ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK - SCAM ARTISTS, CASINOS AND A DEAD MALL!

[@Marjorie8904u]

Thanks!

[@jsa8368]

I miss Atlantic City as a kid in the 90s. My parents would go to the casinos and I went to the mall when is was called Ocean One. Stopped by the store in the front called "Giggles" and bought pogs, basketball cards in the hobby shop and spent hours at the arcade playing Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. Sad to see AC not thriving as much as it did before

[@joee5081]

That Playground area you were walking around with the great view used to be the Ocean One Mall and all those restaurants up on the top floor used to be a very busy area. I don't think the retail stores every did great business but there was an Apple Store back when it was the Ocean One Mall. They sold the Mall and it became the Playground more geared towards bars and nightlife with bands etc., but never really took off. Now it is supposed to become a Movie Studio but not sure if that deal fell thru because I do not see any activity and well since you walk thru they certainly haven't begun any activity to convert it to a Movie Studio. I like that you are switching it up with a trip to Atlantic City. I always remember the beaches at Atlantic City being really small and not much sand area. We always spent the summers in Wildwood where the beaches use to be a mile long or at least it seemed to be that long. I think even the Wildwood Beaches have become smaller but still way bigger than Atlantic City. Lastly, yes definitely a Merry Go Round. Let's Keep the Carousel in the Movies and Broadway Shows.

[@markeast9221]

I am 70 this year ! Spent many days on the Steel Pier as a little boy ! Looks like all outdoor rides now ! Their were a lot of indoor buildings before ,with indoor attractions ! I saw Little Stevie Wonder , they had a weekly indoor TV Dance Show Broadcast , The BEATLES even Played There ! Saw the Diving Horse and the Clown Water Show at the End of the Pier Many Many times ! They had more than one horse ! Nobody Pushed the horse off , it Would jump off on its own after looking down ! There was a Diving Bell that you could go down in the water , that was Cool ! So many things to do ,NOT JUST RIDES ! To Bad All That Seems To Be Gone !

[@Roadanyh6l]

Do you remember the lady turned into an ape? She would shake the cage and the lock would fall off and everyone would run out. One of the first scams. Lolol

[@ochoron7430]

The diving bell was funny you could never see anything but that ugly dirty colored NJ ocean water. And people getting off it would tell you it's a rip off you can't see anything BUT people are hard headed they still paid to go on it even after being told ! haha

[@markeast9221]

@@ochoron7430 do you remember the knife salesman on the boardwalk , he would say it was so sharp it could slice a tomato so thin that one tomato would last you a whole month .

[@davidharris8082]

I remember that diving Bell, once it went down in the water, it was completely dark, you could not see anything!

[@mr.niceguy1498]

In that mall there was a restaurant called The Continental. It closed during Covid and never reopened. The best French onion soup dumplings.

[@javierclyburn5688]

A lot of people are always saying how terrible AC is. Like it's this horrific place. AC is no worse than any other major touristy city around the U.S and even the world. You could view and say the same about all of them to be quite honest. They all have good and bad. That's just a part of life. You can't have the good without the bad. No place is perfect.

[@LORDFARQUADZILLA]

That's where you're wrong. You absolutely can have the good without the bad. Unfortunately Atlantic City is just a corrupt shit hole. NYC was safe. It was the safest city in the world until deBlasio took over and Adam's has continued that. Soft on crime, lack of prosecutions, cashless bail, lack of preventive policing thanks to policy changes. Giuliani and Bloomberg ran NYC nicely. It was very safe. So you're wrong.

[@butter7734]

Not true. 95% of all pharmaceuticals are made within an hour of AC and they all dump waste in the ocean. You might not ever be able to have kids if you swim in that water. If you walk on the beach barefoot you run the risk of getting a needle stabbing you in the foot. Then you might have some disease from a drug user.

