Bailey Street
Bailey Street appears to be named for real estate developer William T. Bailey, who was responsible for building rows of homes between North 5th and North 6th Streets on State, Grant, Bailey and York Streets. He also appears to have been involved in developing other blocks in North Camden.
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Erie Street
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Belleview Avenue
Belleview Avenue runs east from Baird Boulevard to Park Boulevard in Camden's Parkside neighborhood.
26th Street
26th Street, originally called Union Street in the pre-annexation Pavonia section, runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden from the Delaware River to Bank and Mickle Streets. It was laid out before 1887 and renamed after Stockton Township was absorbed by Camden in 1899.
Main Street
North Camden street.
Arch Street
Arch Street ran from Delaware Avenue to North 5th Street between Federal and Market Streets in downtown Camden. Formerly known as Plum Street, it was home to Oetzel's Saloon, the Genova Cafe, the Collings Carriage Company, and the Camden Fire Department headquarters at 5th and Arch.
Vincent Ariel Tydeman
Vincent Ariel Tydeman was born in New Jersey on August 24, 1883, to Edmund and Sarah Tydeman, who emigrated from England to the U.S. in 1878 with their nine children. The Tydemans welcomed another child, Florence, just before the 1880 census.
5th Street
Fifth Street was one of Camden's original streets, running south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Newton Avenue to just west of Pyne Point in North Camden.
Bar patrons mourn murdered buddies
Regulars at The Tavern, a North Sixth Street bar, mourned Benjamin Shablack and John Barrett, two retired roommates bound, gagged, and left to die in a fire set in their North Camden rowhouse on Bailey Street. Fire Marshal Harold Pike found the fire was deliberately set in four locations.
Hospital Cases
Hospital cases from Camden on November 8, 1958, including Joseph Kelly of 67 South 28th Street (cut scalp) and Raymond Ross of 1223 North 28th Street (cut arm) treated at Cooper Hospital.
Hospital Cases
Cooper Hospital cases from December 1956, including David Lenher, 21, of 290 Ablett Village, treated for a dog bite. Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956.
Marriage Licenses
Camden marriage license announcements from August 14, 1956, including William Coleman of Lawrence Street and Evelyn A. Bond of 1031 North 18th Street.
Drowning Spurs Move for Fence Along Riverfront
After 10-year-old Robert Allebach of 533 Bailey Street drowned falling from a raft in the Delaware River, North Camden neighbors petitioned the city in February 1950 to build a fence along the riverfront between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses published in the Camden Courier-Post, November 17, 1949, including Russell E. Mattson of 333 North 38th Street and Ruth M. MacDonald of 46 North 33rd Street.
Bench Warrants Issued for Three Men
Bench warrants were issued for Owen Daisey of 1462 Chesapeake Road, John Burke of Federal Street, and Elwood Laning of Fairview after they failed to appear in court in July 1941.
Mrs. Kobus to Ask More Cops, Firemen for City Next Year
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.
Mrs. Kobus Names 3 Cops, 4 Firemen
Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced the appointment of three Camden policemen and four firemen in November 1940; among the new firefighters was John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street.
Leo P. Bridgeman
Funeral notice for Leo P. Bridgeman, 32, of 425 Bailey Street, Camden, who died February 17, 1938; services at Church of the Holy Name, burial in Calvary Cemetery.
North Camden Wife Swindled
Mrs. Florence Downing of 816 Bailey Street was swindled out of $5 in February 1938 by a confidence man who promised her husband Frank a job if she registered him at Philadelphia City Hall; the fraud was revealed when the couple discovered the office was a front.
9 Nabbed in Check on Reckless Driving
State motor vehicle inspectors arrested nine drivers during a three-hour overnight sweep on Crescent Boulevard in February 1938, targeting reckless driving and checking patrons of cafes; among those fined was Henry V. Marsh of Bailey Street.
Vacuum Cleaner Sale Sends Seller to Cell
Leonard Hauser of 218 North 8th Street was arrested on $1,000 bail in February 1938 on fraud charges after taking Mrs. Mary Kirby's old vacuum cleaner in exchange for a new one, then failing to return either when the new machine proved defective.
Rose Social Club Letter
Letter to the editor from Mrs. E. Miley of 545 Bailey Street, thanking supporters of the Rose Social Club's card party and asking for volunteers to bring flowers to sick neighbors.
4 Hurt as Auto Strikes Pole Strewing Live Wires on Road
Camden Courier-Post - Feburary 4, 1938 Four persons in a small coupe were injured last night when the machine crashed into a pole at Seventeenth Street and Admiral Wilson Boulevard during a dense fog.
Camden Incorporations
Incorporation notice for the North Camden Young Republican Association, with principal office at 940 Linden Street and Sidney Liss as agent, February 1938.
Mrs. Fannie A. Sayre
Death notice for Mrs. Fannie A. Sayre, 70, of 550 Bailey Street, who died February 2, 1933 after being bedridden for ten weeks; survived by two daughters, a son, six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.
Seven Injured in Camden
Seven people were injured when a car carrying a Camden Minor Baseball League team was dragged by a shifting train engine; Albert Blair, 17, of 1144 North 24th Street suffered a fractured skull.