The name of Nucky's lawyer, Isaac Ginsburg, is taken from the name of star Steve Buscemi's real life lawyer.
Nucky has Dempsey do some public relations for him for RCA's live broadcast of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight in Jersey City. As it turned out, the fight was the first major sporting event to be broadcast over radio.
Despite playing Irish immigrants in this episode, both actor Tony Curran and actress Kelly Macdonald were born in Glasgow, Scotland.
The episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Single-Camera Series.
While talking to her brother, Margaret mentions Douglas Walton as her lover and father of her first child. As the name Walton is generally British, it can be construed that he was a Protestant, a likely reason they never married. Walton was also the name of a Canadianactor who always played British in Hollywood films (Mutiny on the Bounty," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and "The Bride of Frankenstein." The name was likely used as an "in-joke."