Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Baird Boulevard
aka
Baird Avenue

1947 Jacob Rudolph

1919-1947 Thomas A. Walton

1919-1929 Lewis A. Lee

1947 Leon Faerber

1914 Isaac W. Budd
real estate,
treasurer City Line Brick & Lumber Company

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1924 Dr. Herbert C. Johnson
physician

1947 Dr. William M. Lashman
physician

1924 Dr. William M. Lashman
physician

1947 George Blaker

1924 George E. Fisher
1947 Mary H. Fisher

1924 Hiram E. Budd
1947 Mrs. Margarette W. Budd

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Lieutenant Isaac W. Budd

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1924 Josephus J. Frost
947 Rev. Christian Hansen

1924 Alex Sawicki
1947 Victor F. Reichert

1924 Vacant
1929 Joseph Norwitz

DOROTHY SCHULER BRIDE OF HAROLD S. HAINES

Miss Dorothy Schuler, of 1412 Baird Boulevard, and Harold S. Haines, of Gibbsboro, were married at Parkside M. E. Church last night.

Rev. Winfred A. Burch, pastor of the church, officiated. Miss Lucille Brown was maid of honor and Miss Peggy Strecker, New York, was bridesmaid. Janice Ruth Haines Fitton, sister of the bridegroom, was flower girl. Roland Oliver Haines, brother of the bridegroom, was best man.

A reception followed at the home of the bride's mother. The couple will live at the Baird avenue address following a honeymoon trip.

The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Joseph Brown of 1412 Baird Avenue, and the bridegroom, the son of Mrs. Anna L. Haines Fitton of Haddon Avenue, Gibbsboro. The bride was graduated from Camden High School and studied art in Philadelphia. Haines was graduated from Haddon Heights High School, where he captained the football team in 1928 and 1929. He is now associated with Haines Brothers, cement block manufacturers. 

1933 Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brown

Camden Courier-Post
June 6, 1933

1924 Vacant
1947 Albert C. Wagner

1924 Charles G. DuBell
1947 Mrs. Frances E. DuBell

1924 John Zagorski
1947 Isadore Mazer
1947 Edward Fuhrman

1906 Hiram E. Budd
president City Line Brick & Lumber Company

1924-1947
Harry V. Baumgartner
barber's supplies

1924 W. Howard Buzby
1947 Lewis Kurlan

1924 Reading A. Havens
1947 Abraham Epstein

1924 Elmer J. Carlson
1947 Achelles Cocosis

August 2, 2006

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1924-1947 Charles G.  Wenger

1929 Frank S. Albright
1947 Edward Tapper

August 2, 2006

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1947 Benjamin F. Rittmayer 

1947 Jacob A. Levinthal

August 2, 2006

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1919-1924 Munro S. Coulter
1947 Mrs. Ida S. Coulter

1947 Joseph Getzov

August 2, 2006

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1924 William E. Schlorer
1947 Emmanuel A. Pearl

1924 Israel Fridrich
1947 Mrs. Celia Borstein

August 2, 2006

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1924 Herbert J. Koehler
1936 Max M. Singer

1947 Herman Z. Cutler

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Late 1950s

David Herman playing outside of 1501 Baird, late 1950s

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1924 John E.G. Montgomery
1947 William H. Cheever

1924 Martin J. Flynn

1947-1960s Jacob Naden

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1961-1970s The Foster Family
Ann Foster 

1924 Harry Watts
1947 Agnes I. Rasmussen

1824 James P. Scull
1947 Louis L. Goldman

August 2, 2006

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1924-1947 Peter B. Carter

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1950s-1960s 
Cantor Louis J. Herman & Family
Mrs. Yetta Herman
David Herman

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1950s-1960s 
Cantor Louis J. Herman & Family
Mrs. Yetta Herman
David Herman

Left: David Herman, 1962

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1970-2007 Donald Council

1924 William W. Todd
1947 James Lamont
1960s-2007 Andrew D. Fortune
& Family

August 2, 2006

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1924 Samuel Heine
1947 Charles D. Brodsky

1924-1947 Henry Manheimer

August 2, 2006

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1924-1947 James D. Thompson

1924 Abraham E. Wessel
1947 Arthur Benjamin

1917-1930s Rudolph Priesendanz Jr.
1947 Mrs. Etta N. Preisendanz

August 2, 2006

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1924 Lewis N. Armstrong
1947 Irving Goodman
1964-1970s Walter L. Gordon

1924 Israel Paletz
1947 Norman M. Gordon

1924 Not Built
1947 Samuel Heine

August 2, 2006

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1924 Reuben Pinsky
1947 Benjamin Brest

