Tag: Park Boulevard

  • Robert A. Stanton

    Robert A. Stanton

    Robert A. Stanton, known as Bob to his friends, grew up on Park Boulevard in Camden’s Parkside section and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1940. His family had deep ties to Camden: his second cousin, Robert S. Hart, was killed in an aircraft accident during World War II, and his uncle, John Stanton,…

  • Belleview Avenue

    Belleview Avenue extends from Baird Boulevard in an easterly direction to Park Boulevard, situated in Camden’s Parkside neighborhood.

  • Camden High School

    Camden High School

    1700 Park Boulevard, Camden, NJ Northwest Corner of Park Boulevard and Baird Boulevard Camden High School first welcomed students in 1918, occupying the intersection of Park Boulevard and Baird Avenue, a parcel of land originally within the bounds of Forest Hill Park, later renamed Farnham Park in 1927. The swift rise in population drove the…

  • Camden’s Railroads the Topic of Stanton’s New Book

    Camden’s Railroads the Topic of Stanton’s New Book

    Camden Courier-Post – January 4, 2008 By Thomas A. Bergbauer, for the Courier-Post Our friend in Seminole, Fla., is at it again. Camden native Robert A. Stanton has published another book about his beloved city. Stanton, a retired chemical engineer, has been writing books about old Camden since the 1990s. His newest addition is “The…

  • My Camden Heritage

    By Dr. Samuel Zuckerman As published in the Jewish Community Voice, January 5, 2005. I am sitting in my den and close my eyes, I see the city as it was in my youth and recall the many people that crossed my path. I was eligible to go to Kaighns School but my parents didn’t…

  • E. George Aaron, Ex-Camden Aide, Attorney, Is Dead

    E. George Aaron, Ex-Camden Aide, Attorney, Is Dead

    Camden Courier-Post – May 13, 1960 Public Safety Director for Nine Years E. George Aaron, former public safety director and an attorney active in Camden’s public, civic and philanthropic affairs more than 30 years, is dead. Mr. Aaron died shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday in the Cherry Hill Apartments, Delaware Township, where he had lived…

  • Thieves Take cigars in Sons of Italy Hall

    Camden Courier-Post – June 23, 1933 A black leather pocketbook containing $5.50, papers and house keys, was stolen Wednesday night from the parked automobile of Violet Byers, 413 Broadway, on Park Boulevard near Kaighn Avenue. Cigars, cigarettes and candy valued at $18 were stolen from the Sons of Italy hall at 440 Spruce Street, it…

  • Hebrew School Marks Graduation

    Hebrew School Marks Graduation

    Camden Courier-Post – June 15, 1933 Three Graduated With High Honors at Beth El School Three students were graduated last night at commencement exercises of Beth El School of the Congregation Beth El, Park Boulevard and Belleview Avenue. Rabbi Nachmim S. Arnoff said the three were graduated with distinction in the Hebrew Department. They are…

  • Camden Centennial Will Start Feb. 13

    Camden Centennial Will Start Feb. 13

    Camden Courier-Post – January 28, 1928 Week of Celebration at City’s Convention Hall to Mark Anniversary Camden’s centennial will be observed during the week of February 13. That announcement was made today by Frank Albright, chairman of the committee in charge to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of Camden as a city. Most…