Streets
of
Camden, NJ

Liberty
 Street

1884
Thomas Arrison
Windows, Doors, & Blinds

1955
Daniel H. Jones Laboratories, Inc.

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

Private First Class
Salvatore Saporito

1955
United Cooperage
&
Reconditioning Company

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

1880
James F. Sharp & Family
Ferrymaster at Kaighns Point Ferry
James F. & Mary Jane "Jennie" Bunting Sharp

Seaman Second Class
John Romanowski

1944
John Romanowski & Family
John & Elizabeth Romanowski
John Romanowski
Edward Romanowski
Robert Romanowski
William Romanowski

Camden Courier-Post
September 23, 1944

1910-1911
Frederick B. Taylor & Family
Frederick B. & Rosalina C. Taylor
Mary J. Taylor
Harry S. Taylor
May B. Taylor
Marvin Taylor

Philadelphia Inquirer
November 21, 1910

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1917
Edward H. Bacon

Draft Card - June 5, 1917

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1915
Mary Cowgill

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 16, 1915

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1906-1919
Vincenzo Pollastrini & Fammily
Vincent & Nina Pollastrini
Eugene Pollastrini
Amerigo Pollastrini

Private Eugene Pollastrini

1887
Allen B. Shinn

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 27, 1887

John W. Wescott

1953 Leland Jackson

Camden Courier-Post
April 3, 1953

1882-1888
Benjamin Cavanaugh
Joseph Cavanaugh

THREE HURT IN COLLISION

In a collision between cars driven by Francis A. Righter, 24, of 279 Liberty Street, and Paul A. Etter, 36, of North Ninth Street, at the intersection of Ninth Street and Atlantic Avenue yesterday, three persons were slightly injured.

The, injured are: Dorothy Etter, 32, of 302 Linden Avenue, Woodlynne; Mrs. Joseph Zoller, 61, of 453 Henry Street, Camden, and Lawrence Kline, 18, of 20 Common Street, Fairview. 

Francis A. Righter

Camden Courier-Post
October 26, 1931

1958 Willie Howard

Camden Courier-Post
November 8, 1958

1910s-1920s
Vernon & Florence Shinn Family
Grover D. Shinn

1932-1933
William Pernier

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1931-1947
Harry C. Boody & Family
Harry C. Boody Jr.
William Boody

Camden Courier-Post
July 6, 1953

1881-1940
Charles C. Moffett & Family
Charles C. & Susan Moffett
Henry C. Moffett
Walter Moffett
Rachel Moffett

1904
Henry C. Moffett & Family
Henry C. & Elizabeth Moffett
Charles Moffett

1899-1940
John C. Tomlin Sr. & Family
Camden Police Department
John C. & Rachel Moffett Tomlin
John C. Tomlin Jr. - Miriam Tomlin
Theresa Tomlin

John C. Tomlin Jr. & Family
John & Hattie Tomlin
John C. Tomlin III - Josephine A. Tomlin
Harriett Rachel "Rae" Tomlin
Theresa Tomlin

1869-1878
Charles C. Moffett & Family
Henry C. Moffett
Walter Moffett

1910
Samuel Naden & Family
Samuel & Bessie Naden
Edward Naden - Sarah Naden
Robert Naden - Yetta Naden

1910
Mrs. Emma Moffett & Family
widow of Walter Moffett
Elizabeth B. Moffett
Hannah L. Moffett

R. Cavallo & Sons Inc.

1959 Banquet Program Ad

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1877-1911
Memorial Methodist Protestant Church

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 27, 1897

Rev. George A. Pettit

1915 Everson Dobins

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 1, 1915

Corporal
George O'Keefe

1910s-1920s
Herbert W. Baxter Sr.

1910s-1920s
Herbert W. Baxter Jr.

Angelo's Auto Repair

1991 Fire Watch Magazine Advertisement

1920s-1976
George K. Hartman Family
George K. Hartman
Wilhemina Hartman
Henry Hartman
Margie F. Hartman
 December 12, 1900 - June 1976

1928
Harry Hartman

Camden Courier-Post
  February 10, 1928

Bernard Bertman
Watson Shallcross
Stanley Wirtz

1908 William B. Stephens
1908 Ephraim B. Fisher

Philadelphia Inquirer
February 22, 1908

September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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1918 Frank Harris

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 17, 1918

Joseph Carr
S. Conrad Ott
Levering Minister
Engine Company 4
William Michalak
Liberty Street

September 6, 2009

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1927
William F. Hare & Family
William F. & Theresa Tomlin Hare
William F. Hare Jr. - James Hare
Jack Hare

