Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Trenton Avenue


TRENTON AVENUE runs parallel to Haddon Avenue from 728 Washington Avenue southeast to across Newton Avenue to Line Street, lying to the west of Haddon Avenue. While I have nothing to document this, I'd bet a nickel that it was laid out at the same time as Carteret Street, which ran parallel to Haddon on the east side. Other than as a residential street, Trenton Avenue may be best remembered for the two bars that were at either end of the 500 block.

Do you have a Trenton Avenue memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here.

 Phil Cohen



1946 Map of Camden

Trenton Avenue runs diagonally northwest to southeast, west of Haddon Avenue,
in middle right side of the map


A
Trenton Avenue
Question

This man operated a boardinghouse for deaf tenants on Trenton Avenue in the early 1930s.

If anyone knows his name and/.or the address where this was located, PLEASE e-mail me.

 Phil Cohen
September 2008


Intersection of Washington Street & Trenton Avenue
Looking East
along
Washington Street

December 1, 2005

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Photo Courtesy of Craig Campbell

Looking South
down
Trenton Avenue
from
Washington Street

December 1, 2005

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Photo Courtesy of Craig Campbell


400 Block of Trenton Avenue
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419, 421 & 423
Trenton Avenue

December 1, 2005

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419, 421 & 423
Trenton Avenue

December 1, 2005

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  419 Trenton Avenue

Arthur Gray
1947

419 Trenton Avenue

December 1, 2005

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419 Trenton Avenue

1942 Mrs. Lillian McNamara

Camden Courier-Post
May 27, 1942

Jack Silverman
Thomas Murphy
Harold B. Ash
Ralph Marchione
John F. Dease
Beideman Avenue
Trenton Avenue
North 6th Street
North 23rd Street
Baird Avenue
Admiral Wilson Boulevard

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  420 Trenton Avenue

1892-1894
George Osler

  420 Trenton Avenue

1947
Mrs. Wilhelmina Doughten

  421 Trenton Avenue

Mrs. Vera A. Lane
1947

421 Trenton Avenue

1898
Jacob Fish

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 21, 1898

421 Trenton Avenue

December 1, 2005

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  422 Trenton Avenue

Mrs. Clara E. Small
1947

  423 Trenton Avenue

William J. & Mamie Meggett Family
1910s-1930s

  423 Trenton Avenue

Private Robert E. Meggett

  423 Trenton Avenue

Arthur J. Brickwood
Charles T. Dow
1947

423 Trenton Avenue

December 1, 2005

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  424 Trenton Avenue

Fred Matricardi
1947

 

425 Trenton Avenue

1940-1947
James A. Bordeau & Family
James A. & Mary Clara Bordeau

James A. Bordeau was killed in the Hollingshead Fire on July 30, 1940

Camden Courier-Post
July 30, 1941

425 Trenton Avenue

December 1, 2005

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  426 Trenton Avenue

Andrew B. Masso
1947

  427 Trenton Avenue

Angelo Ricco
1947

  428 Trenton Avenue

Sarah A. Knisell
1947

429 Trenton Avenue

1931
Edmund May Distinctive Printing

Tall Cedars of Lebanon
Camden Forest No. 5
6th Annual Show Program
"The More The Merrier!"
April 23-24-25, 1931

  429 Trenton Avenue

No Directory Listing in 1947

430 Trenton Avenue

1890-1907
Alfred Hoffman & Family
Alfred & Sarah Hoffman
Ethel S. Hoffman

1947
Anthony Angelino

Intersection of Blaine Street & Trenton Avenue
  431 Trenton Avenue

Mrs. Elizabeth Clark
1947

  432 Trenton Avenue

No Directory Listing in 1947

  433 Trenton Avenue

Mrs. Gertrude R. Hartley
1947

433 Trenton Avenue

1960s-1985
Warren P. Miller & Family
Warren P. & Constance Miller
Wayne V. Miller

