Atlantic City’s Ritz: the last grand hotel standing
By Bruce Klauber The Ritz Condominiums, at Iowa Avenue and the Boardwalk, is the last of Atlantic City’s grand hotels still standing. And it’s still thriving. Yes, portions of hotels like the Dennis and Haddon Hall are still in use as part of Bally’s and Resorts...
Celebrating Atlantic City’s history through art
By Julia Train Between glimmering casinos and bustling streets, Atlantic City is rich with history. There are a plethora of stories that remain untold and local artist and community leader Kenneth Lazan Faulk Jr. is aiming to shine a light on some of them. Faulk, a...
Before Miss America, there was the ‘Atlantic City Pageant’
By Bruce Klauber Robert Ruffalo, proprietor of Atlantic City’s iconic Princeton Antiques Bookshop, a veritable treasure trove of Jersey Shore books and memorabilia, recently called with an exciting new discovery. Ruffalo happened upon the Official Souvenir Program for...
One of the country’s oldest, longest highways runs through several local cities
By Julia Train Did you know the White Horse Pike (U.S. Route 30) is one of the country’s oldest, longest and most historically significant highways? Often called the “Lincoln Highway,” Route 30 stretches from the East Coast to the West Coast,...
When motels ruled in Atlantic City
By Bruce Klauber Although the grand hotels of Atlantic City like the Traymore, Ambassador, Dennis, Marlborough-Blenheim and the rest, continued to be relatively successful in the 1950s through the mid-1960s, not everyone could afford to stay in one of those palaces....
