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The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American recording company and phonograph manufacturer, incorporated in 1901. Victor was an independent enterprise until 1929 when it was purchased by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and became the RCA Victor Division of the Radio Corporation of America until late 1968, when it was renamed RCA Records.
The Nipper Building is a colloquial name for The Victor condominiums, and formerly, Building 17, RCA Victor Company, Camden Plant. The structure is a historical building located in Cooper Grant neighborhood of Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. Since 1901, Camden was the headquarters of the Victor Talking Machine Company, later ...
Victor Marrero was kissed by the gods of reality TV. After he and his Camden, N.J. rowhouse were depicted, roaches and all, on a February 2007 20/20 piece about his poor city, Extreme Makeover ...
The Victor Talking Machine factory in Camden, New Jersey was destroyed by fire, causing $500,000 in damage and the loss of thousands of irreplaceable original records. [ 257 ] Soldiers James N. Bowers and Eugene Coone were killed and 18 people injured in a crash between a light engine and a troop train at Harthoum, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of ...
Eldridge Reeves Johnson (February 6, 1867 in Wilmington, Delaware [1] – November 14, 1945 in Moorestown, New Jersey [2] [3]) was an American businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1901 and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time.
On October 29, 2012, the FBI announced Camden was ranked first in violent crime per capita of cities with over 50,000 residents. [ 11 ] There were 23 homicides in Camden in 2017, the lowest since 1987 and almost half as many as the 44 murders the previous year.
Camden City Hall, at 370 ft (110 m), has been the tallest building in the city since 1931. Several buildings of the Victor Talking Machine Company (which became part of RCA Victor in 1929) dot the city's skyline, which also includes late 20th century residential high-rises.
The most common type of violent crime in New Jersey in 2023 was aggravated assault, which saw an estimated total of 14,005 offenses at a rate of 150.7 per 100,000 people.