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Fairview Street

Streets

Camden Terrace

Camden Terrace was a small street in Camden's Eighth Ward, running south from Fairview Street between South 6th Street and Master Street, obliterated when I-676 was built.

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Arnold Street, 2005 map
Streets

Arnold Street

Arnold Street is a street in the Morgan Village neighborhood of Camden, built after 1947 and named after Admiral Henry "Hap" Arnold, who led U.S. Army Air Forces against Japan in World War II.

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Streets

12th Street

Camden has two separate 12th Streets: North Twelfth, which once ran from Federal Street to the Cooper River before being largely erased by highway construction, and South Twelfth, which runs from Fairview Street to Lakeshore Drive and is lined with post-World War II rowhouses.

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Pearl Street West of 9th Street - Postcard
Streets

9th Street

Ninth Street is one of Camden's longest north–south thoroughfares, running from the Delaware River waterfront in North Camden, through the city's central corridor, and far south through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park. Block numbering begins at Federal Street.

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People

James T. McGrory, Jr

James T. McGrory was born on July 25, 1927, to James T. McGrory and Marguerite McGrory (née unknown). In the 1930 Census, the McGrory family, including James' younger siblings Doris and Joseph, resided at 527 Fairview Street .

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William Laute Saloon - 701 Fairview Street - Circa 1903
People

William Laute

William Laute (1871–1949), a German-born Camden saloonkeeper at 701 Fairview Street whose liquor business led to repeated run-ins with the law.

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Historical Accounts

Bergen Avenue Memories

We moved to Bergen "Avenue" in 1953. We lived at 1021 Bergen Avenue which is still there. There used to be a red house [1017 Bergen Avenue — ed.] next to the lot which was Engle's Bar. The lot belonged to the bar.

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News Articles

Four Men and Woman Admit Dispute Charge

Four men and a woman, among them 28-year-old Walter Koscianski of 966 Bulson Street, were fined $25 each in Camden police court in June 1933 after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct while denying they had been disorderly — a case arising from a motorcycle policeman's arrest of the five at Tenth and Bulson Streets.

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News Articles

Guns Await Sniper in Suburban Towns

With orders to "shoot on sight" issued to suburban police hunting South Jersey's "phantom sniper," a man giving a fake name reported a 16th shooting that investigators could not verify, while a 15th victim came forward separately in Collingswood.

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News Articles

No Clue to Bandits, But Suspects Spotted

Camden police were left without a clue after five armed men held up the State Street bridge tender, blew up a safe, and terrorized the outskirts of East Camden. Chief John Foster and his detectives chased leads as far as Elizabeth, New Jersey, without result.

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