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Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
Ellis Goodman (1898–1982) was a Camden realtor and Jewish community leader who ran his real estate business at 515 Market Street from 1926.
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.
1950 Courier-Post profile of Camden realtor Ellis Goodman, who had been in business for 24 years at the same location, 515 Market Street.
Harry A. Willson, retiring president of the Camden County Real Estate Board, said November 1937 was his best month despite talk of a business "recession," and credited the board with defeating a bill that would have restricted real estate transactions to lawyers.
Rabbi Israel Goldstein of New York, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, was to speak at a mass meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman celebrating the fund's 35th anniversary, preceded by a dinner given by members of Camden's Jewish community.
The Joint Taxation Committee began analyzing Camden's 1936 city tax rate of $4.30 and discussed an annual high school essay award on city and county government, with Carl Evered and Ellis Goodman each pledging $25.
State Senator Emerson L. Richards opened his Camden campaign headquarters for the Republican nomination for governor in the Hotel Walt Whitman building, with Jack Weinberg supervising the campaign and naming a committee of 50 business and professional men.
Rabbi William H. Fineshriber of Philadelphia told Camden Lodge, No. 915, Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, that freedom for youth makes for better citizenship than repression, at the installation of Meyer L. Sakin as lodge president in the Hotel Walt Whitman.
Meyer L. Sakin was to be installed president for 1928 of Camden Lodge, No. 915, Independent Order B'nai B'rith, at a meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman on January 8, 1928.