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Portrait of a casino: Back in the black after 40 years Dr. Adriaenssens
Oranjestad

Tel. 586 3434
By WAYNE PARRY sorts is a home run, there San Nicolas
Associated Press will be overflow,” said ana-
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) lyst Lawrence Klatzkin with
— When Resorts became Rice, Voelker LLC in New EMERGENCIA 911
the first casino in the Unit- York. “Hard Rock could be
ed States to open outside the best thing that happens
Nevada, gamblers over- to Resorts. There could be
whelmed it. Cars streamed good symbiosis there.”
into Atlantic City on May Resorts has found its niche, POLICE 100
26, 1978, and throngs wait- much as downtown Las ORANJESTAD 527-3140
ed in line for blocks on the Vegas casinos have by not NOORD 527-3200
famous Boardwalk. trying to match their larger STA. CRUZ 527-2900
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People bought tickets for competitors on the Strip, POLICE TIPLINE 11141
buffets they had no inten- said David Schwartz, direc- FIRE DEPT. 115
tion of eating, just to sneak tor of the Center for Gam- FIRE DEPT. 582-1108
inside the casino earlier ing Research at the Univer- HOSPITAL 527-4000
than the rest. Men relieved sity of Nevada Las Vegas. DENTAL CLINIC 587-9850
themselves into plastic coin This April 20, 2018 photo shows a game of roulette underway “Downtown casinos aren’t AMBULANCE 582-1234
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cups to avoid losing their at Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. As Atlantic City’s competing by trying to RED CROSS 582-2219
spot at the tables. And casinos mark their 40th anniversary, the industry is hailing the build their own Bellagio
reopening of two of the five casinos that shut down since 2014,
cash — more than anyone though some worry that re-expanding the market could lead lake; they are competing Women in Difficulties
had ever seen and more to the same conditions that caused the wave of closings in the by offering better value PHARMACY
than management could first place. and better gaming condi- Oranjestad:
imagine — flooded into er casinos in town, with 942 Resorts inked a deal to tions,” he said. “If Resorts Trupiaal Tel. 583 8560
the counting room, taking hotel rooms, it suddenly have the Mohegan tribe can do that, it has a good San Nicolas
an entire day to count. found itself staring down assume day-to-day man- future ahead of it.” Aloe Tel. 584 4606
Forty years later , Resorts is newcomers with rooms of agement and to affiliate it Giannantonio predicts Re-
a microcosm of the forces 2,000 or more. with other tribal-owned ca- sorts will have its best sum-
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the seaside gambling re- ed proliferating in nearby Pennsylvania. A deal with this year. PROF. TAXI 588-0035
sort: the rapid rise to fabu- Pennsylvania and New Jimmy Buffett brought the “I think we will be around TAXI D.T.S. 587-2300
lous riches, the slowdown York, Resorts came within Margaritaville brand to Re- 40 years from now,” he SERVICE AUA 583-3232
and struggle as more com- hours of handing the keys sorts, and by 2014, it was said. “Matter of fact, I’d A1 TAXI SERVICES 587-8850
petitors emerged, and the over to lenders and walk- back in the black, helped bet on it.”q 280-2828
recovery in a slimmed- ing away in Dec. 2009. by $110 million of capital CRUISE SHIP
down market. Veteran casino executive investments.
“We were the first one here, Dennis Gomes, known for It has succeeded as one of
and we’re going to keep wacky promotions includ- seven casinos in a market
doing what we do best,” ing customers competing that just four years ago had Editor
said Resorts president Mark against a chicken at tic- 12. But two of the shuttered Caribbean Speed Printers N.V. May 12
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then-Gov. Brendan Byrne afloat by writing checks door, in what used to be Xiomara Arends Avianca 588-0059
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