Camden Streets - Thirty-Fourth Street- 34th Street

Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Thirty-Fourth
Street

THIRTY-FOURTH STREET runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then from Westfield Avenue to Federal Street, interrupted again by a rail line at Rosedale Street, and from Federal on to Highland Avenue at the Pennsauken border. As in all numbered streets in Camden, it is North 34th Street above Federal, and South 34th below.

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Phil Cohen

Intersection of Farragut Avenue & North 34th Street

1200 Block of North 34th Street
	1232 North 34th Street 1924
	1229 North 34th Street 1924
	1226 North 34th Street 1924 1929 No Listing
	1225 North 34th Street 1921 Ethel Keown
	1224 North 34th Street 1924
	1220 North 34th Street 1924
	1219 North 34th Street 1924
	1216 North 34th Street 1924 1929 Henry W. Brightly
	1213 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 Joseph H. Brightly
	1204 North 34th Street 1930s Brightly Brothers contractors
	1204 North 34th Street 1924-1929 Paul Faith

Intersection of Harrison Avenue & North 34th Street

1100 Block of North 34th Street
	1182 North 34th Street 1924
	1178 North 34th Street 1924
	1168 North 34th Street 1924
	1159 North 34th Street 1924
	1156 North 34th Street 1924
	1154 North 34th Street 1924 Harry E.Myers 1929 John F. Kohler 1933 Duncan MacKenzie
POLICE SEEK BLONDE, 2 BOY FRIENDS, WHO CRASH IN STOLEN CAR Police were searching today for a blonde girl, about 18, and two youths who abandoned their stolen automobile after it had crashed with a taxicab last night at Morgan Boulevard and Broadway. Duncan MacKenzie, 27,of 1154 North Thirty-fourth street, driver of the cab, told police the stolen automobile careened around the intersection on two wheels, crashed into his car and ended up at the curb. He was waiting for a traffic light to change, he said. Immediately following the crash, a youth and the girl, who had been in the front seat, and a second youth sitting in the rear, jumped out of the car and dashed away. One ran south on Broadway; while the girl and her companion ran north on the same street. Accident Investigator Stanley Wirtz investigated and learned the abandoned car had been stolen at 7 p. m. from in front of the American Iron Works, 1455 Broadway, about two miles from the accident, which occurred at 10.30 p. m.	1154 North 34th Street 1933 Duncan MacKenzie Camden Courier-Post February 1, 1933
	1152 North 34th Street 1924
	1149 North 34th Street 1924
	1145 North 34th Street 1924
	1144 North 34th Street 1924
	1141 North 34th Street 1924
	1124 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1118 North 34th Street 1924
	1116 North 34th Street 1924

Intersection of Pierce Avenue & North 34th Street

1000 Block of North 34th Street
	1058 North 34th Street 1924
	1055 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1053 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1052 North 34th Street 1924
	1051 North 34th Street 1924
	1049 North 34th Street 1924 John J. Ryan
	1049 North 34th Street 1929-1956 John M. Peterson Sr. Camden Fire Department
	1049 North 34th Street Seaman Second Class John Martin Peterson
	1047 North 34th Street 1924
	1044 North 34th Street 1924
	1042 North 34th Street 1924
	1041 North 34th Street 1924
	1039 North 34th Street 1924 Louis Schlam
	1028 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1025 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1021 North 34th Street 1924
	1020 North 34th Street 1924
	1018 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1017 North 34th Street 1924
	1016 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	1015 North 34th Street 1924 John B. Hufner Jr. 1929 Arthur Roberts 1933 David McMullen

Camden Courier-Post - August 14, 1936
2 HELD IN THEFT OF CRAPS WINNINGS Money Won in Audubon Taken From East Camden Man, Cops Told

George Clayton - Clifford Del Rossi - David McMullen - Tony Scola Joseph Procelli aka Joe Rizzo South 4th Street - North 34th Street - Spruce Street

Intersection of River Road & North 34th Street

900 Block of North 34th Street
	953 North 34th Street 1924 Charles Seidelmann
	952 North 34th Street 1960s-2008 Hope Memorial Baptist Church
	945 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	940 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	936 North 34th Street 1927 No Listing 1929 Alpha Community Baptist Churcu
	932 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	931 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	922 North 34th Street 1924 Mrs. Elizabeth Perrott 1929 No Listing
	918 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	917 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	912 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	911 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	908 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	905 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 1960s-1970s Eugene Bevilacqua
	901 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929

800 Block of North 34th Street
	837 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	836 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	832 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 1960s-1970s Charles A. Bates

