1940s ATLANTIC CITY NEW JERSEY PROMOTIONAL FILM ON THE BOARDWALK 79624
Made in an era when Atlantic City was one of America's pre-eminent tourist destinations, ON THE BOARDWALK was created and presented by the Convention Bureau of Atlantic City (:10). As the film begins, tourists arrive by Eastern Airlines airplane, train, and by Twin Coach bus. Atlantic City was once no more than a fishing village, yet today is one of the most prominent vacation destinations (:48) and boasted a famed boardwalk lined with seven miles of white sands (:58). Travelers from every state, and some countries, arrived through airlines (1:32) and easily accessible highways (1:39). A varied sort of hotels existed from the more luxurious on the boardwalk (1:59) to the more reasonably priced off (2:25). A wide range of activities exists throughout the city regardless of where one stayed (2:41). The Atlantic City Beach Patrol is shown and it’s well trained lifeguards are attuned to sun bathers as well as swimmers (3:14). The city was considered a hot spot for newlyweds and honeymooners (3:37). It suited the youth as well as older generations (4:05). The boardwalk was designed to have exciting shops lining one side and stunning view of the ocean along the other (5:03). The best way to describe the unique attraction was as a massive cruise deck (5:09). Besides ocean swimming, pools existed as an alternative (5:27). Activities, whether they be strenuous or not were available for all ages (6:15). The nightlife was full of entertainment in forms of restaurants, nightclubs and amusement parks (6:32). At the Convention Center, the Ice Capades show is rehearsed and will travel to cities all over the coast (7:04). Bicycling down the boardwalk (7:35) and horseback riding along the shores are offered to vacationers. In addition, the large public sailing fleet of the inlet enabled visitors to enjoy cruises (8:07). For a more thrilling ride, speedboats were available (8:26). A few miles from the boardwalk, on the Black Horse Pike is the racetrack sponsored by the Atlantic City Racing Association (9:25). The Atlantic City Tuna Club (10:25) was the largest in the world with a membership of 1,400. Fishing in the bay or in the deep sea, could be enjoyed from spring to fall (10:36). Men along the shore enjoy surf fishing (11:56). Heading back to the boardwalk, rides at amusement parks entertained children and parents alike (12:07) at the Steel Pier. At the end of the pier, is an outdoor stadium for the water circus (12:38). Along with everything to do and see, there were ample opportunities for relaxation (13:38). The old Absecon lighthouse had once stood near the beach,yet now rested on land built up from nature over the years (14:18). Another landmark is the Elephant Hotel (14:28) aka Lucy the Elephant. Many visitors became residents in the city's residential neighborhoods (14:37). Several golf courses existed in the mainland year round (15:27). Atlantic City’s Convention Center cost $15 million and was the largest in the world. It hosted the Miss America Pageant (16:05). Mummers are seen parading through the streets (16:05) and the winner of the pagent will be announced in the Convention Center (18:06). This has been a Reid H. Roy Film Industry Production (18:53).
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Amodeo: Atlantic City now has a newly created tourism district run by the state.
Assemblyman John Amodeo: Well good question Gary, We have come along way since the Governor announced his plans for Atlantic City from the Hanson Commission back on July 19th 2010. We have now a newly created tourism district which is a state run organization that comes under the review of the Casino Redevelopment Authority. Our Convention and Visitors Bureau, our Special Improvement District will all come under than umbrella. It's been a long 14, 15 months to start to shape up now and we're starting to see a lot of improvements in the Atlantic City area which is so vital to the tourism industry within the state of New Jersey.
Hometown Teams and Atlantic City Devotion and Determination exhibit openings
The Atlantic City Free Public Library is helping to bring an exciting exhibit created by the Smithsonian Institution to the city for a six-week stay.
The library is one of six organizations in New Jersey selected to host Hometown Teams -- a traveling exhibition that celebrates American sports and sportsmanship. Atlantic City will be the second stop on the Hometown Teams' 2014 road trip.
