From the minute it opened more than 27 years ago, Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort was nothing like anything the city had ever seen.
From its ruby-red minarets to the onion domes that feature prominently on its facade, Trump Taj Mahal looked more like a sultan’s palace than a casino.
But over the coming month, reports The Press of Atlantic City (N.J.), the immense white gates and the three 2-ton stone elephants that greeted people for more than two decades on South Virginia Avenue will disappear, closing out the history of one of the most over-the-top properties in the history of the resort.