[@TheAbandonedAccount7]

I think its relative. When you compare AC to all the other beaches on the east coast, its among the worst, along with wildwood. Its still a beach with a boardwalk, but no one can deny the state its in. And we all know why, lets be real lol

[@javierclyburn5688]

@@TheAbandonedAccount7 I disagree. AC and Wildwood beach is not even that bad to be quite honest. I've seen worse. This is not the 80's and 90's. They've come a long way. It's just a bunch of naysayers at this point. Also, what do mean the state it's in. Jersey is one of the best states out here. It ranks high in a lot of different categories. It's also in a great location. Proximity to mostly everything. The only thing holding the state back is how expensive it is.

[@Dalt21]

@@TheAbandonedAccount7wildwood is fine lol.

[@cseaholtz34]

The Irish Pub has the most amazing food at good prices.. We also eat there every time we are in AC!

[@tfromcleveland3741]

Mason needs to lean into being the villain of the vlog. 😂 Call you Pops, wear a Mets hat, borrowing money etc 😂

[@cliffordbrown13]

I loved the old Showboat casino! They gave me many a free nights stay. Its the only casino that I came out ahead, lol. Love your videos Cap!

[@debneuweiler9867]

Me too my husband and I loved The Boat..we practically knew all the dealers and pit bosses

[@aubreypolgreen9980]

Now it stinks

[@damisnsilletti2762]

Unfortunately that's why they went under

[@jenniferlowery6586]

The cheapest buffet on the boards was by Bally's up the escalator to second floor it was $8.....if remember it was garden buffet.

[@johnknowles6711]

Virginia city buffet, I believe

[@sayron73]

Fun fact about the high dive horse at Steel Peir, one of the riders was Sarah Detwiler Hart, wife of the late great Gene Hart and mother of Lauren Hart

[@chrissyg1006]

I am from here, only 10 minutes from Atlantic City and I will tell you, outside of the casinos and the boardwalk/beaches, the streets are not a very safe place to be, a lot of robberies, shootings, prostitution, and drug dealings. It's even worse at night! it's a shame how bad it has become over the years. I used to enjoy it when I was a young teenager, going uto the beaches with my friends, and I felt much safer then, but now you have to be very aware of your surroundings when you are there, and don't trust anyone, there are a lot of scammers on the boardwalks and the streets, they're always trying to sell you something that is either fake or Stolen, so be aware. you'll also notice a lot of homelessness on the streets and the boardwalk. Of course that is everywhere these days. Oh, and around here, I have always heard everyone, including myself, call that ride, a carousel. Sorry! 😊

[@davidharris8082]

It's a shame that the casinos didn't help the city much outside of the boardwalk casino area. Should have done more to help with the city's problems during the casino's heydays in the 80s to 2000s. When everyone was going to AC to gamble. Now Everyone has casinos, even online, don't need to go to AC anymore!

[@brianheffron]

That dead mall used to be The Ocean One Mall. In the 80s and early 90s, I basically lived there as a kid. I hate what it is now.

[@daewooparts]

17:37 ,they also filmed alot of Boardwalk Empire in the Port Richmond area of Staten Island, including my friends old bodyshop which use to be a old Mack truck dealership....they was Dumbfounded when scouting & seen all the original time period vehicles inside & wanted to use them as well....they used alot of old buildings in that area

[@redruuum75]

Wild west casino was my jawn back in the day

[@johnknowles6711]

Mountain bar all day happy hour was the best deal on the boardwalk. Great on Football Sundays.

[@PlayitagainVHS]

What a dump Atlantic City became.Sad to see what it became.Lets face it , Atlantic City will never be what it once was.

[@DaleOBrien-y8k]

Thanks for the video. Sure has changed since my visits in the 60s and 70s.

[@susanmarraffa303]

Atlantic City Pop Festival 1969, 2 weeks before Woodstock. 3 days long. Janis Joplin, CCR, most of all the bands at Woodstock ✌️❤️🎶

[@debmccafferty1007]

☮

[@daewooparts]

6:00 ,my dog 🐕 loves going under the steel pier ,i like going under it during violent storms the waves 🌊are awesome, looks like a toilet bowl 🚽 flushing.....there is also a cool Mr Peanut graffiti painting down there on one of the post

[@PHILZFAN]

Every year from the late 80s to early 2000s, I'd visit the AC boardwalk . Used to love goojt to that 99c store, Ocean One Mall, and my favorite shop was a tshirt place called Rainbow Tees.

