Camden Streets - High Street

Streets
of
Camden, NJ

High
Street

HIGH STREET runs east from 114 East State Street, parallel to Federal Street to North 26th Street, where it doglegs to the left, and continues to North 30th Street, running parallel to Westfield Avenue. High Street begins again at North 32nd Street, and runs all the way to the border with Pennsauken at North 42nd Street, from where it continues in Pennsauken all the way to Cove Road. ending opposite Arlington and Bethel Cemeteries.

Outside of a few corner stores, most of of the buildings on High Street were and are residential. The two great exceptions are the Thomas H. Dudley School between North 23rd and North 24th Streets, and the Henry H. Davis School between North 24th Street and North 36th Street.

From the winter of 1985 on until the present day, however, there has been a great amount of "business" activity, on the corner of North 25th Street and High Street, which has been a notorious drug corner for over 20 years.

Do you have an High Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

Phil Cohen
Saturday, December 20, 2008

High Street
Beginning and Ends Marked with Red Boxes

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Intersection High Street & State Street

Intersection High Street & Stewart Street

2000 Block of High Street
ik	2000 High Street World War II Technician Fifth Class Angelo Frank Derago
	2031 High Street
	2033 High Street
	2034 High Street
	2035 High Street
	2036 High Street
	2037 High Street 1924 William Judge fire fighter William & Anna Judge
	2038 High Street World War I Private Albert J.P. Atger
	2038 High Street
	2039 High Street
	2041 High Street
	2043 High Street
	2043 High Street 1933 Florence Taylor "Miss Walt Whitman" contestant Camden Courier-Post June 19, 1933
	2045 High Street
	2047 High Street
	2049 High Street

Intersection High Street & Stewart Street

2000 Block of High Street
	2061 High Street
	2063 High Street
	2065 High Street
	2067 High Street 1917-1918 John Allen
	2069 High Street
	2070 High Street
	2071 High Street
	2073 High Street

Intersection High Street & North 21st Street

2100 Block of High Street
	2100 High Street

Intersection High Street & North 22nd Street

2200 Block of High Street
	2200 High Street

Intersection High Street & North 23rd Street

2300 Block of High Street

Thomas J. Dudley Elementary School
as seen from
Southwest Corner
North 23rd Street & High Street

February 1, 2004

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Intersection High Street & North 24th Street

2400 Block of High Street
	2400 High Street

Intersection High Street & North 25th Street

2500 Block of High Street
	2500 High Street

2600 Block of High Street
	2607 High Street
	2608 High Street
	2609 High Street
	2610 High Street
	2611 High Street
	2612 High Street
	2613 High Street
	2618 High Street
	2620 High Street
My name is Hector Gonzalez. I am the youngest son of Digna Gonzalez. We originally moved to Camden and resided temporarily on Bailey Street and then later to Westminister Avenue at the McGuire Gardens projects. We were poor and my mother was raising 5 children alone. She received her GED and later graduated from Pennsauken Tech with a Registered Nursing degree and began working at Cooper Hospital . Not bad for a woman who also had to learn English! Finally in 1969 my mother moved us to our first house on 2620 High Street. We were the first Hispanic family on the block. We were so proud and happy. I remember the RCA store on the corner of 27^th Street and High Street. My mother purchased almost all of our appliances here until they closed down. Around the corner on 27^th Street was a mom and pop candy store that we enjoyed for years until the store closed. Across the street from our house was Tony’s Auto. They fixed our car for us whenever it was needed. I played little league baseball around the corner on 26^th Street for 12^th Ward. We had it made. At first we were not always accepted. It must have been hard for the neighbors to open their community to this Hispanic family but eventually we were. I remember Mr. Jack (I do not remember his last name), he became a surrogate father to me. He taught me to love baseball and especially the Phillies. I remember Mr. Johnson. He and his wife would allow me to play with their by then grown children’s childhood toys. I remember feeling the trust and always played with these toys respectfully. My mother raised all of her children and lived in the house until September, 1992. My mother moved out of the house on a Sunday. On Monday a new family moved in. On Tuesday the house next door caught on Fire and destroyed both properties. Today, 2620 is an empty lot.	2620 High Street 1969-1992 Digna Gonzalez & Family Hector Gonzalez

Intersection of North 27th Street & High Street

2700 Block of High Street
	2710 High Street
	2724 High Street 1969-1970s The Paynter Family Lewis Paynter
	2728 High Street

Intersection High Street & North 28th Street

2800 Block of High Street
	2812 High Street
	2829 High Street

Intersection High Street & North 29th Street

2900 Block of High Street
	North 29th Street & High Street Below: View from North 29th Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge

