Tag: Nine-Thirty-Nine Bar
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Martin W. Baskow
MAURICE WILLIAM “MARTY” BASKOW was born in Pennsylvania to Abraham and Rose Baskoff. The Social Security Death Index, shows a birthday of January 9, 1908. The 1910 Census shows the family as living at 244 North 2nd Street in Philadelphia, just off of Vine Street. Abraham Baskow then worked at a brush factory, while Rose…
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Nine-Thirty-Nine Bar
939 Market Street (Northwest corner of 10th & Market Streets) Frederick Fielder Jr. lived at and operated a cigar store at 939 Market Street in the late 1880’s and early 1890’s. The address was still a cigar store in 1924, when Francis Yost was in business at the address. A convenient address, across the street…
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Police Seek Aid in Murder Probe
Philadelphia Inquirer – July 17, 1967 Camden police will stop buses passing Market st. Monday morning seeking anyone with information of the savage murder Friday morning of Martin Baskow, a tavern owner. Baskow, 54, of 315 Monmouth dr., Cherry Hill, was killed inside his tavern, the 939 Bar at 939 Market st. during what apparently…