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Tyler Avenue
Tyler Avenue runs northeast through Cramer Hill from North 27th Street to North 30th Street, one block north of Pierce Avenue. It is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States (1841–1845).
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River Avenue
River Avenue, more popularly known as River Road, runs north from Federal Street to the Camden city limits and became a Camden thoroughfare in 1899, when the town of Stockton was united with the city. It is the main artery of Cramer Hill and the location of many stores and small businesses.
People
Raymond Stark
Raymond H. "Mike" Stark Sr. served 27 years in the Camden Police Department, appointed April 11, 1917 and retired on pension May 15, 1944, serving as traffic officer, district detective, patrolman and sergeant, and as a sergeant of the Camden Bridge police during a 1926 leave of absence (his 1953 obituary says he organized that force).
People
John Joseph Clynes Jr.
Sergeant John Joseph Clynes Jr. (1894–1919) of 60 North 32nd Street in East Camden was a Victor Talking Machine Company pressman inducted at Camden in May 1918 and assigned to the 153rd Depot Brigade at Camp Dix. He contracted tuberculosis in service and died at Base Hospital No. 8 in Otisville, New York on June 24, 1919, aged 25.
People
William P. Spencer
William Philip Spencer (1890–1946) served in the Camden Fire Department from 1925 until his death in 1946, promoted to Junior Captain on April 2, 1940. A World War I veteran who served in France, he was a charter member of the Box 315 Association and won a three-cornered fight for vice president of the Camden Police and Firemen's Association in 1933.
People
Harry Mailahn
Harry Mailahn (1926–1971) was a Camden firefighter assigned to Engine Company 9 from his appointment in January 1951 until his death in 1971. A Navy veteran of World War II, he lived at 2924 Royden Street in East Camden.
People
John J. O'Neil
John Joseph O'Neil (1909-1982) was born in Camden and grew up on North 22nd Street in East Camden. Appointed to the Camden Fire Department on July 27, 1938, he served 30 years - taking time away during World War II to serve in the United States Coast Guard - was promoted to District Chief on April 1, 1961, and retired on pension on November 1, 1968.
People
Harry W. Horst
Harry W. Horst (c. 1873–1949) was one of Camden's first hardwood floor contractors, establishing his business in the city in 1910. He lived and worked out of his homes at 1240 North 19th Street and later 1021 North 32nd Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden.
Buildings
William Stanley Ablett Village
William Stanley Ablett Village is a 306-unit public housing project at River Road and State Street in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, built by the Housing Authority of the City of Camden during World War II and named for a Camden soldier killed in action in France during World War I.
People
Earl Wright
Earl Wright joined the Camden police force in 1928, serving as a motorcycle patrolman and later Sergeant. He is best known as the officer who arrested mass murderer Howard Unruh on September 6, 1949.
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Mystery Postcard: Who Was John Randolph Watson?
By Phil Cohen Over Memorial Day weekend of 2015, I received an e-mail from Carl Gainsborough containing the the two scanned images above.
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Adams Avenue
Adams Avenue, in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was named after President John Quincy Adams, running northeast from North 28th Street to the site of the former Tucker shipyard.
People
Herman F. Niessner
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.
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Larch Street
A small street running from 708 North 2nd Street east to North 8th Street, between State and Vine Streets, in Camden, New Jersey.
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Bergen Avenue
Bergen Avenue runs through the Cramer Hill section of Camden from Cleveland Avenue north to Farragut Avenue near the Delaware River, likely named for Martin V. Bergen or Christopher A. Bergen, prominent Camden legal figures in the late 1800s.
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36th Street
Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
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32nd Street
32nd Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to the city limits at Highland Avenue, with North and South addresses dividing at Federal Street. At Westfield Avenue an acre of cultivated land and an old house called the "Mansion" were razed for the Westfield Acres housing project, which was itself razed in 2000 and replaced by Baldwin's Run.
