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Baring Street runs for one block in South Camden, from Chestnut Street south to Kaighn Avenue, between Marion Street and South 6th Street. The homes were built in 1888 by Wilson Ernst, one of Camden's most active builders of the 1880s.
Royden Street, which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681–82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street.
Richard Brodowicz's personal memoir of growing up in South Camden in the 1960s and 1970s, covering Polish family life, St. Joseph's Church and School, neighborhood games, and childhood memories on Tioga and Mechanic Streets.
Camden Courier-Post - October 26, 2005 Age 69, of Camden. Died Friday, October 21, 2005, in Cooper Medical Center, Camden. ADAMS, WILSON EPHRAIM - Born in Camden, NJ, he has been a life long area resident.
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.
Changes in clothing, economy lead brothers to close Camden business By JEANNE RIDGWAY, Courier-Post Staff CAMDEN — The dry cleaning business isn't what it used to be, and David White, 76, and his brother Benjamin, 75, are finally calling it quits.
Death notice for Thomas (Big) Warren, 63, of 2357 Baird Boulevard, Camden, a retired City of Camden fireman who died August 24, 1983. Camden Courier-Post, August 29, 1983.
Three Camden firefighters were cited for rescuing an 8-month-old girl from a burning bedroom at 1482 Kaighns Avenue; firefighter Michael Galasso revived the infant with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
An "Our Patrons" page of fifteen advertisements from the Spring 1977 Fire Watch Magazine, including Terry's Famous Pizza Box at 200 S. 27th St. at Benson St., Bruno's Restaurant, Crystal 1 Hr. Cleaners and the Trent Bar & Liquors.
A November 1972 legal notice of application to transfer Plenary Retail Consumption License No. C-102 from Mamie Tarter, trading as the Colonial Cocktail Lounge at 801 Kaighn Avenue, to Edmund Aristone for premises at 2007 Admiral Wilson Boulevard.
Death notice for Alton W. Baker, 65, of 1148 Langham Avenue, Camden, who died November 26, 1971. He was employed at Campbell Soup for 43 years.
Death notice for Thomas J. Winston Jr., 51, of 922 North Front Street, who died October 1, 1970; husband of Dorothy (nee Johnson) and father of ten children, with funeral services announced at the Mayo Funeral Home and interment at Sunset Memorial Park.
A 38-year-old Camden junkyard worker, Leroy Snyder, was arrested and charged in the rape and slaying of Mrs. Gertrude Friedman, 58, operator of a linoleum store at 330 Kaighns Avenue.
Obituary notice for Mrs. Nellie Thompson, 83, of 400 N. 29th St., with funeral services at the Waples Funeral Home and burial in Sunset Memorial Park, Pennsauken.
Rabon Mosley and his wife, Willa Mae, of 811 Walnut Street, and their son, Rabon Jr., of 638 South 4th Street, formed Arel Inc. and bought the Green Goose Cafe at 251½ Kaighns Avenue from Diane Braff; they will run it as Ray's Green Goose.
Bulletin of the Camden County Historical Society - February 1960 The Man who Shot the Man who Shot Lincoln by Arthur D. Pierce and Howard R. Kemble The year was 1870. The address was 308 Mechanic Street , Camden, New Jersey.
Copper piping and tools were stolen from Dan's Metal Products at 318 Kaighns Avenue, reported by proprietor Daniel Greenstein of 1504 Baird Avenue — Camden Courier-Post, November 11, 1958.
On August 11, 1958, a major flood inundated Kaighn Avenue. Bob Bartosz documented the flooding with an extensive series of photographs from South 8th Street to Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Municipal Judge Marino gave six-month jail sentences to two men for theft of an automobile battery and $5 worth of gasoline; Sgt. Earl Wright said one was arrested taking the gas.
Two North Camden men, including Joseph Packer of 621 Grant Street, reported being attacked in separate street assaults in December 1957.
Herman O'Neal, 41, of 139 Spruce Street was seriously injured on Kaighns Avenue near Locust Street by a hit-and-run driver; Det. Sgt. Joseph Hooven of the accident division described the car sought.
Camden fire alarms logged from midnight Wednesday to midnight Thursday, September 1957, including a fire at 35 Leonard Avenue and one at 215-21 Kaighn Avenue.
Cooper Hospital cases from December 1956, including David Lenher, 21, of 290 Ablett Village, treated for a dog bite. Camden Courier-Post, December 11, 1956.
West Jersey and Cooper hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of May 21, 1956, including Clarence Chapman, 65, of 739 Kaighns Avenue, treated for a cut head.
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 15, 1956, including Christine Whye of 1017 Kaighns Avenue, treated for dog bites of the face.
Cooper and West Jersey hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of February 3, 1956, including Rita Procacci of 1125 South 3rd Street, treated for burns of the right hand.
Isadore Birch, 29, of New York City, formerly of Kaighn Avenue, was sentenced by County Judge Rocco Palese to five to seven years in State Prison for manslaughter in the 1947 death of Zatch McGriff after a fight at 233 Kaighn Avenue.