Intersection of Hayes Avenue & North 34th Street

800 Block of North 34th Street
	828 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	822 North 34th Street 1924 James B. Mackenzie 1929 Charles MacKenzie
	820 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	818 North 34th Street 1924
	816 North 34th Street 1924 1929 1947 Ervin F. Ray Sr. 1947 Ervin F. Ray Jr.
	815 North 34th Street 1924
	814 North 34th Street 1924
	812 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929

Pavonia Railroad Yards - Pennsylvania Railroad - Conrail

Intersection of Laurel Street & North 34th Street

700 Block of North 34th Street
	700 North 34th Street 1924-1929 William C. Hansel

Intersection of Lemuel Street & North 34th Street

600 Block of North 34th Street
	647 North 34th Street Built after 1947 1960s-late 1970s F. Robinson
	640 North 34th Street 1924-1929 Harry A. McGinley
	640 North 34th Street 1940s-1970s Lincoln Marryott Family 1947-1960s Lincoln H. Marryott Sr. 1960s-late 1970s Lincoln H. "Skeets" Marryott Jr. The Marryotts owned Acme Craftsmen Printing at North 36th Street & Westfield Avenue
	633 North 34th Street Built after 1947
	631 North 34th Street Built after 1947 1950s-late 1970s A.J. Neri
	630 North 34th Street 1924-1947 Jeremiah K. "Jerry" Lohbrandt 1956-1959 Albert A. Stinger 1960s-late 1970s Olive Stinger
	629 North 34th Street Built after 1947
	628 North 34th Street 1924-1947 Charles H. Middleton
	627 North 34th Street Built after 1947

Intersection of Remington Street & North 34th Street

600 Block of North 34th Street
	619 North 34th Street Built 1950
	617 North 34th Street Built 1950
	615 North 34th Street Built 1950
	607 North 34th Street 1924 John H. Deitz 1929-1960s Harmon Gerhart 1929 Samuel Kohlmyer
	604 North 34th Street Built After 1947 1950s-late 1970s N.N. Fioretti
	603 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929-1947 Charles F. Markert
	603 North 34th Street late 1940s Alfred R. Pierce In this Courier-Post photo, Alfred R. Pierce is flanked by his parents, Russell and Viola, after he was on re-elected as mayor of Camden in 1965. Al Pierce married Barbara Markert in 1942. The couple lived here after he returned from World War II

Intersection of Pleasant Street & North 34th Street

500 Block of North 34th Street
	565 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	564 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	563 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	562 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	561 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	559 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	556 North 34th Street 1924
	552 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	550 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	544 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	540 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	526 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	519 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	517 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929

Intersection of Pelham Place & North 34th Street

Intersection of Rowe Street & North 34th Street

500 Block of North 34th Street
	512 North 34th Street 1924
	511 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	509 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	508 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929

400 Block of North 34th Street
	474 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	470 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	468 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	464 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	462 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	459 North 34th Street 1924 1929
Charles Stahl, 47, of 459 North 34th Street, received a cut nose, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Earl R. Tanner, 24, of Pennsauken Avenue, Palmyra, at Thirty-fourth and Federal Streets. Stahl was treated at Cooper Hospital.	459 North 34th Street 1938 Charles Stahl Camden-Courier-Post February 7, 1938
	458 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	452 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	450 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	446 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	444 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929

Intersection of Mitchell Street & North 34th Street

400 Block of North 34th Street
	428 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	426 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	425 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	423 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	420 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	418 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	411 North 34th Street 1924
	410 North 34th Street 1924
	404 North 34th Street 1924
	403 North 34th Street 1924

Intersection of Saunders Avenue & North 34th Street

Intersection of Fairfax Street & North 34th Street

300 Block of North 34th Street
	383 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 Photo from 2008. 383 on right.
	381 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 Photo from 2008. 381 on left.
	377 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929-1930s James T.W. MacElroy realtor Camden Courier-Post October 15, 1931
	375 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	371 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	370 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	370 North 34th Street 1940s-1960s Austin E. Marks Camden Fire Department
	369 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	361 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 1947 James T.W. MacElroy real estate
	360 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1947 No Listing 1950s-1970 Albert E. Barker fireman

Intersection of High Street & North 34th Street

300 Block of North 34th Street
	321b North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1947 Adrian A. Daller
	321a North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1947 Frank P. Verdi
	319b North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing 1940s-1972s Mary Ellen McVeigh Soistmann Camden Courier-Post February 7, 1938
	319a North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	317b North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	317a North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	315b North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	315a North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	313b North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	313a North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 No Listing
	311 North 34th Street 1924 Elmer Kelly 1929 Isaac H. Beck
	305 North 34th Street 1924 Charles Stein 1929 Charles Wilson

