"businessmen learned quickly that working-class tourists had money to spend, too. What they lacked in sophistication they made up for in numbers."

"Despite today’s notions of Atlantic City as a vacation spot for the wealthy, the resort could never have survived by catering to the upper class. It was the lower-middle and lower classes that were the lifeblood of Atlantic City. They comprised the great mass of visitors to the resort and the rates of most rooms were structured for them."