MECHANIC STREET lays two blocks south of, and originally ran parallel to Kaighn Avenue from Front Street to Haddon Avenue, with a gap between 7th and 8th Streets. Mechanic Street's geography in the form of streets and railroads that cross its path dictated that there two different section of Mechanic Street, with their own particular makeup and character. Mechanic Street is one of the older streets in Camden, appearing in the 1ist of streets appearing in the 1850 Camden City Directory. Mechanic Street today starts at Ferry Avenue. The area west of Sixth Street had been laid out, and had many residences and a few businesses on it by the mid 1880s. The 1890-1891 Camden City Directory shows a few business in the 1200 block of Mechanic, between Louis Street and Haddon Avenue, but apparently all the development of Mechanic Street between the 7th and Louis Streets occurred after 1891. This somewhat late start contributed the way Mechanic Street turned out in the years that followed. In the area between Broadway and Front Street, with its older homes no one ethnic group predominated. East of 8th street was a different story. In the years between 1890 and 1920, a wave of immigrants came to Camden to seek their fortunes in the factories and shops of Camden, to live in freedom, and to raise their children to be Americans, with rights and opportunities for advancement that never existed in the "old country". Most numerous of the new arrivals were Italian, Polish, and Jewish immigrants, although not to be forgotten were sizable communities of Ukrainians, Croats, Armenians, Greeks, and Canadians- mostly from the province of Newfoundland, who came to work in Camden's shipyards. The Polish community initially seems to have settled on an area around Chestnut and Louis Streets. Once organized, the deeply religious Poles came organized, raise funds, and erected their own church, St. Joseph Catholic Church, at 10th and Mechanic Streets. The church served as a magnet for the community, and Polish families flocked to the new Whitman and Liberty Park neighborhoods that sprang up early in the 20th century between 8th Street and Haddon Avenue. Mechanic Street maintained its Polish flavor for many years, and St. Joseph Church remains the spiritual home of South Jersey's Polish community. Changes in Camden's ethnic makeup have changed the atmosphere along this section of Mechanic Street, although there still remain a few Polish families in 2004. Besides St. Joseph Church, Mechanic Street is probably known for a couple of bars that are on or are adjacent to it. At 1050 Mechanic a now vacant building housed a bar for almost 50 years, last known as the Bullpen. For many years Revallo's Cafe stood at the corner of Mechanic and Louis Streets, and 400 Mechanic housed a bar for about 80 years. Going back to Mechanic Street west of 7th, much of it consists of vacant lots where houses once stood. The riots of 1967 and 1971 doomed many of the business, the aging housing stock decayed, and most of what was fell to the bulldozer. There are still homes on Mechanic west of Broadway, but little else of consequence save for a few mostly-empty industrial buildings remains. There are still are a few industrial businesses open on Mechanic Street by Ferry Avenue in 2004. |
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This photo taken July 12, 1922, had been the property of Camden Police Detective Clifford Carr |
200 block of Mechanic Street
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201 Mechanic Street 1929-1931
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204 to 212 The Gulf Service Station had a Ferry Avenue street address. The building at the far left is 212 Mechanic Street, which was home to the Boudov Coal & Ice Co., Inc., in October of 1938, when this picture was taken. Rogers T. Pylnat lived in one of these houses in the late 1920s |
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205 Mechanic Street 1915 Edward Chew Philadelphia
Inquirer West Jersey Hospital |
208 Mechanic Street
1910 David Hagan Philadelphia Inquirer Emma Ryan |
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209 and 211
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209 & 211 Mechanic Street |
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212
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P.D. Strang & Son 1917
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James H. Townsend lived with wife Catherine, and children William, James E., Kate, Sallie and George at 219 Mechanic Street from at least December 1865 when Catherine died. James was a steamboat captain for the Kaighn's Point Ferry Company. In December 1872, James married widow Elizabeth Hughes, who moved into the house with her children from previous marriages: Eleanor Coutts, William John Coutts, and Frank Hughes. James and Elizabeth had 2 daughters: Mabel and Lillie. Members of the family continuously occupied the house as late as 1940, when Frank Hughes and his second wife Caroline lived there. By 1943, the Hughes family no longer lived there. James H. Townsend also owned the houses at 209 and 211 Mechanic Street. |
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221
Mechanic Street
Samuel
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CHARLES M. CLARK Charles Clark, 55, a huckster of 221 Mechanic Street, died yesterday at his home following an illness of several days. The funeral will be held Wednesday. Services will be conducted at the house by Rev. Martin S. Stockett, rector of P.E. Church of Our Saviour. Burial will be in New Camden Cemetery. Clark was single. |
