Oral History: Mr. Curtis "Bud" Mapes
Mr. Curtis "Bud" Mapes (1919 - April 15, 2010), Phone Interview at age 90 with M. J. Ruiz, November 7, 2009. Mr. Mapes lived in Fairview from the 1920s to 1959 at 2793 Constitution Road.
Yorkship School Teachers
(Teachers from the 1920s and early 1930s)
World War II Telephone
(Special Phone with Access to the President)
Are you Catholic or Public?
Mr. Mapes explains that 90% of Yorkship Village residents worked at either the nearby Shipyard, RCA, Campbell Soup, or Hollingshead.
Where Did Early Fairview Residents Work?
Richard Hollingshead, Jr. (1900-1975), a sales manager for his dad's auto parts company, was the inventor of the Drive-In theater. The first opened in 1933 in Camden, NJ.
Churches
Fairview Sports
Yorkship Square
Schools
1933, Graduates from Yorkship School, Yorkship Village
1937, Graduates from Woodrow Wilson High, Camden
1938, One Year at Brown Prep School, Philadelphia
1943, Graduates from St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia
From Prep to College (After Woodrow Wilson, One Year of Prep School)
College (St. Joseph's College, now University, in Philadelphia)
Marriage and Army