Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis: Life after the 500 Club
By Bruce Klauber Many show business aficionados of a certain age know the story of how Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis became a comedy team at Paul “Skinny” D’Amato’s 500 Club in Atlantic City on July 25, 1946. They were, in every sense of the term, “an overnight...Remembering Jessica Savitch: Margate’s ‘Golden Girl’ of TV news
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,...Atlantic City’s amusement piers that aren’t there anymore
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...They wowed them in Vegas, but not Atlantic City
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...How Longport got its name
An Early History According to local historian and former Mayor Michael Cohen, in his book “Longport- The Way We Were,” the first recorded private landowner was Thomas Budd, who settled a claim against the Lord Proprietors of New Jersey in 1695. In the claim, he was...
