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Arlington Street in South Camden ran one block and virtually disappeared after demolition in 2004. The street was home to working-class families, the General Gas Mantle factory (which caused thorium contamination), and became an EPA Superfund site in 1996.
John "Chick" Binder recalls growing up at 2030 Arlington Street through the World War II years — the Rohde family across the street, air-raid drills, and V-J Day on a now-vanished block.
John Regl traces nearly fifty years of his family's history at 2054 Arlington Street, from his great-grandfather's arrival from Hungary in 1906 to the family's departure in 1958.
A Camden Courier-Post report of August 10, 1933: three masked, armed men robbed Stanley Wojciechowski's Rosemont Cafe at 2051 Arlington Street of $6.