Asbury Park Casino Art Installation
Asbury Park Casino wall art Print 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' “Darkness On The Edge of Town” panoramic Asbury Park Casino. This black and white canvas print original photograph. View full product details. Got to check out HOTTEA’s One Last Moment Under The Sky installation created for the ongoing Wooden Walls public art project in Asbury Park, New Jersey this weekend. Absolutely LOVE it! Created for Asbury Park boardwalk's historic Casino Building, HOTTEA's site-specific yarn installation is temporary and will remain up as long as the weather allows. Windswept Public Art at the Beach: Hot Tea’s New Installation in Asbury Park May 29, 2019 They designed the Ritz, the Vanderbilt, the Ambassador and the Biltmore hotels in Manhattan, along with townhouses for the Astors, the Yacht Club, and apartment buildings on 5th Ave and Park. Asbury Park, NJ: Dec 16, 2018 Champange Jam The Front Bottoms / Manchester Orchestra / Remo Drive / SWMRS / Deal Casino: Convention Hall: Asbury Park, NJ: May 27, 2018 New Found Glory New Found Glory: Convention Hall: Asbury Park, NJ: May 27, 2018 New Found Glory / Bayside / The Movielife: Convention Hall: Asbury Park, NJ: Dec 16, 2017.
Asbury Park Casino
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The enormous Art Deco casino on the Jersey Shore in Asbury Park bore witness to the full range of human emotions for the better part of 75 years until it, along with many of its neighboring structures, succumbed to the inexorable force of eroding shorelines, urban renewal and redevelopment.
(images via: LennyNJ and Shira Daniels)
Since it’s sometimes difficult to discern when demolition ends and rebuilding begins, we’ll think positively and assume accounts that developers are incorporating the casino’s iconic steel grate facade into whatever its replacement turns out to be. If so, that would be a “grate” tribute to the casino’s rich (for some) history.
Lyric Casino, Yuma AZ
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It might be 3:10 to Yuma but the odds of the Lyric Casino welcoming visitors from near or far are about a billion to one. Displaying sun-faded hints of its turquoise and gold former glory on its curious movie theater style entrance facade, this casino’s better days have long since passed it and everyone else by.
Jubilation Casino
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Judging by the trashed interior, scattered slot machines and general state of disrepair both inside and out, it’s reasonable to expect the good ship Jubilation is steadily edging towards termination. Formerly the Cotton Club casino boat operating out of Greenville MS, the Jubilation Casino opened in December of 1995 and closed just over 7 months later… failure to legally maintain minimum bankroll requirements to cover payments on table games and slot machines caused the Mississippi Gaming Commission to pull the plug… not literally, of course, as that would sink the ship.
(image via: Fujoshi)
Kudos to Flickr user Fujoshi who visited the docked hulk of the S.S. Jubilation in the steamy summer of 2011 to snap the image above… hey Cap’n, you’re supposed to roll the dice, not the boat!
Kings Inn Casino, Reno NV
(images via: REreno and Washington Lights)
If the casino itself is unlucky, you can bet suspicious gamblers will give it a wide berth. Such was the case with the Kings Inn Casino, crippled by ownership issues and an employee strike before it could even open its doors back in 1974. Open it did, for a while at least, before declaring bankruptcy in 1981 and closing for good in 1986.
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Asbury Park Casino Art Installation 2019
Over the next quarter-century, the Kings Inn was flipped from one financially-challenged owner to another while the bean-counters at Reno City Hall waited in vain for hundreds of thousands of dollars in delinquent property taxes. At least the derelict downtown building has been semi-appealingly boarded up, so it’s got that going for it, which is nice.
At this point I’m sure everyone has seen the new art installation in the casino. It’s absolutely beautiful, and another great addition to our City By The Sea curated by Jenn Hampton and the Wooden Walls Project. The brilliant artist is HOTTEA, who is actually Eric Rieger, originally a street artist from Minneapolis. The title of this masterpiece is “One Last Moment Under The Sky.”
If you haven’t seen it, check it out in the Casino building the next time you’re in Asbury Park and watch it come to life on a windy day. For more of this artists work you can find him on Instagram @hotxtea.
If you want to learn more about the installation, I found a couple great articles and have linked to them below.
- Windswept Public Art at the Beach: Hot Tea’s New Installation in Asbury Park, BSA May 29,2019
- HOTTEA’s Temporary Installation in Asbury Park, NJ is Absolutely Fantastic, Street Depts May 29, 2019