![]() ![]() The long-running saga has paralleled the rise and fall of Atlantic City's real estate fortunes, which in recent months imploded. The now-vacant property had been listed for $995,000 since September. And the 29-room property she and her husband bought for $20,000 in 1961 and fought to hold onto is on the auction block Thursday for a $199,000 starting bid. Vera Coking has moved to California to be near her family. But it remains to be seen if anybody still wants to buy. The woman who became a folk hero for resisting decades-long efforts by big-name developers like Trump to displace her Atlantic City boardinghouse is now 86 and, at last, ready to sell. ![]() She once called Donald Trump "a maggot, a cockroach and a crumb." This week, he remembered her as "an impossible person." ![]()
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