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Stanley Theatre

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Historical Accounts

Herbert Allen Sampson - Oral History

"Q- Where was the first home you remembered? "A- The first home that I can remember was at 12th, that I really remember, was on 12th and Penn streets in Camden. "Q- How old were you then? "A - I don't know, 3 or 4 years old.

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Hotel Walt Whitman
Hotels and Motels

Hotel Walt Whitman

The Walt Whitman Hotel was a venture championed by the Greater Camden Movement, a coalition of business and civic leaders that began to coalesce shortly before and during World War I. They had proven highly effective in raising county-wide funds to support the American war effort.

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News Articles

Stores Will Join In Bargain Period

Merchant's Association Announces Plans for Three-Day Event A committee of the Merchants' Cooperative Association, headed by Harry A. Moran , secretary and manager of the the Hurley Store , has announced a three-day co-operative promotion which will be known as Camden's Co-operation Days.

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Stanley, Towers and Grand theater ads under "Direction Stanley Company of America," Courier-Post, Jan. 24, 1928
News Articles

Direction Stanley Company of America

Stanley Company of America theater advertisements from the Camden Courier-Post of January 24, 1928, for the Stanley at Broadway and Market, the Towers at Broadway and Pine, and the Grand at Broadway and Mickle.

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Courier-Post clipping, January 2, 1928, on three Camden men jailed or fined after New Year's celebrations
News Articles

Overflowing ‘Bowl’ Put 3 Here in Jail

Three Camden men paid for their New Year's celebrating in 1928: one jailed for beating his wife, one fined after motorcycle officer George Frost arrested him outside the Stanley Theatre at Broadway and Market streets, and one jailed for tipping over chairs and tables in a restaurant.

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