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LINE STREET was named because it followed the finally settled line of division between the Cooper and Kaighn properties. It was originally laid out as a twenty foot alley, but in 1848 was made a street fifty foot wide. In 1848, when the city charter was amended by the State legislature, Line Street became the boundary between the Middle and South wards, Arch and Federal Streets serving as the boundary between the Middle and North Wards. Line Street is not to be confused with Liney Ditch, also known as Little Newton Creek and Kaighn’s Run, which served as the southern boundary of the South Ward. In time, under the encroachments of settlers and the march of industrial progress, the stream began to fill up and became merely a ditch, to which, by common consent, the name Line Ditch was given, as it also served to divide the lands of the Kaighn and Mickle families. |
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| 209 Line
Street Joseph Zito Family 1920s-1930s Joseph & Rose Zito |
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| 210-212-214 Line Street Rocco Fanelle & Brother Junkyard |
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210-212-214 Line Street Mrs.
Rose Fanelle Camden Courier-Post |
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Vincent Zito |
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Line
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215 Line
Street Mrs. Alma Johnson Boarding house 1920s Camden Courier-Post 1942-1959
Alfred
E. Green |
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1880s Garrett
Cowls |
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Rocco Fanelle & Sons |
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| 228 Line
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1929-1930s
Alfred
E. Green |
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Anthony and Lena Rago |
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Majestic Press |
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Campanale Grocery |
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| 250 Line Street
1947 Camden Christian Center |
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| 252 Line Street
First Italian Baptist Church |
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252 Line Street
First Italian Baptist Church Standing 4th from left in front row is me, Mike Coccia. The girl standing with the circle around her face is my sister Faust Coccia Spallina. Standing a little to her right a little below is my sister Angelina Coccia Gramenzi (with dark hair). Standing on the extreme right is the church nurse-Mrs Bass. Standing in the rear at the top of the steps is Miss Hatch- Missionary. The gentleman standing in the rear is Reverend Horton- Mike Coccia, December 2008 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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250-252 Line Street
2006 Broadway Family Center August 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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| 300 Block of Line Street | |
| 301 Line Street
1906 Joseph
DeLice |
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| 303 Line Street
1947 Angelo Rosato |
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| 305 Line Street
1947 Emidio D'Ottavi |
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1947 Vincent Lauria |
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1947 Vacant |
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1947 Vito Lupini |
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| 311 Line Street
1933 Mrs.
Ida Lupini |
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1947 Alfonso Onorio |
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1947 Saturno Giorgi |
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| 314 Line Street
1947 Carmen F. Mercantini |
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| 315 Line Street
1947 Mrs. Maria DeAngelis |
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1894-1910 |
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| 316 Line Street
1947 Raymond Bednarski |
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| 317 Line Street
1947 No Return |
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| 318 Line Street
1947 Leon Branch |
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| 319 Line Street
1947 David Marcozzi |
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319 Line Street
Frank & Angelina Gramenzi Click on Image to Enlarge |
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319 Line Street
Rochelle Gramenzi Click on Image to Enlarge This is a picture of myself in the late 50's. It was Easter Sunday and I'm standing right in front of our second floor apartment at 319 Line Street. The picture is looking towards Broadway. The men in the background are a collection of Italians from the neighborhood...... Rochelle
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| Cousins
Hold Reunion
Three cousins from this area, two of whom are brothers, recently held a reunion at Norfolk, Virginia after being separated in Naval service for more than two years. They are Carlo and Arthur Canzanese, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Canzanese, of Riverside, formerly of Camden, and Arnold Canzanese, son of Mr. and Mrs. Renaldo Canzanese, 320 Line Street. Three other Canzanese cousins also are in service. They are Mary Canzanese, in the WAVES; Edward Canzanese, in the South Pacific, and Walter Canzanese, serving in this country. |
320 Line Street
1945 Camden Courier-Post |
| 320 Line Street
1947 Rocco Fanelle |
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1947 Vacant |
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1947 Anna S. Gramenzi Doganiero |
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322 Line Street
early 1950s Frank Gramenzi, and his Great Dane, Panzer. He is standing in front of the Golden Flame Manufacturing Co. truck at 320-322 Line Street in Camden. Rochelle Gramenzi Click on Image to Enlarge |
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322 Line Street
Armand Gramenzi (on the right) standing in front of the old Gramenzi Home at 322 Line Street. He’s with his army buddy Joe McRuiz (on the left) who traveled all the way from Oklahoma. The picture was taken in 1997. Rochelle Gramenzi, 2008 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1947 Nazzarema DeVecchio |
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1947 Saverio Massi |
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| 325 Line Street
1890s
John T.