Intersection of Cramer Street & North 34th Street

200 Block of North 34th Street
	297 North 34th Street 1924 1929 No Listing
	283 North 34th Street
	280 North 34th Street
	267 North 34th Street

Intersection of Westfield Avenue & North 34th Street

Intersection of Merriel Avenue & North 34th Street

100 Block of North 34th Street
	165 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	163 North 34th Street 1924
	161 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	161 North 34th Street 2000s Allen Rivera
	159 North 34th Street 1924
	159 North 34th Street July 22, 2005
	159 North 34th Street July 22, 2005
	159 North 34th Street July 22, 2005
	159 North 34th Street July 22, 2005
	159 North 34th Street July 22, 2005
	153 North 34th Street 1924
	149 North 34th Street 1924
	147 North 34th Street 1924
	145 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	143 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	142 North 34th Street 1924
	139 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	135 North 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	133 North 34th Street 1924
	130 North 34th Street 1924
	125 North 34th Street 1924
	122 North 34th Street 1924
	120 North 34th Street 1924
	119 North 34th Street 1924
	117 North 34th Street 1924 1929-1948 John Murtaugh Francis Murtaugh
	117 North 34th Street Private Edward F. Murtaugh
	116 North 34th Street 1924-1929 Cyrus Hawkins
	116 North 34th Street 1940s-1960s Roles Court Apartments William J. & Eva Roles A B C D
	115 North 34th Street 1924 Willard S. Shinn
	113 North 34th Street 1924 John H. Getz
	113 North 34th Street 1924 John H. Getz
	112 North 34th Street 1924 Thomas S. Soby
	112 North 34th Street 1929-1960s Roles Court Apartments William J. & Eva Roles A B C D E F
	111 North 34th Street 1924 Cecil Shinn
	109 North 34th Street 1924 Lilly Beech
	108 North 34th Street 1924 William J. Roles Family William J. & Eva Roles William J. Roles built the ROles Court Apartments. he and his wife Eva lived at and managed the properties for many years, which passed to there son after they died.
	108-110 North 34th Street 1920s-2008 Roles Court Apartments A B C D E F
	108 North 34th Street 1920s-1930s Apartment F Dr. Carleton D. Haigis
	107 North 34th Street 1924 Frank Barrar
	106 North 34th Street 2008 Coamo Social Club
	104-106 North 34th Street 1940s-1960s Roles Court Apartments William J. & Eva Roles A B C D E F
	100 North 34th Street 1940s-1960sRoles Court Apartments William J. & Eva Roles A B C D
	100 North 34th Street 1924 Albert J. Derrickson

Camden Courier-Post * October 22, 1936

Lewis Liberman - Samuel P. Orlando - John Burns - John Huston
Herbert Richardson - Robert Ashenfelter - Francis Murtaugh
John Ercolani - Edward Hargrove - James Walter

South 8th Street - North 34th Street
Penn Street - Sycamore Street

Intersection of Rosedale Avenue & North 34th Street

Intersection of Pennsylvania Railroad - Conrail - Amtrak Line has been abandoned for many years, tracks torn up around 2000

Unit Block of North 34th Street
	43 North 34th Street
	40 North 34th Street
	37 North 34th Street
	36 North 34th Street
	33 North 34th Street
	32 North 34th Street
	28 North 34th Street
	24 North 34th Street 1910s-1929 Charles E.A. "Pop" Mathews
	24 North 34th Street Corporal Charles A. Mathews
	21 North 34th Street
	20 North 34th Street
	16 North 34th Street
	15 North 34th Street 1924 1929 No Listing
	12 North 34th Street 1910 Japhet B. Joyce 1924 No Listing 1929

Intersection of Federal Street & North 34th Street

Unit Block of South 34th Street
	3 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	5 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	7 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	9 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929
	11 South 34th Street
	12 South 34th Street
	15 South 34th Street
	19 South 34th Street
	24 South 34th Street
	25 South 34th Street
	26 South 34th Street
	28 South 34th Street
	30 South 34th Street
	32 South 34th Street
	33 South 34th Street
	34 South 34th Street
	40 South 34th Street
	42 South 34th Street Photo from 2008

Intersection of Mickle Street & North 34th Street

100 Block of South 34th Street
	103 South 34th Street
	105 South 34th Street
	109 South 34th Street
	111 South 34th Street
	113 South 34th Street
	114 South 34th Street
	115 South 34th Street
	117 South 34th Street
	121 South 34th Street
	123 South 34th Street
	124 South 34th Street
	125 South 34th Street 1914 Howard Stover Family
	125 South 34th Street 1914 Sergeant Russell Stover
	127 South 34th Street 1914 Robert Hartmann 1924 No Listing 1929 Hyman Cohen grocery Burned to ground about 1979

