Boyd Street is in East Camden, and runs parallel to Marlton Avenue from Carman Street to the city limits in Pennsauken.
Boyd Street acquired a very bad reputation in the late 1980s and all through the 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as “the Alley,” which centered on the alley one end of which was on Bank Street between Morse Street and Boyd Streets.
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Maps
1914 Map of Camden & Stockton Township. Boyd Street then ran only about two blocks. Morse Street was missed. Boyd Street is labeled Pfeiffer Street. Note the other streets whose names were later changed.
1929 Aerial Photo — Rand Street, Boyd Street, Morse Street & Marlton Avenue. Only 2 houses then were on Rand Street, 20 on Boyd Street, a few more on Morse. Nothing had been built yet on Baird Boulevard.
1940s Map of Camden. Stockton Park is gone; streets have been renamed.
1946 Map of Camden. McGuire Gardens were built in 1954.
The Proposed Site of Project 10–4 — McGuire Gardens, February 1951.
The funeral of Irvin Lederman, 37, of 35 Boyd street, a city fireman, who died Wednesday night, will be held 2.30 p. m. Monday.
Lederman was a member of Hose and Chemical Co. No. 2, Twenty-seventh street and Hayes avenue fire company. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Lederman.
Mr. Lederman was a member of the Police and Firemen’s Club and the Mutual Benevolent Association. Burial will be in Bethel Cemetery.
Louis to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Aldi of 1024 Lois Avenue.
Isaac to Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Berrios of 412 Front Street.
Carlos to Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Caraballo of 409 2nd Street.
Michael Thomas to Mr. and Mrs. David Clark of 2105 Berwick Street.
Virginia Doreen to Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper of 318 Federal Street.
Elsie Denise to Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Davis of 629 N. 8th Street.
Deborah Dee to Mr. and Mrs. David Lavender of 128 Boyd Street.
Clarice Lynn to Mr. and Mrs. John Little of 141 N. 34th Street.
Andrew B. Jakway
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Andrew Blair Jakway, 60, who died Thursday, will be held Tuesday at 11 a. m. at the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper st., where friends may call Monday night. Mr. Jakway, who lived at 172 Boyd st., will be buried in Bethel Memorial Park, Pennsauken. Mr. Jakway is survived by his widow, Elizabeth; a daughter, Mrs. Florence Warren, of Margate; his mother, Mrs. Florence Jakway; two brothers, Edward and Stephen, all of Camden, and three grandchildren. Son Andrew B. Jakway Jr. was killed in action November 23, 1943.
Boyd Street & Bank Street
Looking towards the intersection of Boyd Street & Bank Street. Left: February 14, 1951. Right: 2006.
Charles Wexlin at the register at the M&H Sweet Shop; Mary Jane and Ellena Rose Wexlin on the steps at 254 Boyd Street, 1940s–1950s.
My parents operated the M&H Sweet Shop in the Fifties and sold it in 1960. We grew up on 227 Morse Street. We first lived on 254 Boyd Street. That is my father Charles Wexlin pictured at the register in the M&H. The two girls on the step are my sisters Mary Jane and Ellena Rose at 254 Boyd St.
— Leehman Wexlin, December 14, 2010
Camden Man Found Hanged
Camden Courier-Post —
A retired railroadman hanged himself Friday afternoon while his wife and a neighbor were shopping.
Mrs. Emma Mead of 268 Boyd st. returned to her home shortly after 2 p.m. and found her husband, Lester, 66, hanging in the basement. A clothesline around his neck was fastened to two pipes near the ceiling. Police cut down the body and on the way to Cooper Hospital administered artificial respiration and gave forced oxygen. Mead was pronounced dead on arival.
Painting & Paperhanging
Camden Courier-Post —
Paperhanging — Painting, reduced price. Go anywhere. 32 years’ experience. Hoffman, 270 Boyd St. Camden 3099-W.
Bandits Take Car, Use It in Holdup
Camden Courier-Post —
Three masked men, one with a nickel-plated revolver, held up Edward Rosenfeld, wholesale grocer, as he was backing his car into the garage in the rear of his home, 308 Rand street, last night. They took $12 from his pockets, forced him out of his new machine and drove it away.
Rosenfeld told police the bandits had handkerchief-type masks, but appeared youthful, of medium height.
A short time before two men similarly masked, one also brandishing a nickel-plated revolver, approached Sidney Bauman, of 272 Boyd street, a block distant from the Rosenfeld house as he was putting his car into his garage.
“They told me it was a stickup,” Bauman reported to police, “but I gave them an argument and they turned away and beat it. One was wearing a cap and one a hat. It was hard to get an accurate description in the dark, but they seemed youngish and about five feet five or six.”