1913 Emma Green

Philadelphia Inquirer
September 9, 1913

Cooper Hospital

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September 6, 2009

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1927 James Hare

Camden Courier-Post
November 15, 1927

Robert Gess

September 6, 2009

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1955
Raymond Bock

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

September 6, 2009

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1917
Michael Pantella

World War I Draft Card

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1890s-1960s
Congregation
B'nai Abraham
aka The Lichtenstein Shul
aka The Liberty Street Shul

1970s-1980s
Gist Liberty
Fire Baptized Holiness Church

1990s-2000s
LIberty Christ Church

On August 28, 2009 at 6:00 AM, a fire was reported. Units of the Camden Fire Department under the command of Battalion Chief Edward Glassman responded and quickly put the blaze out, but not before the old synagogue and the home next door at 337 Liberty Street were badly damaged. Fortunately, no one was badly hurt, although one person escaped the fire by jumping out of a second-floor window. 

September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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1921 Mrs. C. Birch

Camden Post-Telegram
September 10, 1921

September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009 - Gone

September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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1940s
Private Grover D. Shinn

September 6, 2009 - Gone

September 6, 2009 - Gone

September 6, 2009 - Gone

1940 Martin S. Rosenfeld

September 6, 2009 - Gone

1940 John J. Wicker

Photo from 1960s
345 Liberty Street
is the first door on right

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Photo courtesy
of
Gene Robison

September 6, 2009

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1940 Nicola Rossi

Private First Class
Rocco J. Rossi

September 6, 2009

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September 6, 2009

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1887-1888
Henry Haines & Family
Henry & Eliza Haines
Jacob Haines
Sarah Haines
Mary Haines
Anna Haines
Harry Albert Haines

1940
Emilio Ianetta
grocery

400 Liberty Street

1934 Martin Ward

Camden Courier-Post
April 2, 1934

Lyric Theater
John Lockwood
Kaighn Avenue
Abraham Franks
Walter Mattison
Frank Wilmot

405 Liberty Street

1940

407 Liberty Street

1940

409 Liberty Street

1940

411 Liberty Street

1921 Rudolph Velke & Family
Ella Velke

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 19, 1921

George Frost
Harry Kreher

411 Liberty Street

1927
Mack Gentry & Family
Mack & Mary Gentry

1931
Mrs. Emma Riddell Greenwood & Family
Rosanna Greenwood
Richard Greenwood
Katherine Greenwood
1931 Mrs. Rose Riddell

411 Liberty Street

1940-1941 Thomas Hutchinson

Camden Courier-Post
July 30, 1941

Horace R. Dixon
Cecelia Dixon
Clinton Street
Kaighn Avenue
John Grey
South 2nd Street
Camden Housing Authority

1933  Willard Bishop

Camden Morning Post
October 13, 1933

Grand Theater
Roy R. Stewart
Walter Smith
John Trout
Liberty Street

Earl Eckman

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1933

413 Liberty Street

1912
David S. Allaband & Family
David S. & Suzanne Allaband
Ida May Allaband
Elizabeth Lizzie Allaband
David Allaband

Young David Allaband was born in September of 1912. His father had passed three months previously.

1879
John C. Edwards
John C. & Martha Edwards
John S. Edwards
James S. Edward
Lydia Edwards

415 Liberty Street

1940

1883
George Gladney & Family
George & Mary Gladney 
David Gladney
Charles Gladney

1940
William Hare & Family
William & Theresa Hre
William Hare
James Hare
John "Jack" Hare

In 1940 my parents William Sr, and Theresa Hare along with sons William Jr,(24) James (16) and me John (Jack) (5) resided at 419 Liberty St. My father was a captain on the Kaighn Avenue-South Street Ferry Company. What I remember is the store on the northwest corner of 4th and Liberty that was the grocery store owned by Dom and Josephine Inetta.  

407 Liberty....The Tomka family; 409 ........ ??; 411......... Tom??; 413........ Dr. & Mrs. Hyghcock; 415.......... Rose and daughter Rosalee Hyghcock; 417......... Empty Lot; 419......... William & Theresa Hare; 421......... George & Goldie Sirisky, (paperhanger), their daughter Lillian Kauffman & granddaughter Wilma Kauffman; 423......... Mrs. Davis 425......... Mr. & Mrs. Henry Stiles; 427......... Mr. & Mrs George Gess.  