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1924-1933 Charles Clark Camden
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Mechanic Street
JYE
Inc. |
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Mechanic Street
Andrew
Shane & Family |
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Mechanic Street
1908 Philadelphia
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Mechanic Street
John
Ritter & Family |
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Mechanic Street
George
Diem & Family |
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235-261 Mechanic Street razed in 1888, lot addresses reassigned Philadelphia Inquirer Joseph
E. Roberts & Edward
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Mechanic Street
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1900s-1910s 1947 Zatch McGriff Camden Courier-Post Isadore Birch |
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Mechanic Street
1900s-1910s Philadelphia
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Mechanic Street 1913 Jennie Wilhelm Camden Daily Courier Frank E. Connelly - Locust Street |
267 Mechanic Street 1917 Osman Harding Philadelphia Inquirer O. Glen Stackhouse |
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267 Mechanic Street 1898-1899 Philadelphia Inquirer Hohn Grant - Jasper Grant - Catherine Grant |
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270 Mechanic Street 1891 Henry Bunting & Family Henry & Clara Taylor Bunting Leroy Bunting - Ralph H. Bunting Edna Bunting - Blanche Bunting |
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Mechanic Street
1895 Robert Milne Camden
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Mechanic Street
1919-1922 Camden Post-Telegram |
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Mechanic Street 1932 John Salvatore & John D. Cesaria Camden Courier-Post John Salvatore ran a grocery from the 1910s through at least the mid-1930s at 300 Mechanic Street. He also operated a bar there for a short time in the mid-1930s. 2011 Gone |
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1892-1902 Camden Daily Telegram
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301 Mechanic Street 1892-1902 Camden Daily Courier |
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1903-1908 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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303 Mechanic Street At one time a commercial building, the wall is all that remains of this building Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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304 Mechanic Street 1904 Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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304 & 306 Mechanic Street Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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305 Mechanic Street Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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306 Mechanic Street Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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308
Mechanic Street 1870 Boston Corbett |
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Mechanic Street 1904 Annie Smith Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image for Complete Article |
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Mechanic Street 1907 Dominick Priole Philadelphia Inquirer Click on Image for Complete Article |
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308
Mechanic Street John & Madeline Salvatore John and Madeline Salvatore made their home at 308 Mechanic Street from the 1910s through through at least the mid-1930s at 308 Mechanic Street. Madeline Salvatore was active in politics and civic affairs in the 1930s. |
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308 Mechanic Street 2011 Gone Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
309 Mechanic Street 2011 Gone |
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310 Mechanic Street 2011 Vacant Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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310 Mechanic Street 2011 Vacant Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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310 Mechanic Street 2011 Vacant Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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310 Mechanic Street 2011 Vacant Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1907 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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311 Mechanic Street Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1899 Walter Irvin Gilman Philadelphia Inquirer |
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Elizabeth Mary Brain, who died January 2, left an estate of $14,000 to Elvie E. Colmer, a daughter, of Beach Haven, and Alton I. Gilman, a son, of 312 Mechanic Street. |
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1938 Alton I. Gilman Camden Courier-Post |
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1906 Henry Bishop Family Photo Taken August 5, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Mechanic Street Private Edward Beckley |
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street 311, 313, & 315 Mechanic Street 315 Mechanic Street was razed on September 28, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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316 Mechanic Street
1882 Philadelphia Inquirer |
316-1/2
Mechanic Street 1919-1927 Elmer D. Snyder & Family Joe Snyder |
