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Lou’s: Life behind the counter at Ventnor’s most iconic eatery

Lou’s: Life behind the counter at Ventnor’s most iconic eatery

by Lisa Zaslow Segelman | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey, Ventnor

Life is What Happens Skip ahead to the bio at the end of this column and you may be surprised at what I’ve included: Claim to fame, waitress at Lou’s for four summers. Lou Adelman and wife Helen opened Lou’s of Ventnor in the winter of 1946, which began the...
Remembering when Miss America became a modern woman

Remembering when Miss America became a modern woman

by Chuck Darrow | Aug 28, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey

Remembering When It wasn’t the best of times for the Miss America Pageant. By the time the 1970s dawned, American society was significantly different than it had been just a decade earlier. Among the most visible and wide-ranging changes were those in the status and...
How a two-block move saved Lucy

How a two-block move saved Lucy

by shorelocalnews | Aug 21, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, Margate, South Jersey

Without Lucy the Elephant’s current home in Margate, she wouldn’t be America’s oldest roadside tourist attraction. Lucy was scheduled for demolition, but was given a second chance by Margate residents Ed and Silvia Carpenter. The couple founded the Save Lucy Committee...
The days before Greate Bay

The days before Greate Bay

by shorelocalnews | Aug 21, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, Somers Point, South Jersey

Greate Bay was built as Ocean City Golf Club in 1923 by the Lake family, Ocean City’s founders. The Lakes envisioned a classic course on a picturesque parcel of land hugging the shore of Great Egg Harbor Bay. To make their vision a reality, they commissioned one of...
Historic marker honors victims of 1880 rail disaster in Mays Landing

Historic marker honors victims of 1880 rail disaster in Mays Landing

by Ava Holly | Aug 14, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, History, Mays Landing, South Jersey

On Aug. 11, 1880, tragedy struck Mays Landing when two trains collided on the West Jersey Rail Line, killing 30 people and injuring many more. The story of that fateful day might have been lost to time if not for local resident and historian Mari Dattolo. On Aug. 11,...
Brigantine Castle: When Brigantine was haunted

Brigantine Castle: When Brigantine was haunted

by Bruce Klauber | Aug 14, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Brigantine, Entertainment, History, South Jersey

“One of the things I remember so vividly about Brigantine Castle was the costumed ghouls that were hired to haunt the place and scare the visitors. One afternoon, I found several of them near the back of the castle, in full costume, having a cigarette on a break while...
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