by Douglas Keefe, Beachcomber Coins | Oct 30, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Cape May County, History, South Jersey
It’s a fact of history that outside interests have a way of influencing decisions made by our politicians, producing results that have the average person ask, “Why did they do that?” While one may think the production of coins for use would be pretty straight forward,...
by Bruce Klauber | Oct 23, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, History, South Jersey, Top Stories
There was a time when shopping malls were thriving all over the country. In New Jersey, circa 1968, the following malls were open for business: Cherry Hill Mall, Monmouth Mall in Eatontown, Menlo Park Mall in Edison, Moorestown Mall, Bergen Town Center and Garden...
by Bruce Klauber | Oct 23, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey
It may have existed in the shadows of the Steel Pier, and it was smaller than the Million Dollar Pier, but during its 86-year existence, roughly from 1900 to 1986, Atlantic City’s Steeplechase Pier was one heck of an amusement pier. Located on the Boardwalk, between...
by Bruce Klauber | Oct 16, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, History, South Jersey, Top Stories
On Jan. 17, 1920, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, a law that banned “the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States,” went into effect several months after it was ratified under the aegis of President Woodrow Wilson. “The...
by Bruce Klauber | Oct 9, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, History, South Jersey
When Atlantic City residents and visitors, past and present, talk about the long-gone restaurants they miss, a few names invariably surface again and again. Certainly there’s Lou’s in Ventnor, profiled several times in these pages, followed by Zaberers and perhaps...
by Mari D’Albora Dattolo | Oct 9, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, History, Mays Landing, South Jersey
Ninety-two years ago, Mays Landing made news in The New York Times with the opening of Sunshine Park. Located on a riverfront tract on Mays Landing–Somers Point Road, it became a weekend getaway for as many as 750 practicing nudist families. Men, women and children...
