Positioned three blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, Atlantic Avenue extends from Front Street in the west to Haddon Avenue in the east. The eastern segment of Atlantic Avenue, stretching beyond 7th Street, presents a combination of residential and commercial properties that persists to this day. The thoroughfare persists through the span between 7th and 9th Streets, accommodating the crossing of both interstate highway I-676 and an elevated rail line. As Atlantic Avenue progresses from 9th Street towards Haddon Avenue, its character shifts predominantly towards a residential landscape.
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Atlantic Avenue
Positioned three blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, Atlantic Avenue extends from Front Street in the west to Haddon Avenue in the east. The eastern segment of Atlantic Avenue, stretching beyond 7th Street, presents a combination of residential and commercial properties that persists to this day. The thoroughfare persists through the span between 7th and 9th…
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Three-O-Three Bar
303 Kaighn Avenue The bar at 303 Kaighn Avenue was in operation as early as June of 1939, when Lauraine Bieri was granted a liquor license renewal by the city of Camden. Lauraine Bieri and her husband Charles appear in the 1930 Census as living at 1210 Hyde Park, a small street that runs between…
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Mad Hatter – Boston Corbett
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society – February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street, Camden, New Jersey. The occupant of the house was the man who shot the man who shot Abraham…
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Who Socked Who With What Prop Debated in Court
Camden Courier-Post – February 18, 1938 The Monday morning washday blues yesterday landed three South Camden neighbors in Police Court in a futile effort to decide who hit who with what clothes prop. It seems that Mrs., Sophia Anyzek, of 1013 Atlantic avenue, hung out her wash bright and early Monday. Just as bright and…
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‘Kid’ Roller Skates Jolt Love Off Base
Camden Courier-Post – February 15, 1938 A roller-skating child bride who thought her 19 year old husband “too old” for her was well on her way to being divorced yesterday by Al Daidone, 29, of 424 Clinton street. Advisory Master Knight recommended a decree for Daidone. His wife, Fannie, lives near Scranton, Pa., with their…
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