The answer to everything seemed to be Atlantic City. The Breakers Hotel was originally a five story hotel under the name Hotel Rudolf, in existence since 1895. After a few decades of operation, Joel and Julian Hillman purchased and renamed the hotel the Breakers. The hotel underwent an extensive renovation, adding 7 stories, a banquet hall, a bathhouse, a rooftop restaurant, a façade overlooking the beach, and a special dietary kitchen. In 1931, the hotel was repurchased by Emmanuel Katz who made it the first hotel in Atlantic City to observe Kosher dietary laws. It catered mainly to Jewish clientele and was known as the "Aristocrat of Kosher hotels".
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Barry Perhamsky
8/4/2023 07:36:57 pm
When I was 8 and 9, my family and I stayed at the Breakers Hotel in Atlantic City. Relatives on my mother's side owned a rooming house. But they sold it and moved to Baltimore. It's a shame Atlantic city ended up the way it did. Atlantic city was a great place to go for one or two weeks during the Summer.
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