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Tom Bergbauer

With a dedicated service spanning 37 years at the Courier-Post , Tom Bergbauer made a lasting impact. Even in retirement, his commitment endured as he penned the "Tracking History" column for the Courier.

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At lower left, the old Rickshaw Inn can be seen. The racetrack circle is at the far right, Terry Chigounis' Greenbriar Inn stood right on the circle. The Cherry Hill municipal building is on the right about midway up.
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Garden State Park and Racetrack

Garden State Park, the thoroughbred racetrack opened in 1942 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, rebuilt after a 1977 fire and closed in 2001 after 58 years.

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Friends Will Honor Veteran Firefighter

On the eve of his March 1980 retirement dinner, Camden fire captain John P. Gryckiewicz looked back on 40 years with the department — the rescues, the Garden State Race Track fire, 84-hour weeks and $60 paychecks, and a city he still loved.

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Auto Gunmen Fell Racetrack Figure

Camden NJ, August 26 (AP) — Five automatic shotgun blasts from a speeding automobile felled Robert Francis Curran, 44, of Silver Spring MD, a race horse trainer at Garden State Park , as he left the Walt Whitman Hotel in downtown Camden Saturday.

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Page 68 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Golden Jubilee Year Book: ten Camden business advertisements in two columns.
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Cartun

Page 68 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for Cartun wholesale wall paper, paint and hardware at 3507-09 Federal Street, H. Trautenberg's Federal Pharmacy at 35th and Federal Streets, Star Ice and Coal Service at 126 and 141 North 26th St., Barry's Clothes at 21st and Federal Sts., the Camden Welding Co. at 1301-1307 South Sixth St., funeral director Antonio Mecca at 819 South Fourth Street, the Federal Liquor Co. at 24th and Federal Streets, Parkview Stables on Route 40, Tiedeken Bros. at 429-31-33 Van Hook Street, and M. Barbell, P.T.

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