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Wildwood Avenue runs through Camden's Parkside section from Haddon Avenue to Park Boulevard, west of Baird Avenue. Many prominent Camden citizens lived there, especially in the 1500 block near Camden High School and Forest Hill Park.
Corporal Isadore "Israel" Goldstein (1914–1945) of 2578 Baird Boulevard, Camden, served with Company D, 759th Tank Battalion, U.S. Army. He was killed in action on April 5, 1945 at Nassau, Germany while saving 21 other soldiers, and was posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
Morse Street in East Camden was named for Henry G. Morse, founder and president of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, whose Camden shipyard led to the creation of Yorkship Village.
Henry Evans Zook was born on March 29, 1888, in Evesham Township, New Jersey, to John Trimble Zook Sr. and Mary B. Evans.
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
Marlton Avenue in East Camden begins at Federal Street as an extension of State Street and runs east to the city limits; nearby houses were razed around 2006 for the new Thomas Dudley Elementary School.
Bradley Avenue runs east from 1400 Haddon Avenue to Euclid Avenue in the Parkside section of Camden.
Cramer Street runs east through the Cramer Hill and East Camden neighborhoods of Camden, NJ. Named for real estate developer Alfred Cramer, who sold more than 5,000 building lots in the area by 1897, it stretches from the 2600 to 3400 blocks.
Front Street runs north and south through Camden, west of Second Street and parallel to the Delaware River, from Erie Street in North Camden as far south as Atlantic Avenue. Known historically as North Front Street and South Front Street, it was home to saloons, livery stables, churches, and waterfront industry before early-1970s redevelopment broke its once-continuous run.
Operated by David B. Berschler, this business served Camden's Jewish community.
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
An "Our Patrons" page of fifteen advertisements from the Spring 1977 Fire Watch Magazine, including Terry's Famous Pizza Box at 200 S. 27th St. at Benson St., Bruno's Restaurant, Crystal 1 Hr. Cleaners and the Trent Bar & Liquors.
George Shapiro, 58, of 1357 Park Boulevard, operator of a tavern at 402 Federal Street for many years, died in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia; burial in Crescent Burial Park, Pennsauken.
Joseph Leff, 74, of 1605 Park Boulevard, founder of the Maxwell Cloak Co. at 502 Liberty Street, died at his home. He was survived by his wife, Anna, three sons and eight grandchildren.
Camden Courier-Post - December 3, 1956. Police are seeking two youths who allegedly robbed a motorist Saturday night while his car was halted for a red traffic light on Mt. Ephraim ave. at Line st.
Obituary for Mrs. Molly Zeitz, of 1476 Bradley Avenue, Camden; services at a funeral home at 1401 Princess Avenue, burial in Crescent Burial Park.
Six Camden area men of the 30th Ordnance Battalion, New Jersey National Guard, were promoted to private first class after summer training at Camp Drum, including William R. Wilkie of 1144 Princess Avenue and George J. Yocko of 1137 Nelson Street. Camden Courier-Post, July 30, 1955.
Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie was released from the Camden County jail after the grand jury returned a no bill on a manslaughter charge in the death of his son James, 17, at 1144 Princess Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, December 31, 1953.
Camden police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remained in the county jail on $50,000 bail while his 17-year-old son James, whose death was ruled a suicide, was buried without formal service after Wilkie admitted his accidental-shooting story was a hoax.
Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1953: Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remains in jail on $50,000 bail after admitting his "confession" to accidentally killing his son was invented to win Catholic burial rites for the youth.
Sgt. John V. Wilkie, Camden's "notebook cop," was moved to the county jail after failing to raise $50,000 bail during the investigation of the fatal shooting of his son James, 17, in their Princess Avenue home. Camden Courier-Post, December 24, 1953.
James S. Wilkie, 17, son of Camden Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie, was found shot to death in the family home at 1144 Princess Avenue, his father's service revolver beneath his body; the coroner ruled the death a suicide. Camden Courier-Post, December 21, 1953.
Mrs. Anna E. Boulton died at her home, 949 North 36th Street. A native of Philadelphia, she had lived in Cramer Hill for a year. She was survived by her husband Edgar S. Boulton, three daughters, a son, a sister, and five grandchildren.