Jack Hare
November 2011

421 Liberty Street

1920s-1954
George Sirisky & Family
George & Ethel Sirisky & Family
Lillian Sirisky
George & Goldie Sirisky

Albert Kauffman & Family
Albert & Lillian Sirisky Kauffman
Wilma Kauffman

I am the granddaughter of George and Ethel Sirisky (Goldie was his second wife). They moved to 421 in the early 1920's. Their daughter, Lillian Sirisky married Albert Kauffman in 1933. I was born in 1935 and we all lived in the house until my father, Albert Kauffman died in 1940. We all stayed in the house until my grandmother, Ethel died in 1943. My grandfather, my mother and I remained in the house. My grandfather remarried in 1947. Goldie came to live with us then. My mother remarried in 1950 and left the house, but I stayed behind in the house. I left Camden in 1954. I have such great memories of growing up at 421 and of course, I remember Jack Hare (419 Liberty Street). We were little kids together. Played together often. It was such a fun neighborhood with a lot of neighborhood kids, such as the Galmins, the Cohens, and Jackie.

I now live in Lakewood Ranch, Florida , but I often reminisce about my childhood home.

Wilma Kauffman Levine
August 2013

August 20, 2011

1883
William Jeffries
seamstress, widow of William Jeffries

423 Liberty Street

1958 Charles Webb

Condemned as health and fire hazard

Camden Courier-Post
August 27, 1958

Edward Garrity - Leo Tompkins Sr.

August 10, 2011

425 Liberty Street

1940

427 Liberty Street

1940

428 Liberty Street

1940

430 Liberty Street

1940

1955
Louis Cohen & Sons
Building Contractors & Carpenters

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ads

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431 Liberty Street

1940

432 Liberty Street

1877
William A. Butcher & Family
shoemaker
William A. & Amanda H. Butcher
Amanda Butcher

1880
George Gladney & Family
George & Mary Gladney 
David Gladney
Charles Gladney

432 Liberty Street

1940

433 Liberty Street

1940

434 Liberty Street

1940

1884
William Jeffries
seamstress, widow of William Jeffries

435 Liberty Street

1940

436 Liberty Street

1940

1940-1947
Julius P. Galmin Sr & Family
Julius & Gertrude Galmin
Julius P. Galmin Jr.
Damon L. Galmin
James J. Galmin
Regina Galmin

438 Liberty Street

1915-1943
Harvey Roork & Family
Harvey & Meta Roork

441 Liberty Street

1941
Teresa A. Morten

Camden Courier-Post
July 31, 1941

441 Liberty Street

1969
Richard F. Odenath & Family
Richard F. & Beatrice Davis Odenath

Camden Courier-Post
November 7, 1969

443 Liberty Street

1940 John W. Donovan

1945-1947
Mrs. Florence Hires & Family
John D. Hires

Camden Courier-Post
August 15, 1945

S/Sgt. John D. Hires, 22, son of Mrs. Florence Hires, 443 Liberty Street, is the holder of a Bronze Star for service in Italy. A former employee at the New York Shipyard, he entered the service in September, 1943.

1906
Mrs. Mabel Rose

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 1, 1906

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445 Liberty Street

1940

447 Liberty Street

1940

448 Liberty Street

1940

448 Liberty Street

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448 Liberty Street

Photograph Taken December 21, 2011

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449 Liberty Street

1940

450 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

1906
George Waters

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 13, 1899

1915
Perry McDowell

Philadelphia Inquirer
June 13, 1915

452 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

453 Liberty Street

1940

453 Liberty Street

1914
William McCauley
Camden Fire Department

Camden Post-Telegram
September 29, 1914

Joseph Evans
Benson Street
David Plummer
O. Glen Stackhouse
Joseph Forrest
John Brothers
Spruce Street
Asbell Brothers
Broadway

455 Liberty Street

1940

456 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

457 Liberty Street

1940

AUTOIST HELD IN CRASH AS LICENSELESS DRIVER

Charged with driving without a license, Arthur Benjamin, 28, of 430 Liberty Street, was held in $10 security for a police court hearing following a collision at Twenty-third and High Streets shortly after noon yesterday, One man was cut on the head and legs. 

Policeman James Banks made the arrest after Benjamin's car struck and overturned the machine of C.R. Finney, 62, of 201 Cooper Street. Finney was treated by Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk. Benjamin was ordered to appear before Judge Garfield Pancoast June 29. 