1960s-2007 Rev. JJ. Pinkston
& Family

1924 Not Built
1947 Milton Nurock

1924 Not Built
1920s-1930s Israel Weitzman
1947 Mrs. Sarah Weitzman

August 2, 2006

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1924 Morris Handle

1947 Reiter Apartments

1A Otto Reiter
1B Elias Klein 
2A Ralph M. Pinsky
2B William R. Johnston
3A Mrs. Nellie Swope
3B Grace E. Hankins

1924 Not built
1947 Victor Levinson

Camden High School

circa 1920 Postcard

March 1960

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Photo by Louis Morris

Oasis Motel can be seen at upper right

March 1960

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Photo by Louis Morris

1947 Camden Athletic Grounds

As best as I can determine, this was the land occupied by the Camden Athletic Club, the builder and original occupants of the building know from the 1960s through the late 1990s as the Oasis Motel.

Phil Cohen

August, 1948

Construction of the bridge and cloverleaf at Admiral Wilson Boulevard. This project as well as previous commercial development ended the prospects for two streets that had been planned, Woolwich Street and Maplewood Street, which were supposed to run parallel to Randolph Street. 

Aerial View of East Camden published July of 1926
"Bridge Boulevard Estates"

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 Baird Boulevard as the horizontal dotted line across the upper part of picture. There were no homes built on Baird when this photo was taken.    
     

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3 HURT IN COLLISION ON WILSON BOULEVARD

Three persons were injured in an automobile crash at Admiral Wilson and Baird Boulevards yesterday when a machine driven by a Camden man was in collision with an automobile driven by a Bridgeton man.

The most seriously injured was John Kaus, Jr., 19, of 1738 Tioga Street. He suffered a severed tendon of the right hand. Walter Connell, of 27 Marlton Avenue, driver of one machine, was cut about the head.

Anthony Batani, of Bridgeton, driver of the other car, was cut about the hands. J. R. Boston, of 718 Pearl Street, took all the injured to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.

 CAMDEN COURIER-POST

June 7, 1933

Camden Courier-Post - January 9, 1928

 Two of the Cooper Street property owners who appeared at a hearing this morning at City Hall protested assessments to be levied against them for the widening of the thoroughfare from Fourth to Ninth Streets. 

The objectors declared they did not feel that it was fair that they should be taxed for improvements from which they derive no benefit. Their protests were beard by the Commissioner of Assessments in the commission chambers at the hall. 

The commissioners, Charles S. Wolverton, Wilbur B. Ellis, and James F. Lennon, said after the hearing that they will give further consideration to the complaints before submitting their report to the city commission. This will be done, they said, in the case of two complaints from property owners along Baird Boulevard, who protested being taxed for the planting of trees and the grading of “islands” on that thoroughfare from Bank Street lo Maplewood Avenue. A public hearing on this improvement also was conducted this morning. 

Thomas J. Daley, city engineer and clerk of the assessment commission by virtue of his position, explained after the hearing that the two Baird Boulevard property owners said they felt that the expenses of the improvement should be borne by the people who erected the properties along the highway.

Daley said that each abutting property owner on Cooper Street, from Fourth to Ninth Street, will pay an assessment of approximately $5.50 per front foot for the widening. The city taxpayers as a whole, he said, will also bear $5.50 per front foot, the other half of the cost of the improvement. The total cost of the widening, he reported was $35126, of which abutting property owners will pay $17,400, and the city taxpayers about $17,700.

The Baird Boulevard improvement, Daley said, cost a total of $3,020, of which the abutting property owners will pay $2,140 and the city taxpayer, as whole, $880. The cost to such property owner per lot, he explained, will be about $10, all lots being about 20 feet wide.

An assessment on both improvements, Daley reported, will be fixed by the city after the commissioners of assessment file their report. The city commission will then fix a date when property owners who may have objections may appear at a public hearing.

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1947 Leon Nurock
1947 Albert L. Cohn

1947 Irving Berlin

1947 J. Moles

1947 Rudolf C. Swanson

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1947 Jules Chadwin
1947 Alice Solomon

1947 Samuel Epstein

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1947 Angelo DePersia
1947 Louis Frader

1947 Philip Hankin

1947 George W. McFarland
1947 George Goldberg

1947 Fred M. Seitzinger

1947 Herbert A. Stoolman
1947 Joseph Hurwitz

1947 Mae Mitnek

1947 Rubin Ginsburg
1947 Harry Plasky

1930s-1940s
Samuel Brahen Family
Maurice Brahen

Sgt. Maurice Brahen

1947 Mrs. Annie Levy

1947 John A. Holm

1947 Leo Sherman

1947 Mrs. Augusta Liberman

1947 Martin Segal

1947  Norman Silverman

1962 Harry Schwartz

Camden Courier-Post
February 15, 1962

1947 Jacob Rothman
 1947 Bernard Solotoff

1947 George Pearl

1947 Vacant 

1947 Jacob Goodman

1947 Jacob Rosen  

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1947 Simon Friedman

1947 Harry Cohen

1947 Raymond Arllen
1947 Frances M. Connelly

1947 Joseph Cutler

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1947 Jesse J. Jones
1947 Mrs. Jessie I. Elder

