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HIGH GEAR/JULY 1978

DOING AMERICA

This famous old Jersey Shore town was a fabulous resort in bygone days. Now it is faded, jaded and dilapidated! The big question is whether legalized gambling will restore some of its lost lustre. I personally think the answer is yes, especially if public transportation from N.Y.C. and elsewhere is improved..

The huge Hadden Hall Hotel is being refurbished at a cost of $35 million and re-named

at the moment.

Gay life in Atlantic City has always been converge fun. Lots of humpy young Philadelphians and others converge there during the summer season, especially on week-ends. The most popular complexes are the open-all-year Chester Inn at 132 So. New York Avenue, and the grand Central Resort at 149 So. Kentucky. Both are hotels with disco bars. The G.C. also houses a cabaret, piano lounge,

By BOB DAMRON

leather bar above the Lark Inn, but these three places are only open summers, and even then hours do vary. Ceil's Saratoga is a show bar at 205 So. New York, and the same block features several eating places of varying distinction.

For good straight dining try Alfred's Villa, Knife And Fork, Palm Court (certainly the best thing Howard Johnsons has ever done) or Le Palais at the Resorts Hotel. Two outstanding

parlors, wax museums, jewelry stores, peanut and pop corn palaces, etc.

Atlantic City will always be revered by anyone who has ever played Monopoly, because all the properties in this most famous of all paper money games, from Baltic and

Mediterranean, to Boardwalk and Park Place, were named after real streets in this city. Now real money is at issue, with newly legalized gambling. With the stakes getting higher, watch for New Jersey's most renowned beach resort to make a big Come Back.

ture of many diverse elements,

Changing, etc. and often he is cerebral. He

Resorts International. When I coffee shop and C.B.C.'s Club restaurants well worth the short Cont'd from Page 12

was there in June it had just opened and workmen were still busy everywhere, except in the gigantic Nevada-style Casino. Even on an early Thursday afternoon thousands of people were line up two and three deep at the gaming tables and slot machines. Dress codes are stricter than in Reno or Vegas, and jackets are required after 5:30 p.m.

Demolition is going on all over own to make room for multi-storied garages and presumeably other CasinoHotels. It is rumored that the Holiday Inn and Howard Johnson's where ! usually stay, are adding Casinos soon. Whether the Claridge, Dennis, Mairberough-Blenheim and other great but faded old hotels will look, or be torn down get a new and replaced, is anyone's guess

Baths.

Louisa's (Entertainers Club) on Westminister, an alley between Kentucky and New York streets, has been here like forever, but alas, Louisa departed this earth a couple of years ago, and it looks as though her remaining employees and clientele are awaiting their calling. The Rendezvous, opposite Chester Inn, is just waiting for some customers.

The Brass Rail at 12 So. Mt. Vernon is frequented mostly by locals, and is at its best very late (bars are permitted to be open 24 hours daily). Upstairs is a private club for women called Top Of The Rail. Back on infamous New York Ave., just off the Boardwalk are the Lark Inn and the newly remodeled Chez Disco.

drive from town are the Smithville Inn in Colonial Smithville and Zaberer's on Black Horse Pike.

Atlantic City of course has hosted the Miss America contests, but just because Anita Bryant once coveted the title, should not be held against the community. She was probably rational in those days and had fewer misguided 'conversations' with the Lord.

In spite of frequently inclement Summer weather, thousands of people still promenade or ride the little trams or push-carts along the world's most famous Boardwalk. Junky and trashy as ever, it is lined for blocks with penny arcades, Salt Water Taffy, fudge, ice cream, hamburger, submarine and hot dog stands, as The Ramrod is a western and well as curio shops, tattoo

conventional ethics or create

new ones for ourselves? (No. Mr. Curzon, you do not believe in romantic love, at least not for yourself, not for Jock. Yet with all your cynicism and anger you are full of love.

You let Jock pour it out on "The Beautiful Number," but then he was the son of a Greek god; but you also let him pour it out on "The Creep," putting lock into bed with this unattractive student in order to try to get the kinks out of him. There is something priestly in the lat. ter, granted out of the orthodox moid. You are a lover, Mr. Curzon, not only of the male body but of mankind. You can even forgive the maiming ignoramuses when they repent, as Dr. Alex Kaltman did.) This intriguing writer is a mix-

gives an excellent definition of a word that probably is in no dictionary homophobic: "an irrational hatred of gay people, based on ignorance, on outdated social norms, and on fear of change." Let's make a motion that Webster, Random House, Thorndike, et al take notice.

AMONG THE CARNIVORES is lucidly written, and the pages whizz by. Curzon knows how to hold the reader's interest with vivid dialogue and an energetic style. I hope that he can channel his anger more deeply and use it

in a more consistently constructive way. Daniel Curzon has great gifts to give us, but if we are to benefit fully from these great gifts, he must give them to us unmarred.

AMONG THE CARNIVORES, By Daniel Curzon. Ashiny Books, 233 Mais Main Street, Port Washington, New York, 11080. 377-pages.

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