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Kid Gleason

Southwest Corner of Locust Street and Spruce street - 1912
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Locust Street

Locust Street ran south from Beckett Street to Mechanic Street between South 2nd and South 3rd Streets in Camden; its 700 block was known as Oak Street until about 1883 and its 600 block as John Street in the 1870s. Homes and businesses disappeared block by block after World War II, and the last structure, at 1128 Locust, was razed after a fire in 2010.

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Newspaper clipping "When Gleason Wore Curls": Sergeant Wright Cox recalls Kid Gleason as a boy in curls.
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When Gleason Wore Curls

Police stable sergeant Wright Cox recalls "Kid" Gleason as a curly-haired boy and later the scrappiest kid in the Third Ward, including an incident at a tavern at Second and Taylor Avenue.

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