by Cindy Fertsch | Dec 12, 2024 | Features, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, Margate, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber Though hardly remembered today, the late, ground-breaking news anchorwoman Jessica Savitch, who spent her formative years in Margate, was among the most influential individuals in the history of television news. At the height of her career in 1977,...
by Cindy Fertsch | Dec 12, 2024 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber The history of Atlantic City’s iconic amusement piers has been detailed in these pages several times before. But after the stories of Steeplechase Pier, Million Dollar Pier, Central Pier, Garden Pier and Steel Pier had been written and published, it...
by Cindy Fertsch | Dec 5, 2024 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber Among the dozens of celebrity photographs that line the walls of White House Subs, there are two that visitors might not recognize, unless they’re drummers or jazz fans. Drummers Harvey Mason and Peter Erskine are there for two reasons: They are both...
by Cindy Fertsch | Dec 5, 2024 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber No one knows for sure just how many celebrities have graced the stages of Atlantic City’s hotel/casinos since the 1978 inception of legalized gambling. For talent buyers who worked in Atlantic City during the first several years of shore casinos, the...
by Cindy Fertsch | Nov 27, 2024 | Features, Atlantic City, Atlantic County, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber As a member in reasonably good standing of the Atlantic City press corps since the mid-1980s, it would seem that the Press Club of Atlantic City was an organization I should know something about. I did not, but now I do. The Press Club, founded in...
