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Casino Gambling Ship Nyc
With great fanfare fueled by an expensive media blitz, the Edinburgh Castle set sail on Wednesday, January 28, 1998, from a West 55th Street pier in Manhattan. New York's first quasi-legal gambling ship was about to set sail. On board were hundreds of gamblers, all eager to get past the three-mile limit and into International waters so they could play blackjack, roulette, craps, and baccarat, and the two hundred slot machines on board. Each of the passengers paid $99 for the overnight cruise, the weekday price of admission. On weekend trips the cost doubled to $199 per person.
Just three months after launching, Manhattan Cruises threw in the towel. This ended the first legal high-seas gambling ship venture from the Big Apple.
The problem, according to President Mickey Brown, was that there just weren't that many gamblers who would pay $199, or even the $99 weekday rate. He complained that the almost three hundred workers on the ship sometimes outnumbered the paying customers.
The aborted effort of Manhattan Cruises didn't dampen the enthusiasm of other cruise companies. Five other companies have forked over the hefty $100,000 application fee to New York's Gambling Control Commission, and are awaiting the city's okay before launching their own gambling cruises from both Manhattan and Brooklyn.
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Atlantic City Casinos
Resorts was the first casino in Atlantic City in 1978. You stood in line to get in, and if you didn't have a jacket you were turned away at the door. Here's how the casino scene has changed in the first twenty years of legal gambling in Atlantic City:
Annual Visitors
1978: 9.4 million
1998: 34.0 million
Number of Slot Machines
1978: 893
1998-, 34,539
Number of Table Games
1978: 84
1998: 4,447
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