200 Block of South 34th Street
	202 South 34th Street
	203 South 34th Street 1924 1929 vacant
	205 South 34th Street 1936 Eleanor Haley
	206 South 34th Street
	208 South 34th Street 1929
	209 South 34th Street
	213 South 34th Street
	215 South 34th Street 1929
	217 South 34th Street
	223 South 34th Street 1929
	225 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 vacant
	227 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 vacant
	229 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 vacant 1936 Lorraine M. Snuffin 1947 Tillie Evfimenko & Family
	231 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 vacant
	232 South 34th Street
	236 South 34th Street
	239 South 34th Street 1929
	240 South 34th Street
	241 South 34th Street
	242 South 34th Street 1924 No Listing 1929 vacant
	243 South 34th Street 1929
	246 South 34th Street

Jill Petris Lamparella writes about East Camden

I was born in 1951 and brought home to 139 North 32nd Street. My parents were William Joseph and Elizabeth Mae (Reeves) Petris. These were all very happy years for me and my sister Sheree Joy Petris (married name Romesburg) who was born in 1954. These were happy years because all of our family lived in Camden. My Dad's family was from South Camden and my Mother's family was from East Camden.

My Dad was terrific at carpentry and for several years in their spare time, he rebuilt the entire inside of 139. We had indirect lighting in dining room which shone pink from the outside and they made a faux pink marble fireplace in the living room. Strange, but I guess they were into pink. My Grandparents, George and Ruth Reeves lived at 3173 Merriel Avenue and I could see their house from my back bedroom window. My best friend Janice Olnhausen lived next door at 3171 Merriel Avenue with her parents Emil and Betty Olnhausen. My Great Grandparents, William and Eva Roles (parents of Ruth Roles Reeves) built Roles Court Apartments on North 34th Street and Rosedale Avenue, they lived there and ran the apartments until both passed away. The apartments then passed to George and Ruth Reeves who later sold the property. Most of our family the Petris's, Reeves, Roles, and Kellys were brought up and lived and had happy times at Roles Court Apartments. My parents lived there from 1947 (the year of their marriage) to 1950 until they purchased 139 North 32nd Street.

Our playground were those streets, the back alleys and of course Dudley Grange Park, where they had a ball game going every night during the summer and then there were the swings and slides. My Grandfather George "Rick" Reeves along with his friends George Kissinger, Inky Workings and Harry Hoffman all played baseball there. My Dad Bill Petris also played at one time or other.

My Mother Betty Mae lived in Westfield Acres from 1938 to 1941 or 1942 on a third floor apartment with her sister Ruthie and baby brother George "Richard" Reeves until they moved to 3173 Merriel Avenue.

I went to Henry H. Davis Elementary School from kindergarten (Mrs. McCarroll), 1st grade (Mrs. Braun) 2nd grade (Mrs. Brown), third grade (Mrs. Elliott), fourth grade (Miss Williams), fifth grade (Miss Quinn) and 6th grade (Miss Costello). Mr. Showalter became the principal at some point. I think he had come from Cramer School.

Everyone was friendly, we took the bus everywhere but mostly to 27th Street to go to the M&H to get ice cream, Kotlikoff's to get clothes and the 5 & 10 to look at Barbies. My Mother and my Aunt Carol Kelly would push coaches with their children into "town" as they called it on nice days.

My sister and I would walk to Grace Baptist Church on Sundays, where most of my Mother's family attended (the Reeves side). William Reeves owned the house on Cramer Street across from the church and sided up against the bank parking lot. Later the house was lived in by my Aunt Ida and Uncle Sam. Ida was George Reeves' sister. William Reeves, my great grandfather was the fire chief at the firehouse.

During the Fourth of July celebrations, every year, Dudley Grange Park would set off a wonderful fireworks display. I don't remember if it was big in relation to displays now. It was huge, and beautiful and implanted in my memories so much so that I have to rush out and see fireworks somewhere on the 4th. Unfortunately, someone was killed in the 1950's as I believe one of the fireworks went into the crowd. After that, the fireworks stopped at Dudley Grange to my recollection.

Harry's Grocery store was on the corner of North 32nd Street and Westfield Avenue. On the other corner was Sy's Cleaners. The Esso station was on the other side of the street facing North 32nd. Frank's soda fountain and candy shop was on North 34th and Westfield on the way to school