A look back at the history of Night in Venice
A Look Back By Fred Miller The 69th annual Night in Venice boat parade will be held on Saturday, July 20, 2024 starting near the Ocean City-Longport bridge at 6:30 p.m. The first Night in Venice was held Aug. 12, 1907. The next day, the Ocean City Daily Ledger...A.C. trainer celebrates 50 years in boxing
By David Weinberg The routine is always the same. Each weekday afternoon around 4 p.m. – and sometimes on Saturdays – veteran boxing trainer Bill Johnson dons a t-shirt with his late son Leavander’s likeness on the front, pulls on a faded baseball cap, slings a gym...It wasn’t only movies at the Warner Theatre
By Bruce Klauber By all accounts the Atlantic City Boardwalk’s Warner Theatre was a movie palace. As detailed in our recent Shore Local piece on the history of movie theaters in Atlantic City, the Warner, located at 2015 Boardwalk, stood alone as a spectacular piece...Remembering when Bally’s gave AC a Grand(stand) old time
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...Frank Sinatra on Atlantic City’s Beach in 1935
Poor New Jersey kid, the runt of the litter Frank was the original “Jersey Boy” Imagine the young Frank Sinatra growing up in Hoboken. Not the hip Hoboken of now, where rent is high and you can’t find parking anywhere, but the Hoboken of the early...
