Thirtieth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue and on to Federal Street, then to the intersection of Line Street and Beacon Avenue, just above Waldorf Street. As in all numbered streets in Camden, it is North 30th Street above Federal, and South 30th below.
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North 30th Street & Federal Street
North 30th Street from Federal Street — June 28, 2006North 30th Street from Federal Street — June 28, 2006
Unit Block of North 30th Street
City directory and newspaper records, 1906–1974.
46 North 30th Street
46 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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1924
Mrs. Ida M. Westcott
43 North 30th Street
43 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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Robert W. Corkhill
42 North 30th Street
42 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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40 North 30th Street
40 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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Dr. William H. Gelston (dentist)
1924
Dr. William H. Gelston
37 North 30th Street
37 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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36 North 30th Street
36 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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1924
Vacant
35 North 30th Street
35 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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1924
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34 North 30th Street
34 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
2 North 30th Street — Unit Block of North 30th Street
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Frank W. & Mary J. Herrington
3 North 30th Street
Robert W. McCarthy and his family lived at 3 North 30th Street in 1968. Robert W. and Kathleen McCarthy had two sons, Robert W. McCarthy Jr. and Michael W. McCarthy. Robert W. McCarthy Sr. served with the Camden Fire Department.
Robert W. McCarthy & Family — August 29, 1968
10 North 30th Street
William H. Blizard and his family lived at 10 North 30th Street in the 1940s–1960s.
John Fitzgerald (left) and Ron Blizard — Easter, 1956 — 10 North 30th Street
19 North 30th Street
George Bachmann Sr. lived at 19 North 30th Street from the 1880s until his death in 1954.
19 North 30th Street — Camden High School 1928 Purple & Gold Yearbook advertisementView transcription
19 North 30th Street — advertisement in the Camden High School 1928 Purple & Gold Yearbook (George Bachmann Sr., resident of 19 North 30th Street from the 1880s until his death in 1954).
1906 Sanborn Map showing North 30th Street from Westfield Avenue to High StreetSouthwest corner of Westfield Avenue and North 30th Street, June 29, 2006
100 Block of North 30th Street
City directory and newspaper records, 1896–1941.
146 North 30th Street
146 North 30th Street — 100 Block of North 30th Street
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144 North 30th Street
144 North 30th Street — 100 Block of North 30th Street
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138 North 30th Street
138 North 30th Street — 100 Block of North 30th Street
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136 North 30th Street
136 North 30th Street — 100 Block of North 30th Street
Joseph T. Angelo boarded at 112 North 30th Street in 1919–1920, when it was operated as a boarding house by Mrs. Emma J. Kellum.
Joseph T. Angelo
124 North 30th Street
Edward Friant — 124 North 30th Street — Camden Courier-Post, July 1, 1941View transcription
Edward Friant — 124 North 30th Street — Camden Courier-Post, July 1, 1941
134 North 30th Street
134 North 30th Street — home of Victor A. Martin & Family
My name is Wayne Martin. My fraternal grandparents Victor Arthur and Blanche Martin owned that property from about 1910 until my grandfather's demise in 1943. My mother, Eleanor Alloway-Martin married their son, Wayne Willard Martin, my father in 1941. Soon afterwards we moved to Westfield Acres, and later to Pierce Avenue in Cramer Hill. My grandfather worked for the trolley car company that ran from Cramer Hill to the Market Street Ferry terminal before going to work at the shipyards, as did my father as electricians until he went into the Army during WWII.
My mother and her husband, my father, also lived at the house on 134 N. 30th Street before I was born. I have included with this e-mail a photograph of the house with my grandparents out front, and my father standing at the top of the stairs on the porch.
Wayne Martin, November 2012
400 Block of North 30th Street
City directory records, 1985–present.
400 North 30th Street
400 North 30th Street — 400 Block of North 30th Street
I grew up in Cramer Hill at 928 North 30th Street, attended H. C. Sharp grammar school, Veterans Memorial junior high, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson in 1965. One of my new customers is located at 18th and River Road in Camden, so I recently had an opportunity to drive around some parts of Camden and Pennsauken, and I noticed that things seem to be improving somewhat, and a bit better than they were 10 years ago!
