Camden Streets - Whitman Avenue

WHITMAN AVENUE wasoriginally called Pear Street, and was renamed in memory of Camden's "Good Grey Poet", Walt Whitman. The street has three distinct sections. The first runs east from South 4th Street to Broadway, the second east from South 8th Street to South 10th Street, and the third runs east from Mount Ephraim Avenue to Haddon Avenue. Only the third section has any addresses associated with it, the first two are simply through streets.

Whitman Avenue between Rose and Louis Street is the northern boundary of the original Whitman Park, and the street lent its name to that neighborhood. The park is on one of the higher elevations in the city of Camden, and a large water tower is located there. Unfortunately, in a move so very typical of Camden's municipal government during the Arnold Webster and Milton Milan "administrations", a revamped park between Thorn Street and Hallowell Lane, near the Ferry Station PATCO High Speed Line stop and on the grounds of what had been Camden Municipal Hospital was christened "Whitman Park". The fact that the new "Whitman Park" was not located IN Whitman Park didn't seem to make a whole lot of difference to those who infested City Hall at the time.

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Phil Cohen

1200 Block of Whitman Avenue
	1201 Whitman Avenue Ignatz Konieczka cafe 1918-1931 Benjamin Buczynski Candy Store 1947
	1239 Whitman Avenue Joseph & Nellie Zak 1920s-1930s
YOST FINES 4 AUTOISTS IN PENNSAUKEN COURT Fines for motor vehicle law violations were imposed on four autoists last night by Recorder George E. Yost, in Pennsauken. Stanley Czajowski, 24, of 1133 Sycamore street, Camden, was fined $10 and $2.50 costs for having no drivers' license; Robert A. Young, 24, of 408 Linden avenue, Riverton, $5 and $2.50 in costs for speeding; Heronim Wisiewski, 26, of 102 Linden avenue, Woodlynne, $7.50 and $2.50 costs for speeding and passing red light, and Edward King, Jr., 21, of 1242 Whitman avenue, Camden, $2.50 and $2.50 costs for passing red light.	1242 Whitman Avenue 1938 Edward King Jr. Camden Courier-Post February 8, 1938
	1242 Whitman Avenue Joseph Skotnicki 1954
	1245 Whitman Avenue Joseph Moslouski 1928
	1256 Whitman Avenue Stanley N. Powell 1936
	1256 Whitman Avenue Henry Garbecki 1931
FREED IN ONE ROBBERY, ARRESTED FOR ANOTHER A suspect, released a week ago in connection with the $11,000 Camden Radio Condenser Company holdup, was rearrested Saturday and held in $3000 bail on a charge of robbing an East Camden bar. The accused is Stanley Powell, 26, of 1256 Whitman Avenue, alleged to have stolen, with the help of two other men of unknown identity, a marble machine and 100 cigars from Marty's Olde Tappe Room, operated at 1990 Federal Street by Marty Segal. Powell pleaded not guilty. City Detective, George Zeitz testified that he learned that Powell's new expensive car had been seen near the taproom early on Thursday, when the robbery occurred. Zeitz said he obtained this information after Powell had been quizzed and released in the radio firm holdup. Upon further investigation, Zeitz asserted, he found a witness, Daniel Danter, 1985 Carman Street, who allegedly saw Powell and two other men carrying "something" from the store and loading it in the car. Zeitz, according to Zeitz, identified Powell. Elwood Cox, of 1981 Carman Street, is alleged by Zeitz to have seen Powell's car in that neighborhood on the morning of the robbery, but didn't know any of the men in it. Acting Police Judge James Smith fixed the amount of bail.	1256 Whitman Avenue Stanley Powell 1933 Camden Courier-Post June 4, 1933
CAMDEN FISHERMAN PICKED OUT WRONG SPOT Swedesboro, June 20- Fishing in the private Narraticon Lake, owned by William Cook, cost a Camden man $5 fine today and a similar amount was suspended in the case ofa companion. Justice of the Peace Harold S. Twiss fined Stanley Powell, 24, of 1256 Whitman Avenue, after his arrest by Marshal William Jordan. Constant Grintwicz, 21, of 1469 Louis Street, Camden, was released with a suspended sentence.	1256 Whitman Avenue Stanley Powell 1933 Camden Courier-Post June 21, 1933

1300 Block of Whitman Avenue
	1338 Whitman Avenue 1919-1920 Leon & Rose Polniak Theodore Polniak Ludwig Polniak
	1338 Whitman Avenue Samuel Herman 1933 Camden Courier-Post August 14, 1933 Mrs. Clara Herman 1947
Intersection of Whitman Avenue & Pershing Street
	1358-1360 Whitman Avenue New Jersey Gear & Machine Works 1947 Dayton & Company conveyors 1947
	1361 Whitman Avenue Polish American Newfoundland Club 1947
	1382 Whitman Avenue Seaman Second Class John Allen Henkel
	1382 Whitman Avenue Private First Class John A. Nowrey

1100 Block of Whitman Avenue
	1139 Whitman Avenue Walter J.A. Stanton Sr. Walter J.A. Stanton Jr. Thomas Stanton 1900s-1910s
	1139 Whitman Avenue Joseph L. Jagodzinski 1920s-late 1940s
	1146 Whitman Avenue Private Joseph F. Covert
	1146 Whitman Avenue Stanley E. Sluzalis 1950s-1974
Intersection of Whitman Avenue & Rose Street
	1175 Whitman Avenue Camden Police & Fireman's Association 1933-1970

Intersection of Whitman Avenue & Norris Street & Bannard Alley