1933 Arthur Benjamin

Camden Courier-Post
June 23, 1933

1900
Edwin C. Chamberlin & Family
Edwin C. & Maggie Chamberlin

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 8, 1900

458 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

459 Liberty Street

1940

460 Liberty Street

1940-1941 George H. Ewing

Camden Courier-Post
July 29, 1941

Clay W. Reesman
Clinton Street
William Bovell
Sycamore Street
Edward G. Hunt
Chestnut Street
Joseph Klein

460 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

462 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

1900
Thomas Chamberlin & Family
Thomas & Sarah Chamberlin

Private Albert L. Parker

464 Liberty Street

1905 William Green

Camden Post-Telegram
September 16, 1905

John L. Bloxson - Improved Order of Red Men

464 Liberty Street

1916-1917 William McCauley

Camden Post-Telegram
June 10, 1912

464 Liberty Street

1917-1917 William McCauley

Camden Post-Telegram
January 3, 1917

David S. Rhone
Kaighn Avenue
George Prettyman
John Prettyman
Howard Street
Liberty Street

464 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

465 Liberty Street

1904
John Johnson

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 9, 1904

Dialogue Shipyard

466 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

468 Liberty Street

1940

2011 Gone

Greenie's Tender Trap
also known as the
Broadway Beer Garden, 
 Buradine's,  Bert's Cafe 

1937-1972
Maxwell Garment Company

1937-1972
Maxwell Garment Company

Camden Courier-Post
December 27, 1958

Joseph Leff - Max Leff
Frank Leff - David Leff

1893
John Helmbold

Camden Post
October 13, 1893

Joseph Leff - Max Leff
Frank Leff - David Leff

STOLEN METAL COSTS DEALER FINE OF $150

Samuel Katz, a junk dealer at 513 Liberty street, was ordered by Judge Clifford A. Baldwin to pay a fine of $150 yesterday on a charge of receiving stolen goods.

Katz was accused of buying metal stolen from the Riverside Metal Company by three men, later arrested. Counsel for Katz declared that when Katz learned the metal was stolen, he went to Riverside and paid the owners the full value. Katz was held on a similar charge previously, it was testified..

1924-1955
Samuel Katz

Camden Courier-Post
February 11, 1938

1924-1955
Samuel Katz

Camden Courier-Post
June 16, 1932

Liberty Street
Ralph Bakley
Garfield S. Pancoast

1924-1955
Samuel Katz & Co. Inc.

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

1919 Charles Adkins

Camden Post-Telegram
December 10, 1919

Farr & Bailey oilcloth works

1918 Anna Davis

Camden Post-Telegram
September 19, 1918

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O. Glen Stackhouse
Harvey J. Davis
Chestnut Street
Charles Gaunt
Girard Place
David Hunt
Clarence Boyer
Sidney Stubbs
John Brothers
William Schregler
David S. Rhone
Charles A. Wolverton

1892
John W. Helmbold Sr. & Family
John W. & Maggie Helmbold
John W. Helmbold Jr.

1903 George Forman

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 20, 1903

Arthur Stanley - Stanley Grey
Joseph Morton - John McIntire
South 3rd Street - Cherry Street
Jennie Hansey- Lizzie Stevenson
Alice Moore - Alfred Davis
John Daisy - Jeremiah James
Manuel Nash - James Houser

George Morton, 20, of 519 Liberty Street, and Tony McDaniel, 21, no home, were arrested last night charged with stealing a box containing several quarts of ice cream from Charles Daubert, of 238 Jackson Street, a peddler. They were held for a hearing today. 

1933 George Morton

Camden Courier-Post
June 12, 1933

1936-1960s
New Jersey Bottling Company

Camden Courier-Post
August 27, 1936

1936-1960s
New Jersey Bottling Company

January 27, 1939 Program Ad

1936-1960s
New Jersey Bottling Company

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

1952 George Wilmer

1969
Brenda Ferguson & Family
Athena Ferguson
Barry Ferguson
Dion Ferguson

Camden Courier-Post
July 21, 1969

1949 Rebecca Herbert

Camden Courier-Post
November 17, 1949

1959-1970 The Spot

1878-1879
Oliver S. Guthrie Sr. & Family
Oliver S. &  Mary Matilda Guthrie
Oliver S. Guthrie Jr.
Theodore F. "Dorrie" Guthrie

1929-1932
Thomas Grey Horner & Family
Thomas Stanley Horner

Camden Courier-Post
June 17, 1932
&
June 18, 1932

Thomas Horner appears to have been a widower. He lived in the late 1920s and as late as 1924 at 327 Atlantic Avenue.

