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Carman Street apparently is named after William Carman, who owned a home at the Southwest Corner of Broadway and Federal Street. The house stood on and elevation fifteen or 20 feet above street grade. Erected in 1830, the house was leveled in 1902 to make way for the Munger and Long Department Store, which in the 1920s became the Stecker Department Store and in turn a J.C. Penney Department Store. In 1965 the building was torn down, and the Commerce Building, an eight-story office building with stores on the first floor, was erected on the site. Carman Street originally was one block south of Federal Street, and ran from Broadway to South 8th Street. Carman Street picked up on the other side of the Cooper River, in what was originally Stockton Township, and eventually ran from 15th through to 31st Street, where it ends at Woodrow Wilson High School. The section of Carman Street east of South 27th Street, laid out prior to Camden's annexation of Stockton Township, was originally known as Dover Street, as illustrated in a map of the area from 1914. Various projects over the years in downtown Camden have erased Carman Street from the map in that part of town. The last of Carman Street in downtown Camden went with the demolition of the Midway Theater and the construction of the Walter Rand Transportation Center. This long-gone section of Carman Street was by and large residential. Of the few businesses in this, the "Center City" length of Carman Street, the most notable was Roy Steele's Tavern at 560 Carman, which was in business from the 1930s through the 1960s. In East Camden, Carman Street ran through an area that was primarily industrial. The Stelwagon Manufacturing Company at 1600 Carman was in the business of roofing materials, and the Bell & Evans Company had a large poultry processing facility at 1610-1644 Carman for decades. Other factories with addresses on Federal Street and the cross streets had frontage on Carman Street in this area including the Iowa Soap Company between 16th and 17th Streets, known since the 1960s as the Concord Chemical factory. Carman Street turned residential at 19th Street, and remains so for the rest of its length, with the exception of three or four small business. The most interesting building, from a historical and and architectural standpoint, sits at the corner of South 27th & Carman Streets. 60 South 27th was for many years a funeral home, run by a James R. Sudler. A boy who grew up in the neighborhood at 3038 Stevens Street, Clarence J. Eichel, later became a partner, and eventually the owner of this business. The Eichel Funeral Home later moved to Pennsauken NJ, and remains in business as of 2004. |
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Do you have a Carman Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here. |
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My family moved from "Little" Cooper Street in East Camden to 624 Carman Street; about two blocks from Broadway. Broadway & Federal Street - the heart of Camden On the corner of Broadway and Carman was the Broadway Theater. Looking across the street one could see the speed-line. Down a little ways was the popular Grand movie theater. One might say that the location was right in the heart of Camden. We were a couple of blocks from Market Street where both the Stanley and Savar movies were located. The Court House and the City Hall is what separated Federal and Market streets. Later on in years the Court House was demolished and Lit Brothers replaced it on that spot. J.C. Penney's was the best department store around back in 1940 and 1941 when I lived in that part of town. It was difficult for me to accept leaving Cooper Street. To me, that was our house. Therefore I stayed at {my girlfriend} Cass's house until I had to go home. Eventually, however, I would have to get registered for school. I got acquainted quickly with the neighborhood kids. They all went to Broadway School. Leaving St. Joe's and the nuns I loved was devastating for me. Broadway School Mrs. Garrison was my home room teacher for grade 6. She was very neat, wore pretty earrings and lipstick, which made me more homesick for St. Joe's. I had Mrs. Mauger for math, Mrs. Bastian for English, and Mrs. Stuart for history and art. I will never forget how kind and compassionate Mrs. Stuart was to me. She learned of my mother being very ill and in the hospital. She took me aside and tried to comfort me. I told her she should have been a nun. She told me she wasn't Catholic. President Roosevelt Visits Camden 1940 A big day in my life. I knew the President was to be motoring down Broadway and I had to see him. Before going down the street I ran upstairs and put our flag out the window. Off I went. I stood in front of the speed-line as far out on the curb as I could get. The President was right in front of me. He was known for his beautiful friendly smile and it was directed right at me, as he waved. Probably everyone standing there with me thought the same thing in regards to their self. Talk about political season FDR was running for his third term. His opponent was Wendell Wilkie. Us kids trotted along to school in a sing-song manner repeating over and over again: "Roosevelt
