It’s Labor Day, 1929, at the New Bedford, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat company wharf in Oak Bluffs. The last steamer has departed for the night. The terminal staff has gone home after a busy three-day weekend; 4,000 passengers passed through that day alone. A shadowy figure or is it two? climbs unseen […]
Opened in 1929 with 4,300 seats, the Warner Theater was Atlantic City’s crown jewel showroom and movie palace. In 1957, one year before purchasing the Warner, booking agent George Hamid, Jr., who brought the Beatles to Atlantic City on their first U.S. tour in 1964, passed on a new sensation whose name he deemed “crazy.”