CAMDEN BARS - Hyde's Cafe aka Hyde's Saloon

Hyde's Cafe, also known as Hyde's Saloon and Hyde's Tavern, at 1600 South 6th Street first appears in Camden City Directories in 1892, and was still trading under that name as late as 1956. The Hyde family had been in the bar business in Camden's 8th Ward for many years. Grandfather Richard Hyde (1840-1865) and father Joseph F. Hyde Sr. (1857-3/9/1927) were both well known in the tavern trade in the city.

Joseph Hyde Sr. appears in the Camden NJ City Directories as early as 1887. He lived at 904 Walnut Street in the late 1880s and early 1890s. This is where he lived with wife Eliza when Joseph Jr. was born, on October 12, 1889. Another son, John Francis "Frank" Hyde, came about five years later. In 1891 Joseph Hyde Sr. appears in the Camden City Directories at 510 Jackson Street, where he had a lager beer saloon. By 1910 the family had moved to 1600 Fillmore Street, around the corner from the saloon Joe Sr. owned at 1600 South 6th Street.

When his father could no longer run the business, Joseph Hyde Jr. took over. Hyde's Saloon was still operating into the 1950s. Joseph Hyde Jr. and his wife Tillie both passed away in 1955. Their family kept the business for at least a year before selling the bar.