The Delaware Valley Rhythm & Blues Society, Inc.
A non-profit organization dedicated to 
Classic Rhythm & Blues Music * Local History * Community Service
* Senior Dog Adoption *

"A PEOPLE WHICH TAKES NO PRIDE IN THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF REMOTE ANCESTORS WILL NEVER ACHIEVE ANYTHING WORTHY TO BE REMEMBERED BY REMOTE DESCENDANTS." Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Welcome in!
               Within this site there are several websites that I hope you will find interesting. Please drop me a line by e-mail to let me know you have been here. Comments, suggestions, and material to add to the these websites are very much appreciated, which is to say, I've started this, but YOU are more than welcome to be a part of it. Check out the history, listen to some funky music, and most importantly, Enjoy Yourself!
                                                                Phil Cohen
                                phil552@comcast.net

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"LIFE IS NOT A JOURNEY TO THE GRAVE
WITH THE INTENTION OF
ARRIVING SAFELY IN A PRETTY AND WELL PRESERVED BODY,
BUT RATHER TO SKID IN BROADSIDE,
THOROUGHLY USED UP, TOTALLY WORN OUT, 
AND LOUDLY PROCLAIMING WOW.... WHAT A RIDE !!!"

The Delaware Valley Rhythm & Blues Society, Inc. 
The Rhythm & Blues Show 24 Hour Webcast

January 26, 2006 - The webcast is down for Maintenance

Local History- Camden Then and Now:

All about CAMDEN, New Jersey 

Interesting People of Camden, New Jersey- 
                 A Biographical Look at Camden,

NEW!!!! 
Camden Fire Department - 
Complete Roster of Uniformed Fire Personnel 1869-1994

The CAMDEN Bookstore

An Unsolved Crime - Who Killed Margaret Day - May 1974

Camden County, New Jersey War Dead
From 1917 to the Present

From June, 1968- 
                             The WIBG-AM ALL-TIME Top 300 Records!!!

Friends, Family & Fred

Odds & Ends

More South Jersey History

Much Ado About Nothing! 

Pets:

• Phil and his Funky Dogs
                                   is NOT a band!

• The Continuing Adventures of Phil and his Funky Dogs

• A Six-Pack of Funky Dogs

• A New Year with the Funky Dogs

• The Funky Dogs of Summer

• Parking with the Funky Dogs - Labor Day 2006

• Parking with the Funky Dogs - Chapter 2

• Yogi - Everyone's Best Friend

• Funky Dogs - Year of Change

• Funky Dogs - Labor Day 2007

• Animal Adoption Center '07 Dog Walk - Haddon Heights Park

• Funky Dogs: When Will Spring Get Here? 

• Funky Dogs: Gigi's Birthday!

Wake Up Call:

The World We Live In - 2007

CIVILIZATION CALLS

World History

World War II Medics

Please Visit Our Friends!

News about this Website

Events of Interest!

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Understanding is not enough; we must do.
Knowing and understanding in action make for honor.
And honor is the heart of wisdom."
Johann von Goethe

No man owns history, therefore you should feel free to use anything in this web site for any purpose you see fit. The only important thing is that knowledge be preserved, made accessible,  and passed down to future generations. This site is not for profit and proud of it, for to claim title to and profit from the actions of those long gone seems to, at best, bogus, and at worst, immoral. If left to the greedy, there would be no public domain- Constitution and the Bible would be the property of an individual, institution, or corporation. -- Phil Cohen.

NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL

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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill

I AM A ZIONIST

I don't try and never will try to hide who I am and what I believe. This will sooner or later get me physically assaulted, cost me my job, get this web site hacked, or some such nonsense.

 Don't be surprised.... everything that is a hairless biped is not necessarily human. What happened to filmmaker Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands... murdered for exposing the physical abuse of women in the Islamic community.... can happen in America...WILL happen in America, and is being ENCOURAGED to happen in America by CAIR, moveon, and like minded parties. If the same happens to me, don't be surprised, do not mourn. DO BE ANGRY and DO TAKE UP ARMS.

Phil Cohen, August 25, 2006

At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. 
We are in a new phase of a very old war.

Caucasophobia - The Accepted Racism

CIVILIZATION CALLS

NEW - The DVRBS.COM DAILY UPDATE

Click here to find what is new on this site today!

New Pages Are Added Daily!

Also Of Daily Interest

www.CamdenNewJersey.org
A VERY useful site focused on Camden's Renewal

They Gave Their All For Our Freedom
Camden County NJ War Dead
From 1917 To The Present

THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Pennsylvania War Dog Memorial

The local paper advertised a parade on the extensive grounds of our Bay Pines VA Hospital, but its route wasn’t described. I wondered if my wheelchair buddies in the nursing home might be able to watch it from a nearby road, so I went there a bit earlier to see if I could help. As it turned out, the activities leader was getting a bunch of men ready to go to a shaded spot behind the building for the ceremonies, where they might miss the parade.

