by Cindy Fertsch | Jun 20, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
By Bruce Klauber In terms of entertainment, Atlantic City in the mid-1980s was pretty close to what the Las Vegas experience was in its heyday. There were legendary performers on the main stages of almost every casino, and a good number of the lounges had top-name...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jun 13, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Business, Features, History, South Jersey
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...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jun 13, 2024 | Atlantic County, Cape May County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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,...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 23, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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,...
by Cindy Fertsch | May 16, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
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...
