Tag: Central Airport
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Stage and Radio Send Stars To Aid Camden Stores
Camden Courier-Post – June 17, 1933 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. The group of…
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Mrs. Roosevelt in Camden, Denies Son Has No. 2 Picked
Camden Courier-Post – June 10, 1933 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. The nation’s…
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‘Overflow’ Petters Rounded Up by Pennsauken Cops
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. Recorder George E. Yost fined Walter Bush, 34, of 539 Penn Street, $5 and costs for…
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First Lady – ‘Just a Passenger’ As She Starts Flight to Coast
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. – “A ticket to Los Angeles, please.” Mrs. Roosevelt took her place at the airport ticket window this morning in a line of 10 persons. “How do you…
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Polish Air Hero to Visit Factories in Camden
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. Hausner, who was rescued 550 miles off the coast of Portugal after being missing for…
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Ludington Lines Sale is Rumored
Camden Courier-Post – February 1, 1933 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. James M. Eaton, president of the Ludington…
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Wiley Post Visitor at Central Airport
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. The famous flyer, en route to St. Louis from New York, landed…