  434 Trenton Avenue

No Directory Listing in 1947

  435 Trenton Avenue

Robert P. Long
1947

  436 Trenton Avenue

Alex Burk
1947

  437 Trenton Avenue

Mrs. Kate A. McCall
1947

  438 Trenton Avenue

John Wilson
1947

439 Trenton Avenue

Horace R. Dixon
1930s-1960s

  440 Trenton Avenue

Milton Cahill
1947

  441 Trenton Avenue

John Chapman
1947

  442 Trenton Avenue

Alban R. Clark
1947

  443 Trenton Avenue

Harry R. Lee
1947

  444 Trenton Avenue

Harry J. Sauerhoff
1947

  445 Trenton Avenue

Samuel I. W. Gordon
1947

  446 Trenton Avenue

John J. Palese
1947

  447 Trenton Avenue

Edward J. Bolton
1947

448 Trenton Avenue

1906-1949
Ulysses R. Ackley & Family
Ulysses & Laura M. Ackley
Elsie Ackley
Mildred Ackley Burdge
Albert K. Ackley
Elton H. Ackley

Camden Courier-Post
November 17, 1949

Intersection of New Street & Trenton Avenue
449 Trenton Avenue

1899 Benjamin F. Pullen

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 13, 1899

  449 Trenton Avenue

John Hart
1947

  450 Trenton Avenue

Samuel Andrioli
Louis Ambrose
1947

451 Trenton Avenue

1917
Mrs. Mary E. Hesser

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 17, 1896

  451 Trenton Avenue

Roger T. Pylant
1947-1950s
Caroline T. Hughes
1940s-1954

  452 Trenton Avenue

1940s-1957
Richard W. Weeks & Family
Richard & Blanch Weeks
Ethel B. Weeks

452 Trenton Avenue

1957 Blanche W. Weeks

Camden Courier-Post
December 6, 1957

  453 Trenton Avenue

Edward Holloway
1910s-1933
Nick V. Moles
1947

Intersection of Seward Street & Trenton Avenue
  454 Trenton Avenue

Joseph L. Ferrante
1947

  455 Trenton Avenue

Ernest Gabriele
1947

  456 Trenton Avenue

Harry Fritz
1947

457 Trenton Avenue

1890s- 1949
Louis A.B. Richardson
Louis A.B. & Dorothea Richardson

Camden Courier-Post
November 10, 1949

Ninth Ward Republican Club

 

  458 Trenton Avenue

Alf Anconetani
1947

  459 Trenton Avenue

Mrs Clara M. Thorn
1947

  460 Trenton Avenue

Kenneth R. Dischert
1947

461 Trenton Avenue

1919-1947
Harrison E. Clark
Harrison E. & Kathryn A. Clark
Virginia R. Clark - Earl F. Clark
Doris J. Clark

Camden Courier-Post
June 18, 1932

Esther Issel - Esther Price - MArtha Fish
Edith Simpson - Evelyn Jones - Robert Grenhart
Paul Skeggs - George Richterman
Leonard Mecca - Vincent D'Andrea

  462 Trenton Avenue

Israel Bickerdyke
1947

463 Trenton Avenue

1896 William F. Moyer

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 27, 1896

  463 Trenton Avenue

1947
John H. May

 

 

464 Trenton Avenue

Milford Dalbey
1947

  465 Trenton Avenue

1900s-1910s
Edward Holloway

1947
Joseph D. Fish

  467 Trenton Avenue

1918-1929
James Bowman Deibert
1947
Dominick Cimini

 
467 Trenton Avenue

1962-present Day

Joseph C. Sharper Jr. & Family
Joseph & Barbara Sharper
Barry S. Sharper 
Michael J. Sharper
Roslyn L. Sharper
Keith W. Sharper
Joseph C. Sharper 3rd
Celeste Sharper
  459 Trenton Avenue

1947
Alonzo H. Walls


Intersection of Trenton Avenue & Newton Avenue

South Side of Newton Avenue

LaMaina's Cafe

1940- Florence LaMaina with her sons outside of the family's cafe at the intersection of Newton and Trenton Avenue. The house across the street with the side porch is 500 Trenton Avenue. U.S. Navy personnel at LaMaina's. Visible in background is sign for shoe repair shop at 506 Newton Avenue, and in the distance, the meat market at 523 Newton Avenue.

