I was saddened to read in this mornings newspaper an article about a proposal to change the name of a small community once located in Norfolk called "Atlantic City" which was annex to the city in 1890. Many Gloucester and Mathews County people who moved to Norfolk lived in Atlantic City to work on the fishing boats or in the oyster houses or shipyards that dotted the waterfront. It was a tight knit community where everybody knew everybody else. My church was started there in a store on Central Avenue (formerly known as Central Ave. Bapt.) until it built the present church several blocks away some years later and renamed Central Bapt. Church where most Atlantic City people of the Bapt. faith attended. My parents met, married and lived there for quite a few years. Their neighbors were Acre's, Nuttall's, Robins', Thomas', Forrests', and Estes to name a few. I remember it as a child growing up, but it is gone now; torn down as an urban renewal project. Now they want to take away its name. What next?? If you care to read the article and why the name change, you can find it here: http://www.pilotonline.com/news/nw0614nam.html Jane