate of urban America and the nation's cultural trajectory in the twentieth century, with broad implications for those interested in urban studies, sociology, planning, architecture, and history.

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Meet Me At The Boardwalk
Erin Haft
$1.44

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