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Camden First - 1925
These pages show the many varieties of beautiful "Air-Lite" and "Air-Wa" homes on the outskirts of Camden. These pictures tell there own story of attractiveness, coziness, and unique fittings.
Bakeries
A & A Soft Pretzel Baking Company
A&A Soft Pretzel Baking Company, run by the Panara family, moved to Camden, New Jersey in 1976 and has baked pretzels in Cramer Hill since 1985.
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27th Street
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
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More Bergen Avenue Memories
I just reviewed the Bergen Avenue site again. Ok, so my parents bought 1021 Bergen from the Kennedy family in 1953. My parents lived in the white house, one house from Engles Lot.
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East Camden Memories
Jill Petris Lamparella's memoir of growing up in East Camden in the 1950s — 139 North 32nd Street, Roles Court Apartments, Dudley Grange Park, the Henry H. Davis School, and the shops of 27th Street.
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Bergen Avenue Memories
We moved to Bergen "Avenue" in 1953. We lived at 1021 Bergen Avenue which is still there. There used to be a red house [1017 Bergen Avenue — ed.] next to the lot which was Engle's Bar. The lot belonged to the bar.
News Articles
The Kids…The Breadman…The Cop…
On the 25th anniversary of Howard Unruh's September 6, 1949 shooting rampage, the Courier-Post recalls William Joyce, bread-truck driver Roxy DeMarco and former policeman Harry "Barney" Tracy.
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Map of the 3200 Block of River Avenue
A hand-lettered diagram printed with the Courier-Post's 1974 feature on Howard Unruh, showing the 3200 block of River Road and 32nd Street: the Harrie and Hamilton homes, the shoe repair and barber shops, the drug store, the Unruh apartment and where each victim was found. Camden Courier-Post, September 7, 1974.
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…He Left A Trail Of Death
A Courier-Post feature of September 7, 1974 retracing Howard B. Unruh's shooting spree of September 6, 1949 at River Avenue and 32nd Street in Cramer Hill, from the drugstore of Maurice M. Cohen to his surrender, confession to Prosecutor Mitchell Cohen and commitment to Trenton State Hospital.
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I had a clear shot at him…
A Courier-Post feature of September 7, 1974 in which retired Camden policeman John Ferry, the first officer at the scene of Howard Unruh's 1949 shootings, recalls what he found and the moment he had a clear shot at Unruh.
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Bowman Hargis Rites Saturday
Bowman L. Hargis, 82, a retired Campbell Soup electrician of 114 South 32nd Street, died April 18, 1972. Services were held at the Bradley Funeral Home on Federal Street with Masonic rites by Trimble Lodge #117.
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Freidel
A Camden Courier-Post death notice for Frances Nicholas Freidel, 76, widow of Harry Freidel of 210 South 32nd Street, who died January 17, 1964.
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9 Firemen Graduate In City Test
Nine of Camden's newest firemen, including Wayne Kraft of 1052 North 35th Street, graduated at fire headquarters at 3rd and Arch Streets and received their company assignments.
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Flames Rake Warehouse in East Camden
A two-alarm fire tore through the Cartun Hardware Store warehouse at 14 South 35th Street on the night of December 21, 1961, fed by an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 gallons of paint. One Engine Company 11 hoseman was hurt, and the alarm was sounded by a teenager who spotted the smoke while listening to Christmas carols outdoors.
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Camden Fire Alarms
A December 4, 1957 Camden Courier-Post list of fire alarms, including a fire at 330 Larch Street.
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All Brick Home With Stone Front
A March 1954 Quaranta & Bloom classified advertisement offering new all-brick homes with stone fronts at 32nd and Mickle in East Camden for $9,850 with FHA and VA financing.
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R. H. Stark Dies At 59; Retired City Policeman
Raymond H. "Mike" Stark Sr., 59, of 141 North 32nd Street, a retired Camden city policeman appointed in 1917 and pensioned in 1944, died of a heart condition in Cooper Hospital. He organized the Camden Bridge police force during a 1926 leave of absence and was a charter member and secretary of the Retired Police and Firemen's Association of Camden County.
