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.” The Showboat stopped admitting new customers at 3 p.m.
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