in the White House waiting to be elected, We didn't go down Broadway to school, we went the back way, by Haddon Avenue. We passed the Cooper Hospital where I liked seeing the nurses coming out all dressed in white from head to toe. They were immaculate! On cool days they would wear a navy blue cape trimmed with red piping. They looked so professional, it made you think about becoming a nurse. Across the street from the hospital was a Methodist Church. We went there a few times with the neighbors kids. They were good to our family. At Xmas and Thanksgiving they delivered baskets to our house. We also passed the armory on our way to school. 1942 would find me back at St. Joe's. My mother had passed away. May 1941. |
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Carman Street - 1961
This aerial photo, cropped from a larger photograph showing the dismantlement of the railroad that had run from the old ferry terminal through the heart of Camden, shows Carman Street from "top to bottom", beginning at Broadway to its end, a few doors past the intersection of Warren Street, at the bottom of the picture. City Hall and what was then Lit Brothers (today the County welfare building) are at upper right, and Haddon Avenue can be seen bisecting Carman Street diagonally. Also easily discerned is the Broadway Theater, at the head of Carman Street the " Munger & Long building" (then J.C. Penney's), the YMCA building and the still standing New Jersey Bell Telephone building along Federal Street. |
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560 Carman Street
Roy Steele's Tavern January 27,
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560 Carman Street
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561 Carman Street
Martin O'Brien 1890s |
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564 Carman Street
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565 Carman Street
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565 Carman Street
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566 Carman Street
1924 William
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571 Carman Street
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572 Carman Street
Charles
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573 Carman Street
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580 Carman Street
Otto's Beauty Salon 1950s |
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Hopkins |
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588 Carman Street
Louis Traiman
Auction Camden
Courier-Post Advertisement |
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596 Carman Street
1887-1890s
Howard Lee & Family |
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599 Carman Street
The George
Stratton Family |
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| 605 Carman Street
George
W. Anderson &
Family |
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| 605 Carman Street
1929 Phillip Gerber |
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So
nice to see what you have put together on (Carman Street) the street
were I was born and lived from 1939 to 1947. You have
mentioned my address which was 605, I also was thrilled to see that you mentioned Broadway School where I spent two years,1946-1947, first and second grade. I clearly remember the two teachers as though it were yesterday, Mrs. Bastian and Mrs. Stuart, Mrs. Stuart being the nicer of the two. I got of on the wrong foot when my youngest sister Bernice took me to school on the first day and I threw a fit and kicked Mr. Bastian. Needless to say from there on the two of us didn't exactly have what you would call a close relationship. Remembering also were the many Saturdays I spent at the Broadway Theater watching my favorite western heroes for the price of a mere twelve cents then going home and re-enacting their heroic deeds. These were great times for me. Another event that brought great fun to me was walking down Broadway with my Dad all the way to Kaighn Avenue, the stores in that area were open late on Thursday night and many of them were wholesale stores that sold dry goods and varying types of food, the aroma from the specialty foods was amazing, wafting on to the sidewalk. I will never forget this experience or any other such as our family huddling around the big radio listening to Gabriel Heater and his reports on how the war was going. For sure my time that I spent on Carman Street will be forever etched on my mind. I am now 68 years old and reside in Texas with my wife of 48 years, Janet, our three daughters, two granddaughters and two great-grand kids. Joe
Wishart |
605 Carman Street
1939-1947 Joseph Wishart & Family Joseph & Pearl Wishart Rose Louise Wishart Joseph P. Wishart |
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1929 Elmer Clinton |
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| 607 Carman Street
1924-1929 Roy A. Smith |
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607 Carman Street
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| 608 Carman Street
1929 Mrs. Emma Ghegan |
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609 Carman Street
1924-1933 Most & Turner piano tuners |
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610 Carman Street
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| 611 Carman Street
1947 George C. Wagner |
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| 618 Carman Street
1931 John & Anna Raider |
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| 624 Carman Street 1890-1891 George D. Haley 1940s Tom & Harriet Lynne Agin |
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Carman Street
Crawford Smith |
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Carman Street
1920s-1930s Ervin F.
