Wright Avenue
Wright Avenue first appeared in Camden City Directories after 1891 and before 1906. The street originally ran northeast from 400 Haddon Avenue, more or less opposite of Camden’s City Hall, across Haddon Avenue, crossing Carteret Street, Warren Avenue, the railroad line which has since become the PATCO high-speed line, through to Federal Street, opposite North 12th Street. Since the construction of Interstate 676, Wright Avenue now begins in what was its 800 Block, at 840 Wright Avenue, the old National Guard Armory which now houses Camden’s Public Works department.
Phil Cohen
Wright Avenue in Past Years
Left: Wright Avenue — map published in 1914. Below: Wright Avenue area — map published in 1946
700 Block of Wright Avenue
750 Wright Avenue
Hi, my name is Ginny Lee Pilstl, daughter of Ludwig and Virginia Pilstl who lived at 750 Wright Avenue. The only date you have for that address is the apartment building. I thought you might want to know that the Pilstls (including me) and Mrs. Trainor lived there during the early 1940’s. I was born in 1943, my father, Ludwig was drafted later that year. After the war, my parents and I returned to Camden, we lived there after the war until 1948 when we moved to Kentucky.
— GL Pilstl, now of Findlay, Ohio — April 25, 2010
Mistaken Identity Lands Driver in Jail
Camden Courier-Post —
Resemblance of C. C. Chalfonte, state motor vehicle inspector, to a salesman, resulted yesterday in an automobile driver being arrested on charges of drunk driving.
Chalfonte was sitting on his porch at 752 Wright Avenue when Raymond Stafford, 26, of 218 Glenwood Avenue, Merchantville, drove up in a car.
Stafford had an engagement to meet a salesman at Haddon and Wright avenues, and on seeing the inspector, thought he was the person. Stafford urged Chalfonte to “hurry up and get in the car,” but the inspector, observing Stafford’s condition, called police.
Patrolmen John Trout and George Weber Jr. took the driver to police headquarters where he was ordered held for a hearing in police court this morning.
Hospital Cases
Camden Courier-Post —
COOPER
John Passarella, 7, of 433 Spruce street, lacerated scalp.
Peter Chiodi, 14, of 337 Spruce street, lacerated hand.
John Cool, Jr., 7, of 218 Burns street, lacerated thumb.
Michael Bottalico, 19, of 816 South Fifth street, lacerated hand.
Kenneth Bell, 40, of 754 Wright avenue, lacerated upper lip.
Irving Yerks, 9, of 1134 Baring street, lacerated thumb.
Theresa Joyce, 61, of 507 Haddon avenue, possible fractured hand.
William Malloney, 15, of 709 Morgan street, possible fractured nose.
Leonard Schaffer, 10, of 119 Dudley street, fractured wrist.
Florence Melari, 60, of 808 Princeton avenue, dog bite.
Theresa Tenovese, 7 months, of 221 Railroad avenue, Glassboro, burn, hand.
Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick street, brush burns, hand.
Howard Cannon, 30, of 751 Cherry street, nail wound, foot.
Catherine Wolfer, 14, of Lindenwold, injured ankle.
Alex Maloney, 29, of 425 South Fifth street, injured shoulder.
WEST JERSEY
James Brady, 7, of 1580 Minnesota road, lacerated wrist.
Betty Antonow, 6, of 1038 street, puncture wound, foot.
J. E. Walker, 46, of 222 Washington terrace, Audubon, near amputation, tip of finger.
Arthur Davis, 10, of Nicholson road, West Collingswood, lacerated scalp.
Ed Cachell, 35, of 612 Robert street, lacerated finger.
Dolores Pfeffer, 7, of 548 Haddon avenue, Collingswood, abrasions of thigh; communuted fracture of ankle.
Ida Devlin, 40, of 1337 Morton street, contusion, wrist and possible fractured arm.
756 Wright Avenue
Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook —
Williams — Specialists in Permanent Waving — Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook, June 1932
Working for Bermuda Trip
Camden Courier-Post —
Miss Mary Ellen Williams, of 756 Wright avenue, Camden Courier-Post, June 15, 1932.
780 Wright Avenue
Jordan Motor Sales Co. — Acme Motor Trucks — 780 Wright Avenue, 1923–1929
County Kennel Club Meets Next Wednesday Night
A meeting of the Camden County Kennel Club will be held next Wednesday evening, June 7, at Dixon’s Hall, 780 Wright Avenue, Camden, at which time the report of the show and regular business will be staged.
National Guard Armory, Wright Avenue
Left: “New Armory Wright Avenue Camden N.J.” — 1918. Right: Battery B Armory on Wright Avenue
800 Block of Wright Avenue
801 Wright Avenue
Sypherd Fuel Company at 801 Wright Avenue — New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ads, 1955
840 Wright Avenue
Camden Motor Truck Company at 840 Wright Avenue, 1940
1000–1100 Block of Wright Avenue
1035 Wright Avenue
Bearings Inc. at 1035 Wright Avenue — New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad, 1955
1140 Wright Avenue
Kaighn Avenue near Wright Avenue — August 6, 1963
1125 Wright Avenue
b.ella and nouvella luxury legware at 1125 Wright Avenue, 2007
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