[@johnknowles6711]

Atlantic City used to be known as the lungs of Philadelphia. That mall was wiped out by the outlet stores, just off the boardwalk. A film studio, I believe operates in it now. A merry go round is at a school yard or a playground. A carousel has the horses on it. Usually on a boardwalk, or fair. There's a Dave and Busters off the boardwalk near Caesars. DO AC!

[@tomdiets5079]

Still no reason why a nice place like that shouldn’t be thriving, The state government ran it into the ground, I see this and don’t understand why it can’t be just like Ocean city Maryland, there’s so many people in OCean city Maryland that you can’t even walk down the boardwalk.

[@lisaadams1249]

I was there this weekend and it was pretty crowded

[@RyanNodal305]

Omg Jon those segments with Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan on the boardwalk promoting Wrestlemania were classic. Anyway the boardwalk looks nice. Wasn’t it rundown for years

[@gregbrown6921]

It’s a merry-go-round….. people who say Carousel probably say Philadelphia Mills

[@davidsuggs3025]

I used to love AC when it was the only casino destination on the East Coast. No need to go now. The Claridge, the Sands, and Ballys were the bomb!

[@heathermanning5368]

That's preety depressing about that mall! The fountain show was really cool and they used to have some really nice high end stores and restaurants! Loved the view up top over the beach! Sad to see what is is now, I guess all the outlets killed their businesses! Thanks for Sharing!

[@omaracevedo8800]

The mall is now leased by AC1 Production Studios, the vacant stores are used for on location movie productions

[@MayfairDonny]

We still have the Seward Johnson statues in Mayfair Jon. Nine of them! They are scattered all along Frankford Avenue and they will be here until the end of September. Thanks for the shout out!

[@daveroberson7386]

I went to the showboat for a vacation with my folks last year! Very cool! 😄

[@Lt2208]

Actually the largest Ferris wheel in NJ is the one at the American Dream mall, NOT the one in AC

[@thraciangrapes]

Trenton by the sea 😆

[@jenniferlowery6586]

The pier mask was awesome! Work the ladder light water show and the observation deck out back it was beautiful!

[@spamlessaccount]

We were at the Steel Pier years ago and decided not to do the "slingshot" ride - and it collapsed the very next weekend!

[@Itanium153]

Your Taking me back to. I loved AC

[@sabrinamerrick1271]

Are the fortune teller shops still there?

[@johnbogusz8090]

Many fond memories of AC! Would love to sit down with the Captain over a few beers and talk about the good times at the shore and watching the Phillies.

[@KevinsKontentKorner]

i fear you would do much more listening than talking

[@prospectsETC]

Very cool - I havnt been to A/C in over 10 years. It was nice to see it still hustling and bustling a bit. Even though the casinos are getting fewer and fewer aye?

[@tony-ce7qp]

i love it there and go every year....thanks for the video!

[@joangravel2436]

Thanks for the awesome video that place was awesome I enjoyed watching

[@peggymcbrien6914]

In Detroit we say merry go round. We also say pop not soda, and sucker not lollipop.

[@bob4364]

Hey Philly Captain, great video with your Misses C, Jules & Mason in Atlantic City, NJ..Free beach, boardwalk, casino, and more..TOODLES..

[@exita99]

Great video. Just left Atlantic City as it seemed busy this July 4th week. I sure do remember the fountain light show toward the back. Still great views. I never go there at Ocean Pier mall. Stay at Tropicana where there is a lot happening. Enjoy! 🇺🇸🎡🏖️🙋🏻‍♀️😎

[@WelcomeTooo]

No matter how many times I hear “here we are” it brings a smile to my face

[@flyhigh7918]

I stay at Tropicana..love the restaurants there.. it's sad that the mall is dead.. I still remember sitting with my friends at that sushi bar in the mall having some beers.. Love The view

[@randygyulay5114]

Nice visit.

