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Camden aviator and Army Colonel; organized the South Jersey Aviation Club from his home at 106 South 27th Street and was instrumental in establishing Central Airport. Born May 25, 1884 in New Britain CT, he died in December 1961 in Ventura CA.
Henry Braid Wilson Jr. was born on Mount Vernon Street in Camden, NJ, on February 23, 1861, to Henry Braid Wilson Sr. and Mary Ann Wilson.
Central Airport in Pennsauken, the Delaware Valley's main airport from 1929 to 1940, and the Airport Circle it gave its name to near Camden, New Jersey.
W.E. Tebbets' 1933 Walkathon Walkathons and Dance Marathons became popular during the Depression years. Promoter W.E. Tebbets set up many of these events all over the country, bringing his own bands and entertainers along to the event.
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.
Crescent Boulevard is the street name assigned to US Route 130, which passes through Camden at four points: in East Camden, just south of the Cooper River, from south of the railroad tracks toward Haddon Township, and from Mount Ephraim Avenue to Newton Creek at Camden's extreme southern end.
Over the years many aerial photographs have been taken of Camden.
By Dr. Samuel Zuckerman As published in the Jewish Community Voice , January 5, 2005. 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.
Camden Courier-Post - Feburary 12, 1938 First Lady Boards Plane After Philadelphia Speech As Mt. Holly Pupils on Inspection Tour Greet Her; Chats with Teachers Forty-three Mt.
Tail Wheel of Plane Collapses at Central Airport; Nobody Injured Eleven passengers on a Transcontinental and Western Air Transport plane got an unexpected thrill at the end of their air journey, when the "tail wheel" collapsed during the landing at Central Airport .
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.
DESERTER OF CHILD MUST SHUN WOMEN TO KEEP FROM CELL 10 Lawbreakers Imprisoned Out of 12 Arraigned Before Judge Shay ALIBI FAILS GUN TOTER Five state prison sentences, four "light" terms in the county jail, a fine, a suspension of sentence and a sending of a youth to reform school were among the rulings of Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday in Special Sessions of the Camden County Criminal Court.
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the U. S. Mint and former governor of Wyoming, arrived by plane at Central Airport at 11:25 a. m. yesterday and proceeded by motor to tile Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, Philadelphia, for dinner.
Camden Courier-Post - June 24, 1933 'Aeroplaning' Enables Passenger to Do Stunts With One Foot on Ground The newest thrill in South Jersey is aero-planing!
British Envoy Denies Any Plan to Confer with F. R. on Coast Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador to the United States, denied while in Camden yesterday afternoon that he had any plan to confer with President Roosevelt at some point along the New England coast.
Joe Welsh and Helen Stevens Win $1000; Set Record for East Joe Welsh, of Camden, and Helen Stevens, of Philadelphia, last night won the Walkathon contest which has been in progress at Central Airport for 3175 continuous hours, setting up a new record for the East.
Jubilee Noted Entertainers Are Given Welcome by Mayor as Event Closes Co-Operation Days The "Co-operation Days" jubilee of the combined merchants of Camden ended Saturday with a visit to this city by stage and radio stars as guests of Sears, Roebuck and Company and the city.
First Lady, Changing Planes Here, Says All Kinds of Reports About Elliott May Now Be Expected Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a visitor for a second time yesterday at Central Airport , on her return plane trip to Washington after visiting her son, Elliott, on the west coast.
Camden Courier-Post - June 9, 1933 While scores of young lovers "watched the planes come in" at Lewis B. Simon's "petters paradise" in Delaware Township without molestation from police last night, it was a different story in Pennsauken Township.
Camden Courier-Post - June 4, 1933 Steps Up to Window With Others and Gets Yard Long Ticket and Insists She Must Make Record-Breaking Trip Washington, June 4.
Camden Courier-Post - February 7, 1933 A tour of Camden's leading industrial plants following a reception at Central Airport has been arranged for Stanley F. Hausner, the "Flying Pole" of Newark, when he is the guest of this city Thursday.
Planes Using Central Airport May Be Taken Over by Eastern Air Transport Sale of Ludington Air Lines, operating between New York and Washington with a landing field here at Central Airport , appeared certain yesterday with Eastern Air Transport as the prospective purchaser.
Camden Courier-Post - October 21, 1931 Wiley Post, who, with Harold Gatty, holds the round-the-world speed record, was a brief visitor to Camden yesterday when the E. A. T. plane in which he was a passenger stopped for ten minutes at Central Airport.