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Mechanic Street 1906-1907 Mrs. Elizabeth Quinn Philadelphia
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& 319 Mechanic Street
Destroyed
By Fire
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Mechanic Street 1938 Mrs. Mary L. Beswick Camden
Courier-Post
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Mechanic Street 1938 Mrs. Mary L. Beswick Camden
Courier-Post
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Mechanic Street 1927-1930 William Pernier |
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Mechanic Street Destroyed By Fire February 5, 1966
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1956-1957 Camden Courier-Post |
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1963 Joseph Butler |
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EARLY MORNING VISIT RESULTS IN $10 FINE Arrested early this morning by Policeman John Schott and charged with breaking and entering a Mechanic Street house, Rocco Martino, 35 years old, 335 Cherry Street, was fined $10 in police court this morning. The complaint was changed, to disorderly conduct after Martino said be couldn’t explain his actions at the home of Mrs. Helen Featherer, 323 Mechanic Streett. |
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1941 Camden Courier-Post
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Mechanic Street Private Francis D. Myers |
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Mechanic Street Elmer D. Snyder Family 1917 Joe Snyder |
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Mechanic Street George K. Hartman Family 1900s-1910s George K. Hartman Wilhelmina Hartman Charles A. Hartman Henry Hartman Margie F. Hartman December 12, 1900 - June 1976 |
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1890 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1910s-1959 Niewinski's
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Mechanic Street
1971-1975 Camden Courier-Post 1977 Disco Lounge |
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Mechanic Street
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1947-1950s I lived at 406 Mechanic St. and have a picture of it when it was a dry cleaners. I remember the bar at 400 Mechanic Street being called "Mommy Scullbuster's". My dad took me in there to see the Joe Louis - Jersey Joe Wolcott fight on TV. Dick Chamberlian |
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Mechanic Street
1912-1913 Adolph G. Hock Camden Daily Courier |
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Mechanic Street
1957 Elwood Curtis Camden
Courier-Post Francis
V. Boardley
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418 Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
1964 Camden Courier-Post |
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Mechanic Street
1919-1966 Camden Post-Telegram |
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Mechanic Street
1923-1947 New Jersey Window Cleaning Co. Left: Freda & Julius Fox |
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Mechanic Street
1923-1947 New Jersey Window Cleaning Co. Left: David Fox, 1941 |
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Mechanic Street
1932 Camden
Courier-Post |
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Mechanic Street
1935 Camden Courier-Post Mozart Lodge, F. & A.M. |
.....my grandmother lived at 439 Mechanic St and I remember as late as the early 60's she still had an outhouse in the backyard. Andy Tally |
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441 Mechanic Street
1913 George Bates Philadelphia
Inquirer |
My grandparents lived on opposite side of the street [from 439]. I don't know about whole block but from at least middle of even number side of the street to Broadway they were built with indoor plumbing. I don't doubt at all that the other side of the street had outhouses as you could see they were older. The row-houses on the even side were very large inside. Not townhouses like Linden Street or Pearl, but still large. My grandparents house on Mechanic had a full size stove, old upright washing machine, full size double stationery tubs, old style furnace converted to oil, and you could still hold a party down there. They even at one point had a large table to eat on. Hell the the old coal bin was as big as some peoples living rooms! John Ciafrani |
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444 Mechanic Street June 6, 2004
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1941 Camden
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Mechanic Street
1938-1956 Camden
Courier-Psot Click on Image for Complete Article Walter Callahan |
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Mechanic Street
1910s-1940s Left: Howard A. Lewis |
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Mechanic Street
1910s-1933
Earl Cunningham Sr. |
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Mechanic Street
Jacob
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Mechanic Street
Thomas A. & Mary Skymer |
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
Private
First Class Click on Image |
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
1941 Camden
Courier-Post Left:
Charles Geitz |
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1401 Broadway
Joe Herman's Bar Southwest