	2900 High Street Below: View from North 29th Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge

	2900 High Street
	2901 High Street
	2902 High Street photo from about 1928 Click on Image to Enlarge
RAHWAY GETS MAN FOR THEFT OF $20 Defendant at Pennsauken Found Guilty by Jury in 3-Year-Old Robbery James Brody, 22, of 4341 Fortythird Street, Pennsauken Township, yesterday was sentenced to serve an indefinite term in Rahway Reformatory today in Criminal Court. A jury found him guilty of participation in a $20 robbery three years ago. The jury deliberated for one hour and a half. The state charged that Brody, in company with Harry Schultz, 2162 Berwick Street, and William Dempsey, 2271 Mickle Street, went to the candy store of Mrs. Celia Schulman, 2902 High Street, threatened her with a pistol and took the money on Oct. 23, 1930. Schultz and Dempsey were subsequently arrested, tried and sentenced to two years each. Brody was in dicted and declared a fugitive. In court yesterday Brody denied that he had made an attempt to evade arrest and said he had been working as a hand on a dredge in the Delaware River. He said if there was a holdup he knew nothing about it for on the day in question he was intoxicated and merely took a ride with the two convicted bandits. "I was so drunk I don't remember anything," he declared. "If there was a holdup, I had nothing to do with it;" A fatal automobile accident resulted in Brody's arrest on the holdup charge. On the 28th of last month William Urban, 60, 109 Allen's Court, a passenger in Brody's car, was killed when the machine collided with a bus. During the subsequent investigation of the crash, Detective William Lehman remembered that a fugitive warrant had never been served on Brody and placed him under arrest.	2902 High Street 1932 Mrs. Celia Schulman Camden Courier-Post June 21, 1933
	2902 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2902 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2903 High Street
	2904 High Street
	2905 & 2907 High Street 1920s Click on Image to Enlarge
	2905, 2907 & 2909 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2905 High Street July 25, 2006 Captain Howard J. Meyer
	2905 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2906 High Street
	2907 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2909 High Street
	2911 High Street
	2913 High Street 1914-1920s Theodore Elverson Family Theodore & Frances Elverson Harry J. Allebach 1942-1947 William Buckner Atkinson Family
	2914 High Street 1885-1914 Joseph Norman Hettel Sr.
	2914 High Street 1947 Fred C. Ammendorf
	2916 High Street 1924 Wilbert Showell
	2917 High Street 1924 Robert Pickering 1947 Mrs. Ellis Pickering
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family
	2917 & 2919 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2917 & 2919 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2917 & 2919 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2917 & 2919 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family about 1910 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family about 1906 Looking across High Street from the porch of 2919, taken at the same time as the photo immediately above. Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family Trenton NJ Times November 14, 1912 Carl Kellman Jr. was murdered on October 13, 1912 in the course of a robbery by Harry Duffiield and Frederick "Cowboy Pete" Coursey, who were tried and convicted. Sentenced to 15 and 30 years in prison respectively, they were paroled in 1920.
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family This was taken a few years later. Note the hedge not in the above photo. From the hair style the young woman at the gate has, I'm guessing before World War I. Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family Charles (Carl) Kellman Sr. in side yard looking towards High Street Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family in side yard looking towards High Street Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family Carl Kellman Sr. in side yard looking from High Street Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family This was taken at same time as the photo immediately above, perhaps late 1920s or 1930s. See how the hedge has progessed, and note that by now the porch has been screened in. Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1890s-1940s Carl & Lulu Kellman Family Lulu Kellman in her kitchen 1930s-1940s Click on Image to Enlarge
	2919 High Street 1947 Edward W. Bates
	2920 High Street
	2922 High Street
	2923 High Street
	2923 to 2937 High Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	2924 High Street
	2925 High Street 1920s-1930s David Humphries Camden Fire Fighter
	2926 High Street
	2927 High Street 1924 William H Stratton 1930s-1960s William West Sr. Family Mrs. Jennie Breyer West William West Jr. Ralph West
	2927 High Street 1930s-1960s Ralph West Click on Images to Enlarge These photos are Ralph West when he was in the USN and later USAF. He was the son of my sister who lived at 2927 High St. F. Breyer July 31, 2006
	2928 High Street
	2929 High Street
	2930 High Street
	2931 High Street 1924-1930s Harry J. Allebach
	2933 High Street
	2935 High Street
	2936 High Street
	2937 High Street 1900s-1910s Theodore Elverson Family Theodore & Frances Elverson Myrtle Elverson Minnie Elverson Russell Elverson Naomi Elverson Consuelo Elverson George Elverson Buelah Elverson Orville Elverson
	2940 High Street
	2942 High Street
	2944 High Street
	2946 High Street
	2900 Block of High Street Below: View from North 30th Street July 25, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge
	North 30th Street & High Street
	1906 Sanborn Map Showing High Street from 2936 High Street to North 30th Street Click on Image to Supersize

Intersection High Street & North 30th Street

3200 Block of High Street
	3200 High Street

3300 Block of High Street
	3300 High Street

Intersection of North 34th Street & High Street

3400 Block of High Street
	3400 High Street

3500 Block of High Street
	3500 High Street

Intersection of North 36th Street & High Street

3600 Block of High Street
	3600 High Street

3700 Block of High Street
	3700 High Street

3800 Block of High Street
	3800 High Street

3900 Block of High Street
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4000 Block of High Street
	4000 High Street

4100 Block of High Street
	4100 High Street