THOMPSON STREET runs from North 27th Street to the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just beyond North 30th Street in East Camden, between Howell and Pleasant Street. The street was already laid out by the time the 1887 Camden City Directory was compiled. Fredolin (often recorded as Frederick) Spuhler operated a grocery on Thompson Street as early as 1887, and the Mortimer family had a presence on Thomosin Street as early as 1887 through the late 1940s. |
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Intersection of North 27th Street & Thompson Street | |
2700 Block of Thompson Street | |
2722
Thompson Street 1924-1947 John Gray |
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2740
Thompson Street 1924 Mrs. Mary E. Stelter 1929 Albert Stelter 1947 Vacant |
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2742
Thompson Street
1880s-1890s Fredolin Spuhler |
Intersection of North 28th Street & Thompson Street | |
10 HURT IN SERIES OF 7 ACCIDENTS Ten persons were injured within an hour last night in seven accidents throughout Camden. The first accident occurred at Twenty-eighth and Thompson streets where a car driven by Mrs. Sarah A. Mole, 39, of 2903 Pleasant street, struck a five-year-old boy who ran from the sidewalk into the path of the automobile. The boy, John Smith, 5, of 2801 Pleasant street, suffered cuts on the right arm and leg. Mrs. Mole placed him in her car, then requested Charles Johnson, 32, of 2840 Thompson street, to drive the car to Cooper Hospital. Johnson agreed and with Julius Braxton, 18, a friend, of 2933 Thompson street, Mrs. Mole and the Smith boy started for the hospital. . At Twenty-seventh street and Saunders Avenue, the second accident occurred when Mrs. Mole's car, driven by Johnson, crashed with another car driven by H. Lem White, 43, of 730 Colford avenue, Collingswood. Johnson, Mrs. Mole and Braxton all were cut and bruised in the crash and were taken, with the Smith boy to the hospital by another motorist. Meanwhile at Baird avenue and Marlton pike, an automobile driven by Miss Virginia M. Brickner, 18, of 27 Cuthbert Road, Westmont, was overturned .in a collision with another car driven. by George W. Garner, 31, of 235 Morse street, a city fireman. Miss Brickner was treated at Cooper Hospital for shock and bruises. Two accidents occurred at Sixteenth street and Crescent Boulevard. In the first, Charles C. Markley, 30, of 1040 Sycamore avenue, Haddon Heights, attempted to stop his car when another machine cut In front of him. Markley's car overturned at the curbstone, and was wrecked, but Markley escaped injury. A Palmyra mother and her four year-old daughter were injured when the shaft of a bread wagon broke two windows in their car and showered them with glass, at the same intersection. The car was driven by Mrs. Dorothy Creager, 32, of 737 Garfield
Avenue, Palmyra. She was cut, as was her daughter, Helen, 4. The driver of the wagon, Jackson Kircher, of 159 West Avenue, Westville, was not injured. |
Camden Courier-Post |
2800 Block of Thompson Street | |
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2801
Thompson Street
1956-2006 Andrew H. Foreman Jr. |
2802
Thompson Street 1924 William F. Clark 1924 John Ruch 1929 Walter Connell 1947 Fred Small |
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2803
Thompson Street
1960-1992 |
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2807
Thompson Street
1956 Grandville Ingram Camden Courier-Post
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2817
Thompson Street
1956-1979 |
2823
Thompson Street
1924-1929 Frederick A. Kissinger |
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2824
Thompson Street
1924 Ambrose Faust Jr. |
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2825
Thompson Street
1924 William H. Jacoby |
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GASOLINE CAN EXPLODES IN CELLAR OF HOME Firemen of the Twenty-seventh and Hayes Streets station [Engine Company 11- PMC] were called out last night to answer an alarm at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Amon, 2825 Thompson Street, where a small can of gasoline in the cellar exploded. The explosion was caused by sparks from a cigarette in the hands of her son, George, who was cleaning a motorcycle in the cellar. George took a small extinguisher from the motorcycle and put out the f1ames before firemen arrived. No damage was reported. |
2825
Thompson Street
1933 |
2825
Thompson Street
1929 William J. Earnest |
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2826
Thompson Street
1924-1929 Mrs. Mary T. Lyons |
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2826
Thompson Street
After 1947 |
2840
Thompson Street
1924 No Listing |
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10 HURT IN SERIES OF 7 ACCIDENTS Ten persons were injured within an hour last night in seven accidents throughout Camden. The first accident occurred at Twenty-eighth and Thompson streets where a car driven by Mrs. Sarah A. Mole, 39, of 2903 Pleasant street, struck a five-year-old boy who ran from the sidewalk into the path of the automobile. The boy, John Smith, 5, of 2801 Pleasant street, suffered cuts on the right arm and leg. Mrs. Mole placed him in her car, then requested Charles Johnson, 32, of 2840 Thompson street, to drive the car to Cooper Hospital. Johnson agreed and with Julius Braxton, 18, a friend, of 2933 Thompson street, Mrs. Mole and the Smith boy started for the hospital. . At Twenty-seventh street and Saunders Avenue, the second accident occurred when Mrs. Mole's car, driven by Johnson, crashed with another car driven by H. Lem White, 43, of 730 Colford avenue, Collingswood. Johnson, Mrs. Mole and Braxton all were cut and bruised in the crash and were taken, with the Smith boy to the hospital by another motorist. |
