Tag: Broadway Eddie Warhoftig
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Salute to Broadway Eddie
The honorable Mayor of Camden, Gwendolyn A. Faison announces a “Salute to Broadway Eddie,” Thursday June 26th between 11:00am until 3:00pm on Martin L. King Blvd and Broadway. The Mayor will honor Edward Warhoftig, known to most throughout the region as “Broadway Eddie,” for over 38 years of dedicated business in the City of Camden.…
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Edward Warhoftig
Born in Philadelphia, Edward Warhoftig, better known as “Broadway Eddie,” opened a record store at Broadway and Mickle Street in 1966. Remaining in the city when many other merchants left, Broadway Eddie and his stores, which included a men’s wear and dollar store, became a Camden institution during his 38 years in business there. A…
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Roy R. Stewart
Roy R. Stewart was born in Quakake, PA, a small mining town, in 1887. During his youth, he worked as a breaker boy in the mines. After completing business college, he relocated to Camden in 1909 and secured employment at Hurley’s Department Store located at Broadway and Spruce Street. In 1912, he established his own…
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Borstein Electric Company
The Borstein Electric Company was operated in Camden, NJ by Isadore and Meyer Borstein. The Borstein brothers were the sons of Joseph and Celia Borstein. The Borsteins had come to America from Russia in 1889, living in Kentucky for several years in the 1890s and in Louisiana early in the century, before coming to Camden…
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Camden record dealer ‘Broadway Eddie’ Warhoftig dies
Camden Courier-Post – July 7, 2003 By Erik Swartz, Courier-Post Staff Edward "Broadway Eddie" Warhoftig, a Cherry Hill resident and Camden businessman who won a Grammy Award as a music producer on one of the biggest-selling albums of all time, died Saturday. He was 69. Warhoftig established his first store, the Broadway Record Museum, now…