LOUIS STREET runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue. It begins at the southern border of Old Camden Cemetery, which is Mount Vernon Street, and runs south to Chestnut Street, where it bears to the right and continues across Kaighn Avenue all the way to Sheridan Street. It is/was primarily a residential street which had at one time many corner businesses, groceries, bars, and other retail establishments. Louis Street also has Whitman Park, a large park dominated by a water tower that lies on Louis Street between Whitman and Everett Street. The park also provided the neighborhood with its one of its names, the pther being Polack Town, as there were many Polish residents there for many, many years. Not surprisingly, given the low quality of human being that passes for political leadership in Camden, when a park at Davis and Copewood Street, near the Ferry Avenue speedline station, was rehabilitated in the mid 2000s, it was renamed Whitman Park.... thus, in modern day Camden, "Whitman Park" is no long IN the Whitman Park neighborhood. The crack epidemic of the 1980s devastated Louis Street and the Whitman Park neighborhood, and the area has never recovered. For the past 25-plus years the Louis Street corridor has been one of the most dangerous areas of the city, with many mostly drug-related shootings, murders, and arsons. |
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Intersection
of Mount
Vernon Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Southwest
Corner 1176 Mount Vernon Street August 2, 2006 |
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Southwest
Corner 1176 Mount Vernon Street Looking South on Louis Street August 2, 2006 |
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Satellite Photo taken in 2013 |
1000
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1955 1955 NJ Bell Telephone Yellow Pages As
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1928 Anthony Szwak
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Louis Street
1947
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Intersection
of Ross
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1000
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
1922 Philadelphia Inquirer Edward Billick |
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Louis Street
1933 Dominic Kasilowski
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Louis Street
1947
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1046-1048-1050 Louis Street 1930s
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Louis Street
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1900 John Kupperwich Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Louis Street
1932 John Gaisor Camden Courier-Post
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1928 Edward Luczkiewicz Camden
Courier-Post August
Fortune - Elmer Woods
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
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1947
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Louis Street
1947 Edward Broadwater
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1949 Elizabeth Hill Camden Courier-Post |
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Louis Street
1906 Emma Jones Philadelphia Inquirer
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Louis Street
1947
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1947
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Intersection
of Chestnut
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1100
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1940 Mrs. Mary Wojcik
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Louis Street
1955 1955 NJ Bell Telephone Yellow Pages As
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1928 George Washkruz 1947
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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1947
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1890s-1906 |
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1917 Philadelphia Inquirer O. Glen Stackhouse |
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Louis Street
1947
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Intersection
of Sycamore
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Philadelphia
Inquirer
Albert
L. Cornog
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Southeast
Corner
Looking South on Louis Street 1947 Photograph Taken August 26, 2001 |
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Northeast
Corner
1251-1253 Building erected after 1928 Photo taken June 10, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Northeast
Corner
1251-1253 1934-1943 |
Northeast
Corner
1251-1253 1947 Tire Hospital -
Herbert Obus |
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Northeast
Corner
1251-1253 1955 1955 New Jersey Bell
Telephone |
1100
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1140
Louis Street
1940 Photograph Taken August 26, 2001 |
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1140,
1142 & 1144 Louis Street 1947 Photograph Taken August 26, 2001 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
Private
First Class
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Louis Street
1940-1948 |
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Louis Street
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1947
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Louis Street
1931 Frank Struzynski Camden Courier-Post
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1935 Walter Strauss Camden Courier-Post
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1932 Thomas Meehan Camden Courier-Post |
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Louis Street
1952 Camden Courier-Post Click on Image to Read
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1930s 1940 Edmund Kincher
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken August 9, 2011
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& 1166 Louis Street
Photograph Taken August 9, 2011
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken August 9, 2011 |
Intersection
of Louis
Street & Kaighn
Avenue Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Southeast
Corner
Photo Taken August 9, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge
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Looking
North at Intersection of Louis Street & Kaighn Avenue from Liberty Street Photo Taken May 6, 2012 |
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Southwest
Corner of Louis Street & Kaighn Avenue (1188 Kaighn Avenue) Photo Taken August 9, 2011 |
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1400
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken June 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken June 25, 2011
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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1211,
1213, & 1215 Louis Street Photograph Taken May 6, 2004