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A man who was squatting in this abandoned and boarded up building was found stabbed in the evening hours of October 11, 2011. A female who had knowledge of the stabbing had sought aid from the firefighters at the nearby Liberty Station firehouse. When fire and police arrived on scene and gained access to the property, they found a man who had been stabbed and was in very bad condition. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, his wounds, however, proved fatal. Photograph Taken August 26, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
Man Stabbed, Dies
CAMDEN — A Philadelphia man was found stabbed to death in Camden’s Bergen Square neighborhood on Tuesday night, authorities said Wednesday. Officers found Brian Holden, 32, suffering from multiple stab wounds at about 10:05 p.m. in an abandoned property on the 500 block of Mechanic Street, according to the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office. Holden died at Cooper Hospital in Camden about forty minutes later, authorities said. No information about a motive or suspects was released on Wednesday. Holden’s death adds to an already violent stretch for the city that has now seen six murders and multiple shootings in the past two weeks. The killing is No. 36 for the year, including a police-related shooting. There were 39 homicides all of last year. The prosecutor’s office on Wednesday also announced that a 22-year-old Camden man was shot and injured at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at 8th Street and Newton Avenue. The man was taken to Cooper for multiple gunshot wounds. The incidents are not believed to be related. Police are asking anyone with information on Holden’s killing to contact Camden County Prosecutor’s Investigator Lance Saunders at (856) 225-8400 or Detective Vince Robinson at (856) 757-7420. |
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
1938 Mrs. Mary Avis Photograph Taken August 26, 2011 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Mechanic Street
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528 Mechanic Street
Harry W. Gifford died on January 9, 1944 while serving in a America's armed forces in a civilian capacity. |
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531
Mechanic Street
Abraham Wessel Family One of the first Jewish families in Camden, the Wessel family lived here in the late 1880s. |
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Mechanic Street
1902-1906 Camden
Post-Telegram
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
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Mechanic Street
1932 Albert Chambers Camden
Courier-Psot Click Here for Complete Article Wilbur B. Ellis Laskowski-Wojtkowiak
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629 Mechanic Street
1890 Philadelphia
Inquirer Llewellen B.
Jackson
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1926 Camden Courier-Post |
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1911-1914 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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643 Mechanic Street
1906 Charles Bunce Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1956 Ruth Jones Camden
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647 Mechanic Street 1890 |
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Mechanic Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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Mechanic Street & 1217 South 10th Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image |
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Mechanic Street 1920-1940s Frank Migala & Family Frank & Monica Migala Mary Migala - Stella Migala Helen Migala - Charlotte Migala Joseph Migala - Sophia Migala Adolf Migala |
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2 MEN FACE CHARGES OF ATTEMPTED SUICIDE Two men are being held by police for hearings today on charges of attempting to take their lives by turning on gas burners in their respective homes. Joseph Dadich, 52, a plumber, of 1438 Louis Street, was found by his wife, Emma, lying across the kitchen stove with the burners on. Mrs. Dadich aided her husband to the open air where he was revived. Mrs. Dadich said her husband had been drinking heavily since Christmas. Joseph Grochowski, 22, of 915 Mechanic Street, was found by his brother-in-law, Edmond Kincher, of the same address, with his head bent over the burner of a hot water heater in the cellar. |
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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, Edmond 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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917 Mechanic
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1911-1921 Philadelphia
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Mechanic Street
1900-1930 Andrew Pierzynski |
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920 Mechanic Street
1910-1915 Philadelphia Inquirer John M. Welsh |
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1966-1979 Camden Courier-Post Arch Cafe |
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Mechanic Street Private Stanislaw Gontarski |
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904 Mechanic Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image |
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939 Mechanic Street 1950-1969 John Pierzynski Click on Image to Enlarge |
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941 Mechanic Street April 18, 2004 Click on Image
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Intersection
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Looking East on Mechanic Street from Southwest Corner Mechanic & South 10th Streets St.
Joseph Church, Click on Image to Enlarge |
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St.
