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Edwin Stanley Wirtz (1914–1975), son of Camden policeman Stanley R. Wirtz and grandson of Camden fireman James McDade, was appointed to the Camden Fire Department in October 1943 and served 22 years, retiring in October 1965 as an inspector in the Fire Marshal's office.
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.
History and occupants of Van Hook Street (now Carl Miller Boulevard) in Camden, New Jersey, including the Bunting family at 515, Clement Coverall Company at 615, Booth's Flowers at 693, and the S. Levy Company row houses of 1928.
Kolo Street is a one-block street in Camden's Fairview section, running south from Sheridan Street to Van Hook Street; three brick twin homes were built on the street, rendering six addresses.
Hale Street ran north-south from Central Avenue to Ferry Avenue in Camden; its four homes and the street itself were razed in the 1970s for the I-676 North-South Freeway.
Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
Kossuth Street ran south through South Camden from Van Hook Street to the railroad tracks; named for the Hungarian revolutionary Louis Kossuth, much of it was razed in the 1950s for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Manor and Chelton Terrace public housing projects.
Three-O-Three Bar, a Camden tavern at 303 Kaighn Avenue operating from the 1930s through 1970, later the Togetherness Bar before the building was razed.
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
Berkley Street runs through South Camden from Buren Avenue to Haddon Avenue, named for Lord Berkeley, one of the original proprietors of colonial New Jersey. The section east of Broadway was once known as Hamilton Street until 1882.
GEORGE ACKERLE was born December 14, 1920 in New Jersey. He was one of at least seven children born to Paul F. and Anna Ackerle. The Ackerles lived in Deptford NJ through at least April of 1930.
Camden Courier-Post - August 10, 2016 CAMDEN - Subaru of America isn't expected to move here until sometime next year, but the firm's already had a change of address.
John Hamlett of 800 Van Hook Street reported that a man with a revolver sat in his parked car, then laughed and left without robbing him.
West Jersey and Cooper hospital admissions for August 1956, including John Coney, 5, of 2035 Kossuth Street.
A Camden Courier-Post hospital admissions list of November 20, 1949, recording injuries treated at Cooper and West Jersey hospitals, including Mary Dickinson, 74, of 57 North Twenty-second Street, with an injured hip.
The Eighth Ward Democratic Club, headed by Cleophas Hood, sponsored a chicken dinner at 1741 Kossuth Street.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 14, 1938, including Mary DiVincenzo of 311 Beckett Street.
Assault charges against Police Inspector John V. Wilkie, stemming from the July 1936 RCA strike riot, were dismissed after the complainant failed to appear for the eleventh time. Patrolman Earl Wright had made the original arrest.
Clarence Franchetti of 1231 Van Hook Street and his helper were held up by two armed bandits on Ridge Pike near Conshohocken, Pennsylvania and robbed of $50.
Julius Carter, 16, of 1288 Van Hook Street, was found unconscious from drinking in a vacant house at 534 Ray Street by Motorcycle Patrolman Earl Wright, and sentenced to 30 days by Judge Garfield Pancoast.
Joseph Fiume, 16, of 1349 Van Hook Street, and Stephen Stanziak were arrested after detectives found Fiume attempting to sell a radio of unknown origin to a shopkeeper.
Herbert Cox, 25, of 1247 Van Hook Street, and Charles Casale, 26, of 1351 Van Hook Street, were each sentenced to six months in jail for stealing an automobile from Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Mitchell Brooks, 37, of 637 Van Hook Street, was stabbed and admitted to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital; Charlotte Carter was arrested as his assailant.
A jury awarded $3,000 to Mrs. Mary Krystanowich, 35, of 1108 Van Hook Street, against Anton Trzaskowski in a breach-of-promise suit after five hours of deliberation.
Mrs. Mary Krystanowicz, 35, of 1108 Van Hook Street opened a $10,000 breach-of-promise suit against Anton Trzaskowski, who she alleges proposed marriage while already wed.
John Baronkin of 669 Van Hook Street was given a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to possession of liquor.
Five people were injured when a truck overturned after colliding with a car at 8th and Van Hook Streets; Fioranto Costanzo of 209 Beckett Street was among the injured.
Willie Ross, 30, of 681 Van Hook Street, was sentenced to one to three years in Trenton prison for carrying a concealed deadly weapon after firing shots at a neighbor.
Floyd Alter Bell sentenced to 10 years for robbing the Star Beef Company; accomplice Frank Bank of 717 Baxter Street to face grand jury.
Camden Courier-Post, January 9, 1928: building contractor S. Levy of 1214 Kaighn Avenue wins a $20,000 apartment-house contract at Eighth and Kaighn, and reports that his eight new six-room houses at 632–646 Van Hook Street, finished two weeks earlier, are all occupied.
Police held "Doctor" H. H. Hyghcock without bail after discovering a maze of tunnels, "witch caves," and gruesome remains beneath 413 and 415 Liberty Street; Police Judge Cleary first held him on lesser charges.
Three frame houses near the corner of Van Hook and Kossuth streets were destroyed by fire before daybreak on December 11, 1894.
Albert Beck and George S. Jordon of 1051 Diamond Street were struck and killed by the West Jersey Railroad's Bridgeton accommodation train at the Van Hook Street grade crossing in Camden.