My head was starting to ache. We have people who do this. Watch the business sections. All I knew was a report I saw in a recent issue of that gambler's bible, Casino Player magazine. Well, for one thing, Las Vegas gaming includes more than the Strip.
Casinos also operate downtown and out on the periphery.
And probably a majority of those 37 million who hit the New Jersey shore get counted more than once. They arrive in busloads from New York, Philadelphia and other parts of the Eastern Seaboard, go home the same night, lick their wounds for a week or two and then come back. Or they make a weekend of it and, later in the same year, make another weekend of it. Apparently, I was strolling in the wrong place to get a true sense of the city's power. This did not look promising.