[@debneuweiler9867]

WOW! I haven’t been to AC in years I can’t believe all that was there is gone…I’ve been to the mall when it had the fountain and it actually had stores and I can’t believe that Ballys Wild West is gone…Me and my husband had a lot of great times there

[@stephenannese8228]

Haven't been back to (AC) since 1990,....We were always told to not venture off the Boardwalk,.....anything change....!!?

[@chrisbrown8748]

Awesome videos as always👍🏽👍🏽. I haven’t been to AC in so but now I just took a virtual trip there thanks to the Cap🙌🏽

[@janetcimbala3358]

Love the Irish pub🎉😊

[@kimkuks6370]

Used to love that mall, AC will always hold a place in my heart

[@riley0973]

Thanks Captain!!! 😊

[@dianeschroeder3771]

I can’t believe how blue the water was. To me it’s a merry-go- round.

[@mikeluciano3803]

The Irish Pub! Let’s go!!!!!

[@charlesmcglinchy1169]

Great place as is the Irish Inn

[@dallasstewart6001]

I went to Atlantic city last year with my mom we spent a day on the boardwalk

[@portcity4711]

Had a ball on AC last week. Stayed at Ceasars’. No problems at all. #NY #SC

[@francisdv]

50 years ago, I'd hop on a bus in Haddon Heights and go to AC for the day. My parents would have had a fit if they knew. I was 10 years old. Meet some very "interesting" people too. Still like it over other shore destinations 😊

[@Wa3ypx]

The Pots and Pans man that drummed on plastic buckets

[@joshuadurham9699]

Been there and stayed at Oceans Casino Resort. Its a nice place. AC Boardwalk at night isnt safe. We would go to Ocean City NJ or Wildwood. It's Sugar is my favorite store on the AC Boardwalk

[@Hungryhippo2025]

Wife an family just visited this place on 09/21/24. From a distance driving into the city It looked like a paradise. The closer we got the worse it started to look. When we finally arrived to the city we were in complete shock.

[@henrysantos121]

Very nice video to watch very well done ✅

[@ChrisNicholas1]

I already have been to Atlantic City for a couple times back when I was a kid. This place is good but sometimes, it’s been struggling for years.

[@charlesmcglinchy1169]

Go Phillies!!!!

[@bull_Tattoo]

We all know Cap snuck out for a late night massage parlor visit 😉

[@charlestonpinballarcade]

He will give his real email address to those places for marketing because he wants the $5 off coupon! 😂

[@michelelove5658]

They will come to ur room for extra cost ;)

[@bigblast1958]

Everytime I go there it's packed. Yes it's changed but I still have a good time! What in this world hasn't. There's nothing like it used to be.

[@tomdiets5079]

New Jersey should be embarrassed that Atlantic City is the way it is now, there’s no reason Atlantic City shouldn’t be more like Ocean City Maryland or even the Jersey Shore. They’ve let that place fall apart and it’s all because of the way the states government has run it into the ground.

[@joshuadurham9699]

Ocean City NJ is Nice but I prefer any beach on the Gulf Coast of Florida

[@postalfnj]

@@joshuadurham9699 it is corrupt thats why

[@joshuadurham9699]

@@postalfnj Facts man

[@Gloria00082]

What you talking about we ARE embarrassed. Especially if you grew up in the 80s and 90s and remember what it used to be. It totally makes me sad. ❤

[@joshuadurham9699]

@@Gloria00082 IT sucks to see what it has become

[@edwardwilmoth]

she really looked thrilled to be there.arcade looked cool

[@ThePhillyCaptain]

That’s her gimmick.

[@JessicaOldecrowbakeshoppe]

Thanks for this! I wanted to do a day trip here. I hate what has happened to the malls everywhere. You were recently at the Berkshire mall and it’s sad how that has declined.

[@oldschoolcustoms215]

Atlantic city is awesome we grew up going to wildwood now we only go to Atlantic city

[@tonymanzo3766]

Irish pub great food and great beer to wash it down with

[@tonymanzo3766]

I did not know about showboat not being a casino I would walk past on my way to hard rock I went to showboat when they had bowling lanes and actually went bowling a couple of times. Maybe 20 or more years ago. My wife says let’s go Mets, I disagree I belong to Yankees nation.