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1211,
1213, & 1215 Louis Street Photograph Taken May 6, 2004
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1211,
1213, & 1215 Louis Street Photograph Taken May 6, 2004
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1211,
1213, & 1215 Louis Street Photograph Taken May 6, 2004
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Louis Street
1947
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1906 George Amme Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Louis Street
1947
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PAIR HELD FOR JURY IN THEFT OF LIQUOR Charged with possession of stolen goods, Leon Grenkwicz, 21, of 1213 Louis street, and George Sanders, 22, of 307 Walnut street, Haddonfield, yesterday were held without bail for the grand Jury by Police Judge Lewis Liberman. Charges were placed against them by Detective Benjamin Simon after they had been arrested in Audubon for being drunk and disorderly. Simon said his investigation indicated they were the men who, on September 25, stole a liquor truck belonging to James Thompson, wholesale beverage dealer, from Fourth and Arch streets, where it was parked. Simon said that he has the sworn statement of Hugh Gaffney, of 3 Albertson avenue, Westmont, and John Whelan, of 831 Linden street, that Grenkwicz tried to sell him some of the stolen liquor, for which Thompson is the sole agent in Camden. Furthermore, said Simon, he has the evidence of a Merchantville man and his sister, whose names he did not reveal, that Sanders sold them a case of the same brand. |
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Louis Street
1935 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Intersection
of Liberty
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Southwest
Corner 1891 Liberty Park Passenger Station |
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Northwest
Corner
1191 Liberty Street Photograph Taken May 5, 2004 |
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Northwest
Corner
1201 Liberty Street also known as September 9, 2003 |
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Northwest
Corner
1201 Liberty Street also known as September 9, 2003 |
Intersection
of Bannard
Alley & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Looking Northwest down Louis Street. Vacant building in the foreground is 1201 Bannard Alley, on the northeast corner of Louis Street and Bannard Alley. This and other photos taken March 15, 2012. This building had been scheduled for demolition shortly before these photos were taken. |
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Northeast corner of Louis Street and Bannard Alley. | |
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Northeast corner of Louis Street and Bannard Alley. | |
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Looking Northwest down Bannard Alley towards Louis Street. | |
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Northeast
corner of Louis Street and Bannard Alley, as seen from west side of Louis Street |
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Northeast
corner of Louis Street and Bannard Alley, as seen from west side of Louis Street |
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Looking Southeast down Louis Street as seen from west side of Louis Street. Building center of photpgraph is 1201 Bannard Alley, on the northeast corner of Louis Street and Bannard Alley |
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Intersection
of Mechanic
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Satellite
View of Intersection Louis Street, Bannard Alley, & Mechanic Street -2013 |
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1400
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
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1947
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Louis Street
1922 Mrs. Margaret Jenkins Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Louis Street
1959 Camden Courier-Post
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Louis Street
1891
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1891
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Intersection
of Atlantic
Avenue & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1400
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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WOULD-BE SUICIDE SENTENCED FOR 'CURE' One man was sentenced to 60 days in jail yesterday while another was given a suspended sentence when arraigned on the charge of attempting suicide by turning on the gas in their homes. When Joseph Dadich, 52, a plumber of 1438 Louis Street, faced Judge Gene R. Mariano, the man's wife, Emma asked the court to send her husband away for the "cure" be cause he had been drinking for several months. Mrs. Dadich found her husband lying across the kitchen stove Sunday with, the burners turned on. She got him into the open air and he was revived, after which he was arrested. Dadich drew the jail sentence. Joseph Grochowski, 22, of 915 Mechanic Street, the second man to be haled before the court on the suicide attempt charge, was found with his head bent over the burner of a hot water heater in the cellar by his brother-in-law, Edmund Kincher. When Stanley Ciechanowski, Freeholder of the Seventh Ward, said Judge Joseph Varbalow had promised to give Grochowski a position, Judge Mariano suspended sentence, and he was released. |
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Louis Street
1938 Camden Courier-Post |
1440
Louis Street
1947
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Intersection
of Lansdowne
Avenue & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Philadelphia
Inquirer February 27, 1916 John
Brothers |
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Northwest
Corner 1197 Lansdowne Avenue
1947 Photograph Taken March 19, 2012 |
1400
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
1933 M. Cupyrs |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1933 Joseph
Putek |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1919-mid 1930s Left: Leon Grenkwicz |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1933 Stephen Burzynski
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Louis Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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1475
Louis Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
Intersection
of Whitman
Avenue & Louis
Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1475 Louis Street - Northwest Corner - September 25, 2011 | |
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1201 Whitman Avenue - Northeast Corner - September 25, 2011 | |
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Southeast Corner - September 25, 2011 | |
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Looking
at the Northwest Corner of Whitman Avenue and Louis Street November 27, 2011 |
