Things to do / Travel Guide
- At the age of 11, Fred Astaire, the dancing extraordinaire, made his stage debut in Keyport's Old Palace Theater.
- Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show was occasionally staged in Long Branch at Seven President's Oceanfront Park in the 1800s. Buffalo Bill Cody, Sioux Chief Sitting Bull, and Annie Oakley all spent time there.
- Before getting into acting, TV and film star Danny DeVito was an Asbury Park hairdresser.
- The first Miss America pageant took place in Atlantic City in 1921 and the city hosted the event until 2005. Boardwalk Hall (formerly called Convention Hall), where the pageant was held, currently contains the world's largest pipe organ.
- “The Chaperone” Seinfeld episode, where Jerry mistakenly kills Miss Rhode Island's doves for her magic act in the Miss America pageant, is partially based in Atlantic City.
- All of the street names from the Monopoly board game are in Atlantic City except one: Marvin Gardens (actually spelled Marven Gardens) is located in Margate.
- Millions and millions of dollars are won in Atlantic City's casinos in an average day. Needless to say, chances are that more money is usually lost on any given day.
- Wildwood beaches expand by up to 100 feet in a single year; they are some of the only beaches on the East Coast where the shoreline is not diminishing.
- In July 1960, Chubby Checker first introduced “the twist” dance craze at the Rainbow Club in Wildwood.
- The Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City has four and a half times more steel than the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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