People
Walter D. Eastlack
Walter Dayton Eastlack (1889–1964) was a Camden firefighter who served 29 years with the Camden Fire Department, from his appointment on March 3, 1925 to his retirement on March 15, 1954.
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Chase Street
People
Joseph J. Piotrowski
Machinist's Mate First Class Joseph J. Piotrowski of 1167 Chase Street, Camden, served aboard the cruiser USS Helena (CL-50), survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, and was killed in action on July 6, 1943 when the Helena was sunk at the Battle of Kula Gulf. He is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery.
Bars and Clubs
Time and Place Lounge
1199 Chase Street The building at 1199 Chase Street , in the heart of what was the predominantly Polish Whitman Park section of Camden, was the home of a saloon as early as 1918.
Historical Accounts
Three Alarm Fire at the Ivy Hill Apartments
January 13, 2014 This page and the other pages in this series are the successors to the series of web-page about the Camden Fire Department.
News Articles
St. Joseph's Church Keeps in Touch with Men and Women in Armed Forces
A 1944 Camden Courier-Post feature by Frank Sheridan on St. Joseph's Church (the Polish parish at Tenth and Mechanic Streets), whose 1,154 mothers gave sons and daughters to the war — four killed, two missing, one a prisoner — among them Joseph Piotrowski, lost when the cruiser Helena was sunk at Kula Gulf.
News Articles
1150 Camden Poles In Service Honored
A service flag honoring 1,150 St. Joseph's Parish men and women in the armed forces was unfurled at Tenth and Mechanic Streets, where Mayor Brunner pinned gold stars on the mothers and a brother of parishioners killed or missing in World War II. Courier-Post, August 31, 1943.
News Articles
Friends Fete Sailor From Pearl Harbor
A February 1942 Camden Courier-Post item on the welcome-home party given for Joseph Piotrowski, back from Pearl Harbor, at the home of his mother, Mrs. Jessie Piotrowski, 1167 Chase Street.
News Articles
3 Friends Fail To Save Youth Drowned Here
Front-page Camden Courier-Post account of the June 1, 1938 drowning of 18-year-old Pasquale Barbalace of 1551 Norris Street in the Delaware River near Petty's Island, while three companions — among them Joseph Piotrowski of 1167 Chase Street — tried in vain to save him.