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"Q- Where was the first home you remembered? "A- The first home that I can remember was at 12th, that I really remember, was on 12th and Penn streets in Camden. "Q- How old were you then? "A - I don't know, 3 or 4 years old.
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
As part of the government's plan to index the fingerprints of all citizens, Camden police took prints of patrons of the Lyric Theatre at Broadway and Newton Avenue, with Sergeant Rox Saponare fingerprinting theatre manager Birk Binnard.
Lyric Theatre manager Birk Binnard arranged for Camden police to fingerprint citizens free of charge in the theatre's lobby, in conjunction with the FBI's nationwide registration drive and the showing of "Under Cover Doctor."
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.
Two South Camden men were arrested on suspicion of robbing the Lyric Theatre at Broadway and Mt. Vernon Street, where a safe was forced open and a radio receiver stolen. Camden Courier-Post, April 2, 1934.
A Camden Courier-Post advertisement of June 16, 1933 for Tillie's Beauty Shoppe, 1014 Broadway, 2d floor, opposite the Lyric Theatre, offering steam oil permanents, a Frederic Vita Tonic permanent special, and shampoo and finger wave.