Later on, Atlantic City gained a reputation as the East Coast’s center for nightlife. Maybe they’d catch a Harry Houdini escape act, or perhaps just stroll the grand boardwalk near the ocean. Train’s gonna take us to the sunniest hideawayįor a resident of New York City in 1910, there was no greater escape than a train ride down to Atlantic City, New Jersey. There’s a song from the musical Ragtime, set in the early 1900s, that opens like this:
