Bath and Turf Club
bathhouses
Berkely Hotel
Berle, Milton
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bernstein, Abe
Berry, Dorothy
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
Biggs, Judge
Bishops’ Law
Black Horse Pike
Blacks. See African-American community
Blaine, Buck
Blenheim Hotel
Blue Laws
Blue Pig, The
Board of Trade
boardinghouses
Black employment
decline
growth
tourist economy and
volume of business
Boardman, Alexander
Boardwalk. See also specific hotels; specific people
decline
early commercialization
first
rebuilding of
Boardwalk Convention Center
Born, Ray
Bowman, Thomas
Boy Scout Troops
Boyd, James (Jimmy) “Boydie”
Breakers Hotel
Bremer, Frederika
bribes
Briggs, Frankland
Brooks Law
Brown, Benjamin
Brown, G. Michael
Brown, Raymond
Bryan, William Jennings
Budd, Thomas
Burdick, Lester
Burns, William J.
Businessmen’s League
Byers, Lyman
Byrne, Brendan
C
Caesar’s Palace
Caesar’s World, Inc.
Cahill, William
Cain, C.M.
Camden-Amboy Railroad
Camden-Atlantic Land Company
Camden-Atlantic Railroad
Campbell, Luther
Cape May, New Jersey
competition from
evolution of
prior to 1820
Capone, Al
“Captain.” See Young, John Lake
Carmack, James
Carmany, George
carousels
carriages, horse-drawn
Case, Clifford
Casey, William
Casino Control Act
Casino Control Commission
Casino Reinvestment Development Authority
casinos. See also gambling; specific casinos; specific people
1974 Casino Gambling referendum
1976 Casino Gambling referendum
annual gross
application costs
Commodity Exchange Act
employment by
legislation
location
marketing
private ownership
Catbird, The
Catena, Gerardo
CBS News
Cellini, Dino
Central Passenger Railway Company
Chalfonte Alley
Chalfonte-Haddon Hall
Chalfonte Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Charles L. Bader and Company
Chase, Rupert
Chasens, Melvin
Cherchesky, Scott
Cherry, William I.
Cherry and Lockwood
Chessler, Louis
Chicago Strike Force
churches, African-American
civil service jobs
Civil War
Clark, Austin
Clark, Leo
climate, marketing of
Cliquot Club
Club Harlem
coal
Coats, M. E.
Cohan, George M.
Cohen, Samuel
Coin-Op
Colgate, Austin
Collier, Willie
“colonizing” voters
Colored Excursion Days
Columbus Park
Comly, Samuel
Committee of One Hundred
Committee to Rebuild Atlantic City (C.R.A.C.)
Commodity Exchange Act
“Commodore.” See Kuehnle, Louis
Commodore Hotel
COMSERV
concrete, reinforced
Congregational churches
Congressional Government (Wilson)
Connecticut Avenue
Conover, Daniel
Conover, Warren
Convention Center
Convention Hall
Cooper, James
Cooper’s Ferry
Corio, Joseph A.
“Corner.” See Kuehnle’s Hotel
“Corridor”
Costello, Lou
country clubs
cows
Crosby, Jim
Cuba
Cugino, Tony “The Stinger”
Curcio, Michael “Doc Cootch”
Cuthbert, William
D
D’Amato, Paul “Skinny”
Davis, Irving “Jack”
Davis, Kate
Democratic Party
African-American community and
Farley and
growing organization
Hudson County
National Convention
Patrick McGahn and
Dennis Hotel
Dewey, Thomas E.
DiGiorgio Corporation
DiMaggio, Joe
Division of Gaming Enforcement
domestic work
Donahue, James
Donnelly, Louis
Doughty, Enoch
Dresler, Marie
Drew, John
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Dumont, Wayne
E
Easter Parade
Economic Research Associates
Edge, Walter
Edison, Thomas
education
discrimination in
tax reform and
Edwards, Clinton
Edwards, Edward I.
