City - Atlantic City, NJ - The Dennis Hotel 1908 - Side by Side
by Mike Savad
Title
City - Atlantic City, NJ - The Dennis Hotel 1908 - Side by Side
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized photo from 1908
Original title: Dennis Hotel
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 1901 Pacific Ave, Atlantic City, NJ (Beach side)
I'm not a 100% certain of the year, they gave a range of 1900-1910. But as I did research, they mentioned that one buildings wasn't made till 1911, and another till 1925. Yet this doesn't look like its from the 1920's, and someone identified this as 1908. It was a little confusing to figure out the history of this building, because I wasn't sure if the story about how it was built referred to the two buildings jutting out or the one behind it?
The basic story is, a guy built a house here back in the 1860's, told a friend, they came to visit, and he kept building larger structures until he finally said, nope I don't want to run a hotel, I just wanted to be alone in my vacation house.
Anyway, I found many images of the Dennis hotel, but nothing from this year. They rebuilt it quite a bit at some point, and nothing is wood, the roof is taller, the porches are gone. I chose yellow because I like yellow, and this image needed more pop and better balance. There was however many pictures of that hotel on the right with the domes.
There were two images of this spot, but they didn't align when I edited it. There were different people in the other one, but I liked the cop in here, and the fact that at least one person is giving a real smile, and not a hard stare. I did add a person on the top of the right flank in a yellow dress. I wanted to keep those dudes below staring and pointing. I'd like to know what they were looking at, I can only imagine some lady showed some ankle.
Can you spot the time traveler in this? I'll give you a hint, he's using his phone....
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March 10th, 2022
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