Massage chairs, a nature walk, and Burger King: Life at the Atlantic City Expressway’s only rest stop - The Philadelphia Inquirer

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A sundial from 1978 honors the plaza’s namesake, state Sen. Frank “Hap” Farley, who inherited the Atlantic County political machine from racketeer Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, and apparently stood just to one side of corruption himself, though he was never convicted. His 1977 Philadelphia Inquirer obituary noted the U.S. Senate investigated allegations that his organization “protected gangsters, maced patronage employees, and took shakedown money from local businesses.” He gifted the state the Atlantic City Expressway and Garden State Parkway, helped bring gambling to Atlantic City, and was, according to that obit, “one of the most feared and influential politicians in the state.”

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