Four casinos have closed and this weekend another, Trump Taj Mahal, is likely to be shuttered as well. There have been countless profiles of Atlantic City’s decline this year.
In July, with the Showboat’s closure looming, a casino bartender told the Philadelphia Inquirer, “The prospect of me and my wife both losing our jobs is horrible.” He met his wife, a cocktail waitress, at work.
I see so many families that are being ripped apart now.” That’s what an Atlantic City cocktail waitress, on the eve of Revel casino’s closing in September, told Philadelphia magazine.