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."
More than 30 children of World War II veterans and Gold Star Wives were given a Christmas party by South Jersey Unit 26, Military Order of the Purple Heart Auxiliary, at 565 Walnut Street; guests included Mrs. Jennie Mlynarczyk of 1333 Princess Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, December 24, 1951.
A July 19, 1951 K.L.M. air passenger manifest from Amsterdam to New York lists Rabbi Naftoly Riff of 1426 Princess Avenue on line 17.
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.
Temporary Laborers Dismissed, While Men Ousted by Hartmann Are Reinstated Three dismissals, three promotions and four reinstatements and two new hirings were announced yesterday by City Commissioner Henry Magin , director of public works.
Obituary for Carlind E. Myers, 53, machinist, of 1409 Bradley Avenue; funeral at Holl Funeral Home, burial in Harleigh Cemetery.
Miss Carla J. Zink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Zink of 1151 Princess Avenue, photographed as she sailed from New York aboard the S. S. Bremen for Switzerland and Germany. Camden Courier-Post, February 16, 1938.
Three people were hurt when a car crashed into a pole at Thirty-sixth Street and Westfield Avenue; the Courier-Post also reported several children injured in other accidents.
Miss Elizabeth McCreight, 65, a North Camden music teacher, was found dead by gas in her home at 321 State Street; funeral services were set for the Holl Funeral Home, 1401 Princess Avenue. Camden Morning Post, October 20, 1933.
Camden police Capt. A. Lincoln James and Detectives John Painter and Thomas M. Stanger were granted pensions, and Mrs. Rose Caputi of 1263 Park Boulevard, widow of Detective Joseph Caputi, received a widow's pension.
Seven people were injured when a car carrying a Camden Minor Baseball League team was dragged by a shifting train engine; Albert Blair, 17, of 1144 North 24th Street suffered a fractured skull.
Three Camden men — William R. Davies, Walter W. Crim, and Joseph Newman of 49 North Thirty-sixth Street — enlisted in the U.S. Coast Artillery for three-year tours in Panama, departing Fort Slocum on June 18.
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
A September 5, 1931 List of United States Citizens for the S.S. Bremen, arriving at New York from Bremen, lists Rabbi Naftaly Riff of 1426 Princess Avenue, Camden, on line 4.
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.
George A. Oberst, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Oberst of 1253 Princess Avenue, completed the radiography course at the Army Medical College, Walter Reed General Hospital, and was to serve as Chief Radiographer at Fort Totten. Camden Courier-Post, May 11, 1930.
Sheet 15B of the 1930 U.S. Census for Camden's Ward 13, enumerated April 8, 1930, lines 51 to 100, listing households along Princess Avenue including the Brothers, Spiegler, Zelley, Riff and Smith families.
The WCAM Players, a radio drama company directed by George A. Oberst of 1253 Princess Avenue, followed "It Was Christmas" with "Plain Jane" and set out to further the Little Theatre Movement in South Jersey. Camden Courier-Post, January 27, 1928.
Nine-year-old Richard Richardson of Princess Avenue spent 39 minutes in an icy Cooper River tributary near Pine Street after trying to save a stray puppy; 13-year-old William Watkins brought him a rope.
Two Reading Railroad trainmen, fireman Jules Blake and engineman William Saumenig of Camden, were killed when a Cape May local from Camden struck an open switch and overturned at Bennett. Trenton Evening Times, December 19, 1926.
Advertisement announcing that Anthony J. Oberst, real estate and insurance broker and member of the Camden Real Estate Board, is now located at 1253 Princess Avenue, corner of Kaighn Avenue. Camden Post-Telegram, May 19, 1919.
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
Real estate transfers in Camden County, including 340 Division Street, Antonio Mecca to Lorenzo Del Fico, and 1449 Princess Avenue, Lewis F. Holl to Jeannette Bryant, $3300. Philadelphia Inquirer, June 18, 1915.
Real estate transfers in Camden County towns, including 1339 Princess Avenue, William S. Eastlack to Florence Podmore, $3000. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 11, 1914.