1949-1950 Gertrude Jones

1956 William Mosley

Camden Courier-Post
August 14, 1956

1935-1972
Smith's Grocery
Arthur J. Smith & Family
Arthur J. & Mary Lutz Smith
Elaine Smith Lees
Leonard Smith

Camden Courier-Post
June 26, 1972

1935-1972
Smith's Grocery
Arthur J. Smith & Family
Arthur J. & Mary Lutz Smith
Elaine Smith Lees
Leonard Smith

Camden Courier-Post
January 6, 1975

1929-1930 Benjamin Herwitz
grocery
1940 Mrs. Rachel Odom

1919-1926
David Rosen & Family
Rosen & Son
junk
David & Ida Rosen
Isaac Rosen
Dora Rosen

Camden Daily Courier
April 28, 1921

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Nicholas Romaine

1920s-1940s Meyer Mackler
junk 

1943-1956 Roland Farmer's Tavern 
1947-1956  The Spot 

1892 Camillus V. Appley

1924

1910s-1920s

1924

Private Eugene Davidson

1918-1919
Mrs. Mary Mitchell

Moorish Science Temple
of America, Inc.

Photo Taken August 12, 2011

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At some point after 1961, the frame houses that were located aat 615 through 629 Liberty Street were razed. A one-story warehouse was erected on this site. It had been long abandoned when scrappers set a fire inside of it on August 12, 2011

1915 Mrs. Mary William
1915 Clarence Emery

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 21, 1915

1906
John Robinson

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 6, 1906

South 4th Street
Division Street
William Simms
James O. Weaver

1912 Julia May

Camden Post-Telegram
December 16, 1912

1940-1950
James Carpenter & Family
James & Bertha Carpenter
Kenneth Carpenter
William Carpenter
Douglas Carpenter

Camden Courier-Post
November 27, 1950

1911 Joseph Gibbs

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 21, 1911

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1913 Paul Burton

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 4, 1913

O. Glen Stackhouse

1924

Photo Taken August 12, 2011

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Destroyed By Fire July 30, 2011

Photo Taken August 12, 2011

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Destroyed By Fire July 30, 2011

1938
Walter Gintoft
junkyard

Edwin T. Mills
Frank Crawford

1955
C.W. Moore & Sons

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

1947

1947

1947-1955 Edmund Anyszek Jr.

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

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1938 Mrs. Mary A. Wisniewski
1938 Miss Stella Petkowski

Camden Courier-Post
February 21, 1938

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April 18, 2004

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September 25, 2011

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September 25, 2011

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September 25, 2011

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September 25, 2011

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March 19, 2012

Scheduled for Demolition in March 2012

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September 25, 2011

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1938 Stella Petkowski

Camden Courier-Post
February 21, 1938

September 25, 2011

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September 25, 2011

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September 25, 2011

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1941
Maryanna Grzeczkowska

September 25, 2011

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1958 Frank DeKonski

Camden Courier-Post
February 10, 1958

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St. Joseph's
Roman Catholic Church

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1008 Liberty Street
was the original
St. Joseph' High School

1010 to 1058
Liberty Street

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1010 Liberty Street is the
St. Joseph Church
Rectory

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1941-1943
Henry Soltys & Family
Henry & Estelle Grzeczkowska Soltys
Mrs. Maryanna Grzeczkowska

Camden Courier-Post
July 1, 1941

1923-2009
John Jaskolski & Family
John & Pelagia Jaskolski

From left: "Edward, John, Mary (Minnie), Elizabeth (Libby), Anna, Catherine (Kasia), Frances (Pat), Polly, Josephine (Jo), Agnes (Aggie), Anthony (Tony), Paul, My great-grandmother Stankowski, Grandmom Pelagia holding my mom Margaret (Peggy), Grandpop John"

Gary Soule
April, 2009

1923-2009
John Jaskolski & Family

Photo from about 1927
Theresa & Loretta Jaskolski
Theresa is standing in this picture

1923-2009
John Jaskolski & Family
John & Pelagia Jaskolski

Photo from the 1940s
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1923-2010
John Jaskolski & Family
John & Pelagia Jaskolski
Mary Skolksi

Camden Courier-Post
November 17, 1949

NEW POLICE MATRON, Miss Mary Jaskolski, ex-WAC, of 1028 Liberty Street. is sworn in by Acting City Clerk Mary MacClennan. Miss Jaskolski. sister of Sgt. Anthony Skolski, city police department, and sister-in-law of the new assistant director of public safety. William Schriver, served in World War II as WAC sergeant.