Ray Sr. |
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| 711
Carman Street
George
W. Anderson &
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| 711
Carman Street
William Meyer
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| 719
Carman Street
1890 Mathias S. Hess |
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723
Carman Street
Mathias S. Hess Camden Courier-Post Obituary |
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Carman Street
1929-1960s Harry J. Wagner Jr. |
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| 729
Carman Street
1910s-1930s Harry J.
Wagner |
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| 733
Carman Street
1910s-1920s Abijah
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Carman Street
1947 John G. Brazier |
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Carman Street
1947 Harry Liming |
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Carman Street
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Carman Street
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| 744
Carman Street
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| 745
Carman Street
1890s-1900s
John
J. Keefe's Saloon |
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Carman Street
1900s-1910s Mathias S. Hess |
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Carman Street
1937-1938 Charles Lynch |
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Carman Street
1933 Jerry White |
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Courier-Post - January 24, 1938 Charles Lynch |
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Carman Street & the Cooper River |
| Carman Street
in East Camden 1500 Block of Carman Street |
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| Southeast
Corner 15th & Carman Street 1924 C. Schrack
& Co. |
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| 1503
Carman Street
1924 Mrs. Mary Parker |
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| 1505
Carman Street
1924 Julius Stringer |
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| 1507
Carman Street
1924 Joseph H. Smith |
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| 1509
Carman Street
1924 Harry Barnes |
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| 1535
Carman Street
1924 Frederick Parker |
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| 1537
Carman Street
1924 Mrs. Mary Dilks |
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| Intersection of 17th Street & Carman Street in East Camden | |
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1600
Block of Carman Street
as seen from the
Southeast corner of The brick factory on right belonged to the Iowa Soap Company in the 1930s and 1940s. |
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Left: A bar of Protex Toilet Soap, in original wrap & box. Protex Soap was made by Iowa Soap Company, who had factories in Burlington, Iowa & Camden, NJ. The box reads: "The Ideal Family Toilet Soap" and "Clean hands and a clean body are essential to good health. A daily bath with Protex will keep the body sweet, removing body odors and affording protection against the odor of perspiration from all sources. True cleanliness promotes and protects the Health!" |
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Carman
& South 17th Street Looking Northwest on The building was later acquired by Concord Chemical Corp. who moved their operations there from 205 South 2nd Street at some point after 1959. |
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Carman
& South 17th Street as seen from the
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Carman
& South 17th Street 100 South 17th Street, once headquarters of Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey, presently John Allebach Food Service Inc. |
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Carman
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Carman
Street
Looking March 2004 Click on Image to Enlarge |
| Intersection of South 18th Street & Carman Street | |
| Intersection of South 19th Street & Carman Street | |
| 2000 Block of Carman Street | |
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Carman Street
1924 Elmer G. Reese |
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| 2016
Carman Street
1924 Robert L. Reese |
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| Intersection of Marlton Avenue, Berwick & Carman Streets | |
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Sign at Marlton Avenue & Carman Street |
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Carman
Street as seen from Marlton Avenue July 31, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
| 2200 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2201
Carman Street
1924 Martin Goll |
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| 2300 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2311
