Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Van Hook
Street

VAN HOOK STREET runs from the Delaware River to Fourth Street east across Broadway and Mount Ephraim Avenue to its end at the railroad tracks that now carry the PATCO High Speed Line commuter trains.

 

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 Phil Cohen
Sunday, January 13, 2008

A.J. Vanzant Coal Yard - Van Hook Street & Ferry Avenue
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Intersection of South 4th Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
400 Block of Van Hook Street
  407 Van Hook Street

1929 
  413 Van Hook Street

1920s-1930s Joseph Schneider 
  417 Van Hook Street

1929 
  419 Van Hook Street

1929 
420-424 Van Hook Street

Banquet Program
September 23, 19501950 
  421 Van Hook Street

1929 
  423 Van Hook Street

1929 
  425 Van Hook Street

1929 
  426 Van Hook Street

1929 
428 Van Hook Street

William Braaksma Jr. 
  429 Van Hook Street

1929 T.C. Tiedeken & Brother
Auto Body Works 
  430 Van Hook Street

1929 
  435 Van Hook Street

1929 Theodore C. Tiedeken 
  437 Van Hook Street

1929 Thomas J. Moore
  439 Van Hook Street

1929 Walter C. Woodruff
Intersection of Broadway & Van Hook Street

Heavy fire is showing from the rear of a dwelling at Broadway & Van Hook Streets. FD units were responding to another call when they stumbled across this, the sign on the telephone states, "you're in the orange zone!" This April 13, 1996 job ended up going to 2-alarms.

photo provided by Joel Bain
   
500 Block of Van Hook Street
  513 Van Hook Street

1933 
   516 Van Hook Street

1933 
  517 Van Hook Street

1933 
   518 Van Hook Street

1933 
  519 Van Hook Street

1933 
Intersection of Fillmore Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
500 Block of Van Hook Street
  553 Van Hook Street

1933
  555 Van Hook Street

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  557 Van Hook Street

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  561 Van Hook Street

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  563 Van Hook Street

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  565 Van Hook Street

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  567 Van Hook Street

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  569 Van Hook Street

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  571 Van Hook Street

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  573 Van Hook Street

1933
  575 Van Hook Street

11918-1921 Harry Friedenberg
1924 Eva Friedenberg
1926-1931 Edward J. Whalen
1936-1939 Samuel Rosenberg Sam's Cafe 1954-1959 Van Hook Tavern
1964 MDM Bar
1990 Vacant
2003 Razed
Intersection of South 6th Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
600 Block of Van Hook Street
  612 Van Hook Street

1933 
  613 Van Hook Street

1880s-1890s
Cottrell & Wolfenden hosiery factory
   614 Van Hook Street

1933 
  615 Van Hook Street

1929 Clement Coverall Compnay
paint 
   618 Van Hook Street

1933 
  620 Van Hook Street

1933 
621-625 Van Hook Street

1919 
   622 Van Hook Street

1933 
  623 Van Hook Street

1933 
   624 Van Hook Street

1933 
  625 Van Hook Street

1933 
Intersection of Railroad Avenue & Van Hook Street
   
   
600 Block of Van Hook Street
  630 Van Hook Street

1933 
   632-646 Van Hook Street

Houses completed December 1927 
   632 Van Hook Street

1933 
  634 Van Hook Street

1929 
   635 Van Hook Street

1933 
  636 Van Hook Street

1933 
  637 Van Hook Street

1933 
MAN STABBED; WOMAN HELD

Mitchell Brooks, 37, of 637-1/2 Van Hook Street, was admitted to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital late night suffering from knife wounds in the left side and right arm. Charlotte Carter, 26, of the same address was arrested as his assailant and Clarence Canzater, also of that address, was held 
as a material witness. All are colored. 

 637-1/2 Van Hook Street

1933 Mitchell Brooks
1933 Charlotte carter
1933 Clarence Canzater

Camden Courier-Post
June 19, 1933
   638 Van Hook Street

1933 
  639 Van Hook Street

Technician Fourth Class
George H. Pruitt Jr.

