Remembering legendary funnyman Cozy Morley
By Bruce Klauber “On the way to Cape May, I fell in love with you. On the way to Cape May, I saw my dreams come true. I was taken by your smile, as we drifted by Sea Isle. My heart was really gone when we reached Avalon.” Sung and recorded by Thomas Francis “Cozy”...Remembering when Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young rocked the AC Race Course
By Chuck Darrow By any metric, the biggest rock-music event in the history of the now-closed Atlantic City Race Course in Hamilton Township was the Atlantic City Pop Festival, which took place Aug. 1-3, 1969. Staged exactly two weeks before the epochal Woodstock Music...The Sindia: Ocean City’s famous shipwreck
By Steffen Klenk Ocean City has a rich and unique history. Take a walk downtown or down a residential street, and you may notice something remarkable. But there’s one piece of history that has been buried in the sands forever. Lying underneath the 16th street beach...When Frank Sinatra left Atlantic City
By Bruce Klauber There’s no doubt that Frank Sinatra loved Atlantic City. Until he didn’t. Although he performed here in every decade, from the 1930s through the 1990s – at the Steel Pier, Convention Hall, the 500 Club, Resorts, the Boardwalk’s Golden Nugget, and the...Babette’s: Atlantic City’s first notorious nightclub
By Bruce Klauber It’s nearly forgotten now, but Babette’s, on 2211 Pacific Avenue, later the site of Trump Plaza, was one of the most popular and, at times, infamous nightspots and restaurants in Atlantic City from 1920 to 1950. Nelson Johnson, in his book, “Boardwalk...