Carman Street
1920s-1930s Joseph Croge |
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3 YOUTHS SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY OF STORE Pleading guilty to robbery of a chain store at Twenty-seventh and Westfield Avenue, three youths were sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court. Anthony Scott, 17, of 326 Benson Street, was sent to Rahway Reformatory; Charles Joslin, 19, of 1606 Pierce street, was fined $100, and Dominick Crogo, 18, of 2311 Carman Street, was sent to the county jail for four months. Police said two of the youths broke into the chain store about three weeks ago and stole 50 cartons of cigarettes and other merchandise. Joslin, it was testified, did not break into the store, but had used his automobile to cart away the stolen goods, at the request of the other two youths. |
2311
Carman Street
1933 Dominick Croge Camden
Courier-Post |
| 2319
Carman Street
1924 Joseph A. Bailey |
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| Intersection of South 24th Street & Carman Street | |
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Looking
East on Carman Street from South 24th Street June 30, 2006 Click on Image to Enlarge |
| 2400 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2407
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1924 Harry Weil |
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2420
Carman Street
1924-1933 Jacob "Jake" Schiller |
FORMER COP IS FREED ON CHARGE BY IN-LAW William Schiller, 29, of 2420 Carman Street, a former summer policeman, was cleared on a disorderly conduct charge brought by his father-in-law, John Green, 409 North Thirty-seventh street, by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. Green had Schiller arrested when he visited Green's home Wednesday to talk to Mrs. Schiller, from whom he is separated. Schiller said he meant to make no disturbance but an argument developed. He promised Judge Pancoast he would stay away from the Green residence. |
2420
Carman Street
1933 William Schiller Camden
Courier-Post This story had a sad ending, as William Schiller shot his father Jacob to death on September 18, 1933 while arguing over the marital problems of William and Augusta Schiller.
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| 2500 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2500
Carman Street
1924 Samuel E. Haines |
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| 2515
Carman Street
1924 Charles Green |
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| Intersection of South 26th Street & Carman Street | |
| 2600 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2608
Carman Street
1924 Christian Miller |
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Richard Hadtford, 16, of 2610 Carman Street, received bruises of both legs and possible fracture of right finger when a bicycle he was riding collided with a car driven by Walter Sharpley, 27, of 125 Warwick road, Haddonfield. Sharpley took the youth to Cooper Hospital where he received treatment. |
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Carman Street
1938 William Schiller Camden
Courier-Post |
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2631
Carman Street
1924 Frank Baker |
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2631
Carman Street
The 1939-1967 |
BOYS
HELD IN GEM THEFT Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. One of the boys, William McGinnis, 11, of 2639 Carman Street, had been released from the county detention home last Thursday on probation by Judge Shay. He had been one of six boys held in connection with a series of nine robberies in East Camden. The other boy is John Auletto, 10, of 2824 Howell Street. Mrs. Catherine Tydeman testified the pair had come to her apartment at Twenty-eighth Street and Westfield Avenue Thursday afternoon and told her she was wanted on the phone. Returning, she saw the two boys leaving her apartment, and a short time later she discovered that her pocketbook containing a $725 diamond ring was missing. District Detective William Hurlock arrested the pair at the Garfield School. He said he found the ring in their possession. Parents of the McGinnis boy pleaded for him before Judge Shay last Thursday and said he was "backward" because of a fractured skull he had suffered in an accident. |
2639
Carman Street
1930 McGinnis Family Camden
Courier-Post |
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Carman Street
1924 William Wood |
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The
Heimlich Family, my parents John and Ruth and my siblings, John,
Diane and Barbara, lived at We
remember the days of street hucksters, ice deliveries for the real
“ice box”, the milk man the bread man, Horn and Hardardt’s
right around the corner. The Camden Police Station had a branch
right out our back door where Federal and Westfield Avenues split.
