Portrait Of A Place: Atlantic City • Discoverology

Portrait Of A Place: Atlantic City

Cities, Videos

Unmasking the declining seaside resort through a portrait of its inhabitants. With a no-holds-barred approach, directors Ben Carey and Billy Linker deliver a full-frontal profile of the once-booming resort town on New Jersey’s Atlantic coast—often sidelined as the “poor man’s Las Vegas.”

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