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19 unusual facts about Atlantic City


2009–10 Atlantic 10 Conference men's basketball season

Beginning this season, the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament changed formats so that first round games would be played on the home court of the higher-seeded team, then the tournament would move to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

Atlantic Avenue

Atlantic Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey, one the cities many streets used in the game of Monopoly

Brant Alyea

After his baseball playing days were over, Alyea oversaw the crap tables at the Tropicana Casino & Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Demetrius Havanas

Havanas was en route to Atlantic City, New Jersey for a world title fight against then champion Howard Jackson, but sadly he was killed on July 23, 1981 in an airplane accident.

Don Ultang

Ultang was one of 18 recipients of the 1952 National Headliner Awards ceremonies held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, winning in the "Sports action picture" category, together with John Robinson, for their photographs of the "Johnny Bright Slugging".

Hollis Watkins

Watkins traveled to Atlantic City, New Jersey for the 1964 Democratic Party convention in support of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which attempted to unseat the regular Mississippi Democratic Party as the true representatives of the state.

Jerry Horan

Horan arranged for Taylor to meet with Oscar Nelson, George Scalise, Harry Bates (president of the Bricklayers union), and AFL President William Green after a meeting of the AFL executive council in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in August 1937.

John Carter Rose

Rose served in that capacity until his death, in 1927, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Lucille Hegamin

She performed in Clarence Williams' Revue at the Lincoln Theater in New York, then in various revues in New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey through 1934.

Lyle Berman

In 1990 he was a co-founder of Grand Casinos Inc., a company that sought to create gambling establishments outside of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Martin Waldron

His final reporting for the paper was about casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey and their relationships with local municipal government, a series that was nominated for a Pulitzer.

Original Boardwalk Style

It was recorded live on December 30 and 31, 2006, at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Pack goat

Goat packing was popularized in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s by John Mionczynski of Atlantic City, Wyoming.

Quebec Route 366

In 2011, Google Maps mislabeled Quebec Route 366 as running concurrent with the entire length of U.S. Route 30 from Astoria, Oregon to Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Rob Guest

In 1981 he moved to the United States with his first wife, Lynette Perry, where he spent most of the 1980s performing and hosting shows in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Reno, Nevada and Lake Tahoe.

Ronald Dale Harris

When Harris' accomplice, Reid Errol McNeal, attempted to redeem a high value winning keno ticket at Bally's Atlantic City Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino executives became suspicious of him and notified New Jersey gaming investigators.

Roxy Balsom

Walter later died, and Roxy turned out to be an irresponsible and absent mother for much of Natalie's childhood in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Steve Dannenmann

His highest WPT cash was $65,000 for his 11th place finish in the 2008 Borgata Poker Open tournament in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

WIAV-LD

The station is wholly owned and operated by AsiaVision, Inc., which owns a small network of low-power stations in the Mid-Atlantic Region, including WRAV-LP, channel 8 in Ocean City, Maryland, and WQAV-LP, channel 34 in Atlantic City, New Jersey.


Airway Operational Support

Airway Operational Support is a directorate of the Federal Aviation Administration, which is an agency of the US Department of Transportation, based in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Alix Kates Shulman

She was one of the planners of the first national demonstration of WLM, which catapulted WLM to national attention, the August 1968 Miss America protest in Atlantic City, a demonstration against oppressive beauty standards, which was a major theme of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.

Atlantic City Jitney Association

The Atlantic City Jitney Association (ACJA) is an association of operators of minibus service in Atlantic City, New Jersey, providing service at all times on 3 fixed routes, daytime service on a fourth fixed route, and bus-to-rail connections from the Atlantic City Rail Terminal, providing connections to Atlantic City Line trains.

Belle Baker

Baker made two more film appearances, one in 1935's "Charing Cross Road" starring John Mills and 1944's "Atlantic City" in which she performed "Nobody's Sweetheart".

Bernard Hopkins vs. Kelly Pavlik

Bernard Hopkins vs. Kelly Pavlik was a boxing match that took place on October 18, 2008, at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, between then-43-year-old Hopkins and 26-year-old Pavlik.

Bobby Ryan

On November 24, 2012, Ryan participated in "Operation Hat Trick", a charity hockey game at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City to raise money for Hurricane Sandy victims.

Caesars Entertainment Corporation

Holiday Inn at the time had 1,600 hotels and interests in two casinos, a casino under construction in the marina district in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and a 40 percent ownership interest in River Boat Casino, a casino adjacent to the Holiday Inn hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.

Daniel William Coquillett

Daniel William Coquillett (23 January 1856, Pleasant Valley, Ill. - 7 July 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey) was an American entomologist who specialised in Diptera.

DJ Times

In addition, each August, DJ Times presents The DJ Expo at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Hosted at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey, top DJs and manufacturers come together for a four-day event that features educational seminars, an exhibit hall filled with the latest DJ, pro audio and studio gear, and evenings full of sponsored events and special surprises.

