Atlantic City’s Jimmie’s Just a Hobby
The legendary restaurant you never heard of “One night in his tiny place, the address of which I cannot publish lest it bring him more customers, I asked him how many patrons his place accommodated. ‘Thirty-two,’ shrugged Jimmie. ‘Depends how I feel.’ Jimmie operates...
Remembering Zaberers:
Where families went to get ‘Zaberized’ It was around 1962, about a year after Zaberers restaurant opened on the Black Horse Pike in the McKee City section of Egg Harbor Township. To a 10-year-old, the place looked like a gigantic playhouse, decorated with Tiffany...
Something for all jazz fans at the Chicken Bone Beach Jazz Series
Chicken Bone Beach was the name given to a stretch of Atlantic City beach around Missouri Avenue that was the only beach open to African-Americans during the many years of segregation in the city. The Chicken Bone Beach Foundation, named to pay tribute to those long...
Abbott and Costello: Steel Pier made them stars
Atlantic City’s Steel Pier, in the many years it presented big-name entertainment, never really “made” a star. The reality is that the stars “made” the Steel Pier into the venue known for many years as “the showplace of the nation.” There was one exception: The comedy...
