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After the establishment of the Ferry at Kaighn’s Point, a petition was for a road to connect the ferry with the bridge over Cooper’s Creek on the “Great Road to Burlington” was granted by the court. The route as recorded on June 30, 1810 began at the westerly end of the cause way leading to the bridge know known as the Federal Street bridge, and intersected ”Kaighn’s Lane (Kaighn Avenue) at Fourth Street. On earlier maps this road was known as “Cooper’s Creek Road” or “Brace Road”. In 1866 the name Newton Avenue was adopted.* Late in the 19th century, Camden built its first high school at the northwest corner of Newton and Haddon Avenues. This school was renamed Junior High School Number 1 upon the completion of the present Camden High School in 1918, and later renamed as Clara Burrough Junior High School. * Rambles Through Old Highways and Byways of West Jersey – Charles S. Boyer – Camden County Historical Society, Camden NJ 1967 - Edited by Phillip Cohen in the interest of clarity to present-day readers, July 2003 |
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Do you have a Newton Avenue memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here. |
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Intersection of Federal Street & Newton Avenue |
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300 Block of Newton Avenue |
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196 Newton Avenue 1924 Public Service
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198 Newton Avenue 1924 Camden Club Ball
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300 Block of Newton Avenue |
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350 Newton Avenue 1929 Public Service
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For the Veterans To the Editor: Sir-In answer to Mr. Simpkins' letter to the Mail Bag of January 26. I wish to commend you, Mr. Simpkins for your splendid thought and forsight, experienced on your trips to Veterans Homes in Pennsylvania. I agree with you that such a thing as a bugle and drum corps and a post being different organizations of the same family is absolutely wrong. They must under all circumstances be one big family. But you speak of there being too many post homes in Camden to allow anyone of these to have a good home or bugle corps. Mr. Simpkins, or, may I call you "comrade," we do have a post and a splendid bugle and drum corps that has won recognition in Pennsylvania and New Jersey that Camden should be very proud of. The Public Service Bugle and Drum Corps of the American Legion has a membership of 48 members to date and extends to you V. F. W. Post 980 all wishes of success for another bugle and drum corps for Camden city, the key city to the playground of the world. I believe with you, Mr. Simpkins, Camden needs boosters and we as veteran organizations can do well in bringing this booster to our city. ROBERT
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350 Newton Avenue 1938 American Legion Post 231 Camden
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350 Newton Avenue 1947 Old Reliable
Supply & Equipment |
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Intersection of Border Street & Newton Avenue |
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Intersection of Carteret Street & Newton Avenue |
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400 Block of Newton Avenue |
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451 Newton Avenue 1924-1947
Tims Restaurant |
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452 Newton Avenue 1924-1929
Joseph Rickler |
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495 Newton Avenue 1924-1929
Dominic D'Andrea |
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496 Newton Avenue 1920s-1939
Herbert
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498 Newton Avenue 1924 Mrs. Cora Pike |
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Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Newton Avenue |
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Northeast Corner 1890s-1957 |
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1949 Northeast
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461 Haddon
Avenue Southeast Corner
500 Haddon
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1949 Looking South on Haddon Avenue Southeast Corner Northwest Corner Click on Image to Enalrge |
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Late 1930s Looking West Standing Next to From Left: Click on Image to Enalrge |
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Intersection of Haddon Avenue & Newton Avenue Between 499 Newton Avenue, which is at Newton and Berkley Street, 461 Haddon Avenue, formerly Clarence K. Bushey's Drugstore, has the frontage onto Newton Avenue. The pictures below were taken looking east on Newton Avenue and in the backyard of 461 Haddon Avenue |
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David
M. Bushey Jr. grandson of Clarence K. Bushey & Walter Brannock circa 1939 |
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David
M. Bushey Jr. grandson of Clarence K. Bushey & Walter Brannock circa 1939 |
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Walter
Brannock and his grandson David M. Bushey Jr. Photo in the backyard of 461 Haddon Avenue circa 1939 |
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400 Block of Newton Avenue |
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499 Newton Avenue 1947
Fred's Market |
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499-1/2 Newton Avenue 1924 Marius Greenberg |
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Intersection of Trenton Avenue & Newton Avenue |
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Trenton Avenue
Laurence LaMaina |
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501
Trenton Avenue
The bar at Newton and Trenton Avenues was operated by the LaMaina family for many years. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Nick LaMaina procured a liquor license, and opened LaMaina's Cafe, which was well known for its jumbo sandwiches. 501 Trenton Avenue was known as Stanley's Tavern in the mid 1950s, and Petro's Cafe by 1959. During the mid-1960s and early 1970 it was called Syl's Tavern. After standing vacant through most of the 1980s and 1990s, the bar was razed. |
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Intersection of Berkley Street & Newton Avenue |
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500 Block of Newton Avenue |
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500 Newton Avenue 1924 E. Albert Field |
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501-503 Newton Avenue 1929 Vacant |
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503 Newton Avenue 1924 Katherine W.