Elephantine Colossus

It was the second of three elephants built by Lafferty, preceded by Atlantic City's Lucy the Elephant and followed by The Light of Asia in Cape May.

Gregorio Di Leo

Gregorio Di Leo has been the one of European athlete capable of winning a team competition in the United States, together with Roberto Bellotti (Amerikick International, Atlantic City, 2005) and he is the only European athlete that has been able to win a race in Central America(Guatemala City, Great Maya Challenge, 2006).

Harry Carroll

Harry Carroll (November 28, 1892, in Atlantic City, New Jersey – December 26, 1962, in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania) was an American songwriter, pianist and composer.

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act

This total exceeds the combined gaming revenues of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.

Jack Boucher

Boucher's first job was photo lab and engraving chief for the Atlantic City Tribune (1949–1951), then at Fred Hess & Son Photographers, Atlantic City, New Jersey (from February 1951 to September 1952), afterwards at NJ Garden State Parkway Chief of Photography (September 1952 to April 1958).

James Barrett McNulty

He attracted Steamtown, USA, a Hilton Hotels & Resorts (for which grand opening McNulty hired Guy Lombardo’s orchestra to play) and the Montage Ski Resort to Scranton, Pennsylvania, which is on a thoroughfare that “Jimmy” stated a million Canadians passed down on their way to gamble in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Jeff Glor

He joined CBS News in 2007, where he has covered a wide range of stories domestically and internationally, including the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, Hurricane Sandy's landfall in Atlantic City, the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, US Airways Flight 1549's landing in the Hudson, the 2011 Norway attacks, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the Iraq War (where he was embedded with U.S. soldiers).

Legends In Concert

Legends In Concert is a live tribute artist production with shows primarily located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Branson, Missouri, Mashantucket, Connecticut, Waikiki, Hawaii and Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Leo Steiner

Under the management of Parker and Steiner, the deli became known nationwide, attracting celebrities such as Woody Allen, Jackie Mason and Henny Youngman, and opened branch locations in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Secaucus, New Jersey and Tysons Corner, Virginia.

Louis Tussaud

Louis Tussaud wax museums were later established in St. Petersburg, Florida, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Great Yarmouth, Brighton (1937-1979), Copenhagen, Denmark and Belle Vue, Greater Manchester.

Michelle Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe met Para Draine on her second bout, June 24 of 1998, losing by knockout in round five, at Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Mirage Resorts

In 1980, the company opened the Golden Nugget Atlantic City in New Jersey, but Wynn's, and the company's interest, in Atlantic City did not last very long, due to frustration with state gaming regulators.

Moonlight on Water

Branigan can be seen performing the song on her second videocassette and laserdisc concert release, Laura Branigan in Concert, filmed in 1990 at a tour stop in Atlantic City and initially televised as part of the syndicated TV series SRO: In Concert.

New Jersey Route 56

In the past, the Route 56 number was used twice for a never-built road between the Laurelton Circle and Mantoloking in Ocean County legislated in 1938 and for the portion of U.S. Route 30 between current Route 157 and Atlantic City between 1938 and 1953.

Newbridge boxing club

Middleweight Gary Lockett held the lightly regarded WBU belt but achieved fame when he unsuccessfully challenged world number one Kelly Pavlik in Atlantic City for the undisputed middleweight crown.

Oakcrest High School

The band has performed in numerous venues including the Miss America Parade in Atlantic City, the Festival of States in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a tour in Europe including Switzerland, France and Germany.

Philip Testa

Testa's violent death inspired the first line of musician Bruce Springsteen's US hit song, "Atlantic City".

Romy Haag

In 1972, an American show manager offered Haag a tour booking and she performed her show "Berlin Chanson" at Fire Island, in Long Island and Atlantic City.

Trump Card

The show was filmed at the Trump Castle (now known as "Golden Nugget Atlantic City") casino hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and based on the British game show Bob's Full House, which consisted of contestants trying to answer questions to fill up a 15-square bingo board.

Ventnor City, New Jersey

Mrs. S. Bartram Richards, the wife of the secretary-treasurer of the land company, suggested the name "Ventnor" for the area then being developed by the Camden and Atlantic Land Company south of Atlantic City, having recently visited the seashore resort on the Isle of Wight with the same name.

Waiting for Columbus

On 31 October 2010, American rock band Phish covered Waiting for Columbus in its entirety as their "musical costume" for their Halloween show at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

WPPZ-FM

The station has always been short-spaced due to adjacent channel interference from WMGM in Atlantic City, WXCY in Havre de Grace, Maryland, and WNNJ in Newton, New Jersey (all located on 103.7 FM), WAEB-FM in Allentown and WNNK in Harrisburg (both located on 104.1 FM), as well as WRFF (104.5 FM), and co-channel interference from WRCN on Long Island and WFAS-FM in Bronxville, New York.

Ziggy Elman

In 1936 Elman joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as a trumpet player after playing briefly with Alex Bertha's local big band at Steel Pier in Atlantic City, where Goodman heard him and was impressed.