Atlantic City 1951

A film about Atlantic City, New Jersey in the 1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com

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  Travel & Events

[Dan modhbone]

Can you send me a copy of this video my grandmother is in it or maybe clips of just her?

[travelfilmarchive]

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[M16zable]

man i would do anything to go back into the fifties

[rotatingwah]

★★★★★

[georgewu5]

People who could go anywhere else still stay around Atlantic city. Therefore cheap housing is needed ! they cannot live in wood frame houses with mold everywhere ! and they cannot afford to live in new housing development. The government is too exhausted to provide any public housing. Here we go, just like everywhere in the world these days, people do need cheap housing ! One of the ways to do it is to reuse the shipping containers stacking them up, ten maximum, for housing. Youtube georgewu5

[90038jhon]

''Take up that line, girl ! It takes strength to reel in a tuna ! ''

[frankezber67]

Casinos did ruin AC and the surrounding area. Most of us who got smart left there!

[budmangt2]

The 50's were the happy days yo!

[n67camaro11]

Good old AC. Though when I think of it I remeber steel pier, & we went there in 6th grade. Several of us went to the back where the show was with the horse, & lions, & before the show, us girls sat on the bleachers while a couple of the guys went over to the lions cage & a lion grabbed my friends leg (eventually, lost his leg)...don't remember too much else, we were in shock!

[anapanasati1970]

The casinos didn't destroy Atlantic City. Cheap air travel did. Before that, this was a major place to go for New Yorkers and Philadelphians. When it got cheap to go to Florida or the Carribbean, people stopped going. The city had already declined in the 70s and the casinos were an attempt supposedly to revitalize the city. Except the casinos did nothing for it.

[imthechasman]

Yeah, I was there one of the days, its like going back in time, really. I really wish they would do some work on the place though, at least get the clocks working!