Banker Alfred L. Sayres, 86, founder of the Parkside Trust Co., suffered a stroke while visiting Vincent Raczykowski at the Newport Bottling Works, 1101 Morton Street, and was taken to West Jersey Hospital in critical condition.
Firemen at the 27th and Federal streets firehouse gave a farewell party for two retired veterans, District Chief Engineer Robert A. Wonsetler and Chief's Aide Irvin F. Bishop. Bishop had spent 33 years at No. 2 Truck Company, 619 Kaighns Avenue.
Camden Courier-Post, January 4, 1955: Municipal Judge Benjamin Dzick jails a drunken driver for 30 days and announces that all drivers found guilty of drunken driving will be jailed.
Three Drummond children of 912 Chestnut Street drowned in the Cooper River at Camden County Park while fishing; two more children died at Sea Isle City the same day. Camden firemen including Wesley Faust worked the recovery.
By Ronald G. Van Tine Restrictions on nightlong parking on principal streets in the business district will be tried out early next year as a major step in a campaign to make Camden a cleaner city in which to live and work.
James S. Wilkie, 17, son of Camden Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie, was found shot to death in the family home at 1144 Princess Avenue, his father's service revolver beneath his body; the coroner ruled the death a suicide. Camden Courier-Post, December 21, 1953.
Five people, including Linwood Braxton of 2000 Kossuth Street, were fined after a police dice raid on a home at 703 Kaighns Avenue.
Camden Courier-Post - May 21, 1953 High Mass for Dominick J. Persiani , 35, will be sung Saturday at 9 a.m. in the Sacred Heart R. C. Church . Relatives in the funeral home of Joseph A. Falco, 1020 S. 4th st. , where friends may call Friday night.
Obituary of Mrs. Clara B. Kennedy, 76, who died at the home of her daughter, Miss Ethel C. Havens, 1482-B Kaighn Avenue. A former Coatesville, Pa., schoolteacher, she had lived in Camden since 1909.
Three men arrested in Atlantic City in the $2000 holdup of Lynch's Cafe at 3rd and Erie Streets were held without bail by Judge Dzick; the getaway car had been recovered on 7th Street between Liberty Street and Kaighn Avenue.
Woodley Rex Snyder, 26, of 737 Kaighn Avenue, was held by Camden police on a charge of atrocious assault and battery with intent to kill in the near fatal beating of Mrs. Rachel Weiner in her candy store at 763 Kaighn Avenue on October 1, 1952.
A Courier-Post photograph shows Woodley Rex Snyder, 26, of 737 Kaighn Avenue, reenacting for Camden detectives his October 1, 1952 beating of Mrs. Rachael Weiner in her candy store at 763 Kaighn Avenue.
Cpl. James Snyder, 20, of 293 Kaighn Avenue, stationed at Walter Reed Hospital, was fined $200 by Judge Dzick after pleading guilty to possession of a car owned by Louis Miller of 1002 Haddon Avenue, though he claimed he did not steal it.
Patrolman Joseph Carpenter recognized Robert Bailey, 49, of 236 Kaighn avenue, sought since 1947 on a robbery indictment; Municipal Judge Dzick held Bailey without bail for the grand jury.
A Camden Courier-Post account of a father who carried his three children from their smoke-filled apartment at 216 State Street, and of a Haddon Avenue gift-shop fire in which two firemen were injured.
Louis Bumbrey, 56, of 906 South Eighth Street, was fined $100 for maintaining a disorderly house and sent to county jail on a charge of possessing untaxed alcohol after a January 1, 1950 raid on a bootblack parlor at 725 Kaighn Avenue.
A 60-year-old South Camden woman, Mrs. Lillian Heard, suffered a broken left arm battling two youths who stole her purse on Broadway near Liberty street while she was on her way to church.
Policeman James McTaggart, 54, of 3135 Waldorf Avenue, a World War I veteran appointed to the Camden police force in 1927, died in West Jersey Hospital. He was a brother of the late Policeman John McTaggart, who worked a beat on Broadway from Pine Street to Kaighn Avenue.
Maurice Hertz, 90, former Camden liquor dealer, founder of the Camden Bottling Co. and the Mt. Ephraim Sand Co., and oldest member of the Camden Lodge of Elks, died at his home at 1316 Park Boulevard.
Camden police and county detectives had no definite leads in the shotgun slaying of ex-convict Mitchell Sadowski outside the Camden Pottery plant, and were weighing vengeance by the Mickey Quinn mob or reprisal for an $1800 holdup as motives.
Romeo DeSanctis, star witness against suspects in the Casablanca roadhouse holdup, was shot dead in a parked car on Mt. Ephraim Avenue near Kaighn hours after testifying before the grand jury; his companion Leon Grenkwicz was critically wounded.
Page 70 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the Westfield Acres Community Store at 402 N. 32nd St., The Select Shop, the Jos. Campbell cigar store, the Swiss Watch Shop at 419 Broadway, Blue Ridge barber shop, Buddy's submarine sandwiches, Marty Segal, DiMona's furniture and jewelry store at 921 Broadway, Eddies men's and boys' store, and Bill's Cafe.