Turning to leave from the area, toward our way back to the train station, the feature we’d been looking for. Hidden among buildings and utility poles, once Atlantic City’s tallest structure, no longer a beacon for mariners. Lonely, lean and silently dignified.
The Absecon Lighthouse.
Atlantic City
February 23rd, 2017
You wouldn’t know it the way its wavy shaped windows shine in the sun. Yet, this enormous structure, built on a once-residential area at a cost of billion, remains closed since September 2014. All the 6,8 million sq.ft., 1.898 hotel rooms, 14 restaurants, spa, concert venues, nightclubs, shops and 130.000 sq.ft. gambling space of it. 2,5 years of operation, then bankruptcy. Now a still, eerie emptiness.
A lot has been said about what is, what could have been, what should be done. This city, once thriving on speculation, is now suffering from the effects of an overdose.
A few houses left standing in the vicinity, two in the shadow of the sleeping giant. We have to move on. It may be the emptiness but this area feels unsafe.
Atlantic City
February 23rd, 2017
But if your curiosity gets the better of you, as it did of us, and you decide to leave the beach, behold the nightmarish setting of the Famous Atlantic City Boardwalk!
Heavily edited and filtered, it still feels like a cheap set of a b-movie in the seventies. I wonder who was responsible for these monstrosities; and what could they possibly be thinking?
Atlantic City
February 23rd, 2017
On the train to Philadelphia, we had discovered the quiet car completely by accident. A great feature, one that trains in Europe would greatly benefit from. Why this has not been implemented on the other side of the Atlantic, is a mystery to me. We now ask the train attendant for the quiet car, every time we’re about to board a train.
Half an hour later and… what a difference 60 miles make!
A brilliant sunshine, a light breeze, unseasonably warm, an enormous beach, no crowds.
“Enjoy God’s gift to humanity!” an excited fellow walker exclaimed…
“Enjoy!” we echoed, smiling back… “as long as you remain under the boardwalk”, we added silently.
Atlantic City
February 23rd, 2017
If time allows, a trip to Philadelphia may either be combined with a visit to the Amish Country, to the west or a walk on (better yet, under) the famous Boardwalk of the Atlantic City, to the southeast. We chose the second. Around 90′ by train, the Ocean was beckoning.
Meanwhile, Philly was showing us her cloudy face.
Philadelphia, views from the Schuylkill River Trail.
February 23rd, 2017
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