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Arthur Cuellen Batten (1904–1972), known to his fellow firefighters as Artie, joined the Camden Fire Department on March 4, 1927 and served until his retirement on February 28, 1969, rising to captain of Rescue Company 1 and acting battalion chief. He lived for many years at 1132 North 22nd Street in Cramer Hill and invented the un-patented ring cutter used by the rescue company to remove finger jewelry.
Seaman First Class Benjamin Wallace Bonk of Camden, NJ served aboard the submarine USS Escolar (SS-294), lost with all hands in the Yellow Sea in late 1944. He is memorialized at the Tablets of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery.
Engine Company 9 was organized as Hose Company 1 on March 1, 1900 at the new firehouse at North 27th and Federal Street in East Camden, reorganized as Hose and Chemical Company 1 in 1914 and as Engine Company 9 in 1922, and has remained continuously at 27th and Federal Street, sharing quarters with Ladder Company 3.
Biography of Monsignor Arthur B. Strenski, pastor of St. Joseph Church in Camden who established the parish cemetery, St. Mary's Home for the Aged, and St. Joseph High School.
Leon J. Johnson (1935–2017) was a Camden firefighter who served the Camden Fire Department for over 28 years, from 1969 to 1997.
The Polish American Citizens Club (P.A.C.C.), organized in 1914, provided social and educational resources for the Polish-American community centered around St. Joseph's Church in the Whitman Park section of Camden, NJ.
One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
Mount Ephraim Avenue in Camden, NJ, dates to 1878 as the Mount Ephraim Turnpike toll road; part of it was known as Border Street until the 2000s.
A personal memoir by Deborah Large Fox about the childhood hours she spent in her grandfather Watson Burdalski's produce store at 1545 Mount Ephraim Avenue, in Camden's Polish neighborhood — a recollection of the sights, sounds, and smells of the shop and his kitchen.
The opening page of the inaugural issue of Fire Watch (Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1977), the magazine published by and for Camden firefighters, with its table of contents, a note on the cover photo of the 6 June 1976 Harris Terminal Complex fire at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Fairview Street, and the department, union and staff directories.
Obituary of Stanley Dombrowski, 72, of 1276 Everett Street, a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Joseph's Church, Woodmen of the World and the Polish Roman Catholic Union. Camden Courier-Post, January 30, 1960.
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.
Obituary of John S. Zmuda, 61, of 1066 Everett Street, past commander of the Laskowski-Wojtkowiak Post 74, American Legion, a native of Poland, retired leather glazer and Army veteran of World War I. Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1957.
Angel M. Rodriguez, 35, of 300 Penn St., and Fernando Reyes, 52, of 708 Carman St., were beaten in January 1954; Rodriguez's car was stolen and Reyes said he was robbed of $150.
Stanley Skabicki, 77, died at his home, 1051 North 36th Street. Born in Lithuania, he resided in Camden for more than 50 years and was a member of the National Lithuanian Beneficial Club. Survived by three sons and a daughter.
Legal notice that Victor G. Anderson, trading as Vic's Cafe, applied to transfer his plenary retail consumption license from 852 Ferry Avenue to 751 Ferry Avenue, with the 1972 death notice of his father, Matthew Anderson.
Camden detectives returned about $4360 in stolen goods to burglary victims at City Hall in April 1952 and held parolee George Wilmer as the suspected daytime "phantom burglar."
A March 1950 Camden Courier-Post notice of the banquet opening the Polish American Citizens Club's new $130,000 community hall at Warsaw and Lowell Streets, with Congressman Wolverton and Monsignor Strenski as speakers.
Page 64 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the N. Y. Fur Factory at 719 Broadway, Marchisello Bros. scrap iron at 319-325 Pine Street, Louis DiNunzio's Broadway Beer Garden at Broadway and Liberty, the Ferry Ave. Liquor Store, John's Diner in Fairview, and Betty's Cafe on Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Page 72 of the 1943 St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book: advertisements for the M. and H. Sweet Shop at 2507 Federal Street, American Plumbing and Heating Supplies at 2304 Federal St., the New Jersey Bottling Co. at 524 Liberty St., Choice Liquors, Inc. at 3512 Westfield Ave., James Mulligan, the 12th Ward Democratic Club at 32 Church St., the Victoria Barber Shop at 2510 Federal Street, N. Saccomanno's tonsorial parlor at 3418 Federal Street, Koerner's pastries on N. 27th St., and Fitzpatrick's florist at 1539 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
A 1943 yearbook page of advertisements for the Arthur H. Holl funeral service at 1401 Princess Avenue, Camden, and Haddonfield, the Sudler-Eichel Funeral Home, Daly's Grill and the Karr Novelty Company. St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book, 1943.
