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Streets 27th Street |
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Streets 27th Street |
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27th STREET runs from the Delaware River, across River Road, Westfield Avenue, and Federal Street. In our time 27th Street is one of the main thoroughfares in Cramer Hill and East Camden, but in earlier times it was not only not called 27th Street, it ran parallel to the street which was referred to as Main Street! 27th Street lays in what prior to 1899 was Stockton Township. Originally called Fulton Street, it ran from the south end of what was then Cramer Park, the north end of which was 29th Street, then their terminus of the Cramer Hill Ferry. Fulton Street, our North 27th Street, runs across River Road past Engine Company 11 of the Camden Fire Department, the Pavonia Reservoir (present-day Veteran's Park) to a point where it intersected with Main Street, which we know today as North 26th Street. North 27th Street continues, passing the Pavonia Railroad Station on the left, and the Camden County Jail on the right at Howell Street, on the spot which has been Paul's Auto Glass since the late 1970s. 27th Street then continues across Westfield Avenue and Federal Street, where the East Camden Firehouse, the home of Engine Company 9 and Hook & Ladder Company 3, was built shortly after Stockton Township became a part of Camden. Once across Federal Street, the road is now South 27th Street, and runs straight through to Marlton Avenue and the border between Camden and Pennsauken Township. Construction along 27th occurred over period of approximately 70 years, from about 1875 through about 1945, give or take a few either way. As shown by the map below, dated 1914, the streets south of Federal Street had not all received there present names; as a matter of fact, very few buildings had been erected on South 27th Street. Other twentieth century changes included the demolition of the Pavonia Rail Station and the completion of the "hump" over the railroad tracks, and the completion of Veteran's Park several years after the Reservoir walls failed, the resulting flood causing much property damage. Row homes had been constructed to a point just short of Marlton Pike by the early 1940s. The construction of the Line Street Apartments at South 27th, Line, and Marlton Avenue completed development on 27th Street in the 20th Century. Probably the most notable person ever to live on 27th Street was football player Mike Rozier, a star running back at Woodrow Wilson High School , in college, and in the professional ranks with the Houston Oilers in the National Football League. |
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Cramer Hill & East
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Street from the Delaware River to Marlton Pike
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27th & Buren Street The Former Site 2003 |
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27th Street Looking East from Pierce Street February 22, 2004
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& 1203, 1205 & 1207 North 27th Street Blue home is 1209 North 27th February 22, 2004 |
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N 27th Street
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N 27th Street
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North 27th Street
Jacob Leon, in his Shoe Repair Shop at 1006 27th Avenue. He lived there with his wife Rebecca and family from the 1920s through the 1960s. Photo Courtesy of Molly Conrad
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North 27th Street 1000, 1002-1004 in background Edith Leon Schwartz, Rebecca Leon, Beatrice Leon Schwartz, & Jacob Leon, in his shoe repair shop at 1006 27th Street. The Leon sisters both married men named Schwartz, who were not related. Photo Courtesy of Molly Conrad |
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North 27th Street
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| 4 FROM JERSEY FINISH AT BROWN PREP SCHOOL
Four South Jersey students are members of the graduating class of Brown Preparatory School, Philadelphia, which held its forty-sixth commencement exercises last night in New Century Auditorium. They are Flora Mae Borgard, of 964 North 27th Street, and Denny Di Renzo, of 556 South 3rd Street, Camden; Emerson Green, of Cooper street, Woodbury, and Charles N. Nelson, of Seabrook Farms, Bridgeton. Green was vice president of the graduating class. |
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North 27th Street
1920s-1930s 1933 Flora Mae Borgard Camden Courier-Post |
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1947 Lew's Market |
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North 27th Street 1934 Unknown Saloon This story most likely refers to the saloon at 854 North 27th Street |
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933 North 27th Street Jacob Tischner operated a bar
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927 North 27th Street 1914-1917 Herman F. Niessner |
