Ormond Avenue

Ormond Avenue is in the Parkside section of Camden, running from 1404 Bradley Avenue southeast to Vesper Boulevard.

Related: Lawrence Manou — 1429 Ormond Avenue, January 2013.

Related: 1431 Ormond Avenue — Morton Weinstein, 1947.

Related: Mrs. Dorothy Ellis — 1434 Ormond Avenue, 1938.

Related: Harry Schard — 1447 Ormond Avenue, 1932.

Related: Bella Polivnick — 1449 Ormond Avenue, 1933.

Our house was a twin. Our neighbors were the Segals. Beyond them (1425) were the Sternbergs. Across the street (1438) was a Mr Laveson (sp) and the Klines. Across Lansdowne Avenue lived the Weinsteins (1431 in photo). The neighborhood was primarily solid middle class Jewish, with quite a few Orthodox, though we were not. I recall a Rabbi Riff walking the neighborhood. Clearly a distinguished man, though his appearance scared to death the non-Jewish neighborhood children. There was also a Rabbi Kellman, whose beautiful daughter Nadine I yearned for. At the end of the block lived a Jackie Chew, always in trouble. Our school was Parkside to which we all (safely) walked to and from home. Other kids I played with had names like Asbell, Bantivoglio, Clyman, Colangelo, Friedenberg, Lundy, Parks, and Sherman.

I do recall that we lived there briefly owing to my father’s restaurant at Second and Market. He catered to the executives at RCA and Campbell Soup. He had bought a house in Haddonfield at the outbreak of the war which was occupied by a tenant. Laws then prohibited evicting tenants during wartime, so we remained in Camden till about 1949, when we bought a summer house at the shore. He may have held title to the house into the fifties, possibly renting it before selling it. We had a two-car garage behind the house which housed black (always black) Buicks.

When I left Parkside, I was sent off to boarding school and then—my family having moved to another house in Haddonfield—to Moorestown Friends. I cannot imagine what this once clean, well-kept neighborhood must look like now.

Finally, I recall Mr Sam Bosco, my father’s barber, who called at his office twice a month to trim his hair. It seems he may have had a darker side judging by the news reports.

— Lawrence Manou, Chester Springs PA

MRS. DOROTHY ELLIS

Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Dorothy Ellis, 28, of 1434 Ormond avenue, who died Sunday at the home of her mother at 6144 Walton avenue, Philadelphia. Burial was in Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Philadelphia. Mrs. Ellis, who had been ill four months, also is survived by her husband, Zellie, Broadway shoe merchant, and an infant daughter.

ELLIS—On February 13, 1938

Dorothy, beloved wife of Zellie Ellis (nee Vernikoff) age 28 years. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services on Monday, Feb. 14 at 2.30 p. m. at Molnick Funeral Parlor, 1329 Broad St., Phila. Interment at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Pa.

Three Camden residents, including two school teachers, were among the 4,000 students graduated from New York University yesterday at the 101st commencement exercises at Ohio Field, University Heights, New York.

The Camden students are Miss May Marchant, 422 Linden Street, teacher at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, Bella Polivnick, 1449 Ormond Avenue, teacher in Camden High School, Bachelor of Science degree in School of Education, and Charles E. Hutchinson, 1353 Park Boulevard, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering.

Related: Tetrachloride Fumes Sicken 3 Firemen — 1546 Ormond Avenue, 1961.

Related: George Dixon Jr. — 1554 Ormond Avenue.