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MRS. ANIELA GORCZYNSKI

Mrs. Aniela Gorczynski, 56, of 1035 Liberty Street, died Wednesday. She was the wife of Frank Gorczynski and was formerly Miss Aniela Blogowska. Funeral services will be held at 8,30 a. m. tomorrow at the family residence, with solemn requiem high mass at St. Joseph's Polish R. C. Church, at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Members of the Rosary Society of the church and the Woodmen of the World will attend the funeral.

1920s-1930s
Frank Gorczynski

1920s-1930s

Bronislaw Matyasik

1920s-1930s

Private Joseph A. Matyasik

1941
Thomas Jarozynski

Camden Courier-Post
July 28, 1941

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1048 Liberty Street

1957
Theodor W. Moscicki & Family
Theodore & Josephine Moscicki
Walter Moscicki
Theodor Moscicki
Conrad Moscicki
Cecelia Moscicki
Caroline Moscici

Camden Courier-Post
December 26, 1957

Polish American Citizens Club

1900s-1920s

Joseph Jagodzinski

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1947 Joseph Szymborski

1947

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Detective William T. Feitz, First Camden Police Officer to fall in the line of duty, lived at 1125 Liberty Street.

1947

1947

1947

MAy 6, 2004

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1947

Camden
Courier-Post

February 21, 1928

Lewis Raupp, 53, 833 North 6th Street, dog bite of right index finger
Anna Veroline, 34, 318 Walnut Street, sprained ankle
Albert Passarella, 15, 433 Spruce Street, sprained ankle
Thomas J. Owens, 35, 420 Taylor Ave., bruised wrist and knee
Joseph Manfredi, 14, 335 Chestnut Street, infected palm.
Margaret Cramer, 9, 323 Erie Street, infected finger
Laurence Wiggle, 5, 505 South 6th Street, cut hand
Joseph Carbone, 18, 336 Walnut Street, cut chin
Thomas DiRenzo, 13, 522 Clinton St., splinter in left foot.
Cecelia Homan, 32, 511 Ray Avenue, foreign body in eye
Mary DiVincenzo, 10, 311 Beckett St., foreign body in eye

WEST JERSEY

Theresa Marolda, 59, 1713 South 4th Street, cut finger
Benjamin Druasowictz, 34, 1282 Van Hook St., cut finger
Charles Mangold, 52, 3 North 4th Street, cut finger
Stanley Kaminski, 25, 1119 Liberty Street, cut hand
Marie Birsch, 15, 697 Van Hook St., foreign particle in eye 
Willard Dickson, 3, 1739 Railroad Ave., puncture wound of thigh

1938 Stanley Kaminski

Camden Courier-Post
February 14, 1938

1906 Charles Kopton

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 29, 1906

Dr. Joel W. Fithian

1947

1956-1960
Stanley J. Kaminski

1947

1947

1927
Andrew Miller & Family

1947

1947

1947

1947

1131 Liberty was used as a retail liquor store by the Knast family, and as an outlet for soda bottled at their Liberty Bottling Works, located next door at 1135, owned by the Kbnast family. Teofil Knast was operating at 1135 Liberty as far back as 1924. 

1947

1947

1947

1947

The blue building at the rear and the brown garages belonged to the Liberty Bottling Works from the 1930s to the late 1970s.On Liberty Street, 1135 the site of Liberty Bottling Company was run by brothers Joe and Mike.  There was a small liquor store next to the bottling plant in which we used to buy soda. We would take our little wagon over with or without our Dad and purchase a case of soda. It was a big deal to us as kids. Today the property is boarded up after being converted into a half way house owned by a dentist (?) from New York. Of the original families on that street only one remains - my mother at 1136 Liberty Street.-

Virginia Bicking, May 2004

1905
Wladsaw Wilgocki

Philadelphia Inquirer
August 2, 1905

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Liberty Bottling Works

Liberty Bottling Works

Camden Courier-Post
August 14, 1933

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Liberty Bottling Company

Camden Courier-Post
July 23, 1941

Samuel E. Johnson

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1947

A baker by trade, Harry Bicking and his wife Wilhelmina moved into this home in late 1906 or 1907 from the home around the corner at 1137 Mechanic Street.  The Bicking family still resides in this home, in May of 2004.

May 5, 2004

1152 & 1150 Liberty Street
are
visible across Rose Street

May 5, 2004

1940s
Mrs. Bertha Kuhnel
candy store

May 5, 2004

1947

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1947

May 5, 2004

1947

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1947

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1145 Liberty was the home of , who was killed in action while serving with the United States Army in Burma during World War II.

1947
John Napiorkowski Sr. & Family
John & Veronica Napiorkowski
Matthew
Edward
Sigmund
Veronica

Private First Class
John C. Napiorkowski Jr.

