The smell of smoke lingered in the air Monday morning — perhaps wafting from the Wharton Forest wildfire still raging 50 miles away — or from the charred rubble left along Ventnor Avenue. A three-alarm fire Saturday evening damaged the longstanding sandwich shop Sack O’ Subs, displacing three families and leading to the destruction of an adjacent (and defunct) bubble tea shop. The sandwich shop, which opened in the small Jersey Shore town just south of Atlantic City in 1969, caught fire only eight days after the business reopened under new ownership. Deputy Chief Brady Middlesworth of the Vent…