The exhibit will be displayed at the Noyes Art Garage Stockton College, located at the Wave parking garage at 2200 Fairmount Ave., from March 22 to May 4. Visitors will be able to view the exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday during that time.
The library held a ribbon-cutting pep rally March 22 at the Art Garage to kick off the exhibit's visit to Atlantic City.
As a companion to Hometown Teams, the Atlantic City Free Public Library will present a new exhibit, The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination. This sports-based exhibit, which will also be located at the Art Garage, will showcase some of the people and places that are a part of the fabric of the city's rich sports history.
Hometown Teams has been made possible in Atlantic City by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Hometown Teams is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institute and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
Hometown Teams and Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination is brought to you by: Smithsonian Institution, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Atlantic City Free Public Library, City of Atlantic City and Noyes Arts Garage, Stockton College, in partnership with Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Atlantic City Alliance, Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Atlantic City High School, African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, The Press of Atlantic City, Ocean City Home Bank and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Meet Atlantic City Destination Video - 2015
Atlantic City is 60 miles from Philadelphia, 125 miles from New York, and 175 miles from Washington, DC. Any way you look at it, Atlantic City guarantees fast-paced excitement and non-stop year-round activities. Meet AC will be happy to help you locate the right space, assist with attendance building and housing, provide temporary staff, and help with all the details, including spouse activities, transportation service, media, and much more. Atlantic City means business!
Atlantic City History: Conversations & Storytelling - The Atlantic City Boardwalk, Pt. 1
In the 10th episode of this multi-part series, a distinguished panel of Atlantic City historians and authors start to discuss the history of Atlantic City's famed Boardwalk.
The Conversations & Storytelling event, featuring a panel discussion on Atlantic City's vibrant history in relation to the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, was held at Caesars Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, and was followed by a viewing party of the debut episode of the HBO drama series, based on Prohibition era Atlantic City. The event was presented by Atlantic City Weekly and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority (ACCVA) in cooperation with the Carnegie Library Center of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Caesars Atlantic City and Harrah's Entertainment; the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism; and the Atlantic City Free Public Library.
The panelists included Ralph Hunter, Pinky Kravitz, Allen Boo Pergament, Vicki Gold Levi, Jim Waltzer and Izzy Posner. Jeff Schwachter is the moderator.
Atlantic City History: Conversations & Storytelling — The Boardwalk, Pt. 1
In the 10th episode of this multi-part series, a distinguished panel of Atlantic City historians and authors begin to discuss the history of Atlantic City's famed Boardwalk.
The Conversations & Storytelling event, featuring a panel discussion on Atlantic City's vibrant history in relation to the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, was held at Caesars Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, and was followed by a viewing party of the debut episode of the HBO drama series, based on Prohibition era Atlantic City. The event was presented by Atlantic City Weekly and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority (ACCVA) in cooperation with the Carnegie Library Center of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Caesars Atlantic City and Harrah's Entertainment; the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism; and the Atlantic City Free Public Library.
The panelists included Ralph Hunter, Pinky Kravitz, Allen Boo Pergament, Vicki Gold Levi, Jim Waltzer and Izzy Posner. Jeff Schwachter is the moderator.
Hometown Teams & Atlantic City Devotion and Determination exhibit openings
Atlantic City High School cheerleaders performed at the March 22, 2014, opening for the Smithsonian Institution's Hometown Teams sports exhibit and The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination sports exhibit, which was developed by library staff.
The library is one of six organizations in New Jersey selected to host Hometown Teams -- a traveling exhibition that celebrates American sports and sportsmanship. Atlantic City will be the second stop on the Hometown Teams' 2014 road trip.
The exhibit will be displayed at the Noyes Art Garage Stockton College, located at the Wave parking garage at 2200 Fairmount Ave., from March 22 to May 4. Visitors will be able to view the exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday during that time.
The library held a ribbon-cutting pep rally March 22 at the Art Garage to kick off the exhibit's visit to Atlantic City.
