Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times And Corruption of Atlantic City (52 page)
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Authors: Nelson Johnson
Perskie, Marvin
Perskie, Steven
personal transportation, increase in
Philadelphia
Atlantic City and
economic importance of
origins
war on vice industry
Philadelphia-Atlantic City Railway Company
Philadelphia Bulletin
Philadelphia Inquirer
piers, growth of
Pitney, Jonathan
background
campaign for rail transportation
death
profits to
Playboy
Pocono Mountains
police officer selection
Polizzi, Charles
Pollard, W. M.
Ponzio, Arthur
Portock, Jack
Post Office Building
precinct captains
precincts, control of
Presbyterian churches
President Hotel
Press-Union
Price, Rodman
Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church
Price Memorial AME Zion Church Literary Society
Prince Hall Masons
Prohibition
prostitution
protection money
Public Utilities Commission (PUC)
Q
Quakers
R
race discrimination.
See also
African-American community
race relations
railroads
Atlantic City and Shore Company
Camden-Amboy Railroad
Camden-Atlantic Railroad
Central Passenger Railway Company
construction
early trains
excursion houses
fares
growth and
iron rail supply
kickbacks
marketing by
narrow gauge
Penn Central Railroad
Philadelphia-Atlantic City Railway Company
Pitney’s campaign for
Richards and
West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad
Raphel, Murray
real estate taxes
redistricting
reform movements
reinforced concrete
Repetto, Louis
Republican Party
African-American community and
Nucky Johnson and
firefighter contributions
Hap Farley and
kickbacks to
Kuehnle and
Nucky Johnson and
vice industry and
Resorts International
Reynolds, Charles
Richards, Emerson
Richards, Samuel
Richards’ family
Ridley, Maggie
Ridley Hotel
Ritz Carlton Hotel
Roaring ’20s
Robert, Edward
roller-skating rink
rolling chairs
Rosen, Harry “Nig”
Rothkopf, Lou
Runyon Sales
S
Sailor Boy Inn
Salerno, Anthony “Fat Tony”
sand
dunes
first Boardwalk
hotel problems with
marketing of
Sanders, Grady
Sandman, Charles
Sands, Stafford
Saturday Evening Post
Saunders, Harry
Schaefer Manufacturing Company
Schultz, Dutch
Scott, Louis
Seaview Excursion House
Second Ward
Second Ward Republican Club
secret societies
Senate Conference Committee
Seven Group
sewage treatment
Sewell, William J.
Shahadi, Al
Shaner, Emmanual
sharecropping
shelter care facilities
Shepperson, William
Shill, Harry
Shiloh Baptist Church
shoe fly
Shore Road
Shore Road Republicans
Siegel, Bugsy
Silver Slipper Saloon
Sinatra, Frank
Siracusa, Frank
Sirica, John
Sky Lake Country Club
Sky Lake North
Smathers, William
Smiley, Frank
Smith, James
Solomon, King
Somers, William
souveniers, early examples
“Sparkey”
Spiritualist churches
St. James (AME) Church
Stacher, Joseph “Doc”
Steffens, Lincoln
Sterns, Joel
Strand Motel
street plan
strikes
Student Prince, The
Sugarman, Barnet
Summa Corporation
Sunday Blue Laws
T
Taggart, Thomas “Two Gun Tommy” D. Jr.
Taj Mahal
tax reform
Teamsters Pension Fund
Teamsters Union
“Tent City”
Testa, Joseph
theaters
Theisman, Joe
Third Ward Republican Club
Thomas, Harvey
Thomas, Lavinia
Thomas, Parry
Thompson, Walter
Thurston the Magician
Tillie’s Nightmare
Tomlin, John
Tomlin, Morrell
Torcasio, Tony
tourism
Black employment and
blue-collar workers
class-lines
expendable income and
growth of
labor needed for
low-income
repeat business
Transco Group
Trenchard, Thomas
Triangle Industries
Truck Company
Trump, Donald
Trump, Elizabeth
Trump, Fredrick Christ
Trump, Ivana
Trump Castle
Trump Marina
Trump Plaza
Trump Princess
tuberculosis
21 Club
U
United Paving Company
United States Army
United States Hotel
Usry, James
V
vaudeville
Vineland Times Journal
Virginia Avenue
Voelme, Theodore
Volstead Act.
See
Prohibition
vote fraud
W
Wall, James
Wall Street Journal
Walls, George
Walt Whitman Hotel
Waltz Dream
ward system
Warfield, David
Warke, Paul
Warlich, Fred
Water Commission
water supply
Weekly, Sam
Weinberger, William
Weiner, Sanford
Weingrow, Howard
Weloff, Ralph
West Jersey and Atlantic Railroad
Whelan, Jim
White, Josiah III
White, Theodore
White Slavery Law
Whitman, Walt
Williams, C.
Wilson, Woodrow
Windsor Hotel
Winne, Walter
Witham, Arch
Wittpenn, Otto
Wolfe, Jack
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
Woods Theater
Woodstave Project
Wooten, Tom
World War II
Worth, Isadore
Wynn, Elaine
Wynn, Stephen
Y
Young, John Lake
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Young Men’s Progressive Club
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
Younger, Irving
Young’s Million Dollar Pier
Young’s Pier Playhouse
Z
Zarowitz, Jerome
Ziegfeld Follies
Zwillman, Longie
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Jonathan Pitney’s Beach Village
Chapter 3: A Plantation by the Sea
Chapter 4: Philadelphia’s Playground
Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Nucky
Chapter 6: Hard Times for Nucky and His Town
Chapter 8: The Painful Ride Down
Chapter 9: Turn Out the Lights
Chapter 10: A Second Bite at the Apple
Chapter 11: It’s a New Ballgame
Chapter 12: The Donald Comes to Town
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Jonathan Pitney’s Beach Village
Chapter 3: A Plantation by the Sea
Chapter 4: Philadelphia’s Playground
Chapter 5: The Golden Age of Nucky
Chapter 6: Hard Times for Nucky and His Town
Chapter 8: The Painful Ride Down
Chapter 9: Turn Out the Lights
Chapter 10: A Second Bite at the Apple
Chapter 11: It’s a New Ballgame