Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Kaighn
Avenue

Intersection
of
Kaighn Avenue
&
Front Street

1877

This map shows the John H. Dialogue shipyard, C,B. Coles lumber yard, and several other businesses of the day.

This is a detail from a map in the 1877 City Atlas of Camden, New Jersey. [NjHS]

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The Kaighn's Point & Philadelphia Ferry

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Camden Courier - July 5, 1926

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Reading Pennsylvania Sea Shore Line Ferry
Postcard from late 1920s

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Ferry Hotel
aka 
Joseph Kaighn House

The Ferry Hotel at the foot of Kaighn Avenue and near the Ferry House, was built in 1864 by Dorman & Stout, the contractors for the owner, John E. Reese. Hugh Miller was the first proprietor and kept it until 1868, when it was leased to John Bamford, who has since conducted it.

-History of Camden County, New Jersey
George Reeser Prowell, 1886

John Bamford operated the Ferry Hotel until it was razed in 1889, when the Atlantic City Railway Company, a subsidiary of the Reading Railroad, laid tracks so as to connect with the ferry at Kaighn's Point.

South Ferry Hotel
aka 
Joseph Kaighn House

Built prior to the Revolutionary War, during the British occupation of Philadelphia one of their cannon balls pierced the brick wall of the chimney, and rolled out on the hearth of the open fireplace. As a relic connecting Camden’s history with the  events of the Revolution it was exhibited at the great Sanitary Fair, held in Logan Square In Philadelphia, in 1864, which realized over $1,000,000 in aid of the sick and wounded Union soldiers of the Civil War.

The South Ferry Hotel, located at the southeast corner of Kaighn Avenue and Front Street, has been known to the citizens of Camden as a hotel, and its gardens as a place of resort, for more than a century (1886). Originally it was a farmhouse built by one of the Kaighn family’ the exact date when it was converted into a hotel is unknown, but the names of the landlords are familiar to the old residents, and include Adon Wills, Ebenzer Toole, Captain George Bender, Hewlings Haines, Aaron Hillman William Bryant, John Kinsell, Daniel W. Beckley, Abraham Smith, Sothron Norcross, ex-Sheriff Leeds, Daniel Wells, William Sands, Theodore Krug, and the present proprietor, John Korn

When first opened as a hotel it was close by the river-bank, and the ferry-boats, when started, had their slip across the street. The hotel is now nearly two squares away from the Kaighns Point Ferry, the intervening ground having being filled in and built up to within a short distance of the ferry slip. It, however, still retains the name of South Ferry Hotel. A century ago it was a famous place of resort in the summer days for citizens of Philadelphia.

-History of Camden County, New Jersey
George Reeser Prowell, 1886

Photo dated 1907

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1929 gone

1929 Vacant

1929 gone

1929 Vacant

1862-1890 John Cooper 
Cooper, Stone, & Company
Coal & Hardware 

1929 gone

1883-1884 Theodore Krug 
1918-1919 George Brehm
1926-1931 C. Leonard Brehm
1929 Weiner & Cornfeld
offics of produce business
1947 Gone

Photo dated 1907

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1929 Morris Bloom
produce

1890-1891
George H. Howard Cigars
1918-1919
Anton A. Fredericksen Saloon
1920-1927
Unknown Management Saloon 
1928
James L. Hawkins Saloon 
Closed September, 1928
after gangland murder of
Joseph "Mose" Flannery

1929 Vacant
1947 Building was gone

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1918-1919
Mary Conway Saloon
1926 Leonard Holmes Cafe
1929 Vacant
1947 Gone

1900s-1910s Joseph M. Zinger
restaurant
1929 Vacant

1900s-1910s Nicholas Purcell
restaurant
1929 Joseph M. Zinger
restaurant

1929 Mrs. Mary E. Conway

1929 James Kozanas
restaurant

1880s-1890s
Thomas Daley, Blacksmith
1929 Gone

1929 James Earley
Thomas Daley, Blacksmith

Madeline Slaughter, 28, of 819 South Second Street, was arrested in Philadelphia yesterday at the request of Camden police, who charged her with manslaughter in the death; December 12, of Jerry Brisbane, 36, of 115 Kaighn Avenue.

The Slaughter woman waived extradition and was brought to Camden by Detectives Clifford Carr and Donald Swissler. They signed a complaint charging, her with stabbing Brisbane during an argument at his home. He was dead when discovered by the proprietor of his rooming house, Charles Stewart. 