  639 Van Hook Street

1947 Isabel Pruitt
1947 Martina Pruitt
   640 Van Hook Street

1933 
  648 Van Hook Street

1933 
Intersection of Master Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
600 Block of Van Hook Street
  659 Van Hook Street

1933 

Willie Ross, 30, colored, of 681 Van Hook Street, was sent to Trenton prison to from one to three years on a charge of carrying a concealed deadly weapon. He fired four shots at Sidney Lewis, 661 Van Hook Street, during an altercation over a debt, and when his aim proved too poor, resorted to a more simple expedient. He felled Lewis by striking him over the head with the revolver.

 661 Van Hook Street

1933 Sidney Lewis

Camden Courier-Post
June 6, 1933

Samuel M. Shay
   661 Van Hook Street

1933 
  663 Van Hook Street

1929 
   665 Van Hook Street

1933 
  667 Van Hook Street

1933 
  669 Van Hook Street

1933 
   671 Van Hook Street

1933 
  673 Van Hook Street

1933 
   675 Van Hook Street

1933 
  677 Van Hook Street

1933 
  679 Van Hook Street

1933 Pasquale Cirillo

Camden Courier-Post
August 9, 1933
 681 Van Hook Street

1928 Minnie Burmelo

Camden Courier-Post
February 24, 1928

Samuel M. Shay

Willie Ross, 30, colored, of 681 Van Hook Street, was sent to Trenton prison to from one to three years on a charge of carrying a concealed deadly weapon. He fired four shots at Sidney Lewis, 661 Van Hook Street, during an altercation over a debt, and when his aim proved too poor, resorted to a more simple expedient. He felled Lewis by striking him over the head with the revolver.

 681 Van Hook Street

1933 Willie Ross

Camden Courier-Post
June 6, 1933

Samuel M. Shay
  683 Van Hook Street

1933 
Intersection of Van Buren Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
600 Block of Van Hook Street
  684 Van Hook Street

1933 
   685 Van Hook Street

1933 
  686 Van Hook Street

1929 
   688 Van Hook Street

1933 
  690 Van Hook Street

1933 
  692 Van Hook Street

1933 
   693 Van Hook Street

1929
South Camden Nursery
William E. Booth Jr. 
 693 Van Hook Street

Booth's Flowers

Camden Courier-Post
March 12, 1930 
 693 Van Hook Street

Booth's Flowers

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1933
 693 Van Hook Street

Booth's Flowers

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1933
 693 Van Hook Street

Booth's Flowers

Camden Courier-Post
February 20, 1936
 693 Van Hook Street

Booth's Flowers

Banquet Program
January 27, 1939
  694 Van Hook Street

1933 
   695 Van Hook Street

1933 
  695-1/2 Van Hook Street

1933 
  696 Van Hook Street

1918-1919 Gaetano D'Annunzio Bar
1924 Lewis C. Moore Saloon
1947 No Bar (Candy Store) 
   697 Van Hook Street

1933 
  699 Van Hook Street

1933 

27 Mild Padlocks Provided In U.S. Court Rules by Avis

John Baronkin, 669-1/2 Van Hook Street, Camden, was given a suspended sentence upon pleading guilty to possession of liquor, after his attorney pleaded he was keeping a wife, child and an ill mother. 

 699-1/2 Van Hook Street

1933 John Baronkin

Camden Courier-Post
June 13, 1933
  699-1/2 Van Hook Street

1939 Peter Szyszkoski 
1947 No Bar
Intersection of South 7th Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
700 Block of Van Hook Street
  701 Van Hook Street