As a companion to Hometown Teams, the Atlantic City Free Public Library will present a new exhibit, The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination. This sports-based exhibit, which will also be located at the Art Garage, will showcase some of the people and places that are a part of the fabric of the city's rich sports history.
Hometown Teams has been made possible in Atlantic City by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Hometown Teams is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institute and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
Hometown Teams and Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination is brought to you by: Smithsonian Institution, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Atlantic City Free Public Library, City of Atlantic City and Noyes Arts Garage, Stockton College, in partnership with Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Atlantic City Alliance, Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Atlantic City High School, African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, The Press of Atlantic City, Ocean City Home Bank and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Atlantic City History: Conversations & Storytelling - Success in A.C
In the 12th episode of this multi-part series, Israel Posner, one of the distinguished panel members of Atlantic City historians and authors, starts to discuss the Success of Atlantic City, from the founding of Atlantic City, to the 1920s and the rise of Nucky Johnson, and to the modern casino era. The topic: Gambling (Legal or Otherwise, is discussed in the first part of this episode, titled Success in A.C. The second part of this discussion — and the final episode in the entire Conversations & Storytelling series will be presented Friday, Dec. 24.
The Conversations & Storytelling event, featuring a panel discussion on Atlantic City's vibrant history in relation to the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, was held at Caesars Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, and was followed by a viewing party of the debut episode of the HBO drama series, based on Prohibition era Atlantic City. The event was presented by Atlantic City Weekly and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority (ACCVA) in cooperation with the Carnegie Library Center of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Caesars Atlantic City and Harrah's Entertainment; the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism; and the Atlantic City Free Public Library.
The panelists included Ralph Hunter, Pinky Kravitz, Allen Boo Pergament, Vicki Gold Levi, Jim Waltzer and Izzy Posner. Jeff Schwachter is the moderator.
Atlantic City History: Conversations & Storytelling - Entertainment & Nightlife, Pt. 1
In the sixth episode of this multi-part series, a distinguished panel of Atlantic City historians and authors begin to discuss the history of entertainment and nightlife in Atlantic City. Visit acweekly.com/boardwalkempire to see Part Two of this discussion next Friday, Nov. 12.
The Conversations & Storytelling event, featuring a panel discussion on Atlantic City's vibrant history in relation to the HBO show Boardwalk Empire, was held at Caesars Atlantic City on Sunday, Sept. 19, 2010, and was followed by a viewing party of the debut episode of the HBO drama series, based on Prohibition era Atlantic City.
The event was presented by Atlantic City Weekly and the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority (ACCVA) in cooperation with the Carnegie Library Center of the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey; Caesars Atlantic City and Harrah's Entertainment; the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming, Hospitality & Tourism; and the Atlantic City Free Public Library.
The panelists included Ralph Hunter, Pinky Kravitz, Allen Boo Pergament, Vicki Gold Levi, Jim Waltzer and Izzy Posner.
This video series focuses on the real Atlantic City behind HBO's Boardwalk Empire.
Asbury Park, New Jersey
Asbury Park is a city in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, located on the Jersey Shore and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 16,116, reflecting a decline of 814 (−4.8%) from the 16,930 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 131 (+0.8%) from the 16,799 counted in the 1990 Census.
It was ranked the sixth-best beach in New Jersey in the 2008 Top 10 Beaches Contest sponsored by the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium.
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Hometown Teams & A.C. Devotion and Determination sports exhibits grand opening
Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian read a proclamation at the March 22, 2014, opening for the Smithsonian Institution's Hometown Teams sports exhibit and The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination sports exhibit, which was developed by library staff.
The library is one of six organizations in New Jersey selected to host Hometown Teams -- a traveling exhibition that celebrates American sports and sportsmanship. Atlantic City will be the second stop on the Hometown Teams' 2014 road trip.
The exhibit will be displayed at the Noyes Art Garage Stockton College, located at the Wave parking garage at 2200 Fairmount Ave., from March 22 to May 4. Visitors will be able to view the exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday during that time.
