by Chuck Darrow | May 22, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
Remembering When In four days, Resorts Casino-Hotel will mark its 47th anniversary as the first legal casino to open outside of Nevada. The stories of that epochal day—about entertainer Steve Lawrence rolling the dice after making the first-ever state-sanctioned bet...
by Bruce Klauber | May 22, 2025 | Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Features, History, South Jersey
Two Atlantic City hotel/casinos – one still standing, the other no longer with us – had rather unusual beginnings. The Brighton Hotel & Casino is barely remembered today, although it was actually the fourth hotel/casino to open in Atlantic City, and the resort’s...
by Michael | May 15, 2025 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, Music, South Jersey
By Seth Briliant Between 1900 and 1940, thousands of songs were published. Some became very popular and have endured to this day, while others languished on dealers’ racks and were slowly (or sometimes quickly) forgotten. Many songs have interesting stories about...
by Michael | May 8, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber Hugh Hefner and Atlantic City were made for each other, so it seemed. As the founder of the Playboy empire, Hefner had been selling flesh, flash and glamour since he founded Playboy Magazine in December 1953. Seven years later, he founded the first...
by Michael | May 1, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, Cape May County, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber It was an unlikely, unique, ahead of its time, and courageous love story, but it was a love story, nonetheless. Pearl Bailey was an internationally beloved entertainer. Louie Bellson was one of the finest drummers in the world of jazz. Pearl was...
by Michael | Apr 24, 2025 | Features, Atlantic County, History, Margate, South Jersey
Life is What HappensBy Lisa Zaslow Segelman It was a 1962 turquoise Buick station wagon and for my first decade of life it served as my ride, my wheels, my best and only way to get to the shore. It worked for our family of six – parents in the front, two in the middle...