1933 
  703 Van Hook Street

1933 
  705 Van Hook Street

1929 
  706 Van Hook Street

1933 
  707 Van Hook Street

1933 
  708 Van Hook Street

1933 
  709 Van Hook Street

1933 
  710 Van Hook Street

1933 
  711 Van Hook Street

1933 
  712 Van Hook Street

1933 
  713 Van Hook Street

1933 
  714 Van Hook Street

1929 
  715 Van Hook Street

1933 
  716 Van Hook Street

1933 
  717 Van Hook Street

1933 
   718 Van Hook Street

1933 
  719 Van Hook Street

1933 
   720 Van Hook Street

1933 
  721 Van Hook Street

1933 
  722 Van Hook Street

1933 
  723 Van Hook Street

1933 
  724 Van Hook Street

1933 
  725 Van Hook Street

1933 
  726 Van Hook Street

1933 
Intersection of Kossuth Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
700 Block of Van Hook Street
  727 Van Hook Street

1933 
  729 Van Hook Street

1933 
  731 Van Hook Street

1929 
  733 Van Hook Street

1924-1926 Louis Gibson
cafe 
  735 Van Hook Street

1933 
  737 Van Hook Street

1933 
  760 Van Hook Street

1910s-1918 Edward Dorsey 
  760 Van Hook Street

1910s-1929 Benjamin Dorsey 
  760 Van Hook Street

1940s-1954 Fred Menoken
Menoken's Oil Service 
  760 Van Hook Street

1954-2006 Roosevelt Manor
Public Housing Project

Intersection of South 8th Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
Intersection of South 8th Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
Intersection of Philip Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
800 Block of Van Hook Street
   
  851 Van Hook Street

1933 Marino Brandemarte
Intersection of Miller Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
900 Block of Van Hook Street
  962 Van Hook Street

1929 Theodore Johnson
  964 Van Hook Street

1929 William Vincent
  900-964 Van Hook Street

1940-present
Clement T. Branch Village
public housing project

Intersection of South 9th Street & Van Hook Street
   
   
1000 Block of Van Hook Street
  1029 Van Hook Street

1929 South Camden iron & Steel Company
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Mulford Street

Southwest Corner - 1703 Mulford Street
1950s-1970s Knast Cafe - 1974-1980s Flash Gordon's - 1980s-2000s- Wildfire's Place
   
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Tioga Street
   
1000 Block of Van Hook Street
  1077 Van Hook Street
  1079 Van Hook Street

1929 George & Annie Graszyk
grocery
1931 Josef Groczyk
1931 Helen Groczyk
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Kolo Street
   
Intersection of Van Hook Street & South 11th Street
   
1000 Block of Van Hook Street
  1101 Van Hook Street

1939
Camden County Polish-American Republican Club 
1947 No Bar - Isaac W. Cherry Barrel Dealer 
Sues Wedded Wooer 

MRS. MARY KRYSTANOWICZ, Camden widow, mother of five, yesterday started $10,000 breach of promise suit against a Pennsylvania suitor who she discovered was married. 

 
1108 Van Hook Street

1933 Mary Krystanowicz

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1933

WIDOW ASKS $10,000 FOR LOVE SWINDLE 
Charges She Found Fiance Had Wife
Who Wanted Her to Buy Divorce

She promised to marry him- then discovered he was married. That, with certain other elements of humiliation, Is worth $10,000 to Mrs. Mary Krystanowicz. Her suit opened in circuit court yesterday and will be resumed today. 

The woman is 35, a widow, mother of five children and lives at 1108 Van Hook Street, The man she accused of obtaining her love under false pretense is Anton Trzaskowski, 45, of Red Hill, Pennsylvania. He boarded with her in Philadelphia and Camden after her husband died, she testified, proposed to her February 1, 1932, received her consent, postponed the ceremony several times, got $1650 from her to buy a car and a $60 suit and hat as the "wedding day" neared. 

Then he tried to borrow $2000 from her to buy a farm. This deal hadn't gone through, however, when she visited her admirer's Red Hill farm and asserts she discovered his wife there. But the "last straw," she said, was when the man's wife hit on the idea of obtaining a divorce with cash advanced by Mrs. Krystanowicz. 
WOMAN GIVEN $3000 HEART BALM VERDICT 
Camden Plaintiff Charges Penna. Farmer Said He Was Widower

A jury of 12 men after five hours and 15 minutes of 
deliberation yesterday awarded in Camden Circuit Court heart balm of $3000 to Mrs. Mary Krystanowich, 35, of 1108 Van Hook Street, against Anton Trzaskowski, 45, Red Hill, Pa. farmer. 