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1400
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1478, & 1480 Louis Street September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1922-1940s |
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Louis Street
Private
Gustave Dzingoski
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Louis Street
1938 Camden Courier-Post |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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& 1482 Louis Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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& 1486 Louis Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Building Inspector Day yesterday issued permits for the erection of eight dwellings by T.G. Coulter from 530 to 544 Fairview Street. Martin Bergen Stone was given a permit for six dwellings from 1486 to 1496 Louis Street. NOTE: These house on Fairview Street were never built. New York Shipbuilding Corporation built offices on this land. |
1486
to 1496 Louis Street
Philadelphia Inquirer William
H. Day |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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& 1490 Louis Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1494, & 1496 Louis Street Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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1930 |
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Louis Street
1942 Left: Camden Courier-Post Circa 1942 |
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Louis Street
1930-1947 Left: Camden Courier-Post Circa 1942 |
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Louis Street
1930-1947 Left: Camden Courier-Post Circa 1942 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1500, & 1502 Louis Street 1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
1922-1947 Left: Camden Courier-Post Circa 1942 |
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Louis Street
1947 Photograph Taken September 25, 2011 |
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Louis Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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Camden Courier-Post * July 30, 1941 |
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Edward
Garrity - Mary
W. Kobus - Dr.
David S. Rhone - George
W. Frost Thirteenth Ward Republican Club - Marian Garrity - Louis Street - Whitman Avenue |
Intersection
of Everett
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1500
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
1947 2010s Vacant Photo: July 2010 RAZED January 20, 2015 |
Intersection
of Thurman
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1500
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
1940 William Bogucki
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Louis Street
1947 Barto Zanic
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1940 Leon Szmelc
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Louis Street
1928 Camden Courier-Post John Walker - Haddon
Avenue
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Louis Street
1940 Anthony Kozieja |
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1926-1940 1940 Mrs. Mary E. Stokowski Camden Courier-Post
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Louis Street
1948 1975 Camden Courier-Post
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Louis Street
1975 Camden Courier-Post
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Louis Street
1940 Herman Bauer
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1940 Cashmera Piearocci
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Louis Street
1940 Stephen R. Heigh
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Louis Street
1940 Harry H. Miller
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Louis Street
1940
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Intersection
of Morton
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1500
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Louis Street
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AND 2 MEN SEIZED IN NUMBERS Two men and a woman were arrested and numbers slips representing play of $138 were seized in a raid on a house at 1039 Jackson Street yesterday. Detectives described the place as “drop” for the slips and said they believed they were left, there by writers and delivered to "banks" at night. Those arrested gave names and addresses of Joseph Orlowski, 31, of the Jackson Street address; Mary Stanska, 29, of 1275 Chase Street, and John Pawela, 21, of 1564 Louis Street. All were charged with violating the State Crimes Act pertaining to gambling. The raid was made by City Detectives Thomas Murphy, Jr., and Gustav Koerner and Policemen James McLaughlin and Raymond Carson. Besides the slips, the detectives seized $52.97 in money lying on a table. Murphy said he and Koerner have been watching, the place for several days and raided it today when they saw several persons enter. Those arrested are being held in $2000 bail for a hearing in police court tomorrow. |
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Louis Street
1938 John Pawela
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1940
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Louis Street
1927-1930 1947 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Intersection
of Chase
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Northwest
Corner of Chase
Street & Louis Street 1199 Chase Street This was a bar as
early as 1924 into the early 1990s. |
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Intersection
of Jackson
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1600
Block of Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1601
Louis Street
1947 Photograph by Gabriel Angemi, 2012 |
CAMDEN MAN INJURED AS CAR TURNS TURTLE A South Camden man received cuts of the legs and hands when his car turned over in an intersection collision at Eighth street and Atlantic Avenue shortly before noon yesterday. The injured man is Harry Katz, 25, of 1100 Baring street. He was taken to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital by Edwin Kelly, of 1603 Louis Street, driver of the other car. Both cars were damaged. |
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Louis Street
1933 Edwin Kelly Camden Courier-Post |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1947 |
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Louis Street
1947
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Louis Street
1955-1964 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad
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1628
Louis Street
1955-1964 Camden Courier-Post
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Intersection
of Sheridan
Street & Louis Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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