Wade will be among the thousands of workers showing up at the Atlantic City Convention Center on Wednesday for a mass unemployment filing.
There are too many jobs being pushed out of Atlantic City due to corporate greed.' We still don't understand why we were the one targeted to close, and nobody has given us an answer on that.
We worked really hard to try to keep it operating, and we're still profitable. 'We're all walking around in a fog today. 'We're all feeling a little betrayed,' Showboat cook Curtis Wade said. One of the final songs piped in over the Showboat's loudspeakers: Queen's 'Another One Bites The Dust.' Revel will begin a two-day closing Monday, and Trump Plaza is closing Sept. It was one of three casinos closing within the next two weeks as Atlantic City deals with the impact of increasing competition from casinos in neighboring states. The Mardi Gras-themed casino shut down Sunday after 27 years on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. A union official said on Jthat a top executive of Showboat's parent.
The show is over for the Showboat Casino Hotel. 26, 2011 photo shows the Showboat Casino Hotel and its House of Blues nightclub in Atlantic City, N.J.