by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Features, History, South Jersey, Sports
By David Weinberg The routine is always the same. Each weekday afternoon around 4 p.m. – and sometimes on Saturdays – veteran boxing trainer Bill Johnson dons a t-shirt with his late son Leavander’s likeness on the front, pulls on a faded baseball cap, slings a gym...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber By all accounts the Atlantic City Boardwalk’s Warner Theatre was a movie palace. As detailed in our recent Shore Local piece on the history of movie theaters in Atlantic City, the Warner, located at 2015 Boardwalk, stood alone as a spectacular piece...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
By Chuck Darrow In October 1987, gaming tycoon Steve Wynn sold his 7-year-old Golden Nugget Atlantic City to Bally’s Corp., then-owner of Bally’s Park Place Casino-Hotel. The property was rechristened Bally’s Grand Hotel & Casino, and its official opening ceremony...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
Poor New Jersey kid, the runt of the litter Frank was the original “Jersey Boy” Imagine the young Frank Sinatra growing up in Hoboken. Not the hip Hoboken of now, where rent is high and you can’t find parking anywhere, but the Hoboken of the early...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 11, 2024 | A Look Back, Cape May County, Features, History, Ocean City, South Jersey
A Look Back By Fred Miller Eighty-three years ago this week, Ocean City was featured in the national news thanks to Archie Harris and Billy Conn. Harris set a world record discus toss, and Conn almost beat world champion Joe Louis. Harris grew up in Ocean City, while...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 11, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Features, Food & Beverage, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber It was a cocktail lounge, an after-hours mecca, a restaurant, a nightclub, a piano bar, a hangout. It was sometimes a dance club, sometimes a jazz club, and sometimes a karaoke bar. It was an Atlantic City institution for 33 years. It was Grabel’s,...