The library held a ribbon-cutting pep rally March 22 at the Art Garage to kick off the exhibit's visit to Atlantic City.
As a companion to Hometown Teams, the Atlantic City Free Public Library will present a new exhibit, The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination. This sports-based exhibit, which will also be located at the Art Garage, will showcase some of the people and places that are a part of the fabric of the city's rich sports history.
Hometown Teams has been made possible in Atlantic City by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Hometown Teams is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institute and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
Hometown Teams and Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination is brought to you by: Smithsonian Institution, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Atlantic City Free Public Library, City of Atlantic City and Noyes Arts Garage, Stockton College, in partnership with Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Atlantic City Alliance, Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Atlantic City High School, African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, The Press of Atlantic City, Ocean City Home Bank and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Tourism Director Happy About Summer Numbers, Optimistic About AC's Future
The New Jersey tourism industry is on the rise according to Grace Hanlon, the executive director of the Division of Travel and Tourism. She told NJ Today Managing Editor Mike Schneider that summer sales were strong and she looks forward to upcoming fall events. While some have criticized the progress of Atlantic City, Hanlon said turning the city around will take time. For more New Jersey news, visit NJ Today online at
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Bet you didn't know these things were made in New Jersey
Most folks know that Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, invented such life-changing things as the light bulb and phonograph. But New Jersey is home to many more firsts. Here are 10 notable things created in the Garden State. (Video by Andre Malok and Amanda Marzullo)
Muscular West Coast Worker Is on Way to Build New Tappan Zee
PANAMA — The Left Coast Lifter is the Superman of floating cranes.
As long as a 30-story building is tall, it can hoist 1,900 tons in a single heave, or as the builders who will deploy the crane to speed up construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge like to say, the equivalent of 12 Statues of Liberty.
But water is even stronger. On Jan. 15, the twin-boom Left Coast Lifter, which is said to be the world's largest floating crane, was itself lifted roughly 54 feet above Pacific sea level in two stages at the Panama Canal's Miraflores Locks, on its way from the West (Left) Coast to the Hudson River.
The ascending barge deck and the whirlpools around the hull were telltale signs that the locks — essentially the same ones used 100 years ago when the canal opened — were filling with water flowing from unseen culverts, each big enough to hold a New York subway car.
Then, at the nearby Pedro Miguel Locks, the Lifter was raised about 31 feet more to the level of the canal's main channel, which cuts through the isthmus's emerald green hills.
Magnifico! shouted Ramiro Villalobos, 73, as he leaned against a roadside barbed-wire fence with dozens of other drivers hurriedly emerging from their cars to gawk at the crane. Its size — I've never seen anything like that.
Sam Wilson of Owensboro, Ky., in town for a convention, said he had come to see the century-old engineering marvel and got to glimpse a new one as well.
Pulled along by the tugboat Lauren Foss and the canal's silvery locomotive mules, the Lifter took a half-hour to navigate each lock, three times the usual time. But the Lifter is not the sveltest of vessels — just 10 feet narrower than the 110-foot locks themselves — and required the finesse of a Panama Canal Authority pilot to thread the needle.
After sailing through the main channel of the 48-mile canal and being dropped about 85 feet at the Gatun Locks on the Atlantic side, the engineless barge crane, chaperoned by two tugboats, headed north across the Gulf of Mexico and started up the East Coast. It is expected to arrive at the Port of New York and New Jersey on Thursday, and be moored in New Jersey until it is needed at the Tappan Zee in the spring. It will have completed a 6,000-mile voyage that began before Christmas in California, where it helped build the replacement for the earthquake-damaged eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
From the moment it entered the canal's mouth on the morning of Jan. 12, the Lifter thrilled Panamanians accustomed to passage of mammoth cruise ships, battleships, container ships and even the occasional nuclear submarine. Journalists recorded the passage of the behemoth, which, in a supine position for transport, resembled a modest-size bridge with a tall A-frame. Scores of tourists mounted the balconies of the Miraflores visitors center to gape at the odd giant.
