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Opening day at Atlantic city's first legal casino
Resorts International Casino Hotel, the city’s first casino, opens in the former Chalfonte-Haddon Hall, 18 months after New Jersey voters approve casino gambling for Atlantic City. For a brief time, patrons are asked to wear “proper” attire. Parking lots near the casino charge $26 a day. -
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Resorts International: Atlantic City's first casino
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Pavarotti performs
Tenor Luciano Pavarotti performs at Resorts -
Resorts International Chairman James Crosby dies
Resorts International Chairman James Crosby dies. -
Merv Griffin mounts hostile takeover attempt
After Donald Trump agrees to buy controlling interest in Resorts International and tries to take the company private, Merv Griffin mounts a hostile takeover attempt. The next year, Trump and Griffin agree to split the company, with Trump getting the unfinished Taj Mahal and Griffin getting Resorts. casino hotel in Atlantic City and a casino in the Bahamas. -
Showboat leases property / Trump buys controlling interest
Showboat Hotel, Casino & Bowling Center opens on property leased from Resorts for $6 million per year. The underused bowling center is later dropped from the name of the property. Donald Trump agrees to buy a controlling interest in Resorts International and attempts to take the company private. -
Bankruptcy protection
Resorts International, $912 million in debt, files for bankruptcy protection. -
Resorts files a second time for bankruptcy protection and reorganizes.
Resorts files a second time for bankruptcy protection and reorganizes. -
Sun International buys out Merv Griffin
Sun International Hotels Ltd. completes its purchase of Merv Griffin's Resorts Casino Hotel and changes the property's name to
Resorts Casino Hotel. -
Time to remodel
Casino floor and public areas are remodeled. -
Sun Sells Resorts
Sun Sells Resorts to Colony Capital for $140 million. -
Resorts turns 25
Resorts cuts a cake to celebrate 25 years on the Boardwalk. -
New hotel tower completed.
Rendezvous Tower opens. -
Boxing on the beach
Resorts sponsors boxing on the beach in Atlantic City. -
Resorts goes Disco
Boogie Nights debuts at Resorts. -
Lenders take over
A group of lenders headed by Wells Fargo Bank takes over Resorts after the casino defaults on its mortgage and faces possible foreclosure. -
$2 blackjack returns
$2 blackjack returns to Atlantic City's oldest casino. -
