5-7-9 North 4th Street was operating a bar by 1936, when it was known as the Big Horn Cafe. Antonio Panetta, of 1200 Jackson Street, Camden, was the proprietor. It was named for a pair of longhorn steer horns which hung in the bar. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, The Big Horn Cafe was the first bar to be licensed.

Antonio Panetta was born in Italy around 1887. He had come to America in 1900. Married to his wife Mary around 1909, he was working as a waiter in a cafe at the time of the 1920 Census. At that time Antonio and Mary Panetta were living at 1200 Van Hook Street in Camden's Whitman Park section with their six children. More children would follow in the 1920s.

By 1947 Antonio Panetta had passed away. The bar was then being run by his widow, Mary Panetta. A son, Leonard worked at the bar, and son, Antonio Jr., who lived in the Delair section of Pennsauken NJ, also worked tended the bar, as did a third son, Gus. By 1954 the family had incorporated as Len Ton Inc. 

The 5-7-9 North 4th Street bar was renamed as the Center Tavern. The Center Tavern remained open on North 4th Street through 1966. The bar is not listed in the 1970 New Jersey Bell Telephone Directory, and the building in which it stood has been gone for many years. The family sold the bar to the City of Camden, and was razed as part of an urban renewal project which.

Leonard Panetta passed away in February of 2005.

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