Frank Luthe, 2008
929 North 30th Street
Harry E. Strickler lived at 929 North 30th Street in 1917. His World War I draft registration card lists him as a creaser at a worsted mill, employed by B.F. Boyer in Camden. He was born June 19, 1888, was married, and had three children.
Harry E. Strickler — World War I draft registration card, 1917
1000 Block of North 30th Street
City directory records.
1030 North 30th Street
1030 North 30th Street — 1000 Block of North 30th Street
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1028 North 30th Street
1028 North 30th Street — 1000 Block of North 30th Street
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1014 North 30th Street
1014 North 30th Street — 1000 Block of North 30th Street
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1012 North 30th Street
1012 North 30th Street — 1000 Block of North 30th Street
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Unit Block of South 30th Street
City directory records, 1955–present.
11 South 30th Street
11 South 30th Street — Unit Block of South 30th Street
422 South 30th Street — 400 Block of South 30th Street
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424 South 30th Street
424 South 30th Street — 400 Block of South 30th Street
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426 South 30th Street
426 South 30th Street — 400 Block of South 30th Street
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1995–2011
Jonathan Darling & Family
428 South 30th Street
428 South 30th Street — 400 Block of South 30th Street
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Violeta Figueroa & Family
1994–2006
Phil Cohen
402–404 South 30th Street
Edith and Edward Mackler lived at 402 S. 30th from 1949 to 1968. They had 2 sons, Fred and Stephen. Edith passed away in 2006; Eddie passed away in 1996. Edward was in the burlap bag business. Edith worked as a bookkeeper for a while at a welding company.
Ruth and Bernard Goldberg were their neighbors at 404 S. 30th street. They had two children, Debbie and Michael. Bernie died young, around 1956. Ruthie now lives in Cherry Hill … she's 95 years old!
Ilene Mackler, December 14, 2010
420 South 30th Street
My Father, Harry Molotsky, had a grocery store called Harry's Red Front Market at 1048 Cooper Street. I am not sure what year he purchased the property, but it was in the 1940s. I was born in 1945 and my brother, Allan, in 1948. We lived behind the store until 1951 when we moved to East Camden at 420 South 30th Street.
My father kept the business until the early 1960's when he had cataract surgery and the state took the property. Dad then worked for Two Guys in the deli department for many years before retiring. It was nice that he had normal working hours. My parents started taking vacations which they had not been able to do before.
My father had a young man delivering groceries by bicycle. He let people buy groceries on credit. We never had to go grocery shopping as he always took home necessities and treats from the store. Since we kept kosher, we had to get our meat from the kosher butcher even though my father sold meat. He always had a butcher whose name was Warren Peaches. His son taught me how to drive.
Father's parents had a grocery store at 6th and Elm Street. My aunt and uncle, Sam and Esther, had a grocery at 9th and Pearl if I remember correctly. A cousin of my dad, Abe Molotsky had a dry goods store, but I can't remember the location (442–444 North 8th Street—PMC).
John H. Vickers (1863–1939) served with the Camden Fire Department from 1904, rising to Captain of Engine Company 9 in 1924, and lived with his family at 202 North 27th Street from 1920.
Carman Street ran from Broadway through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at South 31st Street, named for William Carman whose home stood at the corner of Broadway and Federal Street until 1902.
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
Beacon Avenue is a short East Camden street running from the intersection of Line Street and South 30th Street to the city line at Highland Avenue, extending into Pennsauken Township.
One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.
WILLIAM E. ALBERT was born in New Jersey around 1870. He was the son of Ernest and Hannah Albert. Ernest Albert had emigrated to America from Wurttemburg in what is now Germany.