1937-1938 Charles Stewart 
roominghouse
1937 Jerry Brisbane

Camden Courier-Post
February 5, 1938

1939 James J. Irwin Tavern
1947 Aero Model Supply 

1880 Warren S. Thompson 

POLICE CAN’T STOP RELIGIOUS RACKETS
Prosecutor's Office Indicates Law Is Powerless to Act

The Philadelphia district attorney's office is powerless to curb racketeers so long as they operate under the guise of a religious organization,

That, was admitted yesterday by Patrick J. McKewen, chief of the Philadelphia county detectives, who acted as spokesman for the prosecu­tor's office.

McKewen made the statement when questioned upon what action would be taken against Nicholas Cavallucci, founder and president of the "Home Missionary Relief Worker's Association, Inc." alleged racketeering charity organization,

Cavallucci has established a network of 10 "missions" employing nearly 200 solicitors on a fifty-fifty basis.

The charity association was exposed Monday by newspapers. Following the expose, McKewen admitted that Cavallucci's activities have been under police surveillance for some time and that the "mission" head, recently had been taken to the Philadelphia district attorney's office on charges of running a punch-board racket, Cavallucci was released when he promised to discontinue this sideline.

Camden headquarters of the association, 131 Kaighn Avenue, was dark last night and no one answered the door bell.

1931
Home Missionary
Relief Worker's Association, Inc.
Nicholas Cavalucci
William W. Jones 

I remember my Grandfather talking about the restaurant he owned around 2nd and Kaighn Avenue. It was called "Purcell's Seafood House", and I vaguely remember seeing a photo of my Grandfather standing in front of two large plate glass windows, with the entrance in between them, and a large fern on a pedestal in each window. He was rather short and rotund and had a large white apron on and was smiling with his hands on his hips. He was old and blind when I was a young child (born in 1937) but he told such interesting stories. 

His marriage certificate dated 1905 to Miss Katie Sullivan states his occupation as "restaurant keeper" in Camden, NJ. I remember being told the restaurant failed because "the ferry closed down when the bridge opened up" and he was never the same after that.   

Alicemary McCue Pacella
July 2008

1914-1930s
Purcell's Seafood House
Nicholas Purcell

1930
Calvin & Mathilde Brong
Cigar Store
Corporal Francis J. Marshall

1918-1919 
Jacob Hoffman Saloon
1947 No Listing

1887-1906
Camden National Bank

1947
Gaudio Brothers
Wholesale Produce

1947 Weiner & Cornfeld
wholesale fruit

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1908-1959 Victoria Hotel 
1966 No Bar Listed

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Swisco Inc.
aka Storm Window Service Co.
1959-2006

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1908-1959 Victoria Hotel 
1966 No Bar Listed

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Camden
Cold Storage & Sales Room

Camden Courier-Post
August 1, 1933

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1947-1956
Cashan & Company, Inc.
food products

December 22, 2005

Pavonia Street
was once known as
Kaighn's Alley

1924 Reliable Coat Company
clothes manufacturer

A watchman washing windows set off the burglar alarm at the True­line Cloak Company, 210-14 Kaighn avenue, at 3 a, m. yesterday.

A squad of motorcycle policemen and detectives hurried to the place when word was received at police headquarters that the alarm was ringing.

Herbert Fuller, the watchman told the police that he forgot to shut the alarm, off before he started washing the windows. 

1929-1933 Tru-line Cloak Company

Camden Courier-Post
June 8, 1933

1947 Louis Seltchik Inc.
clothes manufacturer

mid 1880s - early 1940s
W.S. Thompson
Druggist & Livery

January 27, 1939
Banquet Program Ad

1947 Camden Bag & Paper Co.

William J. Cooper Co.
1890-1930s

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1947 
Holy Trinity Baptist Church

I remember my Grandfather talking about the restaurant he owned around 2nd and Kaighn Avenue. It was called "Purcell's Seafood House", and I vaguely remember seeing a photo of my Grandfather standing in front of two large plate glass windows, with the entrance in between them, and a large fern on a pedestal in each window. He was rather short and rotund and had a large white apron on and was smiling with his hands on his hips. He was old and blind when I was a young child (born in 1937) but he told such interesting stories. 

His marriage certificate dated 1905 to Miss Katie Sullivan states his occupation as "restaurant keeper" in Camden, NJ. I remember being told the restaurant failed because "the ferry closed down when the bridge opened up" and he was never the same after that.   

