Tag: City Hall
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Columbia Avenue
Columbia Avenue was a short street that extended east from North 5th Street, situated between Arch and Market Streets, ending at the George Genge School. This school was demolished in the late 1920s to clear the site for the current City Hall. By the 1930s, the remaining portion of Columbia Avenue, along with all other…
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George Genge School
The first school house known to have been erected within the present city limits of Camden appears to have been the one-story, red brick Camden Academy, built at 6th and Market Streets in 1804, on land donated by Jacob Cooper back in 1776. The delay in construction was a result of the economic and political…
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The Clocks Atop City Hall
The first clock appeared above City Hall in 1876. Camden’s new City Hall opened early that year, although the clock was not yet in place. The first town clock in the tower of the City Hall was placed in position in May of 1876. It cost $3,575, and rang out the hours for the first…
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Biagio ‘Benny’ Acquaro
BIAGIO ‘BENNY’ ACQUARO was born in Philadelphia PA on March 22, 1906. His mother Nunziata passed away at the age 45 when Benny was only two years old, on August 22, 1908. His father Giuseppe took him and his two sisters, Mary and Catherine, to Italy. All three worked the fields in the valley of…
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Charles A. Aceto
Charles Angelo Aceto was born in Italy on April 16, 1891 and came to America with his father in 1900. He threw himself into his education and into becoming proficient in the English language. He went into the bus and taxi business for himself with one station wagon, and by 1924 was operating a fleet…
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Repairman Found Time For a Second Career
Camden Courier-Post – May 28, 2004 Former accountant is responsible for clocks atop Camden City Hall By Luis Puga If you are looking up at the skyline of the city, it’s hard to miss one of the four clocks that grace the top of City Hall. They’re a good indicator for 1-676 commuters as to…
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Judge Joseph M. Nardi Jr. Dead at 71
Camden Courier-Post – November 25, 2003 By KEVIN RIORDAN, Courier-Post Staff Retired state Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Nardi Jr., a shoemaker’s son who became an attorney, a mayor and a member of the state judiciary, is dead. Nardi — the mayor of Camden from 1969 to 1973 and a family court judge in Camden…
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Officials Pocket Cash As Sewer Crumbles
Camden Courier-Post – October 22, 2000 By CLINT RILEY The brick sewer main running beneath Howard Archie’s street is crumbling. Archie, a 42-year-old forklift operator, worries the 1880s-era brick row-home in which he has lived his entire life might collapse with the street. He points to sinking slate curbs, front steps separating from homes and…
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Top Cop
Rowan Magazine – Summer 1999 Robert E. Allenbach ’95, Camden’s chief of police, is laying down the law in one of the country’s most crime-ridden cities. Since Allenbach took command in 1998, Camden’s homicide rate has dropped from a high of 64 in one year to seven for the first six months of this year.…
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More Than Jail, Child Molesters Need Mental Help
Philadelphia Inquirer – August 4, 1986 By Claude Lewis, Inquirer Editorial Board Several years ago I covered a court case that involved a young man whose first name is Howard. He was a convicted child molester, having harmed several young children in the Northeast. Howard, in handcuffs, explained to the judge that something “made” him…
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E. George Aaron, Ex-Camden Aide, Attorney, Is Dead
Camden Courier-Post – May 13, 1960 Public Safety Director for Nine Years E. George Aaron, former public safety director and an attorney active in Camden’s public, civic and philanthropic affairs more than 30 years, is dead. Mr. Aaron died shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday in the Cherry Hill Apartments, Delaware Township, where he had lived…
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Nine Safety Aides Sworn by Aaron
Camden Courier-Post – August 12, 1950 Five recently-appointed policemen and four firemen were sworn in today by Public Safety Commissioner Aaron in his City Hall office. The nine men, all veterans of War II, will report for duty in the $2400-a-year posts on Sept 1. Four of the rookie policemen replace men retired on pension…
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Tearful Scene at Detective Bureau
Iowa City, Iowa Press Citizen – February 10, 1950 Camden NJ, February 10 (AP) — Six detectives stood in their headquarters at Camden City Hall with tears streaming down their faces. A great tragedy? A frustrating crime? No, nothing like that. Seems Detective Sergeant Clifford Carr opened a tear gas cylinder marked empty. It wasn’t.
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Broadcast in Afternoon
Homemakers Off Air 4th Annual Child Welfare Institute Being Planned for April Will Hold 4 Classes The desire to carry on toward the goal envisioned by founders of the Parent-Teacher Association will be emphasized throughout the country in honor of the 41st anniversary of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. A Founders Day broadcast…
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Question of Bar in City Hall Put up to Commission
Camden Courier-Post – August 12, 1936 Veterans Offered Twelfth Floor, Want to Take Liquor Along BLEAKLY OPPOSES MOVE To drink or not to drink (over a bar) in City Hall — that is the question. Whether there is a difference between dispensing beer in the municipality’s official home and other city-owned property is a problem…