Rodan |
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1947 Natale Gigiole |
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1947 Red Dragon Company |
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1947 Pauk Di Pietropaoloi |
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1947 Dominic Radogna |
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Line Street
1924 Victor
Biasi |
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| 340 Line Street
1910s-1920s George Hunt |
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1924-1947 George Hunt |
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1924 Victor Biasi |
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701
South 4th Street Southwest Corner of South 4th & Line Street LARRY'S
CAFE |
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Block of Line Street 400 to 431 Line Street |
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First Nazarene Baptist Church
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The Anna M. Sample Family Shelter is a temporary emergency shelter for 75 residents. This facility accommodates single parent families and intact families. Single women are referred to the shelter if the Single Women's Transitional Housing Program is full. The family shelter provides 24 hour supervised housing, 3 meals a day, emergency clothing and case management. We also provide life skills workshops, drug and alcohol awareness, recreational enrichment, enterprise initiatives, a referral network and child enrichment activities. |
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Volunteers of America
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416-418 Line Street 1906 Camden City Hand Laundry Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Camden Poster Advertising Company |
| 420 Line Street Morris DiAngelo |
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| White Street & Line Street | |
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Block of Line Street 432 to 440 Line Street |
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| 434
Line Street Anthony "Tony Patch" Patragnoni 1920s - late 1970s Tony's Grille |
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| West Street & Line Street | |
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Block of Line Street 441 to 451 Line Street |
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Funeral services for Lewis Haventhal were held at his residence, 442 Line Street. Interment was made at Burlington NJ. Last night Camp No. 117, P.O.S.A. and Wilton Lodge, No. 6, I.O.M., held services at the house. |
442
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1914 Lewis Haventhal |
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| Henry Street & Line Street | |
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Block of Line Street 453 to 455 Line Street |
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South 5th Street Also Known as 444 Line Street Southwest Corner of South 5th & Line Street The Alfonso & Elvira Gentile Family Tony Gentile on rooftop patio of building, looking east across South 5th Street at 720 and 712 South 5th. 710 South 5th street was the home and office of Dr. Frank Barnett, a dentist who lived and practiced there from the 1920s until his passing around 1957. The Gentile family lived on this corner for many years. In the late 1940s two of the daughters, Gilda and Lydia, worked at Mesrob Avedissian's Crystal Cleaners at 1012 Broadway. Gilda Gentile married into the avedissian family sometime after the 1947 Camden City Directory was complied. |
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Block of Line Street 502 to 522 Line Street |
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519
Line Street
LINE
CAFE Click on Image to Enlarge |
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519
Line Street Southeast Corner of Williams Street & Line Street LINE
CAFE Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Block of Line Street 523 to 533 Line Street |
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1937-1938 Nicholas Dandrea |
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| Broadway & Line Street | |
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Broadway Northeast Corner of Broadway & Line Street John H. Dialogue Jr. Son of shipyard owner John H. Dialogue Sr., John Jr., an engineer by trade, moved here in 1890 after leaving his parents home at 712 Broadway. The property was sold early in the 1900s, and the Carnegie Library was built on the site. |
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616
Broadway Northeast Corner of Broadway & Line Street CARNEGIE
LIBRARY Opened in 1905 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Broadway & Line Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Broadway Northeast Corner of Broadway & Line Street CARNEGIE
LIBRARY Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Broadway Ellis Drugstore |
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Broadway Southeast Corner of Broadway & Line Street January 27, 1939 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Broadway Southwest Corner of Broadway & Line Street Delia's Party Shop Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Block of Line Street 546 to 554 Line Street |
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| St. John Street & Line Street | |
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Block of Line Street 555 to 585 Line Street |
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| 560 Line Street Julius Beese Jules' Grill 1940s |
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| 571 Line Street William Thorn 1919-1956 |
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| 571 Line Street Mrs. Emily Jobes 1906-1914 |
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| 579 Line Street Charles H. Errickson 1930s-1940s |
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| 583 Line Street John J. Welsh 1930s-1940s |
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| South 6th Street & Line Street | |
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Block of Line Street 600 to 616 Line Street |
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Trinity Church Camden Courier-Post |
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Block of Line Street 617 to 655 Line Street |
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Another Shapiro Appeal To
the Editor Such legislation enacted would without a doubt meet with the hearty approval and satisfaction of the people of New Jersey. Now is the proper time while the Legislature is in session to enact such legislation. Let us hope the governor heeds the advice and includes a reward for Jack Shapiro by the State of New Jersey as one of the subjects in, his call for a special session. Respectfully yours, MAE