1947

1947

1943
Joseph Murray & Family
Joseph A. Murray

1947 Herbert H. WIlliams

1947 Jesse Toczyk
monuments

1947

1947

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The southeast corner of
Liberty and Rose Streets

1938
Stanley Barzycki & Family
Stanley & Helen Kaurilski Barzycki

Camden Courier-Post
February 22, 1938

January 5, 2008

At 11:55 PM Squad 7 ( Captain Ashley) reported a 2-1/2 story ordinary occupied dwelling with medium smoke showing from the 2nd floor. All hands were placed in service. The fire was located on the second floor at the rear of the building and quickly brought under control with no injuries reported. The Camden City Fire Marshal was on the scene.

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Photos by Steve Skipton

January 5, 2008

At 11:55 PM Squad 7 ( Captain Ashley) reported a 2-1/2 story ordinary occupied dwelling with medium smoke showing from the 2nd floor. All hands were placed in service. The fire was located on the second floor at the rear of the building and quickly brought under control with no injuries reported. The Camden City Fire Marshal was on the scene.

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Photos by Steve Skipton

1947Joohn J. Budnick

1922
Henry C. Knowles & Family
John P. Long (father-in-law)
Emma Knowles Friezer (daughter)
Garland Friezer (son-in-law)

1947 John Piotrowski

1947 George F. Kuhnel

The corner house which no longer stands at the corner of Liberty and Rose was owned by a produce huckster. Their son was once featured in a newspaper story because he would take his little wagon full of produce around the neighborhood and sell it. As kids we grow up on plenty of vegetable and fruit dishes from produce he could no longer sell. We would get tomatoes, peaches, cantaloupes, etc. Life was grand for us despite the bad economy at times. The Huckster was known as Lucky.

Virginia Bicking, May 2004

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1947

1922
James Busch

Philadelphia Inquirer
March 16, 1922

1955
Frank Pruss & Family
Frank & Stella Pruss

Camden Courier-Post
September 16, 1955

1947

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1947

1895
Liberty Park Young Republican Club

Camden Daily Telegram
October 14, 1895

1947

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In the 1930s and 1940s
this building
was the home of the
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic Club 

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1930s-1940s
Woodrow Wilson Democratic Club

Camden Courier-Post
January 24, 1939

Albert Riggins - THhomas Barrett

1947

1947 Morgan & Sons Auto Repair

1955
Tony & Joe's Auto Service

1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone
Yellow Pages Ad

Photo Taken May 5, 2004

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Joseph Bontkowski
operated a grocery here.
His son, 
Louis Bontkowski
was killed in action during
World Wa r II

On the corner of Louis and Liberty across from the RR lot was a grocery store run by a man known as Cookie and his mother.

Virginia Bicking, May 2004

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1946
Camden Branch No. 57
Fleet Reserve Association Inc.

Camden Courier-Post
May 24, 1946

Earl Carnes - William harry Richards
Harry Van Deventer - Frank J. Biermann
John MacDonald - Roy Forrest
William J. Bell - Hiram Turner
Cheater Nolan

1897-1903
Liberty Park Casino
saloon
Bernhard & Mary Oberst 

1904 
James S.  Haines Saloon
saloon
JAmes S. & Emma HAines

1905-1909
Louis Knecht 
saloon
Louis & Carolyn Knecht

1909-1912
Peter Mueller
saloon
Peter & Cresenza Mueller

Camden Post Telegram
November 4, 1909

1913-1948
Stumm's Cafe
aka Rudolph Stumm's saloon
Rudolph & Augusta Stumm 

Photo Taken on September 9, 2003

Miss Elsa D. Stumm, 24, of 1201 Liberty Street, was married yesterday in the German Lutheran Church, Fifth and Stevens Street, to Ralph R. Phillips, 24, of 1248 Haddon Avenue.

Miss Stumm is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Stumm, and Phillips is the son Mr. and Mrs. O. O. Phillips. His father is well known in real estate circles and in civic work and independent politics. He is associated with his father in the real estate business. 

The couple left last night on a wedding trip to the Century of Progress Exposition- at Chicago. They will make their home at 626 North 42nd Street. 

