Tag: Plaza Hotel
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Dominick Oliveto
Dominick Oliveto, born on December 24, 1906, in New Jersey, was born to Italian immigrants Antonio and Maria Oliveto. Despite occasional misspellings of his surname as “Olivetto,” his father, Antonio, migrated from Muro Lucano, Italy, in 1901. In 1905, he facilitated the immigration of his mother, two brothers (William and Philip), and sisters (Anna Maria…
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Marco Reginelli
Marco Reginelli, born on January 2, 1897, in Neppazzano, Teramo, Italy, was the son of Saverio Reginelli. His journey to the United States began on May 14, 1914, when he boarded the steamship Taormina in Naples, Italy. After a month-long voyage, he arrived in Philadelphia on June 14, 1914, officially entering the United States on…
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The Hotel Plaza
The Hotel Plaza was built at Fifth and Cooper Street in 1927, and was originally called the Plaza Club Hotel. In 1947 it underwent a complete remodeling. Hotel owner S.N. Petchers of New York explained that the high cost of modernization was “justified in my belief that Camden will continue one of the leading industrial…
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Alice Burdsall
ALICE BURDSALL was born in Pennsylvania around 1873. First appointed a teacher in Camden in 1908, she rented room from Sarah Wescott of 108 Broadway at the time of the 1910 census. Her next door neighbor at 106 Broadway was undertaker Joseph H. Murray. She later roomed with Clara Dibble of 559 Washington Street. When…
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In a Faded City, Plans to Build a Hotel Build Hope
New York Times – May 6, 2008 By Kareem Fahim Camden, N.J.—The old Plaza Hotel downtown is a tomb, sealed shut for more than 20 years now, it’s windows shattered and its green marquee worn and stripped of letters. Trapped inside the hotel are the memories of a once-thriving industrial town, where business people and…
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Miss Alice Burdsall, Retired Teacher
Miss Alice Burdsall, of the Plaza Hotel, retired Camden public school teacher, died Saturday in West Jersey Hospital. In 1902 and 1903 she taught in a private school in Chippewa, New York, then taught in Audubon public schools. She was appointed a teacher in the Camden public school system on April 27, 1908, to take…
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Life Hereabouts by Charlie Humes
Camden Courier-Post – March 19, 1949 Down Memory Lane with that Old Gang of Yours… in a few of the years when Our Town was as good a sport town as any in the land… from the time that Taylor and Gunnis promoted fights through the years to Roxie Allen… Mickey Blair… Eddie Chaney… Shamus…