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Wildwood Avenue runs through Camden's Parkside section from Haddon Avenue to Park Boulevard, west of Baird Avenue. Many prominent Camden citizens lived there, especially in the 1500 block near Camden High School and Forest Hill Park.
Corporal Isadore "Israel" Goldstein (1914–1945) of 2578 Baird Boulevard, Camden, served with Company D, 759th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army. He was killed in action on April 5, 1945 at Nassau, Germany while saving 21 other soldiers, and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
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.
Morse Street in East Camden was named for Henry G. Morse, founder and president of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, whose Camden shipyard led to the creation of Yorkship Village.
Cooper Browning Hatch was a prominent citizen of Camden in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born to Joseph and Mary Hatch in a farmhouse that now houses the Camden County Historical Society.
Theodore T. Kausel was born in New York on October 25, 1885. By 1919, he resided in Camden, New Jersey, where he served as superintendent of the Castle Kid Company, one of the city's leather manufacturing businesses.
Daniel A. Gottlieb was born in Russia on August 18, 1882, and immigrated to America in 1890. After marrying Fannie, the couple lived for a time in Pennsylvania, where they welcomed daughter Essie in 1907 and son James in 1909.
Henrietta Terrace is an alley in East Camden, New Jersey, running behind the 2600 block of Baird Boulevard from Federal Street to Mickle Street. No houses or buildings carry a Henrietta Terrace address.
Marlton Avenue in East Camden begins at Federal Street as an extension of State Street and runs east to the city limits; nearby houses were razed around 2006 for the new Thomas Dudley Elementary School.
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.
Aaron Ward, born on November 26, 1834, in what was then Newton Township, Gloucester County, NJ (now within the borders of Camden), was the youngest of eight children born to Mason and Hannah Barton Ward.
Camden High School opened in 1918 at Park and Baird Boulevards in Camden, NJ, designed by architects Arthur Truscott and Paul A. Davis III.
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.
EDWARD J. BORDEN SR. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 12, 1888 to John and Beatrice Borden, both of whom were born in Canada. The elder Borden was a boilermaker by trade.
Lewis Liberman (1894-1941) was a Camden, New Jersey attorney, World War I veteran, and Police Court judge who also served as assistant city solicitor.
Thomas J. Daley (born 1889) was a civil engineer who joined Camden's engineering department in 1913 and was appointed City Engineer in 1925, serving during construction of the new City Hall and marine terminal.
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
Royden Street, which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681–82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street.
Ellis Goodman (1898–1982) was a Camden realtor and Jewish community leader who ran his real estate business at 515 Market Street from 1926.
I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path.
Death notice for Thomas (Big) Warren, 63, of 2357 Baird Boulevard, Camden, a retired City of Camden fireman who died August 24, 1983. Camden Courier-Post, August 29, 1983.
Police searched for two stocking-masked bandits who held up the night clerk of the Oasis Motel on Admiral Wilson Boulevard and fled toward Park Boulevard; Steve's Tavern on Fillmore Street was also burglarized.
Death notice for John H. Heaton of 2556 Baird Boulevard, husband of the late Eda Thegen Heaton; funeral arrangements through Murray Funeral Home on Cooper Street.
Dr. S. Marvin Bell, 55, of 2411 Baird Boulevard, a Camden dentist for 22 years and past president of Congregation Beth Israel and the East Camden Lions Club, died at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia.
Thieves took $100 from the home of Harry Schwartz at 2256 Baird Boulevard, gaining entrance by breaking in the rear door.
Obituary for Mrs. Josephine A. Doughten, 64, of 2606 Baird Avenue, who died at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital after eight years as cashier at the Arlo Theatre in East Camden.
Obituary for Morris Bass, 65, of 2630 Baird Boulevard, retired operator of the Bass Food Market on Cooper Street, Camden resident for 45 years and member of Ahev Zedak Synagogue.
Copper piping and tools were stolen from Dan's Metal Products at 318 Kaighns Avenue, reported by proprietor Daniel Greenstein of 1504 Baird Avenue — Camden Courier-Post, November 11, 1958.
A December 1956 legal notice of application to transfer plenary retail consumption license #C-83 for Marty's Olde Tappe House at 1990 Federal Street from Martin Segal to Joseph E. Seigle.
Camden fire captain George Fuscellaro of Engine Co. 11 suffered second-degree burns while fighting a garage fire in the rear of 2632 Baird Boulevard.
A Camden fire-alarm list recording two alarms for a fire that damaged the interior, exterior, and contents of 1132 South Front Street.
1950 Courier-Post profile of Camden realtor Ellis Goodman, who had been in business for 24 years at the same location, 515 Market Street.
Samuel Rosen, 51, of 2597 Baird Boulevard, a leader in Jewish fraternal and charitable circles and one of the founders of Beth Israel synagogue, died at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia.
Aviation Cadet Burton L. Pearl, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Pearl of 1473 Baird Avenue, was a recent graduate of the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School at Fort Myers, Florida, and had been in the service nine months.
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.
Ground was broken for a second unit of eight homes by Forest Hill Homes, Inc., on Baird Boulevard in the 2400 block between Boyd and Morse streets, with over 300 homes planned nearby.
Camden Courier-Post, June 19, 1939: ground was broken for the second unit of new homes built by Forest Hill Homes, Inc., on Baird Boulevard.
Funeral notice for Ben Lawton, 54, a former Camden resident who died at his home in Rio Grande, near Wildwood, son of Standard Oil district manager Ben Lawton Sr. of Baird Avenue.
The Parkside auxiliary to Cooper Hospital was to meet with plans for a card party at the home of Mrs. Hiram E. Budd at 1407 Baird Avenue.
Classified advertisement from 2632 Baird Boulevard offering a Leonard ice box in perfect porcelain condition.
Homemakers Off Air 4th Annual Child Welfare Institute Being Planned for April Will Hold 4 Classes The desire to carry on toward the goal envisioned by founders of the Parent-Teacher Association will be emphasized throughout the country in honor of the 41st anniversary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.
Brunner Lauds Rulers for $40,000 Saving by Co-operation in Offices $302,000 IS VOTED ON STREET BONDS All departments of the city government were operated within the budget appropriations during 1937 and the city's saving, as a result, was $40,000, Mayor George E. Brunner announced yesterday.
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1112 Langham Avenue, a chef and father of 13 who was shot when two bandits held up a card game at 725 Penn Street on January 11, 1938, died in Cooper Hospital, and a murder warrant was issued for his assailant.
Police of four states hunted a known suspect in the holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street in which Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1110 Langham Avenue was seriously wounded; the card players were held as material witnesses.
City Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann, Jr. contacts the city solicitor about a 1921 Forest Hill Gardens plan restriction limiting lots along Admiral Wilson Boulevard to private dwellings.
Eighteen motorists arrested for minor traffic violations were shown clemency last night in traffic court by Judge Lewis Liberman because of the recent icy condition of the streets.