Introduction
Garden Avenue is in East Camden, running from Fremont Street to 6348 Highland Avenue.
332 Garden Avenue — Cannon to Manage Camden Arrows Nine
Camden Courier-Post —
Cannon to Manage Camden Arrows Nine
“Reds” Cannon will handle the reigns of the Camden Arrows during the remainder of the season, it was announced last night. Several dates are still open and Cannon is anxious to hear from traveling teams. He may be reached at 332 Garden Street.
The Arrows swing into action against Coulbourn A. C. at Twenty-ninth and Stevens Streets tonight. The game will get under way at 6.30 o’clock.
300 Block of Garden Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1920s–1983.
317 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1968 | James H. Stewart — Camden Fire Department |
332 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1930s | John 'Reds' Cannon |
| 1947 | Emilici D'Entremont |
346 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1959 | Raymond J. Paradise |
| 1960s–1983 | Samuel A. 'Ott' Laxton Sr. — Samuel A. 'Ott' & Helen Laxton |
385 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1956 | Thomas McCabe |
346 Garden Avenue — Raymond J. Paradise, 1959
Camden Courier-Post —
346 Garden Avenue — Samuel A. 'Ott' Laxton Sr.
Samuel A. “Ott” Laxton Sr. and Helen Laxton lived at 346 Garden Avenue from the 1960s through 1983.
400 Block of Garden Avenue — Occupants
City directory records, 1942–1975.
420 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1942 | Warren E. Buck |
426 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1912–1970s | Richard Wilson — Richard & Mary Wilson; Charles A. Wilson; Francis Wilson (grandson) |
431 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Mrs. Anna Bier |
433 Garden Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1970–1975 | Mrs. Geraldine Binder — John Spataro, Anthony De Pasquale, Marlene Spataro, Jackie Binder, Danny Spataro |
420 Garden Avenue — Warren E. Buck
Billboard Magazine —
Warren E. Buck, 420 Garden Avenue. From Billboard Magazine, July 9, 1942.
433 Garden Avenue — Fire, January 1975
433 Garden Avenue, home of Mrs. Geraldine Binder and family, damaged by fire on January 30, 1975. Four children were killed.
Photos — 2012
431 and 433 Garden Avenue, photographed 2012.
437 and 439 Garden Avenue, photographed 2012.
Fire Rips E. Camden Home, Leaving 4 Youngsters Dead
Camden Courier-Post —
By CHARLES JOHNS and JOSEPH R. McCARTHY Courier-Post Staff
Four East Camden children were killed this morning in a 20-minute house fire that broke out after their mother went next door to make a quick phone call.
A fifth child, the oldest in the family, was not involved because he lives with his grandparents only a few blocks away in Pennsauken. Today is his 12th birthday.
Two of the victims were taken to West Jersey Hospital, Northern Division, Camden. They were identified as Anthony DePasquale, 8, and Jackie Binder, 3. Both were dead on arrival at 2:55 a.m.
The other two children were identified as John Spataro, 10, and Marlene Spataro, 9, by a spokesman at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden. John was dead on arrival at 3:04 a.m.; Marlene died in the hospital at 3:40 a.m.
All the victims were the children of Mrs. Geraldine Binder of 433 Garden Ave., according to Thomas R. Daley, investigator for the Camden County Medical Examiner’s Office. Mrs. Binder, who worked as a waitress, had lived at the address with her children for the past five years.
“She (Mrs. Binder) was here 10 minutes,” said Gary Mason, who was visiting the other half of the Binder family’s duplex house, the home of Mrs. Anna Bier.
Mason said Mrs. Binder went to Mrs. Bier’s side of the house to call her mother, and that he was the first to smell smoke.
“Mrs. Binder went to the rear of the house, opened her door,” Mason said, “and the smoke just poured out.”
Mason, of 14 Stewart Ave., Camden, said he and another man at the Bier house, Paul Marioni, of Pennsauken, tried to enter Mrs. Binder’s house through the front and rear doors and also a bedroom window but were unsuccessful.
“We had one foot in the front room, but the smoke was too thick,” Mason said. The smoke forced Mrs. Bier and her three children to flee from their house.
Firemen found one of Mrs. Binder’s children on the floor of the front bedroom, near the door to the hall, Battalion Chief Thomas Blair said.
Smoke and flames were pouring out of the house when firemen arrived after the alarm was sounded at 2:30 a.m., Blair said, and the first floor living room was “totally involved.”
The other three children were found in two rear bedrooms, Blair said, each of which contained a double bunk bed. Blair said it appeared all four children died from smoke inhalation since they were found on the floor.
“One kid — Marlene — they got her breathing,” the chief said, “but eventually she died.”
Blair said the asbestos-sided house was extensively damaged and its furnishings destroyed. A firewall prevented anything more than smoke damage to Mrs. Bier’s side of the house.
Firemen extinguished the blaze in 20 minutes, Blair said.
The chief said the fire appeared to have started near the living room couch, and he speculated that the cause was either a defective lamp cord or extension cord.
Mrs. Binder’s surviving child, Danny Spataro, is a student at the Burling School in Pennsauken, and lives with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wolfson, on Harris Avenue, where Mrs. Binder was reported to be staying today. The other children, with the exception of 3-year-old Jackie, were students at the McGraw School in Camden.
Autopsies were scheduled to be performed today by Camden County Medical Examiner Louis C. Riegert.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete but are being handled by Edward P. Leonard Jr., 35th Street and River Avenue.
Camden to Promote Three to Sergeants
Camden Courier-Post —
Three Camden patrolmen will be promoted to the rank of sergeant at 10 a.m. tomorrow, by Director of Public Safety Keith Kauffman during ceremonies at City Hall.
The three will fill out the department’s quota of 36 sergeants, replacing three retired members.
Promoted were John Giletto, 33, of 203 N. 41st Street; Virgil Ferrari, 36, of 3045 Carman Street, and Thomas Ewanickak [sic], 50, of 320 Garden Avenue.
Giletto and Ferrari have been members of the force since 1960, and Ewanickak joined the department in 1948.