2840
Thompson Street
1933 Charles Johnson |
2840
Thompson Street
1947 Jesse Johnson |
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2841
Thompson Street
1924-1947 Cephas Mortimer |
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2842
Thompson Street 1924 Vacant 1929 Percival R. Riggin 1947 Ralph S. Jones |
Intersection of North 29th Street & Thompson Street | |
2900 Block of Thompson Street | |
2900
Thompson Street
1924 Mrs. Hannah Mortimer |
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2902
Thompson Street
1924 William F. Clark |
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2924
Thompson Street
1924-1929 James Mortimer Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
2926
Thompson Street
1924 Raymond Kaufman |
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2927
Thompson Street
1924-1929 Mrs. Hattie Wynn Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2927
& 2929 Thompson Street Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2928
Thompson Street
1924-1929 Mrs. Annie E. Louderback Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2928
& 2930 Thompson Street Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2929
Thompson Street
1929-1947 Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
MARRIAGE LICENSES CAMDEN Floyd Warren, 21, of 762 Pine street, and Lillian Ingram, 21, of 2929 Thompson street. |
2929
Thompson Street
1929-1947 Camden Courier-Post |
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2930
Thompson Street
1924 John Leech Photo taken October 27, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
2931
Thompson Street
1924-1929 William Brewer |
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2933
Thompson Street
1924 Nathan Hawkins |
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10 HURT IN SERIES OF 7 ACCIDENTS Ten persons were injured within an hour last night in seven accidents throughout Camden. The first accident occurred at Twenty-eighth and Thompson streets where a car driven by Mrs. Sarah A. Mole, 39, of 2903 Pleasant street, struck a five-year-old boy who ran from the sidewalk into the path of the automobile. The boy, John Smith, 5, of 2801 Pleasant street, suffered cuts on the right arm and leg. Mrs. Mole placed him in her car, then requested Charles Johnson, 32, of 2840 Thompson street, to drive the car to Cooper Hospital. Johnson agreed and with Julius Braxton, 18, a friend, of 2933 Thompson street, Mrs. Mole and the Smith boy started for the hospital.. At Twenty-seventh street and Saunders Avenue, the second accident occurred when Mrs. Mole's car, driven by Johnson, crashed with another car driven by H. Lem White, 43, of 730 Colford avenue, Collingswood. Johnson, Mrs. Mole and Braxton all were cut and bruised in the crash and were taken, with the Smith boy to the hospital by another motorist. |
2933
Thompson Street
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2935
Thompson Street
1924 John Jackson |
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2937
Thompson Street
1924 Vacant Vacant in 2000s, fires in 2010 & 2011 Photo taken October 27, 2011 after AM fire Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2937
Thompson Street
Vacant in 2000s, fires in 2010 & 2011 Photo taken October 27, 2011 after AM fire Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2937
Thompson Street
Vacant in 2000s, fires in 2010 & 2011 Photo taken October 27, 2011 after AM fire Click on Image to Enlarge |
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2937
Thompson Street
Vacant in 2000s, fires in 2010 & 2011 Photo taken October 27, 2011 after AM fire Click on Image to Enlarge |
Intersection of North 30th Street & Thompson Street | |
3000 Block of Thompson Street | |
3002
Thompson Street
1924 James Winchester |
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60-DA
Y
SENTENCE
GIVEN IN
THEFT OF WATCH
Sixty
days in the county jail was the sentence meted out to Wilmer Brown, 52,
of 3002 Thompson Street, when he was charged in police court yesterday
with stealing a watch. Arrested
on complaint of Martin
Nelson, 561
Spruce
Street,
Brown denied the charges and said he knew nothing of the timepiece.
Nelson testified that he went to a house on Cherry
Street
near Sixth with Brown and fell asleep. His watch was taken while he
slept, he said. He admitted he had been drinking. William Pollard, of 751 Cherry Street, said he was in the back yard of the house on Cherry Street when Nelson and Brown appeared. An hour after they entered the place, he said, Brown asked him for a pair of pliers to cut it chain. In sentencing Brown, Police Judge Pancoast said he believed the man wanted the pliers to cut Nelson’s watch chain. |
3002
Thompson Street
1933 Wilmer Brown Camden Courier-Post |
3007
Thompson Street
1924 Thomas Tyngle |