Corson |
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505 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 Great
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company |
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506 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 John
Magnanini |
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507 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 Isadore Stern |
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511 Newton Avenue 1887-1920s James Lennox
Family 1924-1947 Julius Richterman |
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511 Newton Avenue |
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513 Newton Avenue 1924 James Lennox
Family 1924-1947 Julius Richterman |
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517 Newton Avenue 1924 William A. Cleary |
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517 Newton Avenue 1929-1939 Eggie Lennox |
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517 Newton Avenue 1947 Julius Richterman |
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517 Newton Avenue 1947 Mrs. Grace Mulford |
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519 Newton Avenue 1947 American Stores |
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Intersection of Clinton Street & Newton Avenue |
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500 Block of Newton Avenue |
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520 Newton Avenue 1924
Charles Merfeld |
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522 Newton Avenue 1924-1947 Frederick W. Brown |
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523 Newton Avenue 1924-1929
New Home Market |
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524 Newton Avenue 1924-1947 Edmund H. Ward |
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525 Newton Avenue 1924
Ethel R. Ireland |
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529 Newton Avenue 1924-1947 |
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529 Newton Avenue 1920s-1940s |
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529 Newton Avenue |
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529 Newton Avenue 1960s-1980s Eugene F. Alston |
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531 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 Dennis J.
Ryan |
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536 Newton Avenue 1924 Can-U-Tel-Lo-Co |
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539 Newton Avenue 1906 Charles L. Wood |
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Man Gets 50 Days For Taking Taxi To 'Fool' Friend What he declared was intended only as a practical joke sent a South Camden man to the county jail for 50 days when he was arraigned in police court yesterday on a charge of stealing a taxicab. Police Judge Pancoast failed to see the humor of the situation when Walter M. Drake, 23, of 539 Newton Avenue, said he had taken the taxicab only because he believed it was in charge of a friend and he wanted to play a practical joke on him. He learned later, he admitted, that the cab was not operated by his friend, but by another driver. Acting Police Sergeant Frank Crawford testified he was on Sixth street when he saw Drake enter the driver's seat of a taxicab and drive away. Crawford said he overtook the cab and arrested Drake, who appeared to be intoxicated. Drake told the court he had been married only two months ago and asked for leniency. Judge Pancoast fined him $50 and sent him to jail for 50 days when he was unable to pay the fine, after the judge had been informed Drake is on parole from New York, where he was sentenced for stealing an automobile. |
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556 Newton Avenue 1917-1947 Clarence K. Bushey Clarence
K. Bushey Photo from about 1939 Clarence K. Bushey operated a pharmacy at 461 Hafddon Avenue, the corner of Haddon and Newton Avenues, from the 1920s through the mid-1950s. Click on Image to Enlarge |
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558 Newton Avenue 1924 Dr. Robert S.