At 1:00 AM today a car answering the description of the one stolen from Rosenfeld was used by masked men who held up Edward Heaton, 824 Woodland Avenue, a bus driver, as he was turning in his receipts at the Newton avenue car barn of Public Service.
There were four men in the machine, Heaton told police. Two jumped out, each handkerchief masked and with a revolver, and stood on either side of him. He was carrying a tin box, in which were his change carrier and other articles, but no money. He had placed the receipts in his pockets. The men grabbed the tin box and jumped back into the car, which sped away.
At about the same time two Negro men wearing masks, one with a gun, entered a taproom at 673 Ferry Avenue. Philip Knast, the proprietor, was behind the counter and there were four customers in the place. The masked men moved quickly toward Knast and told him “This is a stick-up.”
He dodged behind the bar and escaped into a room in the rear. One of the bandits then went behind the bar and rifled the cash register, getting between $5 and $6, Knast told police. They fled, apparently on foot.
Memory of 274 Boyd Street
I lived at 274 Boyd Street in Camden from sometime in the late 1930s until 1950, when my brother Bernard and I moved to New York City and our father, Jack L. Freedman, moved to Los Angeles. Our mother, Reba, had died in 1945.
Previous to that, we had lived at 243 Morse Street for a short period beginning in 1937.
Both Bernard and I went to Cramer School and Woodrow Wilson High. I graduated from Wilson in June 1941 as valedictorian; my brother five years later.
Bernard now lives in Los Angeles with his wife. They have two daughters and two grandchildren. In 1972 I married Dr. Sheppard Siegal; we separated in 1974 and he died in the ’80s.
Surround House in East Camden and Prevent Escape of Two
Surrounding a vacant house at 331 Boyd Street which two alleged thieves had entered, a group of unemployed men yesterday cut off every avenue of escape until police arrived.
The men, who were found hiding in a second floor closet, police said, gave their names as Barney Runyon, 26, and William Newcomb, 22, both of 2301 Mickle Street.
A telephone call to the home of Patrolman Earl Stopfer, of 226 Boyd Street, by a resident in the vicinity of the vacant house, informed Mrs. Stopfer that two men were in the house. With her husband on desk duty at city hall, Mrs. Stopfer went to the home of Lieutenant Nathan Petit, 320 Boyd Street, but he was out. She then sent a group of unemployed men working on community gardens in the rear of her home to the scene and telephoned police.
The unemployed men were circled about the house when a patrol crew, under Patrolman George Getley arrived. The two men already had dismantled plumbing fixtures, Getley said. They were committed in default of $500 bail each for a hearing in police court this morning.
Death Notice — Brobst
Camden Courier-Post —
Brobst — On June 10, 1967, Franklin L. of 343 Boyd St., Camden, N.J., age 62 years. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services Tuesday evening, 8 p.m. at Epiphany Lutheran Church, 7th and Market Sts., Camden, N.J. Interment at German Protestant Cemetery, Mahanoy City, Pa. Viewing, 7 p.m. in the church, under the direction of B. C. Schroeder & Sons.
Death Notice — Clover
Camden Courier-Post —
Clover — Earl of 245A Boyd St., Camden. Died June 22, 1972. Age 45 years. Survived by one son Bryan, one daughter Lisa, brother Hershall of Detroit, Michigan, grandmother Mrs. Lula Hightower of Lawnside, friend Mrs. Marcia Snyte. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral service on Wednesday 8 p.m. at the Carl Miller Funeral Home, 831 Van Hook St., Camden. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Interment Mt. Peace Cemetery, Lawnside.
Mrs. Agnes H. Waugh, 71, died in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Alice V. Rulis, 420 Boyd street, Wednesday. Coroner Blake issued a certificate giving a heart attack as the cause of death. Born in Riverside, Conn., she was a Camden resident 10 years. She was a member of the Rosary Society of St. Joseph’s R. C. Church, Twenty-ninth street and Westfield avenue.
Also surviving are another daughter, Mrs. Josephine E. Smith, Lynn, Mass.; two sons, Alexander J., Danvers, Mass., and Thomas F., Lynn, Mass.; two brothers, George Swift and Richard E. Swift, both of Brooklyn; 29 grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Waugh was the mother of 13 children, four of whom are living. Requiem high Mass will be celebrated at 9 a. m. Saturday in St. Joseph’s R. C. Church. Relatives and friends will meet at 8 a. m. at the funeral home of Inglesby & Sons, Cove and Wyndam roads, Pennsauken, where friends may call Friday night. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
