Car Dealers
I’ve always been interested in postcards. Here are some Camden postcards, some dating back to the 19th Century. If you have any images to share, please contact me.
— Phil Cohen
Thanks to Benedict Tisa for contributing many images now on this page.
Postcards
Rohrer Chevrolet — Admiral Wilson Boulevard
Rohrer Chevrolet — Admiral Wilson Boulevard
Merlin Motor Company — Admiral Wilson Boulevard
Dave Cole Pontiac — Admiral Wilson Boulevard & Rosemont Avenue — closed in the early 1970s
Executive Car Leasing — 3000 Admiral Wilson Boulevard. A Rambler dealership in the mid-1960s. In the late 1970s, this building was remodeled, the windows covered over, and the building painted white. 3000 Admiral Wilson Blvd was the home of the notorious “Live Nude Girl Sex Show” until 2000, when all of the buildings on the south side of the highway were razed.
Henry S. Vollmer Packard — 1621 Haddon Avenue — April 1940. The business later moved to Atlantic Avenue.
Camden Motor Truck Company — 9th Street & Wright Avenue — February 1940
Ingram Motors Oldsmobile — 20th & Federal Streets — 1950s
Haddon Motors DeSoto-Chrysler-Plymouth — 1789–1791 Haddon Avenue
Randolph Chevrolet — Haddon Avenue & the Old White Horse Pike — 1950s. Later Distasio Chevrolet until the late 1970s.
Camden Cadillac Company — 1861 Haddon Avenue — October 1939
Berglund Ford — 1940s Service Reminder Postcard
Art Sharp Used Cars — Admiral Wilson Boulevard — 1950
Berglund Ford — Admiral Wilson Boulevard & 17th Street — 1966
Templin Motors — 1388 Haddon Avenue — early 1950s
Rice & Holman Ford Used Cars — 2800 block of Admiral Wilson Boulevard — 1950s–1960s
Airport Motors Used Cars — 1940s–1950s
Airport Motors Pontiac — circa 1956
Garden State Motors — until the early 1960s at Federal & E. State Street. These cards show the new home on the Black Horse Pike.
Adam Motors — Mercedes Benz-Studebaker — Late 1950s–1960s — Route 130 & Drexel Avenue, Pennsauken
Garden State Motors — the dealership later became Lenihan Chrysler-Plymouth, then Dunphy Chrysler-Plymouth. Closed in 2003.
Art Sharp Used Cars — Admiral Wilson Boulevard
