At 1:02 AM +0000 1/7/16, <lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nowhere to eat apart from casino restaurants, because they'd driven everyone else out of business.
It's been a long time since I lived near there, but I have vivid memories before the casinos of the city being a barren, deserted, crime-infested wasteland where no one ventured. Gambling was legalized on the promise of urban renewal and economic revival. I think the promise was never met.
I took the train from Philadelphia's 30th street station, which, with its statues of angels, is cathedral-like in grandeur.
30th Street is a magnificent station, although significant parts of it have been sealed off since the '70s. There used to be a cool small train line from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore: the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Line. It also went to Cape May Court House, Cape May, and Wildwood.
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