Camden Streets - CarmanStreet

Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Carman
Street

Carman Street apparently is named after William Carman, who owned a home at the Southwest Corner of Broadway and Federal Street. The house stood on and elevation fifteen or 20 feet above street grade. Erected in 1830, the house was leveled in 1902 to make way for the Munger and Long Department Store, which in the 1920s became the Stecker Department Store and in turn a J.C. Penney Department Store. In 1965 the building was torn down, and the Commerce Building, an eight-story office building with stores on the first floor, was erected on the site.

Carman Street originally was one block south of Federal Street, and ran from Broadway to South 8th Street. Carman Street picked up on the other side of the Cooper River, in what was originally Stockton Township, and eventually ran from 15th through to 31st Street, where it ends at Woodrow Wilson High School. The section of Carman Street east of South 27th Street, laid out prior to Camden's annexation of Stockton Township, was originally known as Dover Street, as illustrated in a map of the area from 1914.

Various projects over the years in downtown Camden have erased Carman Street from the map in that part of town. The last of Carman Street in downtown Camden went with the demolition of the Midway Theater and the construction of the Walter Rand Transportation Center. This long-gone section of Carman Street was by and large residential. Of the few businesses in this, the "Center City" length of Carman Street, the most notable was Roy Steele's Tavern at 560 Carman, which was in business from the 1930s through the 1960s.

In East Camden, Carman Street ran through an area that was primarily industrial. The Stelwagon Manufacturing Company at 1600 Carman was in the business of roofing materials, and the Bell & Evans Company had a large poultry processing facility at 1610-1644 Carman for decades. Other factories with addresses on Federal Street and the cross streets had frontage on Carman Street in this area including the Iowa Soap Company between 16th and 17th Streets, known since the 1960s as the Concord Chemical factory. Carman Street turned residential at 19th Street, and remains so for the rest of its length, with the exception of three or four small business.

The most interesting building, from a historical and and architectural standpoint, sits at the corner of South 27th & Carman Streets. 60 South 27th was for many years a funeral home, run by a James R. Sudler. A boy who grew up in the neighborhood at 3038 Stevens Street, Clarence J. Eichel, later became a partner, and eventually the owner of this business. The Eichel Funeral Home later moved to Pennsauken NJ, and remains in business as of 2004.

Do you have a Carman Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

Phil Cohen

Carman Street Memories
by Harriet Lynne Agin-Stuhltrager

My family moved from "Little" Cooper Street in East Camden to 624 Carman Street; about two blocks from Broadway.

Broadway & Federal Street - the heart of Camden

On the corner of Broadway and Carman was the Broadway Theater. Looking across the street one could see the speed-line. Down a little ways was the popular Grand movie theater. One might say that the location was right in the heart of Camden. We were a couple of blocks from Market Street where both the Stanley and Savar movies were located.

The Court House and the City Hall is what separated Federal and Market streets. Later on in years the Court House was demolished and Lit Brothers replaced it on that spot. J.C. Penney's was the best department store around back in 1940 and 1941 when I lived in that part of town.

It was difficult for me to accept leaving Cooper Street. To me, that was our house. Therefore I stayed at {my girlfriend} Cass's house until I had to go home. Eventually, however, I would have to get registered for school. I got acquainted quickly with the neighborhood kids. They all went to Broadway School. Leaving St. Joe's and the nuns I loved was devastating for me.

Broadway School

Mrs. Garrison was my home room teacher for grade 6. She was very neat, wore pretty earrings and lipstick, which made me more homesick for St. Joe's. I had Mrs. Mauger for math, Mrs. Bastian for English, and Mrs. Stuart for history and art. I will never forget how kind and compassionate Mrs. Stuart was to me. She learned of my mother being very ill and in the hospital. She took me aside and tried to comfort me. I told her she should have been a nun. She told me she wasn't Catholic.

President Roosevelt Visits Camden 1940

A big day in my life. I knew the President was to be motoring down Broadway and I had to see him. Before going down the street I ran upstairs and put our flag out the window. Off I went. I stood in front of the speed-line as far out on the curb as I could get. The President was right in front of me. He was known for his beautiful friendly smile and it was directed right at me, as he waved. Probably everyone standing there with me thought the same thing in regards to their self.