The trial began on June 15 before Judge Henry H. Eldredge. Mrs. Krystanowich declared Trzaskowskl was already married and the father of several children, but had represented himself to her as a widower. She said he boarded with her in Philadelphia and Camden after her husband died and that he proposed to her on February 1 of last year. After her acceptance, she said he kept postponing the ceremony and obtained a total of $1710 from her.

When she visited his farm in Red Hill, she testified, she found a woman there who said she was Trzaskowski's wife and offered to get a divorce if she would advance the cash. Mrs. Krystanowich is the mother of five children. 

 1108 Van Hook Street

1933 Mary Krystanowicz

Camden Courier-Post
June 21, 1933

  1112 Van Hook Street

1959 John M. Gray
  1143 Van Hook Street

1924
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Pulaski Street
   
1000 Block of Van Hook Street
  1144 Van Hook Street
  1156 Van Hook Street

1924
  1161 Van Hook Street

1924
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Kolo Street
   
1000 Block of Van Hook Street
  1162 Van Hook Street
  1164 Van Hook Street

1924
  1169 Van Hook Street

1924
  1176 Van Hook Street

1956 H W J Tavern 
1959-1982 Avalon Bar
1990s Closed4
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Mt. Ephraim Avenue
   
   
1200 Block of Van Hook Street
  1200 Van Hook Street

1920 Antonio Pannetta
later owned Center Tavern and Big Horn Cafe
  1216 Van Hook Street

1967 Helen Mazur
303 Bar & LIquor Store
  1229 Van Hook Street
1231 Van Hook Street

1910s-1920s William P. Cotter

CAMDEN COAL HAULER ROBBED OF $50 IN PA..

A Camden coal hauler ,and his helper were held up and robbed of $50 early yesterday by two bandits on Ridge pike near Butler pike, Barren Hill, near Conshohocken, Pa.

Clarence Franchetti, of 1231 Van Hook street. this city, and his helper, Alexander Cherry, whose address was not revealed, were forced by the bandits to drive their truck to the side of the road.

Alighting from a sedan, the bandits poked pistols in the faces of Franchetti and Cherry, then searched and robbed them. The holdup men returned to their automobile and speeded toward Philadelphia.

Franchetti was returning to the mines upstate for a truckload of coal when the holdup occurred, it was reported by police. He said the robbers were two young men. 

 1231 Van Hook Street

Clarence Franchetti

Camden Courier-Post
February 27, 1936

 
  1242 Van Hook Street

1933 Vincent Hadarzznska
  1242 Van Hook Street

1933 Paul Sulewski & Son

Camden Courier-Post
August 9, 1933
  1243 Van Hook Street

1933 Joseph Ruttenberg

Camden Courier-Post
August 9, 1933
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Cope Street
   
   
1200 Block of Van Hook Street
  1245 Van Hook Street

1924

 
1251 Van Hook Street

1910s-1920s
Edward & Catherine Corbett

2 MEN SENT TO JAIL IN THEFT OF AUTO

Found guilty of stealing an automobile which has not yet been recovered, two Whitman Park men were given six months in the county jail by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. 

Identified by the owner of the machine who said he saw them drive away in it, Herbert Cox, 25, of 1247 Van Hook Street, and Charles Casale, 26, of 1351 Van Hook Street, were sentenced in spite of their denial of the theft. John Harwan, of 1311 Sheridan Street, the owner of the car, testified that Cox and Casale took his machine from Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Van Hook Street where it was parked in front of his soft drink establishment. He tried to jump on the running board, he said, but could not reach it. He called the police and ordered the men arrested, he said. 

