Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City did not speak English, claimed Doyle's wife was a fraud, and ended his friendship with Conan Doyle. In 1929, the Ambassador was the site of the infamous Atlantic City Conference, in which a number of organized crime bosses, including Al Capone, Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano, negotiated their territorial rights after a wave of violence. In 1931, as Philadelphia gangster Mickey Duffy slept in the hotel, he was shot and killed by assailants who were never caught. The incident was dramatized in the series "Boardwalk Empire", with a character called Mieczyslaw "Mickey Doyle" Kuzik. The hotel eventually closed in the
Ida Lansky a method for creating unique imagery rather than a method of representation. She was also an expert in the chemistry of photography, filling up notebooks with detailed records of her experiments. Lansky experimented with different light exposures, chemicals and temperatures, seeing how these variables affected the final prints. Her "experiments" were also considered artistic: with galleries in Dallas, Texas and San Francisco inviting her to show her work. In 1960, she exhibited at The Black Tulip Galleries in Dallas, which would be her last show. Lansky chose to pursue a career in library science instead of art. She attended Texas