Talk about political season

FDR was running for his third term. His opponent was Wendell Wilkie. Us kids trotted along to school in a sing-song manner repeating over and over again:

"Roosevelt in the White House waiting to be elected,
Wilkie in the trash can, waiting to be collected."

We didn't go down Broadway to school, we went the back way, by Haddon Avenue. We passed the Cooper Hospital where I liked seeing the nurses coming out all dressed in white from head to toe. They were immaculate! On cool days they would wear a navy blue cape trimmed with red piping. They looked so professional, it made you think about becoming a nurse.

Across the street from the hospital was a Methodist Church. We went there a few times with the neighbors kids. They were good to our family. At Xmas and Thanksgiving they delivered baskets to our house. We also passed the armory on our way to school.

1942 would find me back at St. Joe's. My mother had passed away. May 1941.

Carman Street - 1961

This aerial photo, cropped from a larger photograph showing the dismantlement of the railroad that had run from the old ferry terminal through the heart of Camden, shows Carman Street from "top to bottom", beginning at Broadway to its end, a few doors past the intersection of Warren Street, at the bottom of the picture. City Hall and what was then Lit Brothers (today the County welfare building) are at upper right, and Haddon Avenue can be seen bisecting Carman Street diagonally. Also easily discerned is the Broadway Theater, at the head of Carman Street the " Munger & Long building" (then J.C. Penney's), the YMCA building and the still standing New Jersey Bell Telephone building along Federal Street.

560 Carman Street

Roy Steele's Tavern

January 27, 1939
Banquet Program Ad

560 Carman Street

Nat Green
February 1936

561 Carman Street

Martin O'Brien
Undertaker

1890s

564 Carman Street

1887-1900s
John Elberson & Family
John & Rachel Elberson
William P. Elberson
Edith Elberson
Mamie Elberson
Walter Elberson
Theodore Elberson

(Family name also spelled ELVERSON)

565 Carman Street

Camden Courier-Post
March 12, 1930

Clan Manufacturing Company

565 Carman Street

Camden Courier-Post
February 20, 1936

Clan Manufacturing Company

572 Carman Street

Charles C. Croasdale
Printer

1900s-1910s

580 Carman Street

Otto's Beauty Salon

1950s

581 Carman Street

1933 M.E. Wagner

588 Carman Street

Louis Traiman Auction
Company

Camden Courier-Post Advertisement
October 14, 1931

596 Carman Street

1887-1890s Howard Lee & Family
Louis A. Lee

599 Carman Street

The George Stratton Family
Rev. Howard Davis Stratton
1890s-1900s

605 Carman Street

George W. Anderson & Family
1900s-1910s George & Lizzie Anderson
1900s-1910s Herbert Anderson
1900s-1910s Russell J. Anderson

605 Carman Street
1929 Phillip Gerber

So nice to see what you have put together on (Carman Street) the street were I was born and lived from 1939 to 1947. You have mentioned my address which was 605,
also you have shown a photo of my oldest sister Rose Louise Wishart and her wedding announcement. At the time my folks lived next door at 607 they moved to 605 when I was born.

I also was thrilled to see that you mentioned Broadway School where I spent two years,1946-1947, first and second grade. I clearly remember the two teachers as though it were yesterday, Mrs. Bastian and Mrs. Stuart, Mrs. Stuart being the nicer of the two. I got of on the wrong foot when my youngest sister Bernice took me to school on the first day and I threw a fit and kicked Mr. Bastian. Needless to say from there on the two of us didn't exactly have what you would call a close relationship.

Remembering also were the many Saturdays I spent at the Broadway Theater watching my favorite western heroes for the price of a mere twelve cents then going home and re-enacting their heroic deeds. These were great times for me.

Another event that brought great fun to me was walking down Broadway with my Dad all the way to Kaighn Avenue, the stores in that area were open late on Thursday night and many of them were wholesale stores that sold dry goods and varying types of food, the aroma from the specialty foods was amazing, wafting on to the sidewalk. I will never forget this experience or any other such as our family huddling around the big radio listening to Gabriel Heater and his reports on how the war was going.