Gamon |
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Intersection of Royden Street & Newton Avenue |
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Intersection of Line Street & Newton Avenue |
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600 Block of Newton Avenue |
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600 Newton Avenue 1924-1947 Edmund Gray |
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612 Newton Avenue 1910s-1920
David
S. Paul |
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620 Newton Avenue 1924 No Listing |
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629 Newton Avenue 1924 Fred Biederman |
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631 Newton Avenue 1924 No Listing |
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of Newton Avenue & South 7th Street |
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Northeast Corner 1924 Penn Pressed Metal |
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Southeast Corner South 7th Street About 1993 The former J.D. Johnson |
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Southeast Corner South 7th Street October 30, 2004 |
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Southeast Corner South 7th Street October 30, 2004 |
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South 7th Street J.D. Johnson Plumbing Supply
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South 7th Street J.D. Johnson Plumbing Supply
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Intersection of Pine Street & Newton Avenue |
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600 Block of Newton Avenue |
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805 Newton Avenue 1924 David Jacobs |
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830 Newton Avenue 1929-1947 J.D. Johnson
Company Inc. |
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831 Newton Avenue 1924 Charles McCloskey |
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Intersection of Division Street & Newton Avenue |
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600 Block of Newton Avenue |
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832 Newton Avenue 1924 Edward McKeown |
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METER TAPPERS JAILED Three men who entered pleas of guilty to stealing gas or electricity from the Public Service were sent to the county jail for 30 days each in default of $25 tines yesterday by Police Judge Pancoast. Harry Hansen, 2733 Tyler avenue, admitted putting a detachment on his gas meter to prevent it registering. L. M. Thompson, chief clerk for Public Service, testified the device was discovered January 5. Richard Fearon, 833 Newton avenue, put a "run-around" on his electric meter because he had been out of work he told Judge Pancoast after Thompson had testified the alleged theft was discovered January 13. John Waldner, 814 North Thirty-fourth street, said his wife was ill and he tapped the main feed line to obtain gas. He said they had four children. Thompson said Public Service employees discovered the alteration on January 10. Waldner's meter was shut off in November for nonpayment of gas bills. |
833 Newton Avenue 1924-1947 Richard Fearon Camden
Courier-Post
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840 Newton Avenue 1929 Gulf Refining
Company |
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841 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 Clarence
Boyer |
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Intersection of Spruce Street & Newton Avenue |
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Intersection of South 6th Street & Newton Avenue |
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900 Block of Newton Avenue |
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902 Newton Avenue 1924 John Flood |
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904-906 Newton Avenue 1947 Chick's Atlantic |
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906 Newton Avenue 1924
Mrs. E.E> Gross |
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908 Newton Avenue 1947 Lawrence Palese |
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913 Newton Avenue 1947 Francis McGuckin |
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918 Newton Avenue 1890s
Henry Bishop Family |
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918 Newton Avenue 1929
Frank Balestra |
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920 Newton Avenue 1929
Philip Demare |
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924 Newton Avenue 1924
Thomas Peak |
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933 Newton Avenue 1887 Ferdinand F. Sell |
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934 Newton Avenue 1910-1914
Henry Bishop Family |
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934 Newton Avenue 1924 Thomas Peak |
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936 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 Mrs. Mary Sage |
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936-938 Newton Avenue 1947 Vincent DiGrazia |
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938 Newton Avenue 1924 William Dyer |
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CHIEF RESCUES SAVINGS OF WOMAN The savings of a widow were saved last night by Battalion Chief Charles Errickson as flames destroyed a photographic studio in her home at 939Newton Avenue. Erickson
worked his way through dense smoke at the home of Mrs. Carrie C.
Perkinpine to get her savings in a small box in a second story bedroom. Mrs.
Perkinpine lived with her son, Leonard J. Farrar, who has been
unemployed two years. He was to have started
work as a photographer
next Monday but all of
his equipment, including a camera, were lost in the fire. “I
had banked the furnace in the cellar for the night and was reading in
the dining room when I heard a crackling noise," Mrs. Perkinpine
said. "I opened the cellar door and was nearly overcome by a gust
of smoke.” She
ran to the home of neighbors across the street and they called the fire
department. Four companies responded under Errickson. The fire spread to
the photographic studio set up in the cellar by Farrar and destroyed his
developing and enlarging equipment as well as the camera. Firemen were
unable to account for the origin of the blaze unless sparks from the
furnace ignited a pile of rubbish in the cellar. The tire was confined
to the cellar although the upper rooms were damaged by smoke. Three other families were forced to flee their homes because of smoke from the Perkinpine home. |
939 Newton Avenue 1936 Mrs. Carrie
Perkinpine Camden
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939 Newton Avenue 1947 Paul Beach |
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940 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 William F.
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900 Block of Newton Avenue |
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941 Newton Avenue 1924 Otto J. Walter |
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947 Newton Avenue 1924 Charles McCann Jr. |
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949 Newton Avenue 1924 John Purdy |
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956 Newton Avenue 1924 Dr. Louis Mackler |
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Intersection of Walnut Street & Newton Avenue |
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1000 Block of Newton Avenue |
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1000 Newton Avenue 1924-1929 Dr. Samuel S.
