Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Pleasant Street


PLEASANT STREET runs from North 27th Street to North 36th Street in East Camden, interrupted by the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just beyond North 30th Street, and resuming again at North 32nd Street.

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 Phil Cohen


Intersection of North 27th Street & Pleasant Street

 


576 North 27th Street

1918-1921 George A. Smyth
1930 Bar Closed 
1936-1943 John T. Morrow Pleasant Cafe 
1956-1966 Jo-Vic Cafe

Pavonia Rail Station
1908


as seen from Pleasant Street

The track on the left curves and runs to East Camden, past Dudley Grange, and on to Merchantville, Moorestown, and Mt. Holly. The bridge over the tracks was later enlarged for auto and truck trraffic.

555 North 27th

Stockton Coal 1913 to 1936
Keystone Coal 1947


2700 Block of Pleasant Street
  2700 Pleasant Street
1929 Vacant
  2708 Pleasant Street
1924 Herbert Botts
  2710 Pleasant Street
1938 Samuel Ritterbach
  2712 Pleasant Street

1910s-1920s Albert Holden
1920s-1920s John Kellum
1924 William E. Ruppel

  2730 Pleasant Street

1924 Mrs. Helen Preston
1940s Charles F. & Clara Morrissey

  2730 Pleasant Street

Private First Class
Harry Clark Morrissey

  2730 Pleasant Street

Staff Sergeant
Charles R. Morrissey

  2731 Pleasant Street

1924 Newton Danenhower
1929 Mrs. Mary E. Danenhower
2731 Pleasant Street

1930s-1950s
Danenhower Sports
Orville & Matilda Danenhower

Woodrow Wilson High School Yearbook
February 1940

  2743 Pleasant Street
1924 William J. Oren

Intersection of North 28th Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

2800 Block of Pleasant Street
  2800 Pleasant Street
1924 David Bowers
2810-2812
Pleasant Street
  Photos by Steve Skipton
Date: 10/16/2007 Time: 23:10 Type: All Hands Dwellings
Details:
Battalion 2 (Lewisohn) arrived with a two story twin heavy fire throughout and through the roof. Placed all hands in service with numerous handlines, portable monitors and Tower Ladder 3's bucket. The fire extended to the Delta exposure, one additional engine was special called to the scene. Fire Marshal was on scene, no injuries reported.

2810-2812
Pleasant Street
  Photos by Steve Skipton

October 16, 2007

2810-2812
Pleasant Street
  Photos by Steve Skipton

October 16, 2007

2810-2812
Pleasant Street
 Photos by Steve Skipton

October 16, 2007


  2810 Pleasant Street

1924 Marinus Overing

2 fires same day, same Camden block

CAMDEN -- A fire Tuesday night in abandoned row homes in the 2800 block of Pleasant Street was brought under control in less than an hour, Camden County emergency dispatch said.

The blaze was reported at 11:06 p.m. and brought under control at 11:53 p.m. No injuries were reported. Initial reports to the emergency dispatch said four homes were affected; a Courier-Post photographer at the scene said three homes appeared to be affected.

It was the second fire Tuesday on the block. At 2:21 a.m. Tuesday, a fire at 2810 Pleasant St. was brought under control in 15 minutes.

The fire Tuesday night started in 2812 Pleasant St.

A city deputy fire chief on duty Wednesday morning here said he had just come on duty and had no information on the fires.

2810 Pleasant Street

Camden Courier-Post
October 17, 2007

  2812 Pleasant Street

1924 Rocco Paresi

Fire in Vacant Camden Building

CAMDEN -- A one-alarm fire early this morning in a vacant dwelling in the 2800 block of Pleasant Street was brought under control in 15 minutes, Camden County emergency dispatch said.

Initial reports had fire showing from the second floor of a two-story, wood-frame building. The blaze was reported at 2:21 a.m. and brought under control at 2:36 a.m..

2812 Pleasant Street

Camden Courier-Post
October 16, 2007

'WALKATHON' BEGINS 4000 WATCH START
45 Couples Enter Novel Grind at Central Airport Hangar

Four thousand spectators braved rainy weather to witness the opening of Walter E. Tebbetts' "walkathon" endurance contest at the hanger at Central Airport last night. 

At the stroke of nine, 45 couples, all residents of South Jersey or Philadelphia, went out on the floor to compete in an endurance grind that may last three months or more.

 Of the ninety contestants, only eight are veteran marathoners. The others are new to endurance competition.  It is the first contest of its kind to be conducted in this vicinity.

Many Unemployed

Many of the entrants were there admittedly because if unemployment; the first prize of $1000 as well as weekly prizes and floor money attract them.

