Camden in....pick your year!!
 

Here are a few pictures I took of the of the reigning champion of the USA's most dangerous city.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden019.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden013.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden018.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden016.jpg

and here is the reason why I was there.
Primary customer receiving 4k volts and stepping it down to what secondary voltage they needed.
Oddly enough, this equipment used to supply a chicken choking plant up until 1977(?or there about)
Those guys must have been the lucky ones or maybe not!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden008.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden006.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden002.jpg

I'll bet those transformers have enough pcbs in them to wipe out half the state of NJ.

i'm sitting about 10 minutes from there right now

I have questions:

1) Why are we picking a year?
2) What are those water softeners for?
3)Why are chickens roaming around a city?
4)Were you there to fix their electrical stuff? What did you have to do?

I'm only being facetious on number 2; I find those pics interesting and would like to know more.

It's on Filmore st between Chelton & 6th.

hmmm, yeah. i wasn't planning a visit or anything. i'm accross from the cherry hill mall. stop by. bring me a coffee.

1.Well, the year thing is kind of a joke. I always say about cities like Camden and Trenton that If you take a picture(in black and white usually, doesn't work so well in this case) the average person would have a hard time telling what year it is
2. really big and poisionus(sp) water softeners.
3. can't really tell you why. possibly future food
4. I work for a Utility company and I was there to identify if the equipment was our's or if it was customer owned. New owners assumed the rights to the building and didn't have a clue what the equipment was. Unfortunatly, it is their stuff and our responsibilty ends up @ the connections at the top of the pole
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y76.../Camden010.jpg

Wawa sound good? Talk about a local reference. Too late now, back in the office warming up.

well, maybe next time. cherry hill nissan. finance. ask for jim. cream, no sugar. ;)

The chickens definitely give it a special touch.

But I think Philadelphia might beat Camden out for the title this year.

Thanks for the clarification.

I used to test RF filters and worked with some serious electricity. Subsequently, that setup makes me nervous.

Jim, Im actually eyeing up a 4-door titan, silver.

I think all the thugs crossed over the Ben frank. Camden will always be the armpit of Jersey

Yeah, it is a very unsafe situation. The bad part is that it is inside of a brick building. In the case of an arc or a flash, all that energy has no were to go.

they've come home to roost...

another obvious end times sign.

I initially thought the water softener in the middle was a big leaky transformer!

The chickens really are a nice touch. Do we have any real estate smarties here? I wonder what those row houses would go for in a non-chicken neighborhood?

I don't have any silver crew cabs at present. i have smoke, blue, white and granite. i can have our truck manager get you whatever you want, though. factory invoice less $2500 rebate or 2.9% for 60 mos. ($3000 or 1.9% for the King Cab)

They only run 4k primaries in Camden, Woody? :confused:

Oh... and how do they meter it?

Since Camden is an older city, a majority of its circuits are still the old 4kv. This also includes the 'downtown' section which is an underground network. 4kv was, and sometimes still is, a more reliable voltage on shorter spans from the substation. But there are some newer as well as updated substations that produce 13kv inside of Camden. Any new pole top construction we do is built for 13kv so in the future all 4kv lines can be eliminated.

About metering it, all primary customers pay some sort of a flat rate per month. I don't know, maybe like $2000 a month. Primary customers do not pay per kwh, like a home owner would.

They must do some sort of survey estimate to set the monthly rate. Ideal setup for a bootlegger or pot grower. :D

News flash - the most dangerous city in the US is now....

St. Louis

And chickens in the street increase the value when cock fighting is the main source of entertainment in the city - ai, ai, ai, ai, aieeee!

I'm about 4 miles from Camden, as the carcass-picking vulture flies.

Imagine...slummy pictures of my hometown in an internet blog. Next time, take some pics down at the River...<sigh>This is what years of corrupt politicians will do to a city. F**k that bitch mayor...

Welcome to the Cellar, ThirdI. :D
You realize the pictures were not to show Camden, but to show the electrical transformers, right? Oh, and the chickens.

I'm sure you can find slummy pictures of Camden all over the internet, not just in this blog. Like Bruce said, I was there for business but couldn't pass up the opportunity to take some pictures of wild chickens. Maybe with half of the NFL as thier spokespeople, Cambells Soup will become the superpower they once were and revive the city...or maybe not.

That was fascinating. I love seeing other places through the Cellar, it rocks!

Campbells won't come back.
I read a very long and complex explanation about how during the last generation change of owners, the inheritance taxes, estate taxes, yada, yada, yada, almost caused them to lose the company, so they all left the country. Moved to Ireland I think.

Also, rather than trying to sell the soup they make for American tastes, in the far flung corners, they're tailoring soups to local consumers. :smack:

Despite the cigarette butt diet, those chickens are probably better eatin' than the KFC variety. :dead:

Much of Camden has been unsavory for decades, and doesn't show any signs of near-future improvement. However, the area around City Hall is kind of cute and small-town-ish.