Atlantic City’s Boardwalk Hall: Where it all happened
By Bruce Klauber Those of a certain age still call it Convention Hall, although it was renamed Jim Whelan Boardwalk
By Bruce Klauber Those of a certain age still call it Convention Hall, although it was renamed Jim Whelan Boardwalk
By Bruce Klauber The Borough of Longport was officially established in 1898. The record will show that, other than the
By Bruce Klauber There’s nothing new about the concept of a talent show or talent contest presented on television, radio
By Bruce Klauber Johnny Mathis is 89, and he still sounds like Johnny Mathis. He has not, like other singers
By Bruce Klauber “The Barbary Coast” referred to a strip of Margate bars that stretched from the bayfront to Washington
By Bruce Klauber As the Jewish people celebrate the High Holidays, this seemed an appropriate time to detail the long
By Bruce Klauber If a survey were ever taken about the least controversial thing in the history of Atlantic City,
By Bruce Klauber If Louis Prima invented the concept of the Las Vegas lounge entertainer, then singer/pianist Buddy Greco defined
See him Oct. 11 at 25th Annual Jazz at the Point Fall Festival By Bruce Klauber Bassist Brian Bromberg is
By Bruce Klauber Stan Kenton was an incredibly popular bandleader whose career spanned five decades. But if he is remembered
By Bruce Klauber My first visit to Atlantic City, so I’m told, was in 1956. I was 4 years old.
When getting there was half the fun By Bruce Klauber Prior to 1964, if someone from Philadelphia and surrounding regions
By Bruce Klauber In December of 2021, Shore Local’s Cindy Fertsch wrote a profile of one of the few, remaining
By Bruce Klauber While I was writing the Shore Local piece about Jersey Shore songs, the name Bert Parks kept