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Coates Alley is a short street in Camden that originally ran parallel to Broadway and South 5th Street from Cherry Street north across Spruce Street to Division Street. Today it is one block long, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.
Holcaine Street, also called Holcaine Avenue, is a small one-block street in Camden, New Jersey, running south from Webster Street to 420 Jackson Street. Eight homes stood on it in 1924; four remained as of 2011.
E. Allen Hughes embarked on a distinguished 36-year career as a reporter and copy editor with the Camden Courier-Post newspapers, commencing in 1928.
Chew Court was a very small street in Camden that ran north from the 400 block of Mount Vernon Street, accessible through an arch between 407 and 409 Mount Vernon Street; it was named after William J. "Billy" Chew, who owned a saloon nearby. Its existence was erased when the Ulysses S. Wiggins School was built.
Photograph of Coates Alley as seen from Spruce Street, from the E. Allen Hughes series on the small streets of Camden in the Camden Courier-Post.
A September 15, 1932 Camden Courier-Post feature by E. Allen Hughes on ten obscure Camden "places" — dead-end courts such as Judson, Girard, Bella and Rex Place that had quietly become safe play-spaces for neighborhood children.