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Article: The Nightlife is Rising -- Raising the Bar in Atlantic City: Nightclub & Bar Show (Oct. 10-12) Spotlights Comeback of America's Playground.
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- PR Newswire
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- September 27, 2005
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ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Any comparison between Atlantic City and Las Vegas would have seemed laughable only a few years ago.
There's no denying that the neon desert kingdom conjured from cactus and gopher holes back in the 1940s by gangster Bugsy Segal is an international gaming, nightlife and entertainment destination to rival any in the world. Meanwhile, Atlantic City, despite its legalization of gaming in the 1970s in an attempt to regain its former glory, lagged behind its younger sibling resort to the West with its largely day-tripping gaming visitors skewed heavily toward an older demographic.
But that was before the Borgata Hotel ...