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Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.
Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
ATLANTIC CITY, 0 m. (15 alt., 66,198 pop.) (see ATLANTIC
CITY).
Points of Interest: Model Home of America, Million Dollar Pier, Steel Pier,
Heinz Pier, Stanley S. Holmes Village (low cost housing project), and others.
US 40 follows Albany Ave., which branches northwest from Atlantic
Ave. in the southern section of Atlantic City, at a traffic circle around the
SOLDIERS MONUMENT.
Left (straight ahead) on Ventnor Ave. is VENTNOR, 1.2 m. (5 alt., 6,674
pop.), a part of Philadelphia moved to the New Jersey shore. But beside the long
rows of Philadelphia houses and bungalows are the beautiful estates that enable
Ventnor to carry on the tradition of Cape May as the first blue blood of New Jersey
resorts. The business section of the restricted area is the shopping center for the
summer visitors; a second business district gets the trade of the majority of the all-year residents. Although it is suburban to Atlantic City, Ventnor has sufficient facilities to be a shore resort in its own right. Major events each summer are the casting
tournaments held on the fishing pier extending from the MUNICIPAL CASINO on the
boardwalk.
The route follows Pleasantville Blvd., crossing the tidal marshland and
the quiet waters of GREAT THOROFARE, route here of the Inland
Waterway, and passes at the R. the WPG TRANSMITTING STATION, Atlantic City AIRPORT, and BADER ATHLETIC FIELD. LAKE'S BAY is L.
PLEASANTVILLE, 5 m. (30 alt., 11,580 pop.), a residential suburb,
is at the junction with US 9 (see Tour 18).
US 40 swings R. around a traffic circle at 5.1 m. and then L. around
another circle at 7.5 m.
McKEE CITY, 12.7 m. (75 alt., 180 pop.), is hardly more than a traffic circle at this point, with almost as many billboards as inhabitants. At
McKee City is the junction with US 322, the Black Horse Pike (see Tour
25), which here branches R. US 40 turns L. at the circle.
This is the center of a dense growth of Jersey pine extending for miles
in every direction. It is an impressive panorama of vivid green treetops
marred occasionally by gaunt wreckage of forest fires.
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