Joseph Church, 1033 to 1059 Mechanic Street February 2004 |
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1050 & 1048 Mechanic Street The
Bullpen 1048 Mechanic was the home of Fred Klosterman February 2004 February 2004 |
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1050
Mechanic Street
The
Bullpen February 2004 |
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1046 Mechanic Street February 2004 |
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1020 Mechanic Street February 2004 |
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1010
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1012
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1012
& 1014 Mechanic Street Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1014
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1016
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1016
& 1018 Mechanic Street Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1018
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1020
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1020
& 1022 Mechanic Street Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1022
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken September 25, 2011
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1036
Mechanic Street
1930 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1036
& 1038 Mechanic Street
1028 on right, 1036 on left |
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1037
to 1051 Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken April 18, 2004
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1038
Mechanic Street
1946-1947 William A. Lang
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1040
Mechanic Street
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1040
1042 Mechanic Street
Photo taken February 2004
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1042
Mechanic Street
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1045
Mechanic Street
1911-1927 Philadelphia Inquirer
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1048
Mechanic Street
Photo taken February 2004
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1048
& 1050 Mechanic Street Photo taken February 2004
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1048
& 1050 Mechanic Street Photograph Taken 2012 Photo by Gabe Angemi |
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1050
Mechanic Street
Photo taken February 2004
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1049
Mechanic Street
Late 1910s-early 1960s |
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1049
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 19, 2012 |
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1049
& 1051 Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 19, 2012
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1051
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 19, 2012
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1057
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 19, 2012
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1057
& 1059 Mechanic Street Click on Image |
Thunder Showers Expected to Chase Heat ,Wave Today! You can cool off today-the ' weatherman predicts thunder storms! The intense heat of yesterday reaching a temperature of 84 degrees and outdone by the humidity, reaching a high of 88 degrees, resulted in the collapse of a Camden man. The man, Anthony Josisolski, 57, of 1057 Mechanic Street, collapsed while at work shifting barrels in the yard of the Taylor White Extraction Plant at Cooper River and Pine Street. He was taken to Cooper Hospital. The mean temperature yesterday was four degrees above normal for the date, giving the month of June thus far an excess temperature of 114. The excess temperature of the year is 6.53 degrees. The day, in addition to thunder storms, will be continued warm according to the weather bureau. |
1057 Mechanic Street 1933 Anthony Josisolski Camden Courier-Post |
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1057
& 1059 Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 19, 2012
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1059
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 19, 2012 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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St.
Joseph Church & 1033 to 1059 Mechanic Street Click on Image |
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St.
Joseph Church & 1033 to 1959 Mechanic Street Click on Image |
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1033 to
1059 Mechanic Street Click on Image |
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Looking
West On Mechanic Street from Mt. Ephraim Avenue |
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Mt. Ephraim Avenue & Mechanic
Street The green tower is St. Joseph Church Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Looking East from Mt. Ephraim Avenue | Looking West from Mt. Ephraim Avenue |
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Looking East on Mechanic Street from Mt. Ephraim Avenue - February 27, 2004 | |
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Looking
West from the 1100 Block of Mechanic Street February 27, 2004 St. Joseph Church& 1033 to 1125 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
1100 block of Mechanic Street
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1111 Mechanic Street | |
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1111 to 1121 Mechanic Street May 7, 2004 |
1113 Mechanic Street | |
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1114 Mechanic Street Jacob Rettberg Jacob Rettberg, who built carriages and wagons in Camden from the 1860s through 1900s, lived here before passing away in 1907. |
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1114 to 1124 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1114 to 1132 Mechanic Street |