1947 Sidney Friedman 

1947 Abraham L. Pellicoff
1947 Albert Schneyer

1947 Jack J. Gautz

1947 Robert L. Sirio
1947 Frank J. Terranova

1947 Joseph D. Markham
1947 Harry Dinerman

1947 Abraham Lichtman

1947 Wilbur J. Hayes

1947 Theo Deninberg

1947 Not Listed

1947 Albert Fink

1947 Harry A. Kerr

1947 Thomas Naden

1947 Benjamin B. Gross

1947 Samuel Melamed

1947 Jack Balaban

1947 Harry Castroll

1947 Harry D. McGonigal

1947 Mrs. Rose Brest

1947 Nathaniel Rappaport

1947 Herman Sandler

1947 Bartholomew A. Sheehan

1947 Leonard DeVone

1947 Irving H. Greenwald

1947 Fred J. Stuebing

1947 Harry Phillips 

1947 David H. McDermott

1930s-1940s Samuel & Goldie Tarken
Martin Tarken
Seymour Tarken

Private Seymour Tarken

1947 Abraham Skulnick

1947 Harry Landis

1947 John DiTullio

1947 Mrs. Bertha Kapnick

2370 Baird Boulevard

1947 Harold B. Heine

1947 David C. Luber

1947 Francisco Reginelli
1940s-1956 Marco Reginelli 

1947 John C. Cawaman
1950s-1960s Albert M. Zwick

1947-1960s Nicholas Martella

1947 Frank A. Bantivoglio

1948-1968 Dr. Simon Bell DDS
Dr. Simon & Jeanette Bell
Larry Bell
Steven Bell

1947-1960s Edward Markowitz

1947 Sidney Leader

1947 Harry Antelman
1950s-1960s Samuel Lukoff

1947 David Weiner
gas station

June 25, 2006

1947 Vacant

1940s-1971 Daniel A. Gottlieb

1947 Richard C. Harvey

1947 Nicholas B. Bantivoglio
1956 Mrs. Lenora Bantivoglio

1947  Samuel Hillman
1947 Claire M. Weber

1947 Henry H. Schreibstein

1947 Henry S. Lorey

1947 William C. Tweedy

1947  Leon Mickleman

1947 Edward V. Martino

1947 Edgar L. Leonard

1947 Louis L. Zubrin

1947 Allen S. Dolgin 

1947 Ernest Dubin

1947 Barney B. Brown

1947 Frank Wenof 

1947 William C. Gotschalk

1947 George Somers

1947 Meyer Adleman

1947 Max B. Siefert

1947 Jacob H. Horwitz

1930s-1947  Samuel B. Goldstein

Corporal
Isadore B. "Israel" Goldstein

1947 Charles A. Shumaker
1947 Edward Rothman

1947 Vacant

1947 Herman Tull

1947 Dr. Edward Schiff
dentist 

1947 Joseph V. Russell

1947 Thorkill Paulsen 

1947 Jacob Rappaport

1947 Henry G. Chambers

1947 Leon Cooperson
Cooperson Auto Works

1938 George Summers
"sportsman"
1947 Isadore Borstein
Borstein Electric Company

1947 Abraham Stoolman

1947 Ellis Goodman

1920s-1950s
Samuel & Mayme Rosen Family
Dr. Leonard F. Rosen
Norris Rosen

1920s-1950s
Samuel & Mayme Rosen Family
Dr. Leonard F. Rosen
Norris Rosen

Mayme Rosen

circa 1930

1920s-1950s
Samuel & Mayme Rosen Family
Dr. Leonard F. Rosen
Norris Rosen

Samuel & Mayme Rosen
at the wedding
of their son
Leonard
about 1940

1920s-1950s
Samuel & Mayme Rosen Family

Samuel Rosen
Obituary
Camden Courier-Post
June 14, 1944

1920s-1950s
Samuel & Mayme Rosen Family
Dr. Leonard F. Rosen
Norris Rosen

The Rosen Boys
(sons and nephews)

Sam (Sandy), Jerry, Elliott, Howard, Steve

1950s

1947 Hyman M. Myers

1947 Isadore Lopatin 

1930s-1942 Frederick Wielandt
1947 David Schwaritz

1947 Mrs. Sarah Austermuhl

1947 Samuel Varbalow

1920s-1930s Lewis Liberman