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We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Campbell's put the city on the map, then closed the factory in 1990 and tore it down in the years after. The headquarters stayed behind, like a guy who left the party but kept his coat on the chair. Camden has a world-famous soup brand and no soup.
Camden's waterfront has the Battleship New Jersey, a floating museum where you can pay to sleep in a crew bunk. Down the waterfront is an aquarium that proudly advertises hippos and a shark exhibit big enough to brag about. The city has crime-reputation PR problems, and its big tourism pitch is 'come sleep near a gun and swim near a shark.'
Camden's greatest civic asset is the Ben Franklin Bridge, because it gets you out of Camden and into Philadelphia. The rest of South Jersey has an unofficial map where Cherry Hill is the center of the universe and Camden is described as 'Mad Max meets Boyz n the Hood.' That's harsh, but you've spent decades letting the suburbs win this argument.
Camden's big sports moment was the Riversharks, an independent-league baseball team playing at Campbell's Field, a stadium named after a soup company that had already stopped making soup there. Even the sports teams here are a tribute to something that left. The team itself folded in 2015. Honestly, it's the most Camden thing imaginable: a lot of heart, a corporate sponsor, and fans wondering where everybody went.
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