Alicemary McCue Pacella
July 2008

1904-1910s
Purcell's Seafood House
Nicholas Purcell

Frank H. Smith

Frank H. Smith

1890 George Belz
Bakery
1890s-1920s
August Freitag
Bakery
1927-1930s Harry Freitag
Bakery

1947 Frank Gour
variety store
1947 Camden Clown Club

From
273 Kaighn Avenue
April 1, 2005

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April 1, 2005

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1887-1891 Peter D. Strang,
who later founded
P.D. Strang & Son Coal
at 212 Mechanic Street
1918-1919
George E. Kadisch Saloon
1926-1931
Stephen Jolowy Cafe
1939-1947 John J. Stevenson
1947 Jacob Wise Locust Grille
1956 Green Goose Cafe
1966-1984
Brownie's Green Goose Cafe

1918-1920
Harry F. Fricke Saloon
1926 Frank Auletto Cafe

1933 Frank Praissman

1933
Acme Beef Company

1936
Camden Bottling Company
Benjamin P.Rosensweig

1880s-1900s
Benjamin M. Braker

1933
James Bieri

1920s-1930s
Private Charles A. Brunk

1885-1887
Camden National Bank

November 30, 1965

1888-1900 Dr. John D. Leckner

February 20, 1936
G. O. P. CLUB PLANS PARTY

The Fifth Ward Women's Republican Club will hold a card and radio  party at its clubhouse at 263 Kaighn Avenue tonight. Mrs. Flora Hyatt, county committeewoman, is chairman of the committee.

1936 
Fifth Ward Republican Club

1888-1900 Dr. John D. Leckner

1913-1921
Women's Home Ministry Society
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church

1952-2005
Duro Plating Co.

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1952-2005
Duro Plating Co.

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1952-2005
Duro Plating Co.

Joe Minesalle
April 1, 2005

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1952-2005
Duro Plating Co.

Joe Minesalle
April 1, 2005

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1933
Joseph Maister

Kaighn Mansion
    -1921
Deaconess Home
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
1921-1925
Building razed, new building erected on same site

The Neighborhood Center
originally known as the
Deaconess Home
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
1925 - present

April 1, 2005

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The Deaconess' Board of the Women's Home Missionary Society will meet tomorrow morning at 10.30 o'clock in the Deaconess' Home, 278 Kaighn avenue. Mrs. C. Brinkman, the president, will preside. 

Deaconess Home
of the
Methodist Episcopal Church

Camden Courier-Post
June 20, 1933

1910s - early 1920s
James A. Howell

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MRS. CECELIA SHULTZ TO BE BURIED MONDAY

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Monday for Mrs. Cecelia M. Schultz, 45 of 286 Kaighn Avenue, matron at the Cooper Recreation Center, Third and Kaighn Avenue, Mrs. Schultz died Thursday.

Mrs. Schultz is survived by her husband, Frank M. Schultz, two daughters, Isabella and Martha; a son, Richard; two sisters, Mrs. Frank Wurtz and Mrs. Charles Brunk, and a brother, Arthur Naylor. She was a sister of the late Patrolman Charles M. Naylor, who was killed in an automobile accident on White Horse pike May 18, 1930, and who was often referred to as "Camden's most popular policeman," 

1924-1930s Frank & Cecelia Shultz

Camden Courier-Post
June 24, 1933

1926-1929
Anthony McNulty Cafe

Auerbach Family
Simon Auerbach
1890s-1900s
Benjamin Auerbach
1900s-1910s

1933
Joseph Berezty

1870s-1880s
Dr. Henry H. Davis

1906-1955

Becky Silverman Family

Rochester Men's Clothing
aka
Rochester Formal Wear

Left: Owner Herman Levin standing in front of his store at the corner of Kaighn Avenue and South 3rd Street

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Leonard Levin - Myron Levin

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1933 Sturm's Drug Store

Auerbach Family
Philip Auerbach
1890s-1910s

1939 Lauraine Bieri
1940 Joseph Pierzinski
1943-1947 Charles Redemann 
1947-1970 Three-O-Three Bar
1978-1981 Togetherness Bar 

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1910s - Late 1970s
Soffer Electric Supply Co
Fannie Soffer

January 27, 1939
Banquet Program Ad

1888-1889
Robert Mitchell Saloon
1918-1919
Martin A. McNulty Saloon

After Prohibition, Martin A. McNulty went into the hardware and home furnishings business. He resided here until at least 1959.

