Atlantic City Boardwalk
- Address: Boardwalk
- Vicinity: Absecon Inlet along the beach to the city limit 4 miles (6.4 km) then continues 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to Ventnor City
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1870/06/16 | First Atlantic City Boardwalk is built to keep the sand out of the beachfront hotels and the Camden and Atlantic's railroad passenger cars. At the end of each summer season, the Boardwalk was dismantled and stored for the winter. | |||||
| 1880/00/00 | In 1880, the 1st Atlantic City Boardwalk is replaced. A storm in 1884 damages the 2nd boardwalk, which was destroyed by a hurricane in 1889. | |||||
| 1906/00/00 | Price and McLanahan | Architect | Traymore Hotel boardwalk tower (lost) is constructed. A new concrete main building (lost) will be built behind it 1915. | |||
| 1916/00/00 | Current Atlantic City Boardwalk is built in a herringbone board pattern over steel pilings and forty-foot steel beams. | |||||
| 1929/05/30 | M Hawley McLanahan | Died | M Hawley McLanahan dies at the Traymore Hotel, Atlantic City, NJ | |||
| 1972/04/27 | Jack Loizeaux sets off the first of three controlled implosions to demolish the Traymore Hotel, the final one was in May 1972 | Atlantic City |
| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
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| Place | AsNotedIn | Type |
| Atlantic City Convention Hall |
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| Playground Pier |
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| Steel Pier, Atlantic City |
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| Physiographic Data | |
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| Length: | 8,800 m |
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
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| This Side of Paradise (book) | Novel | F Scott Fitzgerald | In "This Side of Paradise", Amory paces the Atlantic City board walk at days end, October 1919. |
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| Activity Category | On Foot |
| On Foot Type | Walk |
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