1913-1948
Stumm's Cafe
aka Rudolph Stumm's Saloon
Rudolph Stumm & Family

Camden Courier-Post
June 17, 1933

1949-1950
Bill's Cafe
William Kauffman

1950-1980 
Stanley's Cafe
aka Pouche's Lounge
Stanley & Florence Pucilowski

1980-2004
Mr. Wiggles Aquarius Lounge
Douglas J. "Mr. Wiggles" Bryant

September 9, 2003

1971
Stanley Powell & Family
Stanley & Mary Wood Powell
Elizabeth Ann Powell
Jean Marie Powell
Cecilia Mary Powell
Catherine Grace Powell
Stella Rose Powell
Angela Mary Powell
Bernadette Ann Powell
Joseph Anthony Powell

Camden Courier-Post
December 17, 1971

Joseph Powell
Teresa Pawelek Atkinson
Angela Pawelek Klinzport

1891 Mrs. C.F. Zimmerman

Philadelphia Inquirer
July 24, 1891

John Dillmore
William Harvey

1958 Eleanore LuBrant

Camden Courier-Post
November 8, 1958

Martin Nelson

1918
Kazimier Janasz & Family
Kazimiera "Kay" Janasz
Stanley "Ben" Janasz

1985-1991 James Crenshaw
1985-1991 Dorothy Crenshawr

Camden Courier-Post
December 29, 1991

Frank McGuckin

Falling downstairs resulted in Alexander Torker, aged 14 years, of 1235 Liberty Street, breaking a foot. He was taken to the Homeopathic Hospital.

1915
Alexander Torker

Philadelphia Inquirer
May 23, 1915

1930
Vincent Gorczynski & Family
Vincent & Anne Gorczynski
Eleanor Gorczynski

September 19, 2009 - FIRE

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FIREMEN'S AUTO INJURES 4

A Camden city fireman's automobile figured in two successive accidents that injured four persons last night. The fireman is John C. Voll, 33, of 1230 North Nineteenth Street, attached to Engine Company Number 9, Twenty-seventh and Federal streets. Voll was treated at Cooper Hospital for severe cuts on the face and mouth.

His machine collided at Eighteenth Street and River Road about 11 p.m. with the car of Steve Liperi, 23, of 408 West Third Street, Palmyra, injuring Liperi's mother-in-law.

 Liperi told police Voll's car came at him in a zig-zag manner a block until it struck a pole at Seventeenth Street and River Road, went on the sidewalk and struck two women. One of these, Mrs. Lydia Ramsey, 32, of 2108 Howell Street, was treated at Cooper Hospital for severe cuts on the leg. The other, Miss Pauline Comfort, 22, of 1238 Liberty Street, was treated at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital far severe bruises.

Liperi and his wife, Grace, 19, were unhurt, but her mother, Mrs. Mary Mancuso, 45, of 885 Velde Avenue, Delair, suffered cuts and bruises, No charges were made by either driver.

1933 Pauline Comfort

Camden Courier-Post
June 4, 1933

1967 Bob Lucas

1933 Marjorie Bobbs
"Miss Walt Whitman" contestant

Camden Courier-Post
June 19, 1933

January 15, 2013
Fire in the basement

January 15, 2013

1929
Mrs. Caroline Haehner
Anna Haehner

Camden Courier-Post
June 25, 1929

1938
Frederick W. Wuensch

Camden Courier-Post
February 19, 1938

1938
Frederick W. Wuensch

Camden Courier-Post
February 19, 1938

FINES TOTAL $1005 IN WEEKEND RAIDS
Three Proprietors Assessed $100 Each! Two
Disorderly Houses and Restaurant Hit

A weekend of raiding in which 59 men and women were arrested in two disorderly houses, and a restaurant dispensing beer enriched the coffers of the Camden city treasury yesterday by $1005.

Proprietors of the three establishments were fined $100 each by Judge Garfield Pancoast on charges of violating the city disorderly act. An inmate of one of the disorderly houses was sentenced to three months in jail, having ignored a warning to leave town.

The raid on the Blue Hour Luncheonette, 1282 Liberty Street, early Sunday in which 43 were arrested is said to have been the largest of its type in the city in more than a year.

Frank Kerr, 40, proprietor, pleaded guilty to charges of violating ordinance 422, while Parker McGonigal, of 1240 Morton street, facing similar charges, said he only worked in the establishment and received a suspended sentence.

Security of $10 was returned to Florence Williams, 22, of 312 North Third Street; Teresa Kelly, 21 of 3013 Constitution Road, and Charles Mengalie, 24, of 314 Stevens Street, who proved that they had not been in the restaurant but were picked up on the street outside.

Thirty-eight others required to post $10 for appearance as material witnesses forfeited their security.

1930 Blue Hour Luncheonette

1935-1936 Harry Gassel

Donkey's Place is on the right, the northwest corner of Haddon Avenue and Liberty Street.

October 20, 2005

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