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500 Block of Trenton Avenue
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  500 Trenton Avenue

1900s-1910s Harry F. Bagge
1924 Edward Fields

500 Trenton Avenue

1939-1947
Levin J. English & Family
Levin J. & Edna Anderson English

Camden Courier-Post
March 6, 1939

  501 Trenton Avenue

1892-1903
Gustav Moll & Family
liquors
Gustav & Wilhelmina Moll

501 Trenton Avenue

1904-1916
John McGowan Jr.

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 5, 1912

501 Trenton Avenue

1917-1940s
Laurence LaMaina
Nicholas LaMaina

LaMaina's Cafe

501 Trenton Avenue

LaMaina's Cafe

The bar at Newton and Trenton Avenues was operated by the LaMaina family for many years. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Nick LaMaina procured a liquor license, and opened LaMaina's Cafe, which was well known for its jumbo sandwiches.  501 Trenton Avenue was known as Stanley's Tavern in the mid 1950s, and Petro's Cafe by 1959. During the mid-1960s and early 1970 it was called Syl's Tavern.

After standing vacant through most of the 1980s and 1990s, the bar was razed.

501 Trenton Avenue

1917-1940s
Laurence LaMaina
Nicholas LaMaina

LaMaina's Cafe

Nicholas LaMaina
at work at the bar

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501 Trenton Avenue

LaMaina's Cafe

1930s-1940s
U.S. Navy personnel at LaMaina's

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  502 Trenton Avenue

1947
George Wise

503 Trenton Avenue

Camden Daily Telegram
March 11, 1897

Real Estate Investment Company
W.A. Davis - Harry W. Boureau - George Zollers

Line Street - Arch Street
Berkley Street - Felton Street
York Street - Clay Street
Bailey Street - Federal Street
Trenton Avenue - Stevens Street
Cherry Street - Cooper Street

  503 Trenton Avenue

1910-1912
John McGowan Sr. & Family
John & Ellen McGowan


504 Trenton Avenue

1926-1931
Mrs. Arabella Kincade Haines
David Haines
Joseph Haines
Lena Knisel
Roger Haines
Julia Haines

Top: Julia, Roger, & David Haines
in Voorhees, 1910s
Bottom: Arabella & Julia Haines
On Park Boulevard, Camden circa 1920  

   

 
504 Trenton Avenue

1947
Leonard Gimello

  505 Trenton Avenue

1947
Donald D. Tyler

  506 Trenton Avenue

1930-1947
Harry Smith & Family
Harry Smith
Mrs. Jane Smith (mother)
Miss Adelia B. Smith (sister)

  507 Trenton Avenue

1947 John J. Gallen

  508 Trenton Avenue

1930-1947 Clarence S. Adams

  509 Trenton Avenue

1947 J. Marshall Boileau

1947 Bernard D. Paro

  510 Trenton Avenue

1947 Mrs. Vennetta Battersby

  511 Trenton Avenue

1947 Mrs. Mary Park

  512 Trenton Avenue

1947 Thomas E. Vitarelli

  513 Trenton Avenue

1947 Edward R. Davis

  514 Trenton Avenue

1947 Thaddeus F. Nalence

  515 Trenton Avenue

1947 Washington Perks

  516 Trenton Avenue

1947 Charles Gardiner

  517 Trenton Avenue

1929-1930s
John Robbins & Family
John & Myrtle Robbins
Howard Robbins
Edwin Robbins
Margaret Robbins

1947
Frank Shemely

  518 Trenton Avenue

1947 Benjamin J. Doto

  519 Trenton Avenue

1947 Maurice Flynn

  519 Trenton Avenue

1956-1959
The Large Family

VIDEO - Easter 1956

519 Trenton Avenue

1959
Philip J. Large

  520 Trenton Avenue

1900s-1910s Patrick Mcveigh Sr. Family
Mary Ellen McVeigh Soistmann

  520 Trenton Avenue

1947
Joseph M. Conner

  521 Trenton Avenue

1947
Rennis W. Methews

  522 Trenton Avenue

1947 Frances Goldy

1947
P. Petrilli
cement work

  523 Trenton Avenue

1947
Marcus R. Falco

  524 Trenton Avenue

1947
Thomas J. Stead

  525 Trenton Avenue

1947
Raymond Brown

Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Pollitt and Grant Porter, of Trenton Avenue, are enroute by motor to the Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago. 

