'I got a job at ShopRite,' the guard replied. Outside the Showboat, a security guard who had been preventing would-be customers from entering was greeted by a longtime customer who came to say goodbye and ask how the guard was doing. She urged potential buyers to take a chance on the Showboat - as long as Caesars doesn't put the same kind of deed restriction prohibiting a new owner from running it as a casino as it has with two recent sales of former casino properties. 'Now you're just going to kick us to the curb?' 'For 36 years (Atlantic City's casinos) were the cash cow,' she said. Ruth Ann Joyce, who worked at Showboat as a bartender since the day it opened on March 30, 1987, was bitter on its last day. 'I want to thank the Showboat Atlantic City team for their dedication, professionalism, and commitment to our guests - both throughout the years and especially over the past several weeks,' he wrote. Inside the casino, recordings urged customers to patronize Caesars Entertainment's three remaining casinos in Atlantic City: Caesars, Harrah's and Bally's.Ĭaesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman wrote in a letter to employees that the Showboat has been in business in Atlantic City for 27 years and Caesars was proud to operate it for 16 years. At 4 p.m., security guards emerged to tape to the glass doors paper signs that read, 'Closed.'Ĭop cars rear-ended during traffic stop leading to fiery crash on I-95 The Showboat stopped admitting new customers at 3 p.m.

The Showboat's owner, Caesars Entertainment, closed the still-profitable casino to reduce the number of casinos in Atlantic City, which has been struggling with plunging revenue and increased competition in the saturated northeastern U.S. Wade will be among the thousands of workers showing up at the Atlantic City Convention Center on Wednesday for a mass unemployment filing. There are too many jobs being pushed out of Atlantic City due to corporate greed.' We still don't understand why we were the one targeted to close, and nobody has given us an answer on that. We worked really hard to try to keep it operating, and we're still profitable. 'We're all walking around in a fog today. 'We're all feeling a little betrayed,' Showboat cook Curtis Wade said. One of the final songs piped in over the Showboat's loudspeakers: Queen's 'Another One Bites The Dust.'

Revel will begin a two-day closing Monday, and Trump Plaza is closing Sept. It was one of three casinos closing within the next two weeks as Atlantic City deals with the impact of increasing competition from casinos in neighboring states. The Mardi Gras-themed casino shut down Sunday after 27 years on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The show is over for the Showboat Casino Hotel.

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