Saint Joseph's Academy for Boys, Peralta Park, four blocks north of Virginia Street at California and Hopkins Sts. (Curtis St. ...

Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection

BANC PIC 1905.17500.46:192--ALB

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Full title: Saint Joseph's Academy for Boys, Peralta Park, four blocks north of Virginia Street at California and Hopkins Sts. (Curtis St. in that area was named for an actor named Curtis who built a home for old actors and actresses -- Peralta Hall in Peralta Park which was bought by the Christian Brothers and used as an academy for boys. Orday St. was named for an actor named Bill Orday, who acted in a play "Samuel of Posen," which gave Posen St. its name. Albina St. and several others were named for actors and actresses in "Samuel of Posen." Albany was once Oceanview; Curtis' theater in Oceanview ran a raffle once a week for lots in the township.) The ivy-covered gate in the picture is the jawbone of a whale. Ca. 1924.

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