Antonio Giuseppe Pettine’s journey from Philadelphia mechanic to Vegas icon
Antonio Giuseppe Pettine was a Philadelphia auto and aircraft mechanic who always had a way with a song. At the age of 25, he decided to give up mechanics in favor of a career as a professional entertainer. A recent, non-bylined piece in The Five Mile Beach Sun...
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...
Atlantic City’s shopping malls on the ocean
The rich history of Atlantic City’s Million Dollar Pier has been chronicled in these pages several times, as has developer Bart Blatstein’s failed attempt to transform the venue into a destination filled with upscale restaurants, nightspots and retailers that he...
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...