526 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
James G. Pollit
draftsman

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

526 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1947
George B. Walker

Camden Courier-Post
December 13, 1930

  527 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Charles H. Smith

  528 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Sedgewick Farr

 

 

529 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Sara Tatem

  530 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
George T. Myers

  531 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Martin P. Daly

  532 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Mrs. Emma R. Long

  533 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Creston B. Otis

  534 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Angelo Nole

535 Trenton Avenue

1897-1906
Walter S. Lewis & Family
Walter S. & Isabella Lewis

Philadelphia Inquirer
December 6, 1903



535 Trenton Avenue

1941
George Thompson

Camden Courier-Post
July 25, 1941
&
July 28, 1941

Kenwood Avenue
Edward Timmon

  535 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Robert C. Hamilton

  536 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
George Schotts

  537 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Felix P. Burns

538 Trenton Avenue

1947 Henry C. Twoes

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 20, 1916

  538 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Russell M. Reading

  539 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
John M. Tobin

  540 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
Frances A. Lyons

  541 Trenton Avenue

1920s-1930s
David E. Morris

  542 Trenton Avenue

19247
Erwin S. Cook

  543 Trenton Avenue

1947
Elwood McMorrow

  544 Trenton Avenue

1947 Michael D. Ianetta

  545 Trenton Avenue

1947
Mrs. Bella Dunkelberger

  546 Trenton Avenue

1947
Joseph Dellaratta

547 Trenton Avenue

1947-1964
Arley H. Dean

Camden Courier-Post
January 16, 1964

  548 Trenton Avenue

1896-1898 Walter P. Ellis
1947 Simion W. Matlock

 

549 Trenton Avenue

1919-1920
Dennis J. Ryan & Family
Dennis J. & Elizabeth Ryan
Raymond Ryan - Walter Ryan
William Ryan - Maria Ryan
Ella Ryan Conway

 

 

549 Trenton Avenue

1947
Fred E. Palen

  550 Trenton Avenue

1947
James C. McMorrow

  551 Trenton Avenue

1947
William M. Jeffries

  552 Trenton Avenue

1947
Nazzareno Coratti

  553 Trenton Avenue

1947
George E. Crossley

  555 Trenton Avenue

1947
Olivia L. Gibberson

  557 Trenton Avenue

1947
Mrs. Charlotte Abel

  559 Trenton Avenue

1947
Mrs. Hannah Buffington

561 Trenton Avenue

1913-1956
Joseph Ginsberg & Family
Joseph & Anna Ginsberg
Sydney Sarah Ginsberg
Louis Ginsberg
Sophia Ginsberg - Celia Ginsberg

Camden Courier-Post
June 9, 1932

  563 Trenton Avenue

1947
William F. Schmidt

  565 Trenton Avenue

1947
William H. Kimsey

  567 Trenton Avenue

1947
John Chernek

  569 Trenton Avenue

1906
Patrick McVeigh Sr. & Family
Mary Ellen McVeigh Soistmann

  569 Trenton Avenue

1927
John Robbins & Family
John & Myrtle Robbins
Howard Robbins
Edwin Robbins
Margaret Robbins

1947 Harry Landis

  571 Trenton Avenue

1947
Frank Andrews

  573 Trenton Avenue

1947
Walter E. Hall

  575 Trenton Avenue

1918-1920s 
Maria Coffey Saloon
1920s-1956
Charles J. Welsh Cafe
1959-1966
Trent Liquors

Razed around 1970 for highway construction. Trent Liquors moved too 938 Kaighn Avenue.


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