8/8/2017 Atlantic City, New Jersey

From: casarollnotes.blogspot.com 

Tim and Linda Bunyan

Atlantic City, New Jersey

Drove thru the ‘Hood’ with cars parked down the center of the road and on the side with one lane each way for traffic.  Indicating more people are stuck here than passing through.  Walmart was full of needy shoppers (meeting with some sort of satisfaction) and many workers to ‘shore up’ the working economy of this city.  We did our laundry at Scrub and Brush laundry mat.

Now we are set for August:  Atlantic City and the NY Times Tim Birthday!

8/8/17 – 8/10/17  Atlantic City, New Jersey @ Shady Pines RV

We are at the very much alive: World’s Largest Pipe Organ

at a very gone by-the-wayside location:  The seashore playground of Atlantic City. 

This place continues to 'breathe in' the remaining debris of Hurricane Sandy and other money mongers searching for the next best investment.

TRUMP Tau Mahal is not doing so well these days in Atlantic City.  (Liquidation Sale sign).


This "House of Blues" says it all about this down-trodden Atlantic City, August 2017. 

WE DID FIND FUN REMAINING AT MARGARITAVILLE !!!

The purpose of our choosing to go to Atlantic City is:
The Midmer-Losh Organ Company built the largest organ in the world, as measured by the number of pipes.  (33,114 pipes)

The historic organ is housed in the Main Auditorium of the Boardwalk Hall.  This is a place where people laughed and danced.  Theatre and silent movies brought crowds to Broadwalk Hall.

  

The Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ, originally built by the best of the best in the beleaguered times of the depression 1929-1932.  

They came from around the world and the best worked as a team to build this Midmer-Losh Organ.  
  Its grandeur is earnestly being restored. 

We talked to the half dozen gentlemen.  Touching each component, each leather strip, each square of balsa wood toward a complete finish.  They have accomplished 1000 of the pipes and only have another 30,000 to go.  The Restoration Committee, Inc. is intent on the restoration. 

We stayed while the
'PhD in Organs' played to us a recital of songs with half of the organ fully functioning; yet, it filled this huge auditorium!  

 The final Star-Spangled Banner song filled the room and everyone rose.  So very solemn occasion to be in the presence of men that care about retaining a good part of history and the World’s Largest Pipe Organ.  This organ played for Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds; Buster Keaton-The Cameraman; and Harold Lloyd-Stuchman, Lodger.

We rode our bikes 13 miles on the iconic Atlantic City Boardwalk from one end to the other thru defunct casinos, to out of place, glittery casinos that remain standing, and the Hard Rock and Margaritaville now the heart middle of the Boardwalk of what's happening now.

Ventnor City Beach remains mostly homeownership; not small beach casitas: large 2 level second homes beaming onto the beach.  On the West end, the COE has tried to rectify the effects of Hurricane Sandy by fluffing up the sand and only enraging the locals that live there.  Mother Nature is doing inculcating aerobics with the beach sand.........that has stumped Engineers.