The son of an Atlantic City carpet salesman, he had dropped out of school, parlayed his paper route into a series of businesses, and made a fortune in Atlantic City real estate two decades before the Monopoly game was invented. Gravatt came up with Steel Pier's formula for success: an immaculately clean facility stressing convenience and modernity, family attractions repeated daily, a low admission price, lots of advertising and publicity stunts.
In the same way rival Atlantic City casinos fought over Sinatra in the s, Gravatt outbid other pier owners for the exclusive services of "march king" Sousa. Gravatt's Steel Pier Opera Company brought high culture to the masses, with all performances in English. Gravatt also hired a manager who would ultimately buy him out. George Hamid had previously booked acts for Ringling Bros. Hamid added a flagpole sitter at the front of the pier to attract Boardwalk foot traffic. He had numerous Diving Horses take scheduled plunges several times a day so that every one of the 12, people visiting the pier could see the act that will be forever associated with Steel Pier and Atlantic City.
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