2024 Teaching Calendar Is Perfect Holiday Gift For Students
By Seth Grossman When I grew up in Atlantic City, I and my “Boomer” generation learned a lot of our local history. In elementary school, we visited the Somers Mansion in Somers Point and were told the story of Richard Somers and the Tripoli Pirates. We also went to...The Biker Task Force meets again: Summer of ’65, Episode 23
The Biker Task Force meets again By Bill Kelly The Biker Task Force, code-named the Barbarian Task Force, met for the second time in Elwood Kirkman’s penthouse apartment atop the Flanders Hotel on the Ocean City Boardwalk. It included representatives from the Ocean...Remembering Stainton’s Department Store
A Look Back By Fred Miller On April 13, 1913, Howard S. Stainton bought Emma Morris Corson’s dry goods store at 808 Asbury Avenue. It was the beginning of what would become the largest department store in Cape May County. The store was always busy in the summer, but...Remembering when Jackie Gleason ‘Honeymoon(er)ed’ at Resorts
By Chuck Darrow One byproduct of Atlantic City’s legal-gambling era has been the town’s status as the host of numerous exclusive entertainment events. Among them were The Beach Boys’ steeped-in-controversy July 4, 1983 beach concert presented by Caesars Boardwalk...Postcards From The Past
In the 1920s a 17-room mansion called the Bahai Vista was built for Grace Hutton Middleton, sister of F.W. Woolworth. It was located along the Black Horse Pike in the West Atlantic City section of Egg Harbor Township. Middleton sold the building in 1940 and moved to...