1920s-1947
Martin A. McNulty
Hardware & Home Furnishings

R. Cavallo & Sons Inc.

1959 Banquet Program Ad

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Auerbach Family
Frank & Katie Auerbach
Sam Auerbach
1900s-1920s

Metropolitan Pocket Billiards
1900s-1920s

Auerbach Family
Lewis & Anna (Auerbach) Blumstein

Samuel Richardson
men's clothing

Camden Courier-Post
August 14, 1933

William Greenberg
1930s-1940s

Camden High school
Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad
February 1940

1907-1909
Dr. Henry Stanley Riddle
1933
Charles A. Bieri
Bar

Bodner Upholstery Company
Philip & Sadie Bodner
1947

1938 Morris Goldstein 

Police were asked last night to search for a 16-year-old girl, missing from her South Camden home since Thursday. The girl is Mary Gordon of 323-1/2 Kaighn Avenue. She left home on Thursday with the intention of visiting Blackwood Lake for a swim. 

Her father, Benjamin, told police she has left home on previous occasions and stayed several days. State police last night began to search the bungalow section of Blackwood Lake 

1933 Israel Stein 

1933 Herman Zelnick 

Lichtensteins's

February 17, 1928
Camden Courier-Post Ad

Camden Storage Co.
Furniture

January 27, 1939
Banquet Program Ad

1920s-1960s
Kaighn Avenue
Plumbing Supplies

Camden Courier-Post
February 7, 1938

1880 George S. Dilmore 

1900s-1910s William B. Stephens

Max Zubrow

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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George S. Dilmore
Saloon
1890s-1900s

William M. Dilmore
William M. Dilmore Bottling Company
1890s-1900s

Baltimore Clothing House
Jake Levin & Son

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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1947 George Zeitz

1914 Joseph Palese
bar
1918-1919 Lawrence Palese
bar

1918-1919 Lawrence Palese
1934-1990s
Camden
Bar & Restaurant Supplies Inc.

Camden Courier Post
May 19, 1964

1933 Abram Lewis

1900s-1920s Premium Tea Co.
1900s-1920s Michael Furer
1900s-1920s Jacob L. Furer

Lobey's Bar
also known as The Four Hundred Bar

1887-1888 William J. Houck
1918-1940 Carl Stahl
1943-1959 Ward's Cafe  
1964-1984 Lobey's Bar
aka the Four Hundred Bar

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November 11, 2003

At the intersection of
South 4th Street,
Newton Avenue & Kaighn Avenue

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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Kline's Shows

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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1906 A.J. Yinger & Co.
Cigars
Alice J. YInger &  William B. Stephens

NEAL'S

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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June 6, 2004

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I Knew Sylvia Katz and I also knew the Afro-American man that worked there by the name of Spencer. On many occasions I purchased paper products, table covers, napkins, and Party supplies. You name it, Katz's had it. I was talking with Spencer recently and he informed me that Sylvia passed away in June of 1993. Katz's was one of the many businesses on Kaighn Avenue between Broadway and the river

Earl Crim, August 2004

1890s-1910s William R. Wood

1890s-1910s Richard S. Marter

1899-1910s William R.W. Marter

1887-1891 James E. Hewitt

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The Dcscind Contracting Company today commenced putting in an entire new front to the establishment of the Newark Shoe Store Company, at 415 Kaighn Avenue.

1922-1924 Newark Shoe Company

Camden Courier-Post
February 9, 1922

1929 Wohlmuth Co.
tailors
1947 Style Center
women's furnishings

1929 Louis Miller
hosiery

1926
Simon & Rebecca Sosenko
Anna Sosenko
Jacob J. "Jay Jerome" Sosenko
Ruth Sosenko
Kosher Restaurant

1900s-1920s
Samuel Goldstein
Gents' Furnishings

1900s-1920s
Banner Laundry
L. Eggleston
also had 2 Philadelphia branches

Not in Camden 1887-1891 or in 1906
I'm guessing this is form 1886 or earlier- PMC

House Of Ruttenberg

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I remember when TV first became popular. Before we had one the House of Ruttenberg's on Kaighn Avenue had TV sets in front display window with loud speakers outside so you could hear TV and see TV in action. I remember my grandfather putting newspaper inside our coats to keep us warm and going over to Kaighn Avenue to watch the Lone Ranger. There would be a large crowd of people watching even through it was cold as hell. He thought TV was marvelous thing- 

John Ciafrani

House Of Ruttenberg

Camden Courier-Post
May 19, 1964

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JOE'S

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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Charged with being a hit-run driver after his automobile had struck and injured Robert Siris, 14, James E. Patterson, 55, of 587 Mickle Street, was arrested last night and later released in $100 cash security for a hearing today. 