The building is still there today. We
have nothing but fond memories of a great childhood in Among our childhood friends and all living in a 3 or 4 block area were the Molineaux’s from 24th street, the Devenney’s also on Carman, the DePasquale’s on 26th Street, the Catlings, on 26th, the Auletto’s on 24th, the Griffith’s on 24th, the Shipman’s on 26th, etc. Richard
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Corner
of 27th & Carman Streets 60 & 62 South
27th Street |
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| 2700 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2725
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1924 |
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| 2759
Carman Street
1924 |
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| Intersection of South 28th Street & Carman Street | |
| 2800 Block of Carman Street | |
| 2812
Carman Street
1924 |
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| 2814
Carman Street
Richard
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| 2826
Carman Street
1924 |
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| Intersection of South 30th Street & Carman Street | |
| 3000 Block of Carman Street | |
| 3000
Carman Street
1924 Wilson Brothers
Inc. |
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3001
Carman Street
1924-1947 C.F.
Landenberger |
| 3003
Carman Street
1924 Albert Ribiero |
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3005
Carman Street
1924 J. Wesley Letts As a child, I never knew Mr. Letts. Mrs. Letts was a widow and would let me clinb through our adjacent porches to go to her house. She sold her house to Frank Small and his wife, I am not sure when. The Smalls and my parents, together, made big changes to the fron of those properties. Doreen
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1924 Oscar S. Nelson |
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3007
Carman Street
1918- late 1960s I was born and raised at 3007 Carman Street in East Camden. I attended Cramer Elementary School and then Woodrow Wilson High School. Upon marrying, my husband and I bought the home down the street from my parents at 3081 Carman Street, just doors from Woodrow Wilson. It was a nice place to grow up and I have many happy memories of friends and neighbors there. I loved Dudley Grange park and remember the library well. It's sad that the politicians let it all go... what a loss. 3007 Carman Street was built and purchased by my grandfather, Milton A. Kelly. He lived there with his wife Charlotte until he passed away sometime around 1934. She sold the house to my father, Milton E. Kelly. I was born in 1938 and was raised in a very loving home there. When I married in 1957 and moved to 3081 Carman Street my parents moved to Haddonfield and sold the house to my brother, William R. Kelly. In the late 1960s he moved to New York and sold the house. The deck in front of 3007 was added after we left there. Doreen
Kelly Schwingler |
| 3008
Carman Street
1924 James B. Henderson |
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| 3010
Carman Street
1924 William J.
Hollworth |
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| 3013
Carman Street
1924 F. A, DeMarris |
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| 3014
Carman Street
1924 Orville H. Showers |
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1947 Francis W. Lockwood |
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3015
Carman Street
1924 Andrew J. Richards |
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Howard E. Gominger, 23, son of Mrs. Myrtle Gominger, 3015 Carman Street, who entered the service four months ago, now is stationed at Aberdeen, Maryland. |
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Carman Street
1945 Mrs. Myrtle Gominger Camden-Courier-Post |
| 3015
Carman Street
1947 Sylvan D. Jackson |
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| 3016
Carman Street
1924 J. Howard Dalrymple |
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3017
Carman Street
1924-1947 Walter L. Tunstall |
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3000 Block of Carman
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3041 Carman Street
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1930 William Grams |
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3064 Carman Street
1947 Dan Cooperson |
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Barry and Dan
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Barry
Abrams grew up at 3064 Carman Street. In 2004 his boyhood friend Dan
Cooperson published BARRY
and DAN Kevin Riordan wrote a column about the book for the Courier-Post in March of 2004. |
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3064 Carman Street
January 4, 2008 At 7:10 PM Battalion 2 (Chief Lewiston) reported a 2 story middle of row occupied dwelling with heavy smoke on the 2nd floor. All hands were placed in service. Crews located a kitchen fire. The fire was brought under control quickly with no injuries. The Red Cross was called for the residents. This was the first All Hands Fire for the Camden Fire Department in 2008. |
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3064 Carman Street
