Streets
Park Boulevard
Park Boulevard is one of the three main thoroughfares of Camden's Parkside neighborhood, running from Haddon Avenue north and curving east to Vesper Boulevard at the border of Harleigh Cemetery.
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Wildwood Avenue
Streets
Wildwood Avenue
Wildwood Avenue runs through Camden's Parkside section from Haddon Avenue to Park Boulevard, west of Baird Avenue. Many prominent Camden citizens lived there, especially in the 1500 block near Camden High School and Forest Hill Park.
People
Henry E. Zook
Henry Evans Zook was born on March 29, 1888, in Evesham Township, New Jersey, to John Trimble Zook Sr. and Mary B. Evans.
Jewelers
Leo's Quality Jewelers
401 Broadway One of the many Jewish business owners who were a part of Camden NJ in its glory days was Leo Spector.
People
Rabbi Naftoly Riff
Rabbi Naftoly H.J. Riff (1893-1976) led Congregation Sons of Israel on South 8th Street in Camden, New Jersey for nearly 50 years from the early 1920s.
News Articles
Camden Trial Testimony Continues In Slaying
Testimony continued in the murder trial of Clarence Shields, charged in the shotgun slaying of James J. Nichols of 617 Royden St. during an argument at 4th and Mechanic Streets.
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Girl Hit on Head Walking on Street
Miss Marcia Ruttenberg, 19, of 1457 Park Boulevard, was treated at Cooper Hospital after a man who asked her for directions near Magnolia and Wildwood Avenues struck her with a lug wrench.
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Madden in Liquor Post
Democratic attorney Thomas M. Madden of 1509 Wildwood avenue was named to fill John L. Morrissey's unexpired term on Camden's municipal alcoholic beverage control board.
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NATHAN KATZ FINED, ESCAPES PRISON
Judge Neutze Influenced by Restitution, Poor Health in Suspending, Sentence Nathan U. Katz, 44, former Kaighn Avenue real estate dealer, pleaded non vult yesterday before Judge Frank F. Neutze in Criminal Court to a charge of embezzling a total of $4586.27 from four building and loan associations he represented.
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Sheriff's Sale
A Camden County sheriff's sale notice for 1516 Wildwood avenue, seized as the property of Israel Boudov et als. at the suit of the Kaighn Avenue Building and Loan Association, set for July 1, 1932.
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American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932
The American Jewish Yearbook, 1931–1932, published by the Jewish Publication Society of America, lists 40 Camden annual members with their addresses, including Lewis Liberman, 307 Market Street.
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Sue Jitney Driver for $15,000
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ragan of 1238 Vanhook street sued jitney driver Nathan Obus of 1422 Wildwood avenue for $15,000 after a motorcyclist collided with his machine at Mt. Ephraim and Atlantic avenue and threw them out.
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Lightning Starts Fires, Hits Trees, Stuns Three Boys
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.