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1114 to 1134 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1115 Mechanic Street Lawrence "Larry" Doran |
1116 Mechanic Street
1892 |
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1116 Mechanic Street
1903 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1116 Mechanic Street
1958 Cheri Herbert Camden Courier-Post
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1117 Mechanic Street | |
1119 Mechanic Street | |
1120 Mechanic Street | |
1121 Mechanic Street | |
1122 Mechanic Street | |
1124 Mechanic Street | |
1125 Mechanic Street | |
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1125 to 1135 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
1126 Mechanic Street | |
1127 Mechanic Street
1938 Marguerite Lucas Camden Courier-Post |
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1127 to 1135 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Looking West from in front of 1129 Mechanic Street May 7, 2004 Click on Images to Enlarge |
1129 Mechanic Street | |
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1130 Mechanic Street
Alexander & Annie Connon Family Camden Courier-Post |
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1130 Mechanic Street
1915 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1130 Mechanic Street |
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1130 to 1134 Mechanic Street |
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1130 to
1140 There was a plumbing outfit in 1134-36 Mechanic St. for a long time and they owned the garages now burnt down that was next to the wood house (1137). Virginia Bicking, May 2004 |
1133 Mechanic Street | |
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1133 to
1137 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge A baker, Harry Bicking and his wife Wilhelmina, moved into this home in late 1891 from a house on Mechanic Street below 8th, near the tracks of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. The family lived here through the beginning of 1906. They subsequently moved around the corner, to 1136 Liberty Street. The Bicking family remains on Liberty Street today, the last of the original families on their block. "My father told me the wood house nearly collapsed now was once a coal office located down town Camden then moved to Mechanic Street. My grandfather's siblings lived in the house which was expanded to two floors. For almost all my childhood years it was rented out to one family, the Taylors. I also lived in this house for 15 years in my mid 30's to 40's. Their was a family named Busch in 1135 Mechanic St. for most of my childhood into my mid 30's when they moved." Virginia Bicking, May 2004 |
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1135 Mechanic Street | |
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1135 & 1137 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
1136 Mechanic Street | |
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Mechanic Street The Hensgen Brothers Building
Center. |
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Mechanic Street 1930s-1950s Camden High School |
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Mechanic Street 1930s-1950s Camden High School |
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1137 Mechanic Street
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1137 Mechanic Street
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1138 Mechanic Street | |
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1138 & 1140 Mechanic Street Click on Images to Enlarge |
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1143 Mechanic Street
Small Fire in Basement - June 30, 2012 Photograph taken June 20, 2012 |
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1143 & 1145 Mechanic Street Photograph taken June 20, 2012 |
1144 Mechanic Street | |
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1145 Mechanic Street
Photograph taken June 20, 2012 |
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1145 Mechanic Street
1932 Camden
Courier-Post |
1146 Mechanic Street | |
1148 Mechanic Street |
1100
block of Mechanic Street 1150 to 1186 Mechanic Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
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1150 Mechanic Street
1957 |
1154 Mechanic Street | |
1156 Mechanic Street | |
1157 Mechanic Street | |
1158 Mechanic Street | |
1160 Mechanic Street | |
1161 Mechanic Street | |
1162 Mechanic Street | |
1163 Mechanic Street
1942 Casmeir Wojtkowiak |
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1163 Mechanic Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
1166 Mechanic Street
early 1920s-1947 |
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1167 Mechanic Street | |
1168 Mechanic Street | |
1170 Mechanic Street | |
1174 Mechanic Street | |
1175 Mechanic Street | |
1176 Mechanic Street | |
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1177 Mechanic
Street
1915 Philadelphia
Inquirer |
JURY
AWARDS $5150 IN CRASH KILLING BOY Jury Only 40 Minutes in Deciding Against Merchantville Car Owner Award of $5150 was made yesterday by a Circuit Court jury here in disposing of a $70,000 suit against William W. Clark, of Merchantville. The verdict, returned after 40 minutes' deliberation, was given Adam Jusiak, of 1177 Mechanic street, for the death of one son and injuries to another. The case, heard before Judge Henry H. Eldredge, developed a question of ownership of the automobile which struck the Jusiak boys February 23, on Moorestown Pike, Pennsauken Township. Boleslaw Jusiak, 11, was killed, and his brother, Anthony, 13, suffered severe injuries. Named defendants with Clark were Herbert Marshall, of Forty-second and Federal Streets, and Gordon Cooper, trading as Cooper's Chevrolet Company, Park Avenue and Cooper Street, Pennsauken. Marshall was said to have been driving the car from the Cooper agency to the Clark Motor Company, Hamilton and Myrtle Avenues, Merchantville. Attorneys for the Cooper firm moved for relief from responsibility in the use, contending the Clark company was legal owner. The dead boy was one of a family of 10. His death occurred when he and his brother were hauling a toy express wagon over the Moorestown Pike between Haddonfield Road and Pennsauken Creek. The jury's verdict set $5000 for death of the boy and allowed $150 for injuries to the other child. |