January 4, 2008 At 7:10 PM Battalion 2 (Chief Lewiston) reported a 2 story middle of row occupied dwelling with heavy smoke on the 2nd floor. All hands were placed in service. Crews located a kitchen fire. The fire was brought under control quickly with no injuries. The Red Cross was called for the residents. This was the first All Hands Fire for the Camden Fire Department in 2008. |
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3064 Carman Street
January 4, 2008 At 7:10 PM Battalion 2 (Chief Lewiston) reported a 2 story middle of row occupied dwelling with heavy smoke on the 2nd floor. All hands were placed in service. Crews located a kitchen fire. The fire was brought under control quickly with no injuries. The Red Cross was called for the residents. This was the first All Hands Fire for the Camden Fire Department in 2008. |
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3064 Carman Street
January 4, 2008 At 7:10 PM Battalion 2 (Chief Lewiston) reported a 2 story middle of row occupied dwelling with heavy smoke on the 2nd floor. All hands were placed in service. Crews located a kitchen fire. The fire was brought under control quickly with no injuries. The Red Cross was called for the residents. This was the first All Hands Fire for the Camden Fire Department in 2008. |
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3065 Carman Street
1930 William Rogers |
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3077 Carman Street
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3079 Carman Street
1930 Curtis Sangtinette |
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3081 Carman Street
1957-1962 The Mignona Family |
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3083 Carman Street
1930 William Biddle & Family |
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Carman Street
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Carman Street
1947 |
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| Camden Courier-Post - Evening Courier - June 4, 1933 |
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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 ha ve 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. |
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Longtime
friends still on same page The two eighth-graders had some things in common - they were both Jewish and obsessed with baseball, for instance - but they were more different than alike. And not just because Dan was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan and Barry loved the Yankees. Dan, who lived near 32nd and Westfield, was shy, nervous and struggling with a disorder similar to Tourette's Syndrome. Barry was smooth and sociable and even had his own phone ("which was unheard of," he recalls) in his home on Carman Street between 31st and Dudley. "I thought, `This guy's popular and has everything,' " Dan says. "Dan was so much smarter than the average bear," Barry says. "We bonded immediately." That bond - now nearly a half-century old - is the focus of the new book Barry and Dan. A quirky, discursive and heartfelt mix of memoir, meditation, Camden history and sports trivia, it was written by Dan and is available through the online subsidy publisher Xlibris (www.xlibris.com). A retired social worker who turns 60 in July, Dan now lives in Cinnaminson with his wife, Donna. They are the parents of two grown children. Barry, who turns 61 next week, is a financial adviser familiar to KYW Newsradio listeners as "The Bond Guy." He and his wife, Rebecca, have three children and live in Marlton. When Dan first told Barry that he planned to write Barry and Dan, "I told him, `Knock yourself out,' " Barry says. "I thought, `What's so interesting about the two of us?' " Reading the book, Barry says he was struck by the fact that "I didn't know some of the ways he felt about me - or that he held me in such esteem." Says Dan, "Barry was the big brother I never had." Interviewing the Barry and Dan of Barry and Dan is a bit like sitting down to chat with a veteran comedy team. The timing is quick, the quips fly and some of the routines feel as lived-in as a favorite chair. And an interviewer quickly learns that, in addition to sports, one of their favorite subjects is the Camden they and so many older South Jerseyans remember with so fondly, fiercely and vividly. "We lived across the street from Dudley Grange Park," Barry says. "There was a library there, in a mansion that later burned down. I lived in that library. "We could walk down to the Arlo Theater and see a movie for 15 cents," he continues. "We used to play pimple ball, and when the pimple ball broke we used it to play half ball." The two chums went through Woodrow Wilson High School together. Although they played different sports, both were basketball managers - because the other had done so. Barry tended to move in different social circles, but their connection endured. It endured the years when they went to college and served in the armed forces and didn't see each other, sometimes for years. And while they attended each other's weddings, there were times in the 1970s and '80s when Barry and Dan weren't much in touch. But they reconnected at the 35th reunion of the Woodrow Wilson Class of '61. "Now we're as close as we've ever been," Barry says. "Closer even," says Dan. |