“Everyone from Hulk Hogan to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it was the whole gamut of personalities. “The way we put Trump Plaza and the city of Atlantic City on the map for the whole world was really incredible,” said Bernie Dillon, the events manager for the casino from 1984 to 1991. The removal of the one-time jewel of former US President Donald Trump’s casino empire clears the way for a prime development opportunity on the middle of the Atlantic City Boardwalk, where the Plaza used to market itself as the city’s “centrepiece”. Overall, it took the building less than 20 seconds to fall.

The structure’s collapse started almost like a wave from back to front until it went straight down in a giant cloud of dust that enveloped the beach and boardwalk.

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