UNDATED COPY PHOTO of Nucky Johnson supplied by Frank Ferry on October 5, 2010. ( Elizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer ) EDITORS NOTE : DM1NUCKY07 118922 ATLANTIC CITY _ Riding the wave of publicity for HBO's Boardwalk Empire, Atlantic City officials are promising - but not delivering - a so-called "Nucky Tour" a la the Sopranos tour of North Jersey. We heroically help them out with our own somewhat tongue-in-cheek Nucky Tour, despite the fact that most of the places in the real Nucky Johnson's time have been torn down (part of the reason the show's filmed in Brooklyn). Still standing: The Ritz, where Nucky occuped the entire 9th floor; the Knife and Fork, mentioned in the show; the town of Hammontown, which plays a grisly role in the show and experienced its own life-imitating-art homicide last week; a rum-runner speak easy home in Ventnor where Nucky hung out; Nucky Johnson's grave, a granite and copper mauseleum, where he shares a slot with his two wives, and, incredibly enough, a surviving Incubator Baby, Carol Heinisch, who spent two months in an incubator on the Boardwalk in the 40s, and has the pictures to prove it. You can find her working in an attorney's office in Ventnor.
A corruption trial and a failed tribute echo his impact.
ATLANTIC CITY The City Council last week rejected a plan to rename a street after Enoch “Nucky” Johnson, one of the most corrupt political figures ever to stroll this city’s famous Boardwalk.
Johnson, whose life and times are being recounted – with lots of literary license – in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire, would have been memorialized with the renaming of Belmont Avenue as Nucky’s Way.
But only three of the nine council members voted in favor of the idea, the rest deciding that the move would not be good for the city’s image. Writes George Anastasia for Philadelphia Inquirer. To read the rest click Here
Video Mob Scene, Nucky’s Way
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