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Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Private First Class Louis Bontkowski of 1191 Liberty Street, Camden, NJ served with Company A, 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, joined the division in April 1944 in time for the D-Day landings, and died of wounds on September 13, 1944. He is buried at St. Joseph Cemetery, Gloucester Township, NJ.
St. Joseph's Parish, the Polish Roman Catholic church of Camden's Whitman Park, began in 1891; its Baroque-style church at 10th and Mechanic Streets, designed by George I. Lovatt and consecrated in May 1914, is on the New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Sites.
The Polish American Citizens Club (P.A.C.C.), organized in 1914, provided social and educational resources for the Polish-American community centered around St. Joseph's Church in the Whitman Park section of Camden, NJ.
Robert P. Olesiewicz (1919–1983) served the Camden Fire Department for nearly 30 years, reporting for duty on January 1, 1951 and retiring as a Captain on March 1, 1980. A Camden Catholic High alumnus, he was a standout basketball and baseball player in the 1930s.
It all begins in a little row house (they call them townhouses now) on Grant Street in Camden NJ. I remember my mother telling me once that she and my father paid $3,000 for that house somewhere around 1952, when they married.
Johnny Lucas, often lauded as "The Pride of Whitman Park ," emerged as one of the notable lightweight and welterweight boxers from Camden during the 1920s and 1930s.
Hallowell Lane runs south from Sheridan Street to Ferry Avenue in Camden, NJ, named for Charles H. Hallowell's brickyard; though it borders New Camden Cemetery and the former Camden Municipal Hospital, no address has ever carried a Hallowell Lane number.
1199 Chase Street The building at 1199 Chase Street , in the heart of what was the predominantly Polish Whitman Park section of Camden, was the home of a saloon as early as 1918.
Mechanic Street ran two blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, parallel to it, from Front Street to Haddon Avenue, with a gap between 7th and 8th Streets. Its layout was shaped by intersecting streets and railways.
Frank J. Suttill, born on September 8, 1893, in Pennsylvania, made significant contributions to Camden County's political and civic life. His family relocated to Camden County in 1902, marking the beginning of his long association with the area.
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.
Richard Brodowicz's personal memoir of growing up in South Camden in the 1960s and 1970s, covering Polish family life, St. Joseph's Church and School, neighborhood games, and childhood memories on Tioga and Mechanic Streets.
Korean War veteran Stan Bednarczyk of Audubon remembers his Camden next-door neighbor Chester Gdowik — the big kid who invented "Mr. Muscles", played third base for the Falcons, and was killed in Italy in 1944 — in a Memorial Day column for the Courier-Post.
A November 1978 Camden County Record profile of community news reporter Paul Zachary, honored as Man of the Year by the Polish American Congress at a testimonial dinner at the Polish American Citizens' Club.
The "Mending Our Heritage" float — depicting Betsy Ross presenting the first United States flag to Gen. George Washington — won first prize at Camden's 1976 Pulaski Bicentennial parade; Gov. Brendan Byrne praised the people of Whitman Park for their conduct during the march.
A crowd estimated at nearly 3,000 witnessed Camden's Pulaski Day observance in October 1966, featuring 40 bands and floats depicting Polish history, followed by a Pontifical Mass celebrated in Whitman Park by Archbishop Celestine J. Damiano.
Roofer John Weadership, 54, of 1630 Pulaski St., was injured when a wooden frame broke and he fell from a two-story roof on 5th St. near Royden, according to his employer, Walter Spaeth of 513 Benson St.
Mayor Brunner called a July 1950 conference to coordinate city departments in clearing high grass and weeds from Camden — a campaign during which crews uncovered and destroyed more than 200 wild marijuana plants on a city lot at Chelton Avenue and Arlington Street.
A torn 1942 Courier-Post clipping on six young men from around Louis Street and Whitman Avenue, boyhood friends from the Bonsall School, who joined the Army and Navy, with portraits of each.
Front-page Camden Courier-Post account of the June 1, 1938 drowning of 18-year-old Pasquale Barbalace of 1551 Norris Street in the Delaware River near Petty's Island, while three companions — among them Joseph Piotrowski of 1167 Chase Street — tried in vain to save him.
A January 1938 Camden Courier-Post report on the opening of the Whitman Park Basketball League, sponsored by the Polish-American Citizens' Club and playing at Bonsall School.
STRONG FINISH FACTOR IN CAMDEN YOUTH'S WIN Lucas Cops Five of Ten Rounds, Divides One With Norfolk Ring Foe SERODY STOPS HALEY LOCAL FIGHT RESULTS Johnny Lucas , 139, Camden, outpointed Tommy Bashara, 140, Norfolk, Va., in 10 rounds.
Mrs. Nellie Zak, 31, of 1239 Whitman Avenue was found dead by her husband Joseph after inhaling gas while their daughter Adele, 5, played in the back yard. Camden Courier-Post, October 31, 1931.
Amateur boxer Stanley Powelek, alias Powell, 21, of 1256 Whitman Avenue was given the choice of a $100 fine or four months in jail after Policeman John Wilkie arrested him for loitering in Whitman Park. Camden Courier-Post, March 23, 1929.
Camden Courier Post - September 19, 1928 By TOM RYAN Before one of the largest crowds that ever witnessed a boxing shot at the Convention Hall , Vincent Forgione, of Philadelphia.
East Camden Lightweight is Rapidly Developing Into Windup Performer Joe Spearing , of East Camden , who meets Joey Michaels, Riverside slugger in the eight-round semi-final to the Roxie Allen -Emory Cabana bout at Public Service Park on Friday night, is rapidly fighting his way into the windup class.
A social session was to follow the weekly meeting of the Whitman Park Improvement Association at its club headquarters, 1175 Whitman Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, January 9, 1928.
Mickey Blair meets Billy Moffo, his only conqueror, in the feature bout at the Public Service Ball Park, Twelfth and Federal streets, with Joe Spearing and Eddie Chaney in a return engagement in the semi-windup.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Whitman Park Improvement Association met at the club house at 1175 Whitman Avenue, and the association planned a New Year's Eve soiree with the Whitman Park Orchestra. Camden Post-Telegram, December 19, 1924.