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Herman G. Rohde Jr. (1921–1992), born in Camden and a former Camden police officer, became pro wrestling’s first televised star as Buddy “Nature Boy” Rogers — NWA World Champion and the first WWWF (WWE) World Champion.
Basil Preston Cook was born in England. He entered the bar business during Prohibition and had several encounters with the law. By 1932, he was managing a bar at 939 South 5th Street .
Bulson Street runs east from Broadway to South 11th Street alongside the railroad tracks, named after 19th-century farmer Gilbert Bulson. At one time the tracks were at street level; in modern times the overpass has been known as "the hump."
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."
Arlington Street in South Camden ran one block and virtually disappeared after demolition in 2004. The street was home to working-class families, the General Gas Mantle factory (which caused thorium contamination), and became an EPA Superfund site in 1996.
"Polack Joe" Deven, born Joseph Deven to Italian immigrant parents Pietro and Angelina Davino, was a notable figure in Camden, New Jersey's early 20th-century history. His life story is marked by a series of intriguing and often controversial events.
Eighth Street runs south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Morgan Boulevard to Pyne Point in North Camden — one of Camden's longest thoroughfares.
Sixth Street runs with few interruptions from the Delaware River to Morgan Street, virtually the length of the city, from North Camden south almost all the way to Gloucester City.
The firm of F. A. Poth & Sons, Incorporated, of New Jersey, brewers of lager beer, sprang into existence in the year 1910, as the result of a desire on the part of the parent concern, F.A.
The Camden County Beverage Co., Fillmore & Bulson Streets, Camden, New Jersey Camden's brewery at Fillmore and Bulson Street s was built in 1904 by Joseph Baumgartner.
John "Chick" Binder recalls growing up at 2030 Arlington Street through the World War II years — the Rohde family across the street, air-raid drills, and V-J Day on a now-vanished block.
From 1948 to 1951 when I worked at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, after work we the people that worked there went to the Greenwich Bar on Greenwich Street, downtown New York for a few beers.
John Regl traces nearly fifty years of his family's history at 2054 Arlington Street, from his great-grandfather's arrival from Hungary in 1906 to the family's departure in 1958.
Municipal Judge Marino gave six-month jail sentences to two men for theft of an auto battery and $5 of gasoline; Sgt. Earl Wright testified in the gasoline case.
Camden Courier-Post - May 29, 1950 The Camden County Beverage Co., South Jersey's largest brewery, pays approximately $1,100,000 in federal and state excise taxes annually.
Camden Courier-Post - March 18, 1950 Bock as a March beer is largely an American tradition, it was pointed out by Fred A. Martin Sr., president of Camden brewery .
Camden Courier Post - May 3, 1949 John A. Herrmann, 52, Bell avenue, Barrington, and employe [sic] of the Camden County Beverage Co., Fillmore and Bulson streets, collapsed and died yesterday while cleaning a vat.
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1941 William Boyle, 19, of Ashland, and his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Aubacher, 63, of Osage, were pulled through the door of their car, shown above, yesterday after a crash at Eighth street and Central avenue .
Action against four corporate defendants in the suit by Edgar "Blondy" Wallace to recover a 20 percent shareholder's interest in the Camden County Beverage Company from Charles A. Bodine, secretary treasurer of the concern, were dismissed yesterday by Vice-Chancellor Francis B. Davis in chancery court.
Hearing on Revocation of Permit Starts in Post Office Building Aug. 21 Hearing in the revocation of permit proceedings against the Camden County Cereal Beverage Company will be held in the post office building here August 21.
Two Rooms Turned Upside Down But Safe Is Not Robbed POLICE THINK PAPERS WERE BURGLARS' GOAL Officials of Camden Firm Are Unable to Explain Motive of Attempt Burglars ransacked the offices of the Camden County Beverage Company early yesterday but what they took, if anything, had not been disclosed late last night.
Damage in Fire at Sixth and Bulson Streets Estimated at $45,000 Four Men Risk Lives to Save Two Horses Boys Believed by Police Probers to Have Been Smoking in Building Three boys are being held and two others are sought in the investigation of the $45.000 fire which today destroyed the warehouse of Sitley & Son , wholesale hardware, roofing material and grain dealers at Sixth and Bulson streets.
According to a ruling made by Referee Goas, of the Employers' Compensatian Bureau in Camden, the Poth Brewing Company must pay Christran Heitman, of 1631 Fillmore street , $10 a week for forty-two weeks for injuries received when he was struck in the eye with a hoop while he was riveting a keg.
Joseph Baumgartner, of Sioux City, Iowa, has purchased two acres of land at Bulson Street and Chelten Avenue, Camden, N.J., from the Camden Manufacturers' Land Company for $20,000, upon which he intends to build a modern brewing plant.