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Line Street
CORPORAL CHARLES H. PIPPETT Click on Image to Enlarge |
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PRIVATE GEORGE F. SCHAFER Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Line Street
PRIVATE GEORGE F. SCHAFER Click on Image to Enlarge |
| 641 Line Street Ralph A. Bakley 1906-1914 |
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754 Line Street Ensign James J. Cunningham 1916-1943 |
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1924 Leroy Burgess Sr. Family |
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| 765 Line Street David S. Paul 1890s-1910 |
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765 Line Street George W. Johnson 1910s-1940s |
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November 2006 |
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1940s Paul B. Neale
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Block of Line Street 775 to 799 Line Street |
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| SAMUEL H. TURNER
The funeral of Samuel H. Turner, 85, for 40 years a resident here, who died Monday night, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday. He was retired last October by the Pennsylvania Railroad after having been in the employ of the railroad 45 years. He was for 22 years an engineer on the Trenton division and was placed on the sick list 16 years ago when he suffered a stroke. He is survived by a son, John K. Turner, of Westmont, a daughter, Mrs. Helen T. Braislin of Haddonfield, and a sister, Mrs. Jane Asay. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Wyoming Tribe of Red Men and Camden Lodge of Moose |
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1906-1933 Samuel H. Turner Camden Courier-Post |
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1910s-1920s Patrick McVeigh Sr. Family |
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1920s-1930s Mrs. Isabel McVeigh Family |
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1920s-1930s Camden Courier-Post |
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Block of Line Street 800 to 825 Line Street |
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LIGHTCAP
- On Dec.7, 1911, Catharine Lightcap (nee Truscott), widow of Andrew
Lightcap, aged 80 years. The relatives and friends of the family
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806
Line Street
1911 Catherine Truscott Lightcap Camden Daily Courier |
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-1919 Harry Goodman |
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Line Street 1914-1959 John R. Sheldon & Family John R. & Amelia Sheldon John Cooper Sheldon Hannah Ruth Sheldon Minnie Sheldon |
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Line Street 1933 Hope Hemingway |
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Line Street 1938 Bessie F. Griffith |
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| Haddon Avenue & Line Street | |
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to Present Day
Elevated Tracks originally for the Atlantic City Division of the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad were completed at Haddon Avenue and Line Street, early in June 1909. |
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DIVORCEE
RAPPED, ALIMONY INCREASED Although she was scored in Chancery Court for assuming the name of a man to whom she is not married, Mrs. Eldora G. Wood, of 830 Line Street, yesterday won an increase in a maintenance order for her two children. Her petition was filed against her former husband, Abraham L. Wood, whom she divorced April 9, 1931. He was to have paid alimony of $20 a week, but this was later reduced to $4. Her appearance' before William J. Kraft, advisory master in chancery, was on a plea for an increase to $6. Wood opposed the petition, and set forth that his wife has a boarder named James L. Gardiner. He alleged that on August 8, 1932, she registered to vote in Camden under the name of Eldora G. Gardiner and signed a sworn statement that the change in her name was due to marriage. She was also introduced several times as Mrs. Gardiner, according to Wood. The woman went on the witness stand yesterday and denied that she had married Gardiner. "Why did you take his name?" asked the court.; "Gardiner has helped me a lot," she replied. "I don't think that that is the place for those children," retorted Kraft. "However, I’ll increase the maintenance to $6, but I want it understood it is for the children.” |
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1932-1933 Mrs. Eldora
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Camden Courier-Post Henry Fearon |
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910 Line Street U.S. Tire Company 1947 |
| 912 Line Street Albert Marciano 1947 |
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| Haddon Avenue, Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street | |
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Southeat Corner of Haddon Avenue, Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street Tydol Gas Station |
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Southeat Corner of Haddon Avenue, Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street Tydol Gas Station January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1001 Line Street Northeast Corner of Mount Ephraim Avenue & Line Street Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies |
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1000 Line Street (right) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge Edward & Lena Martin Family |
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1001 Line Street
Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies |
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1001 Line Street
Fleck Plumbing & Heating Supplies January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1002 Line Street (left) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge Edward & Lena Martin Family |
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1006 Line Street (right) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1008 Line Street (left) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1010 Line Street (right) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Thomas
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1012 Line Street (left) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1016 Line Street (left) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1016 Line Street (right) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1018 Line Street (left) January 2, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1021-1025 Line Street Cutler Metal Products Herman Z. Cutler 1926 to 1954 January 2,