Elks
Elsinore Atlantis Casino Hotel
Emancipation Proclamation
Engine Company
Episcopal churches
Essex County Republicans
Excise Commission
excursion houses
F
Farley, Francis Sherman “Hap”
1943 election
background
on casino gambling
decline of
interest in politics
McGahn and
rise of
State Capitol power
Farley, Jean
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
Chicago Strike Force
Corio and
gambling investigation
Matthews and
Palma Boys Social Club
Post Office Building
Seven Group and
Uniform Crime Report
Federal Model Cities Program
Feinberg, Ed
Ferry, Frank
Feyl, Marie “Honey”
Fiedler, James
Finkler, Lea
fire department
Dick Jackson and
Engine Company
Jim Farley and
Republican Party contributions
Truck Company
Fischer, David
Fitzgerald’s Auditorium
500 Club
Flamingo Casino
Fletcher, George
Flipping, Cora
Flipping, John
“floaters”
Forge restaurant
Fort, John
Foster, Herbert J.
Four Horsemen
Fourth Ward
Fourth Ward Republican Club
Fowler, Caroline
Fowler, Rebecca
Fox, Mildred
Fox Manor
Fox Realty
Foxwoods Resort Casino
Frank, William
Frank Farley Marina
Frazier,
E. F.
Friedman, Zendel
Frontier Hotel
Furhman, Joseph
Further Island
G
Gaines, Harry
gambling. See also casinos; numbers game
1974 Casino Gambling referendum
1976 Casino Gambling referendum
Cape May
estimated revenue
FBI investigation
grass-roots social activism
legalization efforts
World War II and
Garden Hotel
Gardner, John
Garfield, James
Genovese crime family
Globe Theater
Gloucester County
Gold, Ralph
Goldberg, Arthur
Golden Inn
Golden Nugget
Goldenberg, Clarence
Goldstein, Jonathan
Goodman, George
Gordon, Waxy
Gormley, Gerald
Gormley, William
Graham, Edward
Grand United Order of True Reformers
Grant, Ulysses
Grant Avenue
grass-roots social activism
Great Building and Loan Association
Great Depression
Great Egg Harbor River
Green, Abe
Green, Irving
greenhead flies
Gribbin, Francis
Griffin, Merv
Groves, Wallace
Gulf Stream, marketing of
Guzik, Jake “Greasy Thumb”
H
Hague, Frank
Hamilton, Joe
Haneman, Howard “Fritz”
Haneman, Vincent
“Hap.” See Farley, Francis Sherman “Hap”
Harding, Warren G.
Harper’s Weekly
Harrah’s Marina Hotel Casino
Harris, Mel
Hartford, Huntington
Harvey, George
Hayday, William
Hayes, Helen
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Headly, Harry
health benefits, marketing of
healthcare, discrimination in
Hearst, William Randolph
Helfant, Eddie
Herbert, Victor
Heston, Alfred M.
Hilton, Barron
Hilton, Conrad
Hilton Hotels Corporation
Hoff, Max “Boo Boo”
Hoffman, Harold G.
Hog Island
Holiday Corporation
Holiness churches
Holte, Henry
home ownership
horse-drawn carriages
horse race betting rooms
horse rooms
hospitality/recreation industry. See also African-American community
Black employment
construction of hotels
decline of
labor needed for
types of hotels
wages
Hotel Men’s Association
Hotel Rudolph
Hottentot, The
housing shortage
Houston Complex, Inc.
Howard Johnson’s Regency Hotel
Howe, Elias
Hudson County
Hudson County Boulevard Commission
Hudson County Democrats
Hudson County Traffic Court
Hughes, Howard
Hyatt Hotel chain
Hyland, William F.
I
ice cream monopoly
Independent Order of Good Samaritans
Indiana Avenue
Indiana Avenue School
industrialization
infant mortality rates
insects
Intercity Beauty Contest
Intertel
Irish immigrants
iron manufacturing
iron rail supply
IRS
Italian immigrants
Izes, Bernard
J
Jackman, Christopher
Jackman decision
Jackson, Richard “Dick”
Jackson, Robert H.
Jeffers, Lindley
Jeffries, Mabel
Jeffries, Walt
Jethro Memorial Presbyterian Church
Jewish immigrants “Jim Crow” laws
Johnson, Enoch “Nucky”
acquittal
Bader and
birth
conviction
county treasurer’s office
daily schedule
death
generosity of
hard times for
IRS and
jury selection
Keuhnle and
organized crime and
reign of
Republican Party and
Ritz Carlton and
Seven Gang membership
William Hearst and
Johnson, Smith
Johnson, Virginia
jury tampering
K
Kalish, Samuel
Kanowitz, William “Wallpaper Willie”
Katz, John
Katzenbach, E. L.