For sure my time that I spent on Carman Street will be forever etched on my mind. I am now 68 years old and reside in Texas with my wife of 48 years, Janet, our three daughters, two granddaughters and two great-grand kids.

Joe Wishart
April 28, 2008

605 Carman Street
1939-1947
Joseph Wishart & Family
Joseph & Pearl Wishart
Rose Louise Wishart
Joseph P. Wishart

606 Carman Street
1929 Elmer Clinton

607 Carman Street
1924-1929 Roy A. Smith

Married

MRS. JOHN RANSON LOWTHER

Who was Miss Rose Louise Wishart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wishart, of 607 Carman Street, before her marriage on January 12, at the home of Mr. Lowther’s mother, Mrs. Edward Lowther, 215 Cattell Avenue, West Collingswood. The couple will reside at the Cattell Avenue address.

607 Carman Street

1933-1939
Joseph Wishart & Family
Joseph & Pearl Wishart
Rose Louise Wishart
Joseph P. Wishart

Camden Courier-Post
February 1, 1938

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608 Carman Street
1929 Mrs. Emma Ghegan

609 Carman Street
1924-1933 Most & Turner
piano tuners

Intersection of Day Streetand Carman Street

610 Carman Street

Mary McClyment

1910s-1920s

611 Carman Street
1947
George C. Wagner

618 Carman Street
1931
John & Anna Raider

624 Carman Street
1890-1891
George D. Haley
1940s
Tom & Harriet Lynne Agin

702 Carman Street

Crawford Smith

709 Carman Street

1920s-1930s Ervin F. Ray Sr.
1920s-1930s Ervin F. Ray Jr.

711 Carman Street

George W. Anderson & Family
1890s-1900s George & Lizzie Anderson
1890s-1900s Herbert Anderson
1890s-1900s Russell J. Anderson

711 Carman Street

William Meyer Family
1900s-1910s
Captain Howard J. Meyer

719 Carman Street

1890 Mathias S. Hess

723 Carman Street

Mathias S. Hess
&
Marie C. Trout Hess

Camden Courier-Post Obituary
February 22, 1927

723 Carman Street

1929-1960s Harry J. Wagner Jr.

729 Carman Street

1910s-1930s Harry J. Wagner
George C. Wagner

733 Carman Street

1910s-1920s Abijah & Flora Barker
1920s-1947 Mrs. Flora Barker
1910s-1940s Albert E. Barker
1920s-1940s Stanley Barker

737 Carman Street

1947 John G. Brazier
fruits

Intersection of Fogarty Avenue & Carman Street

738 Carman Street

1947 Harry Liming

741 Carman Street

1906
Julius Lingsch
Saloon

741 Carman Street

1924-1930
Morris Waldman
Grocery

744 Carman Street

1940s
Mrs. Mary Gembalik

745 Carman Street

1890s-1900s John J. Keefe's Saloon
1900s-1910s Harry J. Wagner
George C. Wagner

746 Carman Street

747 Carman Street

1900s-1910s Mathias S. Hess

748 Carman Street

1937-1938 Charles Lynch

749 Carman Street

750 Carman Street

751 Carman Street

752 Carman Street

753 Carman Street

755 Carman Street

757 Carman Street

759 Carman Street

1933 Jerry White

761 Carman Street

763 Carman Street

765 Carman Street

767 Carman Street

769 Carman Street

Camden Courier-Post - January 24, 1938 Charles Lynch

Carman Street & the Cooper River

Carman Street in East Camden 1500 Block of Carman Street
	Southeast Corner 15th & Carman Street 1924 C. Schrack & Co. varnish
	1503 Carman Street 1924 Mrs. Mary Parker
	1505 Carman Street 1924 Julius Stringer 1924 Gustav Muench
	1507 Carman Street 1924 Joseph H. Smith
	1509 Carman Street 1924 Harry Barnes
	1535 Carman Street 1924 Frederick Parker
	1537 Carman Street 1924 Mrs. Mary Dilks