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1002 Newton Avenue 1929 Lyric Floral Shop |
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1004 Newton Avenue 1924 |
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1006 Newton Avenue 1909-1912 |
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1008 Newton Avenue 1924 Vacant |
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1010 Newton Avenue 1924 Howard F. Lupton |
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Broadway North of Newton Avenue circa 1980 from left 1007, 1005, 1003, 1001 & 941 Broadway 941 Broadway is the 3 story building, and was the home of the Globe Furniture Company when the photo was taken. |
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Broadway North of Newton Avenue circa 1980 from left 1007, 1005, 1003, 1001 & 941 Broadway 941 Broadway is the 3 story building, and was the home of the Globe Furniture Company when the photo was taken. |
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Intersection of Broadway & Newton Avenue |
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Broadway (Broadway & Walnut Street) 1926 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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North on Broadway From the SE corner of Broadway & Newton Avenue 1940s 932-934 Broadway London Tailors 1000 Broadway |
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1012
Broadway
Crystal Cleaners & Tailors Camden High School |
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1015
Broadway
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1015
Broadway
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1019 Broadway 1947 United Men's Store |
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Intersection of Mt. Vernon Street & Newton Avenue |
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Union Photo taken September 2003 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1016 Newton Avenue
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1018 Newton Avenue 1924 Thomas Godfrey |
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1020 Newton Avenue 1924 Harry Davis |
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SPECIAL OFFICER PAYS FOR WARRANT A special officer who procured a warrant from a justice of the peace for a man he accused of threatening to hit him and thus causing the city to spend $4.75 was reprimanded yesterday by Police Judge Pancoast. "As a special officer of the city you have the power to arrest anyone committing a crime," Judge Pancoast said. "Yet, when you say this prisoner threatened to hit you and became abusive, instead of arresting him, you go get a justice of the peace warrant, which costs the city $4.75". "In, this case; however. you are going to pay the $4.75, for I am going to suspend sentence on this, defendant and assess the costs against the complainant." The defendant was John Kuebler, 1018 Newton Avenue. He was arrested upon complaint of Special Officer William Bishop, 1022 Newton Avenue. Bishop, as a special officer, watches parked automobiles near a Broadway theatre. |
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1022 Newton Avenue 1924 Mrs. A. Nickerson |
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1024 Newton Avenue 1924 Otto Kuebler |
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1026 Newton Avenue 1929 Mrs. Ellen Burl |
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1100 Newton Avenue
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1101 Newton Avenue
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1102 Newton Avenue
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1102 Newton Avenue
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1113 Newton Avenue
1924 Morris Kaplan |
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1123 Newton Avenue
1923 Daniel McDonald |
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1126 Newton Avenue
1924-1929 Mrs. Emily Buck |
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1132 Newton Avenue
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1134 Newton Avenue
1924 Edward Burkett |
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1136 Newton Avenue
1924-1929 Charles O'Hara |
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1140 Newton Avenue
1924-1929 Jacob Levinthal |
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Northeast towards Kaighn Avenue & Newton Avenue from in front of 1211 South 4th Street 1955 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Northeast towards Kaighn Avenue & Newton Avenue from in front of 1211 South 4th Street 1140 South 4th Street 1955 Amoco Gas Stattion Click on Image to Enlarge Note at left the public drinking fountain for people and horses that stood at the intersection of South 4th Street and Kaighn and Newton Avenues. This fountain was moved in the 1980s and now stands on Broadway near Sacred Heart Church. |
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400 Kaighn Avenue 1887-1888 William J. Houck Top Photo taken July 1984 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Northeast
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401 Kaighn Avenue 1919 Kline's Shoes Click on Images to Enlarge For many years you could still see trolley tracks going up Kaighn Avenue and then branching off down Newton Avenue. |
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This building was at one time Photo taken July 4, 1984 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Southwest
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Photo taken July 4, 1984 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Southwest
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Esso Gas Station 1960 The gas station building is off to the right, the wall of the building in this picture is 1211 South 4th Street, Joseph Nazzario's barbaer shop. Note in the upper righthand corner the "Public Telephone" sign Click on Image to Enlarge |
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mid-1960s After the gas station was razed (the outline of the building can be seen on the wall at rear of photo), the lot was used for parking by Camden Bar & Restaurant Supply, which was located across the street on the northwest corner of South 4th Street & Kaighn Avenue. Click on Image to Enlarge |
RETURN TO STREETS OF CAMDEN, NJ
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