Million Dollar Pier in United States


Million Dollar Pier
Typecircus
Owner
Opened for public1906
Closed down1981
Address Boardwalk
Place Atlantic City
StateNew Jersey
Country United States
Directors
Key People 1939-1939: Clyde Beatty (animal trainer)
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Description

Million Dollar Pier, located at Boardwalk, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States , opened for public in 1906. Million Dollar Pier closed down in 1981.


Comments / picturesMillion Dollar Pier was built by Captain John L. Young in partnership with Kennedy Crossan a builder from Philadelphia. Young was an experienced showman who in 1891 had begun operating Young\'s Ocean Pier in Atlantic City (on the site where Central Pier was later located). In 1906 he announced that he was going to build a new pier "to cost a million dollars!" at the foot of Arkansas Avenue.[1] The new pier opened as Young\'s Million Dollar Pier on July 26, 1906, with a length of 1,900 Feet (580 m). It was owned by Associated Realties Company, a corporation that was owned by Young and Crossan. The Million Dollar Pier had what was claimed to be the world\'s largest ballroom, as well as a Hippodrome Theater with 4,000 seats.

1938: George Hamid, a circus owner, took over operations of the pier in 1938. Hamid undertook an extensive renovation program to modernize the pier, which was rebranded as Hamid\'s Million Dollar Pier. In 1945 Hamid bought the Steel Pier, but continued to operate the Million Dollar Pier until late 1948.

References for records about Million Dollar Pier

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2024). Million Dollar Pier, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3730. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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