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Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Briggs Cafe was a tavern at 1197 Lansdowne Avenue in Camden's Whitman Park neighborhood, run by the Derengowski and Briggs families from about 1942.
Walt's Cafe was a bar at 1197 Lansdowne Avenue in Camden, NJ, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, formerly Briggs Cafe and later the Camelot Lounge.
Two armed bandits robbed Briggs Cafe at Lansdowne Avenue and Louis Street of about $1000 in November 1947, then took a car, cash and a watch from two men who chased them; Camden police held three men for questioning.