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John J. Toal (1902–1971) joined the Camden Police Department on May 8, 1928 and was still serving as late as 1947. He and his wife Mary lived at 1115 North 31st Street in Cramer Hill at the time of the 1930 Census, and had moved to 902 North 23rd Street by 1947.
Harold Hadley Pike Jr. (1926–1998) served the Camden Fire Department for over 30 years, rising from ladderman to Fire Marshal and Chief of the Bureau of Fire Prevention.
Lemuel Avenue in East Camden, likely named for landowner Lemuel Horner, was home to the “starch works” and General Color factory before its early-2000s Baldwin’s Run redevelopment.
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
31st Street spans from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden, with no addresses outside Cramer Hill since the early 1920s. It is North 31st Street above Federal and South 31st below.
Penn Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden. First listed in the 1867 city directory, it lost blocks to the expansion of Rutgers University and the building of Route 676.
Camden has two separate 12th Streets: North Twelfth, which once ran from Federal Street to the Cooper River before being largely erased by highway construction, and South Twelfth, which runs from Fairview Street to Lakeshore Drive and is lined with post-World War II rowhouses.
By Kevin Callahan Although he would rise to the pinnacle of college football just four years later by winning the Heisman Trophy, Mike Rozier 's last play for Woodrow Wilson High School was spent looking down in the dirt on the field that would later bear his name.
A 1991 thank-you advertisement from General Color Company, manufacturers of fine colors at 31st Street and Lemuel Avenue, Camden.
Death notice for Walter S. Holt, 86, of 944 North 31st Street, Camden, who died September 5, 1967; services at Gustav Roedel and Son Funeral Home, interment at Green Mount Cemetery, Philadelphia.
Camden Fire Captain Harold H. Pike was promoted to district fire chief on April 30, 1964, sworn in at City Hall by City Clerk Odorisio before Public Safety Director Kauffman, Fire Chief Edward R. MacDowell, and acting Deputy Chief Edward Michalak.
George Humphries, convicted in 1953 of setting fire to his mother-in-law's home at 1049 North 31st Street in November 1952 and sentenced to 3 to 10 years, was announced eligible for parole by the State Parole Board in December 1957.
Camden fire alarms from midnight Monday until midnight Tuesday, printed in the Camden Courier-Post on February 15, 1956: grass fires at 2nd and Beckett, 2709 Federal and 31st and Pleasant streets, rubbish at 1245 Mechanic Street and flooring at 322 Pine Street.
Nine retiring employees of the Camden County Welfare Board were honored at a dinner in February 1956, including board director Mrs. Etta C. Pfrommer of 1061 North 31st Street, who had served since 1941.
Camden Courier-Post, February 6, 1950: Housing authority chairman Joseph J. McComb announces 400 low-rent dwellings will be built near the four existing projects.
John W. Kmicic, 56, a Pennsylvania Railroad machinist, was fatally injured when a beer keg exploded during a Christmas party at the Ninth Ward Republican club, 536 Broadway, on December 22, 1949.
Shrine Club to Select Contest Winner at Convention Hall Show Sixteen South Jersey girls are competing in a popularity contest which closes tonight at the first annual professional show and dance of Camden Shrine Club in Convention Hall .
Marriage license notices from Camden and Media, Pennsylvania, including Michael Duffy of Philadelphia and Catherine Sharp of 1138 Thirty-first Street, Camden, October 1930.
The funeral of John G. Schramm, a pioneer resident of Cramer Hill who operated a hotel at 27th Street and Cleveland Avenue, was held December 1, 1920 from his home at 912 North 31st Street.
Two Camden teenagers suffered serious injuries in separate falls on October 16, 1912 — William McGinnis fell from a roof on 12th Street and William Cutdalis fell from a tree while gathering chestnuts at his home on 31st Street.