Ron Blizard's recollections of growing up in East Camden in the 1950s and 1960s — Tony the Barber's shop on Westfield Avenue, Mrs. Molotsky at Garfield School, Brand's grocery on Dudley Street, a boy's life around Dudley Grange Park, and Mr. Motzer's Latin class at Davis Junior High School.
The living room of Francis Werner's home at 822 North 30th Street was swept by fire when a television set caught fire. The blaze was reported at 8:15 a.m. and brought under control within minutes by Battalion Chief John Giuliano's crews.
A fire broke out in the first-floor living room of 917 North 30th Street, Camden, causing extensive damage. Acting Battalion Chief Leonard Oshushek said the blaze appeared to have been caused by careless smoking. Owner Matthew Mengle arrived home to find firemen fighting the fire.
Marriage licenses issued in Camden on August 12, 1950, including Robert E. Vohringer of 28 North 30th Street and Bertha M. Selah of 332 North Second Street.
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
Miss Emma Thegen, music chairman, was announced as the speaker on oriental music for the next evening's meeting of the East Camden Junior Woman's Club at the clubhouse, 33 North Thirtieth Street, with Miss Miriam Wilson as hostess.
An open-air meeting of the Cramer Hill Businessmen's Association at Veterans Park praised local business, with Mayor Frederick von Nieda among the speakers; prizes were awarded including a vacuum cleaner to George Blanck of 1026 North Twenty-first Street.
The Cramer Hill Businessmen's Association held an open-air meeting at Veterans Park, praising neighborhood business. Prizes were awarded including an electric refrigerator to Mrs. Newton Ash of 840 North 30th Street. Mayors von Nieda and Van Meter both spoke.
A drama program was planned for the last meeting of the season of the East Camden Woman's Club, to be held Monday evening at the clubhouse, 33 North Thirtieth Street, with drama chairman Mrs. Howard Eby in charge.
Joseph H. Fisher, 81, a lifelong Camden resident and former farmer of the Stockton section, died at the home of his son-in-law Albert Reed at 103 North 33rd Street. He had farmed land at 30th and Federal and the future site of Central Airport.
East Camden clubwomen planned a rose tea party, an outing to Ocean City and a pilgrimage to Fairmount Park at the closing meeting of the season at the clubhouse, 33 North Thirtieth Street.
Mystic Chapter No. 148, Order of the Eastern Star, announced its monthly card party for the following evening at the East Camden Woman's Club, 33 North Thirtieth Street, with Mrs. Kathryn Radd as chairman of the committee on arrangements.
Two persons were injured when the American Legion Post ambulance of Gloucester collided with a truck at Broadway and Pine Street. The truck was driven by John Max, 46, of 928 North 30th Street.
Police Court Judge Bernard Bertman freed Conrad and Elizabeth Bristol of 126 North 30th Street after sharply criticizing police for twice searching their home without a warrant. Invoking the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches, Bertman suspended sentence.
District Detectives Shlam and Hurlock and Acting District Detective Raymond Stark answered a report of a riot at Thirtieth and Pleasant streets in East Camden. Officer Hurlock's wrist was gashed by a broken bottle, severing an artery; five men were arrested.
When Mrs. Charles W. Garrison awoke at 112 North 30th Street, East Camden, she found her 76-year-old husband had died in his sleep. Coroner Pratt attributed death to apoplexy, noting he had been dead several hours before she woke.
Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street , where Bodine Stratton, 39 years old, had shot himself over the heart.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
The heat caused two dogs to go mad in East Camden — one on Thirtieth Street, another on Twenty-second Street near River Road. Policeman Johnson killed one; Policeman Thomas killed the other.
John Acton, son of the late John J. and Bridget Acton, aged 38, died February 27, 1896. Funeral from the residence of his brother-in-law James W. Masten at 124 North 30th Street, Stockton. High mass at St. Joseph's Church; interment at St. Patrick's Cemetery.
The Commissioners of Assessment adopted the Town Council recommendation that Thirtieth Street, from Westfield to Morrison Avenues, remain a sixty-foot street, a decision meeting with approval of nearby taxpayers.