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3 Fined $50 Each On Car Charges
Evelyn Mailahn of 243 South 32nd Street was fined $50 in Haddon Township municipal court for letting an unlicensed driver use her car; the driver, Hampton Williams of Runnemede, was fined the same amount after the car struck a truck.
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Howard A. Groth
Howard A. Groth of 242 South 32nd Street, a Camden resident of 40 years and a member of Camden Lodge 15 F&AM, died in West Jersey Hospital in April 1953.
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E. Camden Woman Shoots Husband; Son, 15, Escapes
Mrs. George Beitzel of 124 North 32nd Street shot her husband, a Pennsylvania Railroad policeman, in the arm and fired at their 15-year-old son, who ducked and escaped. Judge Benjamin Dzick refused her guilty plea and held her for the grand jury.
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Westfield Acres Community Store
Page 70 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Westfield Acres Community Store at 402 N. 32nd St., The Select Shop, the Jos. Campbell cigar store, the Swiss Watch Shop at 419 Broadway, Blue Ridge barber shop, Buddy's submarine sandwiches, Marty Segal, DiMona's furniture and jewelry store at 921 Broadway, Eddies men's and boys' store, and Bill's Cafe.
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Camden Detective Dies While Fishing
Heart Attack Kills Louis Schlamm; Thrown into Water as Boat Capsizes Avalon, Aug. 14 — Louis J. Schlamm , 55, veteran Camden city detective, died of a heart attack while fishing in Townsend's Inlet near here today.
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Housing Plans in East Camden Okayed by U.S.
The Camden Housing Authority announced U.S. Housing Authority approval of a $1,566,000 defense housing project of 306 units on the south side of East State Street between Cooper Creek and River Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, January 17, 1942.
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Pennsauken Veteran Leads in Job Exam
John G. Maxwell of Pennsauken topped the State Civil Service promotion examination for property supervisor of the Camden County Welfare Board; Fred L. Strong of 133 North Thirty-second Street placed second.
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Fire Capt. Spencer Temporarily Retired
Commissioner Mary W. Kobus placed Junior Fire Captain William P. Spencer of 38 South Thirty-second Street on temporary retirement at half pay in April 1941 after illness left him unable to work.
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Sharp Pupils Given Attendance Prizes
Kindergarten, first-grade and February graduating pupils of the H. C. Sharp School at Thirty-second Street and Hayes Avenue received certificates in February 1936 for perfect attendance since the school year opened, along with more than a hundred other pupils.
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Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.
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"Bob" Ashenfelter, Shot in Duel With Burglars, Asks Pension
Detective Robert Ashenfelter, wounded in the August 24, 1931 gun duel with a burglar at the American Store, Thirty-second Street and Pierce Avenue, and Accident Investigator John Sheeran applied for disability pensions before the Police and Firemen's Pension Commission.
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Robbery Gang of 4 Given Long Terms
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
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Camden Burglar Slain; Cop Wounded in Gun Duel
Burglar Charles Rettberg, 21, of North 36th Street, was shot dead by police and City Detective Robert Ashenfelter was wounded three times in a gun duel at an East Camden store at 32nd Street and Pierce Avenue, August 24, 1931.
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P. O. S. A. Will Present Flag to Junior High
Camden Courier-Post - February 10, 1930 A parade is being planned by the Patriotic Order of Sons of America for Washington's Birthday, when a flag will be presented to the new Woodrow Wilson Junior High School by Camp No. 25.
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Camden Home Robbed
Third District police sought James W. Clymer to tell him his home at 60 North Thirty-second Street — which he had left for Merchantville two days earlier — had been broken into and the furniture left behind damaged.
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Officer Hubbs Laid Up
Mounted Policeman Harold Hubbs of 201 North 27th Street returned to duty after his horse stumbled and threw him during a Saturday-morning chase near the Harry Sharp School, but his injured leg forced him home after two hours.