As it turned out, the parade came to them. We wheeled over 30 guys to a spot beside hundreds of empty chairs. Shortly, we heard drums and music as three bands and several groups marched in and filled the seats. After Presentation of the Colors, Pledge of Allegiance, and the National Anthem, we heard short speeches by the Secretary of the Navy, the local Congressman, the Director of the Hospital, and best of all, the main address by a very articulate Medal of Honor soldier.  

The man sitting next to me was a wounded Marine just back from Iraq. We bonded instantly, and he even worked beside me pushing the wheelchairs back to the nursing home. Later I drove him to his next stop and he wants get involved in volunteer work. With 61 years between our wars, he now knows that every older veteran is his buddy too, because we shared a common experience.

In other news, we read of a 111 year-old Florida man who is one of 15 World War I veterans still alive!

A great day all the way around.

Bob Stanton
November 12, 2006

* March 16, 2005 *
* * NEWS * *

I've received 7 more rolls of microfilm for the microfilm reader-scanner, completing the Camden Evening Courier for 1928. I'm slowly wading through it, as I also have a lot of other material to incorporate into the website. This may take a couple of decades, but hey, I'm not going anywhere! 

STILL RELEVANT: At $35.00 each, the rolls of microfilm contain one month of post-1920 Camden newspapers, the Post-Telegram in the years through 1926, the Morning Post and Evening Courier beginning in 1930, and in the late 1940s the combined Courier-Post. 

Donations can still be made toward for the newly acquired scanner, or can be directed to the month and year of Camden newspapers of your choice, as long as they are available through the New Jersey State archives. I'm also looking to upgrade to a new server before the end of 2007, as the one we are on now is in its fifth year of use.

Once again, for all the millionaires reading this, DVRBS Inc. is a registered 501c3 non-profit organization and  tax-deductible donations can be made by check, money order, or via Paypal. 

To donate by check or money order, make them payable to DVRBS Inc., and mail to PO Box 1466, Camden NJ 08105-0466.    

Phil Cohen
phil552@comcast.net

February 19, 2006

On February 19, 2006 I completed a 4 week long project of reorganizing the website. If I told you that this has taken almost every non-day job hour since January 24th, I would not be all that far from the truth.... my dogs are looking at me with great impatience in their eyes!

As the site had to be split into a number of sub-webs to make editing and updating more feasible, I literally had to go page by page to check that links between pages in different sub-webs would work. Hopefully I got them all. Of course links to other web-sites are beyond control, but the stuff within www.dvrbs.com should all be working.

PLEASE REPORT ALL BROKEN LINKS TO ME BY E-MAIL - Phil Cohen

GOOD NEWS!

I was loaned the contents of a recently discovered "time capsule" that was buried in June of 1858 at the corner of Fifth and Federal. I've scanned a lot of it, and a web page will be visible tomorrow morning. I also was able to acquire THREE Camden City Directories, from 1906, 1914, and 1924, at the Camden County Historical Society used book sale yesterday.

200,000 Hits - October 12, 2006

224,000 Hits - December 2006

Thanks for your support. 

I met a retired homicide investigator who told me about this case.... the only unsolved murder case in his career. This being a public service oriented web site, I thought it only appropriate to see if the www.dvrbs.com community could step up and perhaps help in this matter. 

The DVRBS.COM server crashed Wednesday morning. I had to get a back-up server up to speed, which was accomplished late Thursday night. At that point I made arrangements to switch to the new IP address.... for those of you who are not technically inclined, the address http://69.249.9.253 which is found when you type in www.dvrbs.com. This switch should kick in late tonight, Friday, October 6, 2006 My apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused, this was beyond my control.

Phil Cohen
October 6, 2006

A little catch-up news, as I've been busy with family and work issues for much of the last six months. During this time I have not been updating the site as often as I had in previous years. However, things are starting to settle down a bit, and and I should be back on the good foot next month.

Good News- The Nick Parisi Memorial Scholarship Fund raised over $9200 at last weeks Fun Day in Bellmawr. 

More Good News- With your help, I've replaced the workstation where I edit the website. It took a few days to transfer everything from one computer to the new one, but it's done. The server will be next. 

Bad News- I'm having trouble with my network. I've a good work-around, but I really need to re-set the whole thing once I replace the server.

A GOOD IDEA- When you visit the "neighborhoods" pages, like the ones for North Camden, Cramer Hill, and East Camden- be sure to look for the stories that people have e-mailed in. I have saved just about EVERY e-mail sent to me over the last few years with pictures, stories and info to post on the site.... some I've gotten to, others I really need to go back through and get posted. Sooner or later... hopefully sooner, I will! Thanks to John Stires for suggesting that I remind everyone about this.

Phil Cohen
July 29, 2007

Today is Memorial Day, 2008. The Camden County War Dead Index web-page was cited in today's Courier-Post. Click here to read the article. 

Martin W. Baskow owned and operated the Nine-Thirty-Nine Bar at 939 Market Street in Camden NJ in the 1960s. He was brutally murdered in his bar on the morning of July 14, 1967. This case remains unsolved, 39 years later. If you have any information concerning this crime, please e-mail me. Your identity will be kept confidential and there is a reward for information leading to an arrest.

Phil Cohen
September 27, 2008