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Noecker Rickenbach and Ake Shipyard

The Rio Bar, aka ”Connie's Corner” or "Jimmy's Tavern" - September 22, 2003
Bars and Clubs

Rio Bar

August W. "Augie" Oswald Jr. was the licensee for the bar at 1000 North 27th Street in 1939. He was born in Pennsylvania and moved with his family to Cramer Hill when he was young.

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Waterview Inn, 2900 Adams Avenue, photographed June 25, 2011
Streets

Adams Avenue

Adams Avenue, in the Cramer Hill section of Camden, was named after President John Quincy Adams, running northeast from North 28th Street to the site of the former Tucker shipyard.

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1965-07-07 Cramer Hill. Looking West from about North 24th Street & Howell Street. Photo by Bob Bartosz
Neighborhoods

Cramer Hill

Cramer Hill derives its name from Alfred Cramer , who in the late 19th century purchased large tracts of farmland, for the most part between Federal Street and the Delaware River in what was then Stockton Township , subdivided the land into building lots, and sold them on an installment basis to people of average means.

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