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Baird Boulevard (originally Baird Avenue) runs diagonally through the Parkside and East Camden neighborhoods, named for Camden businessman and U.S. Senator David Baird Sr. It begins at Kaighn Avenue, crosses the Cooper River and Admiral Wilson Boulevard, and terminates at the intersection of Federal Street and 27th Street in East Camden.
2000 Admiral Wilson Boulevard began as the City Athletic Club, built after the Hotel Walt Whitman and the opening of the boulevard drew Camden business figures including newspaper publisher J. David Stern to develop the new thoroughfare, before the building's later lives as the YMCA and, from the 1960s, the Oasis Motel and Lounge.
Ralph W. Wescott, born in New Jersey in 1883 to John W. and Frances Oatman Wescott, was a prominent figure in Camden's legal and civic spheres.
By John Way Jennings, Inquirer Staff Writer A Pennsauken man, charged last year with having set a Camden motel fire that killed one person and injured 16 others, escaped yesterday from Ancora State Hospital in Winslow Township, according to Camden County police.
Mary Helen Gillespie, Associated Press CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - A guest who escaped a fire that injured 16 people at a motel and go-go lounge complex has been charged with setting the blaze that forced other patrons to jump from windows and roofs to escape, officials said.
Los Angeles Times - March 28, 1987 CAMDEN, N.J. (AP)- Sixteen people were injured Friday when fire swept through a motel and go-go lounge, forcing visitors to jump from windows, officials said.
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP)- A suspicious fire swept through a motel and go-go lounge early Friday, forcing visitors to jump from windows and injuring 16 people, and a motel guest was arrested and charged with arson, officials said.
Members Approve Proposal to Provide New Capital to Finish Building A Plan for refinancing of the City Athletic Club was approved by several hundred members who met Monday night in the building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards .
Members Visit Building and Discuss Plans for Opening The new City Athletic Club building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards was inspected last night by the membership, when plans for immediate opening were discussed at a mass meeting attended by 100.
First Unit of Building About Ready for Occupancy; Meeting on Monday Plans for early occupancy of the City Athletic Club's building at Admiral Wilson and Baird boulevards , will be submitted to members at a mass meeting Monday at 7.30 p. m. The first unit of the $1,000,000 structure is 95 percent completed, Samuel P. Orlando , secretary, said last night.