Category: Businesses

Camden Businesses

Cooper Hospital, Looking South from Chambers Avenue. Photograph was taken about 1890. Photo donated to Courier-Post by H. Genet Taylor of 305 Cooper Street in the late 1950s.
Posted in Hospitals

Cooper Hospital

Cooper University Hospital is a teaching hospital and biomedical research facility located in Camden, New Jersey. The hospital formerly served as a clinical campus of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. (Source: Wikipedia)

Greenetz and Pelicoff Jewelers - 1921
Posted in Jewelers

Greenetz and Greenetz

The Greenetz family owned and operated a jewelry store from prior to 1920 through approximately 1959.

Borstein's Electric, Storefront. Circa 1943
Posted in Utilities

Borstein Electric Company

The Borstein family began the business in 1918. The business was at 930 Broadway during the winter of 1921.

Fan and Sun Stock Photo
Posted in Manufacturing and Hardware

Boudov Coal and Ice Company, Incorporated

In the days before electric refrigerators and heat fueled by fuel oil or natural gas, Boudov Coal and Ice company fulfilled the needs of Camden.

Stock photo of a bar
Posted in Bars and Clubs

Bert’s Cafe

From the 1950s through the early 1970s the bar at 1226 Broadway was known as Bert’s Cafe. It had formerly been known as Buradine’s, and the proprietor at that time was Michael Burgo. By 1959 the bar had changed hands, Bert Bottura being the proprietor, and, appropriately enough was called Bert’s Cafe.

Benjamin Cooper House - 1901
Posted in Buildings

The Benjamin Cooper House

The house Benjamin Cooper built in 1734 was one of only two pre-Revolutionary War structures standing and undamaged in 2012.

Oasis Motel, featured in the 1995 film, 12 Monkeys
Posted in Bars and Clubs

The Oasis Motel

The Oasis Club was originally known as the City Athletic Club and had many notable Camden residents as it’s members.

Alongside Elevators to the new Camden Bridge
Posted in Manufacturing and Hardware

David Baird Company

The David Baird Company was founded by Irish immigrant David Baird Sr. in 1878. A protege of William Joyce Sewell, David Baird Sr. found a great success in the lumber business, and after Sewell’s death in 1901, led the Republican party in Camden for many years.

East End Trust Company- 1927
Posted in Banks

East End Trust Company

The East End Trust Company was first organized on May 26, 1905. Dr. C.F. Hadley was the first president. Other founders and early directors included John Schimpf, Frederick von Nieda, and John Crawford.

South Camden Trust Building. August 2, 2003
Posted in Banks

South Camden Trust

The South Camden Trust Company was opened for business on April 2, 1921.

Postcard image of the Plaza Club Hotel, 1935
Posted in Hotels and Motels

The Hotel Plaza

The Hotel Plaza was built at Fifth and Cooper Street in 1927, and was originally called the Plaza Club Hotel.

Tydeman & Dooley
Posted in Entertainment

Tydeman & Dooley

TYDEMAN & DOOLEY were a pair of comedic acrobats who starred on the B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit in the 1900’s and 1910’s.