Camden Streets - Bergen Avenue

900 Block of Bergen Avenue
	908 Bergen Avenue 1924 William Eichley 1947 William F. Eichley Jr.
	957 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Michael Byrne
	957 Bergen Avenue 2005 The Cruz Family Anibal Cruz, 11, Daniel Agosto, 6, and Jesstin Pagan, 5, were found dead in the trunk of a red 1992 Toyota Camry parked in Cruz's backyard at 957 Bergen Ave. on June 24, 2005. Left unsupervised, they had locked themselves in the trunk 50 hours prior to being found.
	959 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Marcus A. Georgette
	961 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Granville C. Wright
	963 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 George J. Phillips

1000 Block of Bergen Avenue
	1013 Bergen Avenue 1924 Vacant 1930s Clark Hoover 1947 Gone
	1017 Bergen Avenue 1924 Howard R. Marshall 1947 Hugh R. McKeeman
	1018 Bergen Avenue 1924 Thomas Murray 1947-1950s William E. Diehl
	1020 Bergen Avenue 1924 Edward J. Nestor grocer 1947 George J. Hauser 1950s-1960s Edward William Clark
	1021 Bergen Avenue 1924 Charles Marshall 1947 Robert W. Knowles 1953-1960s The Arensberg Family
	1022 Bergen Avenue 1924-1950s John L. Straub
	1027 Bergen Avenue 1924-1947 David W. Garraway contractor
	1028 Bergen Avenue 1924 Charles A. Moss 1947 George W.C. Stein
	1053 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 William J. Fanning

1100 Block of Bergen Avenue
	1100 Bergen Avenue 1924 Harry S. Piper 1947 Gone
	1115 Bergen Avenue 1924 Daniel S. Vanteer plumber 1947 Gone
	1119 Bergen Avenue 1924 Annie T. Brogan 1947 Gone
	1125 Bergen Avenue 1924 Thomas A. Bailey 1947 Gone
	1169 Bergen Avenue 1947 No building yet 1950s-1960s J.J. Murtaugh Jr.
	1179 Bergen Avenue 1924-1947 William Aitken
	1180 Bergen Avenue 1924 Mrs. Florence Munger 1924 Joseph Munger contractor 1930s Elmer P. Ross grocery 1947 Anthony Laubert grocery
	1183 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Philip Kaplin 1947 Chester W. Bray

1200 Block of Bergen Avenue
	1211 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1933 Thomas Henry 1947 William H. Laverty
	1213 Bergen Avenue 194 Frank W. Dusine 1947 Otto Schukay
	1215 Bergen Avenue 1924 Thomas H. Cook 1947 Thomas Upperman
	1218 Bergen Avenue 1924 George Hillary 1947 Gone
	1223 Bergen Avenue 1924 Harry D. Reinert 1947 Vacant
	1228 Bergen Avenue 1924 Charles L. Sees 1947 Emil J. Smith
	1240 Bergen Avenue 1924-1947 Howard A. Walker 1950s-1960s The Namm Family
	1241 Bergen Avenue 1924 John H. Mailahn 1947 Milton J. Kelly
	1243 Bergen Avenue 1924 Benjamin F. Downey 1947 Harry L. Cassidy
	1244 Bergen Avenue 1924 North Shore Improvement Associaition 1924-1947 Louis H. Moritz
	1245 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Earl Borman
	1249 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Herbert T. McDaniel

1200 Block of Bergen Avenue

We moved to Bergen "Avenue" in 1953. We lived at 1021 Bergen Avenue which is still there. There used to be a red house next to the lot which was Engle's Bar. The lot belonged to the bar. My mom and dad bought this, their first house after renting the home of my dad's brother and his wife on Fairview Street in Morgan Village. My dad's brother was career Navy and was a Master Chief who was sent to Viet Nam in 1953 as part of the advisors which were being sent by our government. This is the first place that my aunt couldn't go and she and her son lived in the house on Fairview Street, and my mom and dad and my sister and I moved to Bergen Avenue.

We lived across the street from the Clark family. They were at 1020 Bergen. They were Mary and Ed and their kids were Mary, Terry, Sandy, Pam, and a few years later, Ed. Next to them was the William Diehl family. Denny Diehl was a Camden fireman. On the other side of the clark family was the Straub family. Mr and Mrs. Straub were older as I remember them. They had quite a few grow children, two of which worked as steel workers on the Walt Whitman Bridge. The younger son was killed from a fall off the bridge when they were building it. ( I haven't thought about that in years.).

On the corner of Bergen Avenue on the north east side was the little shoe store that was run by the woman who also lived upstairs. School shoes were always bought there. One pair for school and one pair for church. Opposite the shoe store was Louie's furniture store. It was a glass front store, and Louie was always standing out front. I always wondered how he managed to stay in business when there was never anyone in the store. But he always had a suit and tie on and was standing there watching the traffic on River Road. I remember as a child the suitcase factory that burned one summer night. It was opposite Engle's Bar and parking lot. It went up in a ball of flames. I think it is still an empty lot?

I remember riding our bikes and jumping rope until the sun went down. So many kids to play with and no one ever argued and rarely did we get into trouble. I also remember the house next to my parents house had an apartment upstairs where a young family lived. There was a son and a daughter. The man and his father who owned that house lived downstairs. They kept to themselves and as kids we were afraid of them because they were really strange. It was also a tragedy that the son, Eddie Marin or Maren died by drowning when we were in elementary school and then his sister Ellen was one of the group of kids who died when we were in junior high from the accident when the car that all of the kids had piled into went off the road and over an overpass onto high tension wires in Atco. I think only two kids lived out of about 8-9.

Bergen Avenue was really a quiet street. The Murtaughs lived in the 1100 hundred and the Namns lived in the 1200 block. I can remember Louie Namm walking by our house in the evening coming from the Jewish classes that he took in the evenings, and later Carol and her younger sister. I remember Sandy Lyndsey and her family, and Terry Bruccollere who lived in the row houses up the street. We all walked to school together to Sharp school and later to Vets and Wilson. Those were the good old days when you could actually walk the streets of Cramer Hill without fear.

I can remember going to Frank & Toms which was the grocery store on the corner of River Rd, and 32nd street. It changed names so many time while I was growing up. The drug store at 32nd and River Rd where Unruh did his infamous tragic act of killing everyone. My mother in law had just walked past that corner with my husband in a stroller shortly before the killing spree took place.

There was a Cleaner and Al's Barber Shop with the infamous pony that all the kids used to sit on while getting their haircuts. Next to the barber shop was the sub shop that I used to walk by on my way home from school at lunch time. My favorite smell in the whole world. I have never tasted a sub quite like that place. Then of course there was Pelligrino's beauty parlor next to the cleaner. Thinking back on this, it was so convenient to have everything so close. We would catch a bus right at the corner of 33rd and River (the 1280) or the #9 to Philly. We would also meet at the corner of Bergen and River on 'Friday nights to go skating in Fairview. The bus would come by and pick us up and bring us back at 10. God I miss those days.

Dolores Arensberg Campbell
July 27, 2006

800 Block of Bergen Avenue
	833 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Frederick Bennett
	843 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Charles W. Reynolds
	859 Bergen Avenue 1924 William D. Moore 1924 Mrs. Mary H. Pattin 1947 James P. Aide
	860 Bergen Avenue 1924 No building yet 1947 Edmund J. Cody