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By the early 1970s Atlantic City, New Jersey had seen better days. Its heyday was decades in the past, and the uncertain promise of casinos had not yet become a reality. Shabby, rundown and even seedy were often terms used to describe the once attractive seaside resort city. Atlantic City was not without its charms, however. The ocean and the steady sea breeze is always hard to resist. The famous Boardwalk with its shops and the Steel Pier still drew visitors. It remained a destination for mostly bargain vacationers. Once in town, travelers mixed with the drug dealers, runaways, pimps, con artists and others to create a strange tapestry. It was vastly different than the small shtetl in Poland where Holocaust survivors Harry and Sonia Golubcow once lived. That world had been totally destroyed. When they became the proprietors of the Seacrest Hotel on St. James Place, a small hotel situated less than a block from the Boardwalk, they brought their memories with them and maintained their old world ways. Harry would often say, "Hitler was a strange matchmaker," describing his new life. Indeed, the hotel's colorful clientele became a sort of family, with the couple demonstrating their in

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Author

Molly Golubcow

Publisher

Bartleby Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780935437577

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (122 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14