Team No. 20 is a striking example of this fact. They are Mrs. Dorothy Carnes and her 19 year-old son John, of 2831 Pleasant Street. Mrs. Carnes expects- as does every other contestant- to be the winner of the grand prize. She has to win it, she told interviewers; her husband, Charles is out of work and there is no other way in which the family can get food.

2831 Pleasant Street

1924 Louis Pattison
1929 John Picker
1933 Charles &. Dorothy Carnes
1933 John Carnes

Camden Courier-Post
February 8, 1933

  2836 Pleasant Street

First Sergeant Gilbert F. Christy

2836 Pleasant Street

1924 Harry A. Gill
1938 James Christy

2836 Pleasant Street
2836 Pleasant Street
  2842 Pleasant Street
1924 Leonard E. Feroe
1929 John J. Smith

Intersection of North 29th Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

2900 Block of Pleasant Street
  2900 Pleasant Street

1924 Albert Zwisele
1929 Vacant

10 HURT IN SERIES OF 7 ACCIDENTS 
One Car in Two Mishaps; All Occur Within an Hour

Ten persons were injured within an hour last night in seven accidents throughout Camden. 

The first accident occurred at Twenty-eighth and Thompson streets where a car driven by Mrs. Sarah A. Mole, 39, of 2903 Pleasant Street, struck a five-year-old boy who ran from the sidewalk into the path of the automobile. 

The boy, John Smith, 5, of 2801 Pleasant street, suffered cuts on the right arm and leg. Mrs. Mole placed him in her car, then requested Charles Johnson, 32, of 2840 Thompson street, to drive the car to Cooper Hospital. Johnson agreed and with Julius Braxton, 18, a friend, of 2933 Thompson street, Mrs. Mole and the Smith boy started for the hospital. . 

At Twenty-seventh street and Saunders Avenue, the second accident occurred when Mrs. Mole's car, driven by Johnson, crashed with another car driven by H. Lem White, 43, of 730 Colford avenue, Collingswood. Johnson, Mrs. Mole and Braxton all were cut and bruised in the crash and were taken, with the Smith boy to the hospital by another motorist. 

Meanwhile at Baird avenue and Marlton pike, an automobile driven by Miss Virginia M. Brickner, 18, of 27 Cuthbert Road, Westmont, was overturned .in a collision with another car driven. by George W. Garner, 31, of 235 Morse street, a city fireman. Miss Brickner was treated at Cooper Hospital for shock and bruises. 

Two accidents occurred at Sixteenth street and Crescent Boulevard. In the first, Charles C. Markley, 30, of 1040 Sycamore avenue, Haddon Heights, attempted to stop his car when another machine cut In front of him. Markley's car overturned at the curbstone, and was wrecked, but Markley escaped injury. 

A Palmyra mother and her four year-old daughter were injured when the shaft of a bread wagon broke two windows in their car and showered them with glass, at the same intersection. 

The car was driven by Mrs. Dorothy Creager, 32, of 737 Garfield Avenue, Palmyra. She was cut, as was her daughter, Helen, 4. The driver of the wagon, Jackson Kircher, of 159 West Avenue, Westville, was not injured. 
William H. Anderson,· 7, of 810 Chambers avenue, Gloucester, was treated last night at Cooper Hospital for a leg fracture suffered when struck by an automobile at Brown street, near Paul, Gloucester. Mrs. Anna Hammond, of 136 Snyder Avenue, Westville, took the boy to the hospital and reported to. Gloucester police. 

2903 Pleasant Street

1924 Harry Watson
1933 Sarah Mole

Camden Courier-Post
June 9, 1933

  2903 Pleasant Street
1940 Robert & Sarah Gunson
2903 Pleasant Street

Sergeant Robert F. Gunson

  2903 Pleasant Street

1947 Percy Mole

  2923 Pleasant Street

1924 William E. Miller
1929 Vacant

  2989 Pleasant Street

1880s-1900s James Smith Family
Walter F. Smith


Intersection of North 30th Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

3000 Block of Pleasant Street
  3007 Pleasant Street

1924-1929 Elijah Woodly

  3008 Pleasant Street

1924 George H. Carpenter
1929 William Anderson
junk

  3010 Pleasant Street

1924 Daniel Hurts
1929 Vacant


Intersection of North Dudley Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

Intersection of North 32nd Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

3200-3300 Block of Pleasant Street
  3265 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3266 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3272 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3275 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3281 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3300 Pleasant Street

1924 Theodore Woodfall
1929 
  3306 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3312 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3318 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 
  3322 Pleasant Street
1924 No House Yet Built
1929 

Intersection of North 34th Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

Intersection of North 35th Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

Intersection of North 36th Street & Pleasant Street
   
   
   

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