When pro football came to Atlantic City
The Super Bowl is history, and there’s no doubt that aside from Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, the biggest and most exciting action took place in the sportsbooks of the world’s gambling casinos, Atlantic City included. Given the fervor, the frenzy and the...
Abraham Lincoln: The distinguished lawyer
“Let no man (or woman) choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to this popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. Resolve to be honest in all events…If you cannot be an honest lawyer…choose some other occupation.” Written in 1850, this was the...
Paul Whiteman: ‘The King of Jazz’ in Atlantic City
Ground-breaking bandleader Paul Whiteman may have been many things, but “The King of Jazz,” a moniker foisted on him in 1923 by a publicist during a photo shoot for a musical instrument manufacturer, was not one of them. For the historically minded, what Whiteman did...
Remembering Atlantic City’s Million Dollar Pier
By Roseann Smith In 1906, Captain John Lake Young, along with builder Kennedy Crossan, touted spending $1 million to build Million Dollar Pier. The pier was a massive entertainment complex. Originally billed as “Young’s Million Dollar Pier,” the pier boasted a...
The two Franks who once defined Atlantic City casino entertainment
Although entertainers Frank D’Rone and Frankie Randall were different stylistically, they also had a lot in common. Both were singers and instrumentalists with a jazz orientation. Both were protégés – Randall of Frank Sinatra, and D’Rone of Nat “King”...
