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Caesars Atlantic City: Introduction

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit EgorovaSvetlana, CC BY-SA 4.0. Caesars Atlantic City began its life as a Howard Johnson's. The Howard Johnson's Regency Motor Hotel - eleven stories, 425 rooms, opened in 1966 - was a respectable mid-grade motor hotel on the boardwalk when Caesars Entertainment bought it in 1977. Atlantic City had just legalized casino gambling. Caesars needed a property fast, and the existing eleven-story building gave them a head start. The Casino Control Commission, despite the governor's objections, allowed Caesars to renovate rather than build from scratch. Seven floors were added. The room count climbed to 548. A 52,000-square-foot casino was carved out of the lower levels. The cost ran $300 million. On June 26, 1979, the casino opened as the Boardwalk Regency - the Caesars name was omitted while the Casino Control Commission continued its investigation of the parent corporation. The Caesars name was added back in 1983.

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Caesars Atlantic City: The Second Casino

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Andy Borysowski. B64 (talk), CC BY 3.0. Caesars was the second casino to open after Resorts International. By the time it began operations in June 1979, Atlantic City had been a legal gambling city for one year. Resorts was making more money than any single property in Las Vegas. The competition Caesars was about to pr...

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Caesars Atlantic City: Roman Theming Eastbound

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Lauren Pollet, CC BY 2.0. Through the 1990s and 2000s, Caesars wrapped the original Howard Johnson's building in increasingly elaborate Roman facades. The boardwalk-side entrance was rebuilt with columns, statues, and ornamental pediments. The Pacific Avenue side received a matching Roman treatment. A new...

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Caesars Atlantic City: The Pier and the Skybridge

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit B64 (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. In 2006 the casino opened a connecting skybridge across the boardwalk to the newly redeveloped Pier Shops at Caesars - an upscale shopping mall on the former Million Dollar Pier. The bridge made it possible to walk from the casino floor to the pier shops without going outside or ...

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Caesars Atlantic City: Wild Wild West

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit The original uploader was Nightscream at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 2.5. When Twin River Worldwide Holdings bought Bally's Atlantic City from Vici Properties in 2020, the deal carved out one piece of the Bally's complex - the Wild Wild West Casino - and transferred it to Caesars next door. The Wild Wild West had opened in 1997 as Bally's second gambli...

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Caesars Atlantic City: The Warner Theatre and the Hook

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 2023 Caesars opened a new entertainment venue called The Hook in the restored Warner Theatre - an Art Deco movie palace built in 1929 that had sat dark for decades. The Hook hosts a residency show called Italian-American Psychedelic, a Superfrico restaurant, and themed cocktai...

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