Carman Street in East Camden 1600 Block of Carman Street
	1610-1644 Carman Street Camden Courier-Post February 20, 1936
	1610-1618 Carman Street Camden Courier-Post October 1, 1936
	1690 Carman Street 1924 Charles G. Schultz
	1692 Carman Street 1924 Ella Oppenheimer
	1694 Carman Street 1924 Arthur D. Buchanan
	1696 Carman Street 1924 Herbert Schreyer
	1698 Carman Street 1924 George A.M. Frame
	1694, 1696, & 1698 Carman Street Northwest corner of South 17th & Carman Streetss
	1694, 1696, & 1698 Carman Street as seen from Northwest corner of South 17th & Carman Streets
	1537 Carman Street 1924 Mrs. Mary Dilks

Intersection of 17th Street & Carman Street in East Camden
	1600 Block of Carman Street The Soap Works as seen from the Southeast corner of South 17th & Carman Streets The brick factory on right belonged to the Iowa Soap Company in the 1930s and 1940s.
	Left: A bar of Protex Toilet Soap, in original wrap & box. Protex Soap was made by Iowa Soap Company, who had factories in Burlington, Iowa & Camden, NJ. The box reads: "The Ideal Family Toilet Soap" and "Clean hands and a clean body are essential to good health. A daily bath with Protex will keep the body sweet, removing body odors and affording protection against the odor of perspiration from all sources. True cleanliness promotes and protects the Health!"
	Carman & South 17th Street Looking Northwest on South 17th towards Federal Street The building was later acquired by Concord Chemical Corp. who moved their operations there from 205 South 2nd Street at some point after 1959.
	Carman & South 17th Street as seen from the Northwest corner of South 17th & Carman Streets
	Carman & South 17th Street 100 South 17th Street, once headquarters of Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey, presently John Allebach Food Service Inc.
	Carman Street Looking East from 17th Street
	Carman Street Looking East from 17th Street March 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge

Intersection of South 18th Street & Carman Street

Intersection of South 19th Street & Carman Street

1900 Block of Carman Street
	1981 Carman Street 1924
	1982 Carman Street 1924
	1983 Carman Street 1924
	1985 Carman Street 1924
	1986 Carman Street 1924
	1987 Carman Street 1924
	1988 Carman Street 1924
	1989 Carman Street 1924
	1990 Carman Street 1924 1947 Warren J. Hill 1950s-1961 Adam P. Kavlick Family Adam T. "Tom" Kavlick
	1991 Carman Street 1924
	1992 Carman Street 1924
	1993 Carman Street 1924
	1996 Carman Street 1924
	1996 to 1986 Carman Street February 20, 2001 Click on Image to Enlarge

Intersection of South 20th & Carman Streets

2000 Block of Carman Street
	2014 Carman Street 1924 Elmer G. Reese
	2016 Carman Street 1924 Robert L. Reese

Intersection of Marlton Avenue, Berwick & Carman Streets

Sign
at
Marlton Avenue
&
Carman Street

Carman Street
as seen from
Marlton Avenue

July 31, 2006

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2200 Block of Carman Street
	2201 Carman Street 1924 Martin Goll

2300 Block of Carman Street
	2311 Carman Street 1920s-1930s Joseph Croge
3 YOUTHS SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY OF STORE Pleading guilty to robbery of a chain store at Twenty-seventh and Westfield Avenue, three youths were sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court. Anthony Scott, 17, of 326 Benson Street, was sent to Rahway Reformatory; Charles Joslin, 19, of 1606 Pierce street, was fined $100, and Dominick Crogo, 18, of 2311 Carman Street, was sent to the county jail for four months. Police said two of the youths broke into the chain store about three weeks ago and stole 50 cartons of cigarettes and other merchandise. Joslin, it was testified, did not break into the store, but had used his automobile to cart away the stolen goods, at the request of the other two youths.	2311 Carman Street 1933 Dominick Croge Camden Courier-Post June 20, 1933
	2319 Carman Street 1924 Joseph A. Bailey