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1021-1025 Line Street Alpha Group III January 2, 2006 |
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| 1026 Line Street George Martin Family |
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| 1030 Line Street | |
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The William Anderson Family |
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1065-1075 Line
Street Camden Convention Hall 1926 to 1954 Convention
Hall's Line Street mailing address refers to the rear of the
building. Click on Image to Enlarge |
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| 1074 Line Street | |
| Ringgold Street & Line Street | |
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Aerial view of Memorial Avenue, taken in the mid-1930s. Camden Convention Hall is at bottom of page, Mechling Brothers' factory is across Memorial Avenue, Parkside, Forest Hill Park, Camden High School, Farnham Park, and Central Airport are also visible. Click on Image to Enlarge |
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| 1100 Line Street
Mechling Brothers Chemical Co. By
1947 this firm was known as Mechling Brothers Chemicals, a division of
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| The Cooper River |
| EAST CAMDEN |
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RETURN TO STREETS OF CAMDEN, NJ
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Camden Courier-Post - November 21, 2006 Camden residents walk in fight to take back city By
ALAN GUENTHER CAMDEN Two dozen Camden residents recently took a nighttime walk on the wild side, past rows of abandoned homes, through neighborhoods so infested with crime and drugs that the dark streets are illuminated at night only by flashes of gunfire. "We hear gunshots. We hear a lot of hollering and screaming. We hear people all night long -- drug addicts, drug dealers -- walking up and down the street," said Lisa Amegatcher, 34, who is trying to provide a safe home for eight adopted children in the Cooper Plaza section of the city. Since Nov. 3, seven people have been found dead in Camden. Five were shot and killed. One was strangled. Another was stabbed. "That's too much. Way too much," said Arturo Venegas, Camden's new top law enforcement official. "We're going to stop it." That's why at 4 p.m. today , Venegas said, he is launching a drive he's calling "Call for Peace, Call to Action." At today's press conference, he said, he will challenge every church, every community group, every school organization to join police and walk through their neighborhoods together. "This is about neighbors caring about neighbors," said Venegas as he walked along Berkley, Pine and Line streets with residents Friday night. "We're going to take it street by street, block by block. . . . We're going to keep at it until we take our city back," Venegas said. Friday night's walk covered about six city blocks. In that small area, residents pointed out three "hit houses" to police. Hit houses are abandoned buildings where addicts come to cook their heroin in spoons held over candles. They suck up the liquid with a syringe and inject a dose, or "hit," into their veins. Three people were found in the hit houses Friday night, police Capt. Harry Leon said. Jennifer M. Lilly, 21, of National Park, Kareem Gardner, 29, of Williamstown, and Van Simmons, 39, of Camden, were all issued a summons for defiant trespass, Leon said. Gardner denied any wrongdoing, saying he had visited a girl in the neighborhood and was trying to find his way back to the Hi-Speedline station when police found him. Simmons declined comment. Lilly began to cry as police questioned her outside the squalid abandoned home at 772 Line St. Old sofas, a rug smelling of cat urine, burning candles and empty heroin packets littered the home, said Patrolman Stephen Gracia. He said he found Lilly sitting on a bed upstairs, surrounded by burning candles. "I was just waiting for somebody," Lilly said. "A guy, "Twin,' stays here. I was just seeing him, I guess. I was just waiting for him to come back." Tears gathered in the corners of her eyes as Lilly said she had been living on the street -- "on and off" -- for about a year. She is the mother of a little girl, Autumn, who will turn 4 in January and is living with Lilly's mother. City resident Sheila Roberts, president of the Cooper Lanning Civic Association, confronted Lilly as she stood outside the house. "You all destroy our neighborhood," said Roberts. "Don't come back here, because every time I see you here, I'm going to call the police. . . . You've got to find somewhere else to live. Get yourself some help." As she led the tour, Roberts took police back to an area called the LEN triangle -- a small area bordered by Line, 8th and Newton streets. Years ago, state Superior Court Judge Louis Hornstine helped the community raise $15,000 to install a basketball court, a playground and a garden. But today, kids can't play in the area, Roberts said. "The drug dealers came back here and took it over and tore it up," she said. "I live right here," Roberts said, pointing to the back of her house on South 8th Street. Drug dealers try to elude police in high-speed car chases, roaring through the narrow alleyway at night. "They drove a car right through the back of my house," Roberts said, about a year ago, ramming through a bathroom at 2 a.m. and spraying water everywhere. "Kids can't come back here," she said. "It's not safe." Venegas said police will be available to help groups that want to do walks to take back their streets. Asked how he will find the manpower to get the job done, he said Friday night that he didn't know. "I just came up with this this morning," he said. "We're working out the details." The city police force currently does not have a police chief and is under state supervision called "supersession." Venegas was recently hired by the state as the "supersession executive" to lead the department. State and county officials said that when Venegas was police chief in Sacramento, Calif., he was known for demanding results from his officers in a tough-talking, no-nonsense way. He also was well known for working closely with community groups and paying attention to their requests. For more than a decade, studies have called for the police to be more involved in the community, to get out of their squad cars and interact with neighbors. "We're not going to "try to do this,' " Venegas said. "We're going to get this done. . . . The future of the young people of our city is being stolen by the criminals who feel that they can do whatever the hell they want in our parts of the city. And we're not going to tolerate it." |