
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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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.

A historical photograph of the grandstand entrance at Garden State Park, the thoroughbred racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey near Camden.

A 1985 historical photograph of Garden State Park, the thoroughbred racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey near Camden.

Scanned pages from a 1969 program for Garden State Park, the thoroughbred racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey near Camden.

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.

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.
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.