Intersection of South 24th Street & Carman Street

Looking East on Carman Street
from
South 24th Street

June 30, 2006

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2400 Block of Carman Street
	2407 Carman Street 1924 Harry Weil
	2420 Carman Street 1924-1933 Jacob "Jake" Schiller
FORMER COP IS FREED ON CHARGE BY IN-LAW William Schiller, 29, of 2420 Carman Street, a former summer policeman, was cleared on a disorderly conduct charge brought by his father-in-law, John Green, 409 North Thirty-seventh street, by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. Green had Schiller arrested when he visited Green's home Wednesday to talk to Mrs. Schiller, from whom he is separated. Schiller said he meant to make no disturbance but an argument developed. He promised Judge Pancoast he would stay away from the Green residence.	2420 Carman Street 1933 William Schiller Camden Courier-Post June 9, 1933 This story had a sad ending, as William Schiller shot his father Jacob to death on September 18, 1933 while arguing over the marital problems of William and Augusta Schiller.

Intersection of South 25th Street & Carman Street

2500 Block of Carman Street
	2500 Carman Street 1924 Samuel E. Haines
	2515 Carman Street 1924 Charles Green

Intersection of South 26th Street & Carman Street

2600 Block of Carman Street
	2608 Carman Street 1924 Christian Miller
Richard Hadtford, 16, of 2610 Carman Street, received bruises of both legs and possible fracture of right finger when a bicycle he was riding collided with a car driven by Walter Sharpley, 27, of 125 Warwick road, Haddonfield. Sharpley took the youth to Cooper Hospital where he received treatment.	2420610 Carman Street 1938 William Schiller Camden Courier-Post February 7, 1938
	2631 Carman Street 1924 Frank Baker
	2631 Carman Street The John & Ruth Heimlich Family Richard Heimlich John Heimlich Diane Heimlich Barbara Heimlich 1939-1967
BOYS HELD IN GEM THEFT Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. One of the boys, William McGinnis, 11, of 2639 Carman Street, had been released from the county detention home last Thursday on probation by Judge Shay. He had been one of six boys held in connection with a series of nine robberies in East Camden. The other boy is John Auletto, 10, of 2824 Howell Street. Mrs. Catherine Tydeman testified the pair had come to her apartment at Twenty-eighth Street and Westfield Avenue Thursday afternoon and told her she was wanted on the phone. Returning, she saw the two boys leaving her apartment, and a short time later she discovered that her pocketbook containing a $725 diamond ring was missing. District Detective William Hurlock arrested the pair at the Garfield School. He said he found the ring in their possession. Parents of the McGinnis boy pleaded for him before Judge Shay last Thursday and said he was "backward" because of a fractured skull he had suffered in an accident.	2639 Carman Street 1930 McGinnis Family William McGinnis Camden Courier-Post March 29, 1930
	2643 Carman Street 1924 William Wood

Intersection of Baird Boulevard, Bank Street & Carman Street
	Looking East on Carman Street from South 24th Street June 30, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Looking East on Carman Street from Baird Boulevard June 30, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	Looking East on Carman Street from Baird Boulevard June 30, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge

The Heimlich Family, my parents John and Ruth and my siblings, John, Diane and Barbara, lived at 2631 Carman Street from 1939 to 1967 (28 years). To the immediate left of the 4 row houses together with 2631 sat the bank (still there), to our immediate right were the Westfield Apartment Garages (gone) and at one time an Acme Market. We sat right behind behind Federal Street. On Federal Street, to our back door was a bar (Mike Love’s Tavern at one time, bar still there), the original M&M Tailor Shop, before Marty and Jim moved it across the street to the Westfield Avenue side, next to the old Sugar Bowl and two other stores.

Directly in front of our home, facing towards Baird Boulevard , were the double garages that had bays on both Carman and Bank Streets. If you walked out our front door and made a left, in one short block you were on Baird Boulevard right where it hits the island across from the old Dentists office (Dr. Saul’s I think) and joins 27th Street.

We remember the days of street hucksters, ice deliveries for the real “ice box”, the milk man the bread man, Horn and Hardardt’s right around the corner. The Camden Police Station had a branch right out our back door where Federal and Westfield Avenues split. The building is still there today.

We have nothing but fond memories of a great childhood in East Camden on Carman Street. It seemed to us that there was very little crime, we rarely locked our doors. We walked to all our schools including Garfield, Cramer and Woodrow Wilson, where I graduated in 1960.

