What does the future hold for the Atlantic Club?
By Bruce Klauber Atlantic City’s original Golden Nugget was the Atlantic City Boardwalk’s crown jewel. Built by Las Vegas casino magnate Stephen Wynn and the infamous broker/investor Michael Milken at a cost of $140 million, the Nugget had the best of everything: The...Remembering Sonny Schwartz: Atlantic City’s legendary columnist
There was a time when many newspaper columnists were as famous as the celebrities, politicians and sports figures they covered. When talking about those colorful figures, names like Walter Winchell, Hedda Hopper, Rona Barrett, Dorothy Kilgallen, Sheliah Graham,...Celebrating a century of Memorial Day music at the Steel Pier
By Bruce Klauber When George A. Hamid, Jr., who ran the Steel Pier and the Million Dollar Pier from 1946 to 1975, got out of the entertainment business at the shore, he could have easily rested on his considerable laurels and elected to live in the past. After all,...Last Tradition Standing: The Claridge
By Bruce Klauber Atlantic City’s past has not disappeared entirely. The Boardwalk’s grand hotels of yore may be long gone, but remnants of these iconic structures are still in use. And there is one hotel that is still standing, still very much open and operating, and...
