by Cindy Fertsch | Feb 13, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Feb 6, 2025 | Art, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Feb 6, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Feb 6, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Egg Harbor City, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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,...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 30, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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....
by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 16, 2025 | Atlantic County, Features, History, Mays Landing, South Jersey
The 65-foot lighthouse, completed in 1943, was never really a working lighthouse in the traditional sense, but it is a major part of Mays Landing history. For many years it was known as the “singing tower” because music was played from speakers that were...