Cox and Casale said they did not know anything about Harwan's automobile. They were in a speakeasy drinking all night, they said, and left the place intoxicated. In answer to Judge Pancoast's questions the men said they did not remember where the speakeasy was.

 1247 Van Hook Street

1924
1933 Herbert Cox

Camden Courier-Post
June 22, 1933

 
  1288 Van Hook Street

1924 

BOY FOUND DRUNK GETS 30-DAY TERM

A 16-year-old youth who was found unconscious in a vacant house from the effects of drinking liquor was sentenced to 30 days in jail yesterday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

He is Julius Carter, 1288 Van Hook Street, who was discovered Monday night in a house at 534 Ray Street by Motorcycle Patrolman Earl Wright.

"You are certainly starting out well," Judge Pancoast told the boy. "Where did you get the liquor?"

"Some fellows gave it to me," was the reply.

"Well, I am going to stop you from starting that habit," was Judge Pancoast's answer.

 1288 Van Hook Street

1933 Julius Carter

Camden Courier-Post
August 16, 1933 
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Norris Street
   
   
1300 Block of Van Hook Street
  1300 Van Hook Street

1933 Samuel Petarra

Camden Courier-Post
August 8, 1933
  1330 Van Hook Street

1933 Tony Tenerelli

Camden Courier-Post
August 9, 1933
  1335 Van Hook Street

1924 
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Pershing Street
   
   
1300-1400 Block of Van Hook Street
  1336 Van Hook Street
  1337 Van Hook Street

1918
  1338 Van Hook Street
1339 Van Hook Street

1929-1930s Stanley Wirtz
  1341 Van Hook Street

YOUTHS PEDDLING RADIO
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION

Two youths were arrested late last night on suspicion of stealing a radio when one of them was interrupted by detectives while attempting to sell it.

Detectives Benjamin Simon, Clifford Del Rossi and Robert Ashenfelter became suspicious of a car parked at Norris and Sheridan Streets. The occupant, Stephen Stanziak, 19, of 1279 Sheridan Street, said he was waiting for a companion who was in the store of Michael Gucik, northeast corner of Norris and Sheridan Streets. The detectives entered the store and found Joseph Fiume, 16, of 1349 Van Hook Street, attempting to sell a radio to Gucik. The youths said it had been given to them by a man they did not know.

 1349 Van Hook Street

1933 Joseph Fiume

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1933
  1349 Van Hook Street

1967 James V. Fuviano
Commander VFW Post 980
  1351 Van Hook Street

1929

2 MEN SENT TO JAIL IN THEFT OF AUTO

Found guilty of stealing an automobile which has not yet been recovered, two Whitman Park men were given six months in the county jail by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. 

Identified by the owner of the machine who said he saw them drive away in it, Herbert Cox, 25, of 1247 Van Hook Street, and Charles Casale, 26, of 1351 Van Hook Street, were sentenced in spite of their denial of the theft. John Harwan, of 1311 Sheridan Street, the owner of the car, testified that Cox and Casale took his machine from Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Van Hook Street where it was parked in front of his soft drink establishment. He tried to jump on the running board, he said, but could not reach it. He called the police and ordered the men arrested, he said. 

Cox and Casale said they did not know anything about Harwan's automobile. They were in a speakeasy drinking all night, they said, and left the place intoxicated. In answer to Judge Pancoast's questions the men said they did not remember where the speakeasy was.

 1351 Van Hook Street

1933 Charles Casale

Camden Courier-Post
June 22, 1933

 
  1352 Van Hook Street

1929
  1353 Van Hook Street

1929
  1354 Van Hook Street

1929
  1400 Van Hook Street

1929 Charles Dovi
contractor
  1400 Van Hook Street

1933 Charles S.S. Dorr

Camden Courier-Post
August 10, 1933
  1402 Van Hook Street

1929 James Quatrocchi
Intersection of Van Hook Street & Davis Street
   
   

Camden Courier-Post - January 9, 1928
632-646 Van Hook Street Construction by S. Levy Company

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