A June 1939 Camden Courier-Post report on the Municipal Alcohol Beverage Control Board's ruling that even giving away liquor on Sunday breaks the law, in a hearing that reviewed several licensees including the Polish-American Citizens Club.
A February 1938 Camden Courier-Post notice of the Polish American Citizens Club resuming its amateur boxing shows with nine bouts at the Bonsall School auditorium.
A January 1938 Camden Courier-Post notice of an amateur boxing show sponsored by the Polish-American Citizens Club at the Bonsall School auditorium, with thirteen bouts arranged.
An October 1936 Camden Courier-Post account of a Fire Prevention Week innovation suggested by the Polish-American Citizens Club: the city's "Voice of Safety" police car broadcast fire prevention messages in Polish as well as English in South Camden.
The renovated Liberty Theatre at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Everett Street, rebuilt inside its outer walls for co-owners A. M. Ellis and Louis Rovner to designs by David Supowitz, seated 750 patrons. Camden Courier-Post, August 31, 1936.
A press photograph of the newly renovated Liberty Theatre at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Everett Street, under the management of Ellis and Rovner. Camden Courier-Post, August 31, 1936.
Charged with stealing seven diamond rings valued at $4000, two men were discharged by Police Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday when the complaining witness failed to appear in court.
A February 1936 Camden Courier-Post report of a meeting of united Polish organizations at the Polish-American Citizens Club advocating a curfew law and a commission to study juvenile delinquency.
A South Camden man, convicted in police court of drunken driving, but acquitted on his appeal to Judge Samuel Shay, will seek reinstatement of his driver's license which was revoked officially today by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold G. Hoffman.
Despite protests by South Jersey veterans' organizations, government officials closed the Camden branch of the veterans administration in the postoffice building and moved it to the Lyons Hospital at Millington; veterans' groups appealed to Congressman Charles A. Wolverton and met at 308 Broadway to protest.
Benjamin Rosner, 35, of 1443 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, paid $25 in police court for passing a red light, telling Judge Garfield Pancoast he did not stop when chased by Detectives Richard Donnelly and Louis Schlamm because he thought they were holdup men.
An October 1931 notice calling managers of the Camden Amateur League to meet at the Polish American Citizens' Club to plan the coming basketball season.
After a gang shooting at Ninth and Chestnut streets nearly struck an 8-year-old girl, Mayor Roy R. Stewart ordered police to stop and question suspicious characters and drive gangsters from Camden.
A weekend crime sweep in Camden: two alleged Philadelphia gangsters were trapped in Harleigh Cemetery by Patrolman Howard Bean and others, while a South Camden grocer routed two holdup men — four suspects held for the Grand Jury.
Policeman Joseph Sparks, a city employee for 17 years, died at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital from spinal meningitis. He lived at 20 North Twenty-eighth Street and had served as a patrolman since 1918, after seven years as a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7.
A January 1928 Camden Courier-Post photograph of the building committee of the Polish American Citizens Club, which had just completed the purchase of its clubhouse at 1559 Mount Ephraim Avenue for a reported $18,000.
At the January 1928 installation of officers, the Polish Citizens Club took steps to change its name to the Polish American Citizens Club, with Stanley Ciechanowski installed as president.
Three Camden men paid for their New Year's celebrating in 1928: one jailed for beating his wife, one fined after motorcycle officer George Frost arrested him outside the Stanley Theatre at Broadway and Market streets, and one jailed for tipping over chairs and tables in a restaurant.
Boleslaw Ziemba confessed to Captain of Detectives Schregler that he set fire to 1426 Broadway at the instigation of his employer John Makel, so Makel could recover $3,000 Ziemba had put into the business.
Camden police grew more positive that William Thallman, an escapee from the League Island Navy Yard, could throw light on the hold-up at Pavonia, while a derby hat found in a ditch on State Street near River Avenue was thought to have been dropped by the bandits. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 15, 1903.