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Edwin Stanley Wirtz (1914–1975), son of Camden policeman Stanley R. Wirtz and grandson of Camden fireman James McDade, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in October 1943 and served 22 years, retiring in October 1965 as an inspector in the Fire Marshal's office.
Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
Somerset Street is an East Camden thoroughfare running north from Admiral Wilson Boulevard to Raritan Street, serving primarily as an exit ramp for eastbound traffic rather than a residential street.
Maplewood Street is an East Camden street that was never developed for residential use, only partially paved, due to the Baird Avenue overpass and commercial development along Admiral Wilson Boulevard.
James Francis "Soup" Campbell was born on December 24, 1897, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. He likely learned to play basketball at the Homestead YMCA under the guidance of Sandy Shields, a star of the 23rd Street Wanderers.
The First Drive-In Theater: The Story of Its Creation and the Woman Behind It More than 100 years ago, an article appeared on the last page of the Courier-Post , announcing the construction of a revolutionary outdoor movie venue — the Drive-In Theater.
Boyd Street runs through East Camden parallel to Marlton Avenue, from Carman Street to the Pennsauken city limits. Originally named Pfeiffer Street before 1924, it gained notoriety in the late 1980s and 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as "the Alley."
Border Street, renamed Mt. Ephraim Avenue in the 2000s, ran from Line Street and Haddon Avenue north along the railroad tracks to Newton Avenue. It remains a convenient shortcut between South Camden and East Camden.
Bank Street runs from Baird Boulevard and Carman Street southwest, crossing Marlton Pike, to Admiral Wilson Boulevard. Once the center of a notorious open-air drug market in the 1980s–90s, the street was redeveloped as part of the Peter J. McGuire Gardens housing project in the early 2000s.
Seventeenth Street runs through two separate sections of Camden: North 17th Street extends from Harrison Avenue to River Avenue through the Cramer Hill neighborhood, while South 17th Street runs from Federal Street southward across Carman Street to Admiral Wilson Boulevard in East Camden.
Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden, NJ, dates to 1878 as the Mount Ephraim Turnpike toll road and was known as Border Street until the 2000s.
Saint Mihiel Street in Camden, NJ, named for the World War I Battle of St. Mihiel, ran north from Line Street; later renamed St. Mihiel Avenue.
Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
Admiral Wilson Boulevard (US Route 30) runs from the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to Airport Circle, named after World War I naval hero Admiral Henry Braid Wilson Jr. of Camden — originally designated as Bridge Boulevard when it opened.
Camden Courier-Post - August 10, 2016 CAMDEN - Subaru of America isn't expected to move here until sometime next year, but the firm's already had a change of address.
Camden Courier-Post - February 23, 2007 By KEVIN RIORDAN MOUNT EPHRAIM — The Harwan Theater is coming down, but the adjacent DiNic's Roast Beef, a former White Tower restaurant , is moving on. To West Virginia.
Camden Courier-Post - September 6, 1999 By LAURIE STUART Courier-Post Admiral Wilson. Motorists who have driven through Camden instantly recognize the name, but most don't know who he is. Henry Braid Wilson was born in Camden in 1861.
Burglars took two movie projectors and typewriters from a Manpower training center, and nine cases of champagne from a Gallo Wine boxcar at 2nd and Beckett Streets.
Police Sgt. Earl Wright rescued three small boys adrift on the Cooper River in a water-logged skiff, rowing out and towing them to shore.
A runaway bakery horse at Admiral Wilson Boulevard and Baird Avenue triggered a chain-reaction crash injuring three people; Harold B. Ash, 20, of 982 North Twenty-third Street was among those treated at Cooper Hospital.
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.
Three persons were injured in an automobile crash at Admiral Wilson and Baird Avenues; John Kaus Jr. of 1738 Tioga Street suffered the most serious injury, a severed tendon of the right hand.
Four men and a woman, among them 28-year-old Walter Koscianski of 966 Bulson Street, were fined $25 each in Camden police court in June 1933 after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct while denying they had been disorderly — a case arising from a motorcycle policeman's arrest of the five at Tenth and Bulson Streets.
An October 23, 1931 Camden Courier-Post political column noting, among other items, that the Polish-American Women's Citizens Club had endorsed David Baird for governor — the first endorsement in the club's six-year history.