Waterview Inn, 2900 Adams Avenue, 1979–2011. Photographed June 25, 2011.
Adams Avenue, which is in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was named after President John Quincy Adams. That he was named for John Quincy instead of John Adams is a pretty easy deduction, given that many of the other streets in the immediate vicinity were named after Presidents of the same era — Van Buren, Polk, Pierce, Harrison, and Tyler, to be precise.
2910 Adams Avenue. Photographed June 25, 2011.2910 Adams Avenue. Photographed June 25, 2011.2910 Adams Avenue. Photographed June 25, 2011.
2918 Adams Avenue — The Larson Family
We, the Larsons—Joseph, Melva and Joseph—lived at 2918 Adams Ave from 1960–1964. It was what was known at the time as a “shotgun house” meaning a long narrow home, one in which you could open the front and back doors and fire a shotgun straight through it.
Directly across from us was the Del-Kirk Spiritualist Camp where my nana—Ida Shlam—would go to “talk to the spooks.” Unfortunately I don’t know the address but it was the last building on that side of the street before the river at that time.
Camden Man Sentenced to Life Plus 11 Years for 2008 Killing
Camden — A 30-year-old Camden man was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 11 years in prison for killing a man in 2008.
In February he was convicted of murder, endangering an injured victim, unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and being a certain person not permitted to possess a weapon.
Centeno killed Jose Sosa, 30, of the 1200 block of N. 32nd Street in Camden, at the Waterview Inn on the 2900 block of Adams Avenue about 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2008. Centeno and Sosa were both in the bar shortly before the killing, in which Centeno stepped out of the bar briefly, returned and shot Sosa.
Sosa allegedly committed an assault against Centeno’s brother in 2004, which led to a long-standing rivalry between the two men, said Assistant Prosecutor Christine Shah during the trial.
Herman F. Niessner was born on March 8, 1891, in Pennsylvania to German immigrant parents. His father, Frederick Niessner, worked as a machinist for Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia and moved the family to the Cramer Hill section of Camden in 1894.
29th Street extends from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, running from River Road to Clinton Street. It is North 29th Street above Federal and South 29th below.
Photographs of the Waterview Inn at 2900 Adams Avenue in Cramer Hill, Camden, taken June 25, 2011, near the end of the bar's operation at that location.
Personal memories of the William C. O'Brien family who lived at 2901 Adams Avenue in Cramer Hill from 1947 through the late 1950s, contributed by Patsy O'Brien Maggiulli in January 2008.
J.R. Murphy, Carpenter Contractors & Builders, operated from 2810 Adams Avenue in Camden. Listing from the 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages.
On February 16, 1941, a fire and explosion at 28th Street and Adams Avenue in Cramer Hill killed a father and son and critically burned a third family member.
Samuel Church of 2820 Adams Avenue writes to the Camden Courier-Post urging the city to replace its fire-trap school buildings before a tragedy occurs, February 5, 1938.
Seven-year-old Barbara Johnson of 1896 River Avenue was killed when a Camden police ambulance transporting Richard Gardiner of 2820 Adams Street struck her in the street, as reported in the Camden Post-Telegram of February 22, 1919.
