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Movie Theater Boardwalk Empire?
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Re: Boardwalk Empire?
I really enjoyed the first season and can't wait for this one. Dexter starts next week too! Really looking forward to that.
I really enjoyed the first season and can't wait for this one. Dexter starts next week too! Really looking forward to that.
Re: Boardwalk Empire?
I love the show! Of course HBO hardly ever does anything I don't like......except for that real sex crap.....yuck!
I love the show! Of course HBO hardly ever does anything I don't like......except for that real sex crap.....yuck!
Re: Boardwalk Empire?
It is a great show ...Jimmy can do sum work with that trench knife of his....
It is a great show ...Jimmy can do sum work with that trench knife of his....
Re: Boardwalk Empire?
we used to go to A.C. when I was a kid. Once we stayed at the Kentucky Hotel, near Chicken Bone Beach. sometimes we took day trips. The Ritz and the Marlboro Blenheim were up and open then, and Steel Pier and i think 3 others, including the one with the "Bounty of the Sea" nets but the far end of that peir, where the nets were in the past and where the big ballroom was, was storm damaged and condemned long before me. that pier had a big Coppertone sign with the little girl with pigtails getting her panties pulled down by a little dog. that was up for decades.
Steel Pier had the Diving Horse and the water show still. Very cool.
But there was a political Convention and the hotels were so crappy (paper towels in the rooms instead of terrycloth) and they were so dated the press really shit on the city. There was supposed to be a big urban renwal project and they condemned and leveled about 15 blocks along the beach on the north side, and then that fell through leaving a desert.
The city was really seedy, except at Park Place beach, because that area was overrun by male homosexuals, who spent generously and loved to party. not exactly family, though when I was around 6 i did get caught in the current between the sandbar and the beach when the tide was coming in and a homo in black nuthuggers saw me in distress and pulled me out, then skipped back into the water and splashed around with his boyfriends.
When the first casino opened, "Resorts", they closed down Steel Pier and all the theaters and all the other piers (they had rides and carny stuff), so all you could do was stay in the casino.
You had to drive 45 minutes to see a movie.
The Elephant in Margate, Lucy, was sitting in a decrepit lot near the beach and was in terrible condition.
I have very clear memories of AC as a kid. I remember my dad showing me the 500 Club, where Martin and Lewis and Frank used to perform in the late 40's and early 50's.
during WW Ii all the hotels were taken over by the Military, and were used as hospitals for wounded Aircrew from Europe and for R&R leaves for returning men to meet their wives after their tours were finished.
Gardner's Basin was full of fishing boats then, with a "AC Tuna Club", but the Gas Crisis of the 70's and a poor economy average people couldn't afford the lifestyle anymore. The legend of the rummrunners was well known there even then.
I can remember restaraunts, and hotels, and piers, and lots of places mentioned on the show.
There never was a pier crossing the boardwalk though, like on the set. Not ever, like at Asbury Park. My only critique.
we used to go to A.C. when I was a kid. Once we stayed at the Kentucky Hotel, near Chicken Bone Beach. sometimes we took day trips. The Ritz and the Marlboro Blenheim were up and open then, and Steel Pier and i think 3 others, including the one with the "Bounty of the Sea" nets but the far end of that peir, where the nets were in the past and where the big ballroom was, was storm damaged and condemned long before me. that pier had a big Coppertone sign with the little girl with pigtails getting her panties pulled down by a little dog. that was up for decades.
Steel Pier had the Diving Horse and the water show still. Very cool.
But there was a political Convention and the hotels were so crappy (paper towels in the rooms instead of terrycloth) and they were so dated the press really shit on the city. There was supposed to be a big urban renwal project and they condemned and leveled about 15 blocks along the beach on the north side, and then that fell through leaving a desert.
The city was really seedy, except at Park Place beach, because that area was overrun by male homosexuals, who spent generously and loved to party. not exactly family, though when I was around 6 i did get caught in the current between the sandbar and the beach when the tide was coming in and a homo in black nuthuggers saw me in distress and pulled me out, then skipped back into the water and splashed around with his boyfriends.
When the first casino opened, "Resorts", they closed down Steel Pier and all the theaters and all the other piers (they had rides and carny stuff), so all you could do was stay in the casino.
You had to drive 45 minutes to see a movie.
The Elephant in Margate, Lucy, was sitting in a decrepit lot near the beach and was in terrible condition.
I have very clear memories of AC as a kid. I remember my dad showing me the 500 Club, where Martin and Lewis and Frank used to perform in the late 40's and early 50's.
during WW Ii all the hotels were taken over by the Military, and were used as hospitals for wounded Aircrew from Europe and for R&R leaves for returning men to meet their wives after their tours were finished.
Gardner's Basin was full of fishing boats then, with a "AC Tuna Club", but the Gas Crisis of the 70's and a poor economy average people couldn't afford the lifestyle anymore. The legend of the rummrunners was well known there even then.
I can remember restaraunts, and hotels, and piers, and lots of places mentioned on the show.
There never was a pier crossing the boardwalk though, like on the set. Not ever, like at Asbury Park. My only critique.