1177 Mechanic
Street
early 1930s- late 1940s Camden
Courier-Post
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1179 Mechanic Street | |
1180 Mechanic Street | |
1182 Mechanic Street
1943 |
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1182 Mechanic Street
1953 Camden Courier-Post
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1186 Mechanic Street
1935-1942 |
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1200
block of Mechanic Street
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1201 Bannard Avenue Photograph Taken September 2003 Formerly Revallo's Cafe |
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1201 Bannard Avenue Photograph Taken September 2003 Formerly Revallo's Cafe |
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1201 Mechanic Street 1900 Henry Werner Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1201 Mechanic Street 1942-1974 Camden
Courier-Post |
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1209
Mechanic Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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1209
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 15, 2012
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1209
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken March 15, 2012 |
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1234
Mechanic Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
1238
Mechanic Street Private Benjamin J. Sandlow |
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1238
Mechanic Street
1955 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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1244
Mechanic Street
1914 Eugene Higgins Philadelphia
Inquirer |
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1244
Mechanic Street
1915 Regina Penner Camden Daily Courier |
1244
Mechanic Street
1923-1926 David Beaumont 1927-1930s |
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1244
Mechanic Street
1940
John McDonald |
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1244
Mechanic Street
1981-2001 Vacant
since about 2003 |
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1245
Mechanic Street
1955-1980 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone |
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1245
Mechanic Street
1955-1980 Camden Courier-Post |
1246
Mechanic Street
1969-1980 W. Domeraski |
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1262-1272 Mechanic Street 1906 Sanborn Map
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1262
Mechanic Street
1891 |
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1264
Mechanic Street Anthony Mattio |
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1266
Mechanic Street
1891 |
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1268
Mechanic Street
1891 |
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1270
Mechanic Street
1891 |
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1270
Mechanic Street
1930s-1940 |
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1272
Mechanic Street
1887-1907 1906 Sanborn Map |
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1272
Mechanic Street
1890-1907 Gustav A. Ernst Philadelphia
Inquirer |
1274
Mechanic Street
Clarence E. Wright Clarence Wright was gassed in France during World War I. He died on May 12, 1938 from the effects of the gas. |
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1274
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Three Children Dead After Fire in Camden CAMDEN,
N.J., March 18 (AP) - A 4-year-old girl died today of burns suffered in
a fire Saturday night that killed two of her brothers and injured her
mother and an infant brother, officials said today. Firefighters
responding to the alarm at 10:50 P.M. found the children's mother,
Blair Cherry, with her 9-month-old son, Lorimar, outside her two-story
brick home at 1275 Mechanic
Street as flames shot from every window, the officials said. Inside,
Battalion Chief Ronald
Guernon said, the firefighters found the bodies of Zirer
Cherry, 5, and his brother, Lawrence, 2, The
fourth child, Lyasia, 4, was found by a firefighter but died today at
St. Agnes Medical Center in Philadelphia. Lorimar
was listed in serious condition at Cooper Hospital, and the mother was
in stable condition, suffering from smoke inhalation, at Our Lady of
Lourdes Hospital. The cause of the fire was under investigation. |
1274
Mechanic Street
1984 Blair Cherry |
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Mechanic Street
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1920-1922 1927-1928 Photograph Taken March 19, 2012 |
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1282
Mechanic Street
1890 Philadelphia Inquirer |
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1285
Mechanic Street
1890-1915, 1924 Camden Daily Courier |
1285
Mechanic Street
1916 James Picken |
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1288
Mechanic Street
Photograph Taken 2013 |
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1296 Mechanic Street |
1296
Mechanic Street
1911 proprietor, Camden City Hotel & Garden |
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1298
Mechanic Street
1928 Wilfred Veight Camden Courier-Post John Walker
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1300
block of Mechanic Street
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1306 Mechanic Street 1950s-1960s |
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1324 Mechanic Street 1915-1964 Mechanic Hall1915-1959 13th Ward Republican Club 1966-1971The Lost Seagulls 1971-1977 Sons of Italy Grand
Council of NJ |
1326 Mechanic Street |