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RALLIES TONIGHT IN 3 WARDS, ASHLAND Rallies in the interest of A. Harry Moore, gubernatorial candidate, and local candidates on the Democratic ticket will be conducted tonight in Ashland and in three wards of the city. The meetings and speakers are as follows; Sixth Ward Democratic Club, Fourth and Walnut Streets; E. George Aaron, Samuel P. Orlando, Boyd E. Morrison, Charles Degnan and Sabba Verdiglione. Third Ward A. Harry Moore Club, Third and Benson Streets: Samuel T. French, Orlando, Edward L. Canning, C. Lawrence Gregorio, Frank Homan and Anthon Ruffo, of Trenton. Eleventh Ward A. Harry Moore Club, 927 North Twenty-seventh street: Aaron, Canning, Isaac Eason, Marie V. Kelly and Judge Frank F. Neutze. Ashland Democratic Club, home of Ida May Heidrick, Burnt Mill road and Second Avenue: Thomas Madden, Leon H. Rose and Eugene Mariano. |
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MRS. HYLAND TO OPEN NEW DEMOCRATIC CLUB The Eleventh Ward Democratic Club, 923 North Twenty-seventh Street, will be opened formally tonight by Mrs. Emma E. Hyland, Democratic state committeewoman, and Samuel T. French, prominent attorney and worker for the party. Honor guests will be Mrs. Lillian Pisko and Charles Goldy, both members of the county committee, organizers of the club. |
923 North 27th Street Eleventh Ward Camden
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908 North 27th Street
1947
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868 to 864 North 27th Street May 7, 2005
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868 North 27th Street May 7, 2005 The "Ghost Sniper" shot through the glass door of this store in January of 1928.
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860 & 858 North 27th Street May 7, 2005
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856 North 27th Street
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North 27th Street
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North 27th Street
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North 27th Street & Sherman Avenue 1930s-1940s By
1956 this business had moved to Pennsauken, and back to Cramer Hill by
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1951 |
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Pavonia
Rail Station 1908 27th & Sherman Streets as seen from Pleasant Street The track on the left curves and runs to East Camden, past Dudley Grange, and on to Merchantville, Moorestown, and Mt. Holly |
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Stockton Coal 1913 to 1936 |
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Buying Power. Needed To the Editor: Sir-Buying power IS needed for the 90 percent. Ten percent of the people control 90 percent of our money. These 10 percent are of the high salaried class. The 90 percent people are of the low-salaried class. These 90 percent are the backbone of our nation and when they have buying power all is well with the nation and when the 10 percent have the buying power we then have a depression. T.H.
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North 27th Street
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Holmes Lounge & Gardens |
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Joe Breghella |
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| G. O. P. WOMEN TO MEET
The monthly social session of the Women's Auxiliary of the Twelfth Ward Republican Club will be held on Monday evening at the headquarters, 300 North Twenty-seventh Street. Mrs. Mercy Bolton is arranging a surprise program for the evening. Refreshments will be served. |
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Club to Take Outing to Shore
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the Twelfth Ward Republican Club will hold its annual outing to Atlantic City tomorrow. Buses will leave the clubhouse, 300 North. Twenty-seventh Street, promptly at eight o'clock in the morning. |
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North 27th Street Photograph taken December 27, 2002 Home of
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North 27th Street Photograph taken December 27, 2002 Home of
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North 27th Street Early 1930s Van's Battery Service |
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| Above:
47 to 61 South 27th Street, as seen from 2 North 27th Street, where Baird Boulevard and South 27th Street meet at Federal Street Below: 2 views, looking East on South 27th Street from the Firehouse |
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Left: 49 South 27th Street |
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Left: 47 and 49 South 27th Street |
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Aerial
View of East Camden published July of 1926 |
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This aerial view of East Camden was part of a July 1926 ad by the Suburban Home Realty Company, located at 325 Market Street in Camden, run by Edward S. Miller. You
can see South 27th Street as the diagonal dotted line on right side of
picture. There are no homes built on South 27th when this photo was
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Maryland-born had vcome to Camden by 1920 when he was living at 2637 Westfield Avenue. During the 1920s he established a funeral home at 60 South 27th Street. During the 1930s James Sudler took on an apprentice, a boy who had grown up nearby, Clarence Eichel. In 1936 Clarence Eichel became a partner, and eventually took over the business after Mr. Sudler passed. The EIchel Funeral Home later moved to Pennsauken, and still is in business as of 2004.
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