Camden Auto Radiator
Camden Auto Radiator was located at 505–509 Arch Street. Owned by Herman Z. Cutler, it was one of several auto repair establishments that operated on and just off of Arch Street in the 1920s and 1930s. Other shops included George’s Auto Service and the Cooperson Brothers auto body shop.
The 1920 Census shows Herman and Yetta Cutler in Camden’s Parkside neighborhood, living at 1240 Princess Avenue with their children Dorothy, Harry, and Abraham. Herman Cutler, then 31, had come to America in 1906. Also living with the Cutler family was a cousin, Abe Ostroff, who worked as an auto mechanic.
Herman Z. Cutler was involved in the fundraising drive that culminated in the building of the Walt Whitman Hotel at Broadway and Cooper streets in 1925.
Buildings on the north side of Arch Street were razed around 1930 during the construction of City Hall to make way for Roosevelt Plaza Park. The Parkade Building was erected on the site in the 1950s.
Herman Z. Cutler would go on to found the Cutler Metal Products Company, which operated at 1021–1025 Line Street into the 1980s.
Herman Z. Cutler
Camden Daily Courier —
Cuts Show The CUTLER Radiator—Invented By Herman Z. Cutler
If He Can Invent an Improved Radiator—of course he can repair any ordinary kind
Cutler Will Repair Your Truck Radiators and Get Your Truck Back in Service Quickly
Trucks can’t operate with leaky radiators—burnt out bearings cost too much money. Bring that truck with that leaky radiator to CUTLER and get real work—and get it done quickly.
We Make Fenders and All Sheet Metal Parts for All Makes of Trucks
WE PAINT TRUCKS—WORK GUARANTEED
Camden Auto Radiator Repair Co. — 507-09 Arch Street, Camden, N.J.
HERMAN Z. CUTLER—Proprietor — “You Know Cutler’s Good Work”
Camden City Directory Advertisement — 1922
HERMAN Z. CUTLER CO., Inc.
Automotive Sheet Metal Manufacturing
Specialists in Fenders, Hoods, Radiators
505–511 Arch Street — Camden, N.J. — Phone Bell 1338
Advertising Blotter — c. 1919–1922
Silent film star Mary Miles Minter was featured on this advertising blotter. As Miss Minter left the film industry in the wake of the scandal following the 1922 murder of William Desmond Taylor, this card most likely was produced between 1919 and 1922.
YOU KNOW CUTLER’S WORK
Every radiator we repair is tested under high pressure and guaranteed absolutely water-tight. Radiators repaired and replaced. Fenders repaired or replaced. Hoods straightened. Body work. Welding. Brazing. Blacksmithing. Auto sheet metal work. Painting and upholstering.
Camden Auto Radiator Co. — 505–309 Arch Street, Camden, N.J. — Telephone Bell 1338 — Keystone 411 — Local work called for and delivered
Garage Watchman Foils Whiskey Theft
Camden Courier-Post —
Tells Police of Man With Box; Liquor From Drugstore Found
A second attempt within ten days by thieves to steal whisky valued at several thousands of dollars from the drug store of George Beringer, Fifth and Federal streets, was frustrated over the week-end by the alertness of a night attendant at a garage at Fifth and Arch streets.
It was about 2 o’clock Sunday morning when James Robertson, night attendant at the garage of Herman Z. Cutler, Fifth and Arch streets, saw a man carrying a box up an alley almost directly opposite the garage. Robertson, suspicious, telephoned police headquarters at city hall.
“Come to Fifth and Arch streets right away,” Robertson urged the police sergeant on duty. “A man is acting suspiciously in this neighborhood. He looks like a thief.”
Policemen Joslin, Cattel, Reese, Jones, Petit and Carroll were dispatched to the scene. When they arrived, the mysterious stranger sighted by Robertson had disappeared.
Further search proving unavailing, the police sought the box the man had carried into the alleyway. They found it in the establishment at 503 Federal street, occupied by a washing machine company. The thief had entered the place by forcing a side window, and left the box, a case of whisky, inside.
Further investigation revealed that the thief and possible accomplices had entered the drug establishment by climbing a shed in the rear to the second floor. They then lifted themselves to the third floor. There they broke open a shutter on one of the windows and entered. Going to the cellar, the thieves broke open a closet where the whisky was stored. They apparently aimed to remove one case of liquor at a time.
Ten days ago both the Beringer establishment and the washing machine firm’s headquarters adjoining were broken into and robbed.
Normal Middleton, 308 Penn street, manager of the place next to the Beringer store, said nothing was stolen from there in the weekend robbery. A check-up is being made by Beringer employees today to determine what was taken at that establishment.