Charges against Patterson were made by Jacob Siris. of 420 Kaighn Avenue, father of the boy. He told police his son was leaning against his automobile when Patterson's car struck another machine and skidded across the street, striking the boy. who was cut and bruised. 

Patterson, who was arrested two squares from the accident. denied the hit-run charge. He said he stopped his machine following the crash and offered to take the boy to the hospital, and gave his license number to the father. The father, Patterson said, refused his aid. 

Cash bail for Patterson was furnished by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, 87, of the Mickle Street address.

1933 Jacob Siris

Camden Courier-Post
June 22, 1933

1910s to 1960s
A. Feldman & Sons
Abraham Feldman

January 27, 1939
Banquet Program Ad

CAMDEN DRY GOODS
COMPANY

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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1921-1922 The Economy Store

Destroyed by fire on January 18, 1922. Fire Captain Martin Carrigan died the next day of injuries suffered combating the blaze.

1866
George R. Danenhower Grocer

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Joe Ruttenberg
Hardware

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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Joe Ruttenberg
Hardware

Camden Courier-Post
February 1, 1933

1920s-1930s
Samuel Goldstein & Sons
Delicatessen

1890s-1900s
The Moritz Family
Sergeant Max F. Moritz

1910s-1960s
Dr. Samuel Yubas

1919 Banquet Program Ad

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INVISIBLE EYEGLASSES BEING OFFERED HERE

Invisible optical glasses as an aid to better vision.

That is the latest invention and they are being offered to Camden residents for the first time by Dr. S. L. Yubas, of 431 Kaighn Avenue. They are known as contact glasses.

They are a saucer shaped glass, which is worn under the eyelid in direct contact with the eye itself. These glasses can hardly be seen while the patient is wearing them.

Stage and screen luminaries are said to favor them. Libby Holman is reputed to be one of the staunch users. Joan Crawford, famous screen star, uses them in the studios.

"The secret of it lays not in the main disc itself but a smaller super­imposed disc inside," Dr. Yubas says. "Inside this small disc is a patented liquid, the key to the optical aid. Some people may think this will injure the eye but it will not hurt them as it sets on the white of the eye ball." 

1910s-1960s
Dr. Samuel Yubas

Camden Courier-Post
June 6, 1933

1910s-1960s
Dr. Samuel Yubas

Camden Courier-Post
Advertisement
June 1, 1939

Camden Optical Stores
&
Dr. George W. Frost

Camden Courier-Post Advertisement
June 1, 1939

Harry Bodner
Home Furnishings
1947

1920-1921 George Brehm Cafe

192701928 The Fashion Shop

1947 Maxine Hosiery Shop

A Furnished Room for Rent
November 30, 1965

December 22, 2005

1947
New Jersey Food
Hyman Beran
2005
Henry Supply

Late 1870s-early 1880s
John K. Hewitt

1886 First meeting of the
Guarantee Building & Loan Association
Harry F. Wolfe, President
1886-1936

Camden Courier-Post
February 20, 1936

The Ruttenberg Store, Inc

November 30, 1965
Henry Supply

December 22, 2005
Henry Supply

Dallas R. Cann
successor to J.H. Knerr
jeweler

Camden Courier-Post Advertisement
October 30, 1931

1933 Charles White

1875-1890 George F. Hammond

1913
Albert E. Strack
Bottler

Star Lighting Fixture Co.

Camden Courier-Post Ad
January 27, 1928

Ostroff's
Kosher Meat Market

1947

Star Lighting Fixture Co.

Camden Courier-Post Ad
January 27, 1928

BANK TELLER IS HELD FOR SHORTAGE OF $2000

Alleged to have embezzled approxi­mately $2000 from the South Camden branch of the First Camden National Bank and Trust Company, a former teller was held in $3000 bail by U. S. Commissioner Wynn Armstrong yesterday on a Federal warrant.

The accused man is Nelson Lamar, 36, of 445 Kaighn Avenue, an employee of the bank for 17 years. He waived a hearing and was committed to the county jail in default of bail, pend­ing action by the federal grand jury. 

Nelson Lamar

Camden Courier-Post
April 11,1930