Among our childhood friends and all living in a 3 or 4 block area were the Molineaux’s from 24th street, the Devenney’s also on Carman, the DePasquale’s on 26^th Street, the Catlings, on 26th, the Auletto’s on 24th, the Griffith’s on 24th, the Shipman’s on 26th, etc.

Richard Heimlich
June 2006

Intersection of South 27th Street & Carman Street

	Corner of 27th & Carman Streets 60 & 62 South 27th Street formerly the James Sudler Funeral Home Sudler Eichel Funeral Home Eichel Funeral Home March 14, 2004
	Camden Courier-Post 1947 Advertisement
	Looking Across Carman Street at Rear of 60 & 62 South 27th Street Corner of 27th & Carman Strrets February 27, 2004
	Carman Street Looking East from South 27th Street
	Carman Street Looking East from South 27th Street

2700 Block of Carman Street
	2725 Carman Street 1924
	2759 Carman Street 1924

Intersection of South 28th Street & Carman Street

2800 Block of Carman Street
	2812 Carman Street 1924
	2814 Carman Street Richard S. Ivory -1946
	2826 Carman Street 1924

Intersection of South 29th Street & Carman Street

2900 Block of Carman Street
	2900 Carman Street 1924
	2929 Carman Street 1924
	2931 Carman Street 1924 No Listing 1927
	2933 Carman Street 1924 No Listing 1927
	2935 Carman Street 1924 No Listing 1927
	2937 Carman Street 1924 No Listing 1927
	2939 Carman Street 1924 No Listing 1927

Intersection of South 30th Street & Carman Street

3000 Block of Carman Street
	3000 Carman Street 1924 Wilson Brothers Inc. Wagon Builder's Supplies 1947 Gone
	3001 Carman Street 1924-1947 C.F. Landenberger 1956-1970s Henry H. Fratz The Fratz family had moved by 1977
	3003 Carman Street 1924 Albert Ribiero 1947 Jacob Winokur 1956-1970s Michael Macrina The Macrina family had moved by 1977
	3005 Carman Street 1924 J. Wesley Letts 1947 Mrs. Anna Letts 1956-1970s Frank Small As a child, I never knew Mr. Letts. Mrs. Letts was a widow and would let me clinb through our adjacent porches to go to her house. She sold her house to Frank Small and his wife, I am not sure when. The Smalls and my parents, together, made big changes to the fron of those properties. Doreen Kelly Schwingler February 2008
	3006 Carman Street 1924 Oscar S. Nelson 1947 Thomas G. Comerford
	3007 Carman Street 1918- late 1960s The Milton Adams Kelly Family I was born and raised at 3007 Carman Street in East Camden. I attended Cramer Elementary School and then Woodrow Wilson High School. Upon marrying, my husband and I bought the home down the street from my parents at 3081 Carman Street, just doors from Woodrow Wilson. It was a nice place to grow up and I have many happy memories of friends and neighbors there. I loved Dudley Grange park and remember the library well. It's sad that the politicians let it all go... what a loss. 3007 Carman Street was built and purchased by my grandfather, Milton A. Kelly. He lived there with his wife Charlotte until he passed away sometime around 1934. She sold the house to my father, Milton E. Kelly. I was born in 1938 and was raised in a very loving home there. When I married in 1957 and moved to 3081 Carman Street my parents moved to Haddonfield and sold the house to my brother, William R. Kelly. In the late 1960s he moved to New York and sold the house. The deck in front of 3007 was added after we left there. Doreen Kelly Schwingler February 2008
	3008 Carman Street 1924 James B. Henderson 1947 Floyd D. Selmes
	3010 Carman Street 1924 William J. Hollworth 1947 William E. Ebaugh
	3013 Carman Street 1924 F. A, DeMarris 1947 James F. McNameee
	3014 Carman Street 1924 Orville H. Showers
	3014 Carman Street Orville H. Showers Jr.
	3014 Carman Street 1947 Francis W. Lockwood
	3015 Carman Street 1924 Andrew J. Richards 1947 Sylvan D. Jackson
	3016 Carman Street 1924 J. Howard Dalrymple 1947 Evelyne M. Van Gemert
	3017 Carman Street 1924-1947 Walter L. Tunstall