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THE YEAR 1926 |
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SPAN OF A CENTURY COMPILED FROM NOTES ANDS DATA
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The new banking house of the Parkside Title and Trust Company was opened to the public on March 12, 1926. |
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The Morning Post was the name given Camden's morning newspaper, formerly the Post-Telegram, which was issued the first time under the new title on March 1, 1926. |
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Contractor James W. Draper began construction of the new banking house of the South Camden Trust Company, at Broadway and Ferry Avenue, on Monday, March 1, 1926. |
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The Board of Freeholders voted unanimously for the establishment of a Vocational School, on March 10, 1926. This resolution bore fruit in the establishment of the Camden County Vocational School on Browning Road, in Pennsauken NJ, known today as Camden County Vocational & Technical School.
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New Jersey and Pennsylvania Legislators and State officials, accompanied by officials of Camden and Philadelphia, walked across the Delaware River Bridge on a tour of inspection on March 19, 1926. |
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The
official dedication of the new municipal radio station, WCAM, in
Convention Hall, occurred on March 29, 1926.
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The
contract for the new Walt Whitman Theatre, to be built on Westfield
Avenue between 46th and 47th Streets, was awarded to Andrew White, of
Camden, on April 28, 1926.
The Walt Whitman Hotel closed for the last time in the late 1970s, One of the last shows featured Moe Howard of the Three Stooges. The theater and associated buildings were razed several years later. A Walgreens Drugstore was built on the site in the late 1970s. |
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The North Camden Trust Company began business on May 4, 1926 in the banking house on Penn Street at 6th and the Bridge Plaza. Dr. J. Lynn Mahaffey was the first President. |
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The Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone Company entertained the early telephone subscribers in Camden, and a number of telephone pioneers of Camden at a tour of inspection of the new building at 7th and Federal Streets, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the telephone, on May 11, 1926. |
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The new Elk's Home at Cooper and 7th Streets, was dedicated on May 29, 1926. This building is, in 2003, the home of the LEAP Academy charter school. |
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The
official opening of the new $50,000 home of the Browning Council, No.
122, Junior Order, United American
Mechanics, 531 Penn Street, took
place on July 1, 1926.
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The Stanley Theater at Broadway and Market Street, built and operated by the Stanley Corporation of America, and costing in excess of $1,000,000, was first opened to the public February 19, 1926.
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The great Delaware River Bridge spanning the Delaware between Camden and Philadelphia, was formally opened July 1, 1926 with elaborate ceremonies, at the plazas at each end of the bridge. The structure was planned by Ralph Modjeski, Chief Engineer, and built under the direction of the Delaware River Bridge Joint Commission, composed of representative men from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The bridge is 1.82 miles in length and was built in four and one half years at a cost of $40,000,000. President Coolidge dedicated the bridge in person on Monday, July 5, 1926. Some interesting facts concerning the bridge are:
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The South Jersey Exposition was formally opened on July 5, 1926, at the Civic Center. |
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The Peter Pan Statue, a gift to Camden by Eldridge R. Johnson, president of the Victor Talking Machine Company, was unveiled in Johnson Park on September 21, 1926. |
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The Wilson Building, a twelve-story structure at Broadway and Cooper Street, was formally opened November 23, 1926. |
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