Creato's Cafe

For the full history of this address, see C’est La Vie Lounge — 202 South 5th Street.

After World War II, the first published City Directory, that of 1947, shows the bar as Creato’s Cafe, run by James and Caroline Creato of Collingswood, NJ. John Creato, a WWII veteran and brother of James, managed the bar. John’s childhood friend, Rocco Vesper, also had a tavern in Camden, known as Vesper’s Cafe.

The New Jersey Bell Telephone Directories for 1956 and 1959 list the bar as Ray’s Tavern. The bar changed hands several more times, and by 1982 was known as the Traveler’s Home Port. Around 1991 it was renamed the C’est La Vie Lounge. 202 South 5th Street was razed in the late 1990s.