  The industrial life cycle theory has proved to be helpful for describing the
evolution of industries from birth to maturity. This paper is to highlight the
historical evolution stage of Atlantic City's gambling industry in a structural
framework covered by industrial market, industrial organization, industrial
policies and innovation. Data mining was employed to obtain from local official
documents, to verify the module of industrial life cycle in differential phases
as introduction, development, maturity and decline. The trajectory of Atlantic
City's gambling sector evolution reveals the process from the stages of
introduction to decline via a set of variables describing structural properties
of this industry such as product, market and organization of industry under a
special industry environment in which industry recession as a result of theory
of industry life cycle is a particular evidence be proved again. Innovation of
the gambling industry presents the ongoing recovering process of the Atlantic
City gambling industry enriches the theory of industrial life cycle in service
sectors.