I'm amazed something so big can float, said Jean Lonsdale, a 65-year-old traveler from England.
On its route between oceans, the Lifter passed landmarks of the canal's bittersweet history: a French cemetery where are buried many of the thousands of workers who died from yellow fever and malaria in the late 19th century in the first unsuccessful attempt to hack a canal out of the jungle; the red tile-roofed stucco houses of the Canal Zone, established so the United States could complete the canal, which it did in 1914 (John McCain's birth in that American colony did not disqualify him to run for president); flourishing Panama City, now a financial capital, whose forest of skyscrapers thickened after the canal was turned over to Panama in 1999.
Fernando Sucre, 61, a high-spirited canal engineer who gets a federal pension from the 30 years he worked for the Americans, said the crane's passage, impressive as it was, also emphasized the canal's importance in eliminating the need to travel around the sometimes tricky tip of South America or an Arctic passage.
Wildwood, New Jersey
Wildwood is a city in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Ocean City Metropolitan Statistical Area and is a popular summer resort destination. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city's year-round population was 5,325, reflecting a decline of 111 from the 5,436 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 952 from the 4,484 counted in the 1990 Census. With visitors, the population can swell to 250,000 during the summer months.
The Wildwoods is used as a collective term for the four communities that have Wildwood as part of the municipality name — the Borough of Wildwood Crest, City of Wildwood, Borough of West Wildwood and the City of North Wildwood — together with Diamond Beach, a portion of Lower Township situated on the island. The city, and the surrounding communities that share the name, derives its name from the wild flowers found in the area.
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Hometown Teams & A.C. Devotion and Determination Pep Rally
Atlantic City Mayor Don Guardian speaks at the March 22, 2014, opening for the Smithsonian Institution's Hometown Teams sports exhibit and The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination sports exhibit, which was developed by library staff.
The library is one of six organizations in New Jersey selected to host Hometown Teams -- a traveling exhibition that celebrates American sports and sportsmanship. Atlantic City will be the second stop on the Hometown Teams' 2014 road trip.
The exhibit will be displayed at the Noyes Art Garage Stockton College, located at the Wave parking garage at 2200 Fairmount Ave., from March 22 to May 4. Visitors will be able to view the exhibit from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday during that time.
The library held a ribbon-cutting pep rally March 22 at the Art Garage to kick off the exhibit's visit to Atlantic City.
As a companion to Hometown Teams, the Atlantic City Free Public Library will present a new exhibit, The Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination. This sports-based exhibit, which will also be located at the Art Garage, will showcase some of the people and places that are a part of the fabric of the city's rich sports history.
Hometown Teams has been made possible in Atlantic City by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. Hometown Teams is part of Museum on Main Street, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institute and State Humanities Councils nationwide. Support for Museum on Main Street has been provided by the United States Congress.
Hometown Teams and Atlantic City Experience: Devotion and Determination is brought to you by: Smithsonian Institution, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Atlantic City Free Public Library, City of Atlantic City and Noyes Arts Garage, Stockton College, in partnership with Atlantic County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Atlantic City Alliance, Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, Atlantic City High School, African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey, The Press of Atlantic City, Ocean City Home Bank and the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
Chelsea Hotel's Wedding Social - Atlantic City April 13, 2012
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HIGHLANDS AND ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS IS OPEN AND ARE WAITING FOR YOU!
The Jersey Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau invited young filmmakers from the Shore area to create and produce a series of videos showing landmark venues, and the rebuilt shore towns seven months after Superstorm Sandy. Through the direction of the MarshallJacksonPartners Ad Agency of Asbury Park this contest was executed and concluded June 30th 2013
We knew as the summer season approached, showing the real Jersey Shore is critical to letting you know that we are OPEN and want you to come visit. Our objective was to show you the look and feel of the town while telling a story from a real persons perspective not just a marketing piece. The 'Real Jersey Shore' series of videos will cover most of the shore towns throughout the year, We hope you enjoy!