Gamblers are trying to make the most of every last second the Sands is open! Just steps from the door – this place is happening. It’s only 10pm, but this part of the casino floor was nearly dead… that will change as we delve further in. By the time we were there that night only a small deli was still open. There was a large atrium where a three story escalator would take hungry gamblers to the dining level.

Only a few weeks later, the entire people mover to the neighboring Claridge was closed.Īfter exiting the people mover flyover, you would descend down an escalator to the main floor of the casino. The next day, this flyover was sealed with a temporary wood partition. You would then descend down a high flyover ramp, decorated in white and blue K-Mart rope lights.

To access the Sands, you had to take a sharp right after the second long belt on the people mover. Nobody cares this will be the last time this sign is lit. I apologize in advance for some of the blurry photos.įrom the people-mover, the O in casino had lost part of its covering. In the madness, I tried to snap as many phone shots as possible and here’s what I captured that night. We arrived around 10pm and the place certainly wasn’t a ghost town. My friends Simon, Chris, and I decided to be there for the Sands final night and with my old fashioned camera phone in tow. They erected billboards all around town advertising their coming and gave Sands employees 60 days lay off notice in September. The property block was purchased by Pinnacle Entertainment, with their own plans to demolish the resort, and create their own $1.5 billion mega-resort known as Pinnacle Atlantic City. The Sands was quickly surpassed by the newer resorts that opened in town and went bankrupt in 1998. The flashy exterior of the Sands Atlantic City at night.

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