Kaye, Irving
Kean, Hamilton
Kefauver, Estes
Kefauver Committee
Keim, Jacob
Kentucky Avenue
Kessel, Louis
Khashoggi, Adnan
Khoury, Lou “Kid Curry”
kickbacks
contracts and
extortion and
ice cream monopoly
jobs and
railway station
Kirby, Sam
Kisselman, Carl
Klein, Sam
K.O.S. Enterprises
Kuehnle, Louis
conviction
infrastructure improvements by
Keuhnle’s Hotel and
Macksey Committee and
political machine
Smith Johnson and “Sparkey” and
Woodrow Wilson and
Kuehnle’s Hotel
L
Lafferty, Charles
Lane, Vincent
Lansky, Meyer
Larson, Morgan
Las Vegas Hilton
Lazia, John
Leeds, Jeremiah
Leeds, Jerre
Leeds family
Lenni Lenape
Leonard, Leon
Levy, Leo
Lewis, Jerry
Lewis, John
Lewis, Vivian
Life Magazine
Lifton, Robert
Lincoln University Alumni Associates
Linwood Republican Club
Lion Manufacturing Corporation
Lion’s Club
Lion’s Social Club
liquor licenses
Literary Society
Little Belmont
“Little Sea Water”
Long Branch, New Jersey
Loomis, Guy
Lordi, Joseph
Luciano, Charles “Lucky”
Lum’s restaurant
Luray Hotel
Luxury Taxes
M
“macing”
Macksey, William P.
Macksey Committee
Maheu, Robert
Malnik, Alvin I.
Mann Act
Mansion House
Mantle, Mickey
Manufacturers Hanover Trust Corporation
Marino, Albert
Marion, Barney
marketing
casino gambling
climate and
health benefits and
of sand
well-known visitors
Marlborough-Blenheim
Marlborough House
Martin, Dean
Martindell, Anne
Mary Carter Paint Company
Mask and Wig Club
Masons
Massett Construction
Company
Matthews, Michael
McCloskey, Paul
McGahn, Joseph L.
background
casino gambling referendum and
Steve Perskie and
McGahn, Patrick
casino referendum and
Crosby and
Democratic Party and
Leo Clark and
on Matthews
Trump and
McGlade, Charles
McShea, Stewart
Mediterranean Avenue
Merritt, Hattie
Methodist churches
Michael, Martin “Jack Southern”
Midland Resources
Miller, Tony
Mineola boardinghouse
Miss America Pageant
Mississippi Avenue
Missouri Avenue
Moretti, Willie
Morgenthau, Robert
mosquitoes
Municipal Improvement Taxes
Murphy, Charles
My Golden Girl
N
Nabila
Nappen, Ed
National Prohibition Party
Nationwide News Service
Native American Reservations
Nevada Gaming Commission
New Baedeker
New Deal
New Jersey Avenue School
New York Avenue
New York Hotel
New York Times
newspapers
Nixon, Richard
North Kentucky Avenue
North Michigan Avenue
North Ohio Avenue
Northside
African-American community
Kuehnle’s influence
voter fraud
Northside Board of Trade
Northside Business and Professional Woman’s Club
Northside YMCA
Northside YWCA
“Nucky.” See Johnson, Enoch “Nucky”
Nucky’s Nocturne
numbers game
nursing homes
O
Odd Fellows Hall
O’Donnell, William T.
Olcott, Chauncey
Old Folks Home and Sanitarium
Olsen, Richard
O’Reilly, Peter
Orman, Herman “Stumpy”
Osbeck, Florence “Flossie”
Osborne, Richard
ozone, marketing of
P
Pacific Avenue
Palma Boys Social Club
Panic of 1857
Paradise Café
Paradise Island
Paradise Island Casino
Park Place Casino Hotel
Park Place Entertainment
Parker, Joel
Paterson, New Jersey
Paxson, Mae
payroll padding
Peking Duck
Peloquin, Robert
Pendergast, Tom
Penn, William
Penn Central Railroad
Perlman, Clifford
Perlman, Stuart
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
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