Remembering Jessica Savitch: Margate’s ‘Golden Girl’ of TV news
By Bruce Klauber Though hardly remembered today, the late, ground-breaking news anchorwoman Jessica Savitch, who spent her formative years in
By Bruce Klauber Though hardly remembered today, the late, ground-breaking news anchorwoman Jessica Savitch, who spent her formative years in
By Bruce Klauber The history of Atlantic City’s iconic amusement piers has been detailed in these pages several times before.
Known as the “Sandcastle By the Sea”, the Traymore Hotel was the largest hotel in Atlantic City with over 400
By William Kelly Few people today remember the old “Rickety Bridge” on the Somers Point-Longport Boulevard, but those who do
By Bruce Klauber If a survey were ever taken about the least controversial thing in the history of Atlantic City,
A Look Back By Fred Miller “Finest and Safest Bathing Beach Along the New Jersey Coast” was the headline on
By William Kelly It’s been 60 years since U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren handed President Lyndon Johnson the final
By John Gibbons It was mid-September 1984 and Hammonton was buzzing. President Ronald Reagan was coming to town. The incumbent
By Bruce Klauber During the 1980s, the Rendezvous Lounge within what was then called Resorts International was one of the
By Bruce Klauber Casino gambling was legalized in Atlantic City on June 2, 1977. That’s when the floodgates opened for
By Fred Miller President Grover Cleveland signed a bill in 1894 designating the first Monday in September a federal holiday
The origins of Labor Day were based in the labor movement of the United States over one hundred years ago.
By William Kelly While Richard Somers’ historic exploits in Tripoli have been well documented and retold in books, murals and
By Chloe Cramutola In many parts of the world – New Jersey being no exception – tales of swashbucklers landing
