From Orson Welles to Mamie Van Doren: The story of Atlantic City’s producer/director Albert Zugsmith
By Bruce Klauber It’s almost impossible to believe that the same man who produced classic American motion pictures like “Touch of Evil” and “Written on the Wind,” also directed low-grade, exploitation films like “Sex Kittens Go to College.” But such was the career of...
Atlantic City’s Ritz: the last grand hotel standing
By Bruce Klauber The Ritz Condominiums, at Iowa Avenue and the Boardwalk, is the last of Atlantic City’s grand hotels still standing. And it’s still thriving. Yes, portions of hotels like the Dennis and Haddon Hall are still in use as part of Bally’s and Resorts...
Before Miss America, there was the ‘Atlantic City Pageant’
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...
When motels ruled in Atlantic City
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....
