by Cindy Fertsch | Aug 8, 2024 | Atlantic County, Features, History
By Chuck Darrow By any metric, the biggest rock-music event in the history of the now-closed Atlantic City Race Course in Hamilton Township was the Atlantic City Pop Festival, which took place Aug. 1-3, 1969. Staged exactly two weeks before the epochal Woodstock Music...
by Cindy Fertsch | Aug 1, 2024 | Atlantic City, Entertainment, Features
By Chuck Darrow Once upon a time (as in prior to Pennsylvania legalizing casinos) the summer always brought with it seasonal production shows. During the last week of June and first week of July, it wasn’t unusual to see the opening of at least a half-dozen revues...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 25, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Cape May County, Features, Ocean City
By Chuck Darrow To get from Ocean City to Atlantic City you could go through Somers Point, Longport, Margate and Ventnor. But Deb Pellegrino’s route was a little more circuitous than that: Her journey actually took her through the Galapagos Islands, French Polynesia,...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Features, South Jersey, What's Happening
By Chuck Darrow Some eight years ago, the Hershey’s corporation cleverly built a TV ad campaign around “I Melt with You,” the 1982 hit single by the British band Modern English, which is one of the acts hitting Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City Friday night...
by Cindy Fertsch | Jul 18, 2024 | Atlantic City, Atlantic City Casinos, Atlantic County, Entertainment, Features, History, South Jersey
By Chuck Darrow In October 1987, gaming tycoon Steve Wynn sold his 7-year-old Golden Nugget Atlantic City to Bally’s Corp., then-owner of Bally’s Park Place Casino-Hotel. The property was rechristened Bally’s Grand Hotel & Casino, and its official opening ceremony...
