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 | 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 23, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber The late, great Frankie Randall was a force of nature. He was a singer, pianist, composer, conductor, recording artist and a talent buyer who helped put the Boardwalk’s Golden Nugget hotel/casino in Atlantic City, and the Nugget in Las Vegas, on the...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 16, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber The Steel Pier is not only a great amusement park; it’s the only amusement pier in Atlantic City. Those who never had the opportunity to visit the pier in its previous incarnation – the old pier was in operation from 1898 to 1978 – missed something...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jan 9, 2025 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber Though the late and great Charlie Prose and Sal Richards were not born and bred at the Jersey Shore – Richards came from Brooklyn and Prose was born in Mt. Carmel, Pa. – both spent so much time entertaining here that they can accurately be described...