[@KenOnaMission]

I remember going there in the 90s and having fun and getting a free parking and free room..The 11 casinos competed and slowly the rest of the country built their own casinos. No one but locals from the area drive to this place now.

[@francisdv]

Merry-go-round all the way Captain!

[@brendawhisenhunt8444]

Merry Go Around!

[@dunder2006]

Great video...city ain't what it used to be but the Hard Rock is a nice casino...inside!

[@qmoto212k6]

fire vid bro !!!! you funny as hell my guy lmao

[@robertg.7052]

That is depressing with the Mall!!!

[@sabrinamerrick1271]

Academy Bus used to offer service from port authority NY to the Tropicana Hotel. No more. Tropicana used to be the place. Mid week hotel rooms wer under 99 bucks.

[@margaretriley9146]

I loved Cafe Noir @ the Atlantis Casino (formerly Playboy Hotel and Casino)..!! Is the Ocean One Shopping area still operating..?? I haven't been to A.C. for decades..!!

[@jeffreyg201]

That dead mall used to be known as Million Dollar Pier, which was a world famous classy family attraction of days gone by.

[@WillCastro-od3qx]

Damn I like that mall and i sure as hell love it when was ocean one back in day good food games in early 2000s it was money 🤑 back then

[@themagus5906]

9:30 The Irish Pub....I think it will be there forever.

[@shanefink3653]

I took a picture of that guitar chandelier.. almost ate at the buffet but not enough time so nice vid ..i only had like 4 hours to explore ..but i was right where yous was

[@caroleann1560]

Love the HardRock❤ Haven't been in awhile. Thx for the tour@

[@caroleeritchings230]

Merry go round!

[@PaulDziomba]

Can you still get out on the back decks at the mall? Used to be some great restaraunts in there. SAD,

[@TheMetalmachine467]

i seen a few concerts at the show boat last one was rush

[@maximussilverstacker3928]

Everything always changes and nothing good last for long that mall looked like our mall (except much smaller) mostly empty now they opened a casino in our dying mall in upstate NY . Again no reason to go to Atlantic City about 4 hrs away when there’s a casino a mile down the road to lose your money !

[@thetruth3514]

Is that Ferris wheel larger than the one in Wildwood?

[@thestorychannel3169]

It's not gonna be dead on July 25th-28th when they're hosting the Atlantic City Celebrity Convention ❤

[@richie2116]

Merry go round

[@louiecmancuzo2903]

Its absolutely a merry go round.

[@shanefink3653]

I was just there in August ..nice vid

[@PattyFreeman-q1i]

Just like the song “On a Carousel”!

[@KDJW5]

Right on, Captain!

[@reycolon2975]

What software are you using for editing?

[@bassclay100]

that mall had an awesome mini golf n they closed it down it was 27 holes glow in the dark its real sad what happened to that mall

[@Wa3ypx]

Went AC on my honeymoon. Hit it big at The Claridge and paid for the whole trip. Back when you walked around with buckets of change.

[@TheVillest]

james candy was a client of mine for over 35 years! the ORIGINAL taffy makers!!!

[@bojo6607]

Liked your channel very fun, but your Pennsylvania accent is killing me,lol. I’m from Neww Yowwwk where we have the perfect accent.😁

[@ThePhillyCaptain]

I have a Philly accent. The PA accent is horrible

[@bethysmollet272]

what happened at the 8:55 edit?

[@ThePhillyCaptain]

Seagulls fighting over food

[@Christy903]

I live in NJ about 45 minutes away. I call it a merry go round. Only been to Ocean City boardwalk once this season. Haven’t been to AC since going to Resorts in February for a show. Enjoying the AC content.

[@jay62898]

Just got back today, stayed at Harrah’s which was nice, but the boardwalk was dead. And no happy endings at those places 😂

[@hypermarketed]

Great boardwalk. You should do Jenkinsons boardwalk/Point Pleasant one of these days. Stop by and get yaself a nice Kohrs custard! Thanks for sharing.

[@ThePhillyCaptain]

I was at Point Pleasant last year

[@hypermarketed]

@@ThePhillyCaptain I'll look up that video, thanks.