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Robert Hartmann (1876–1967), son of cigar manufacturer Frank J. Hartmann Sr., grew up in Camden's labor movement and was elected the first president of the Camden County Central Labor Union when it was formed in 1908. The 1920 Census found him and his family at 16 North 23rd Street in East Camden.
Boyd Street runs through East Camden parallel to Marlton Avenue, from Carman Street to the Pennsauken city limits. Originally named Pfeiffer Street before 1924, it gained notoriety in the late 1980s and 1990s as part of the open-air drug market known as "the Alley."
Leehman Wexlin recalls his family's time at 254 Boyd Street, including his father Charles at the M&H Sweet Shop register and his sisters Mary Jane and Ellena Rose on the front steps in the 1940s–1950s.
Adele Freedman Siegal recalls living at 274 Boyd Street from the late 1930s to 1950, attending Cramer School and Woodrow Wilson High School, where she graduated as valedictorian in June 1941.
Berwick Street is in East Camden, running through the 2000 and 2100 blocks between Rand Street and Marlton Pike; the street was extended to South 20th Street after the McGuire Gardens housing project was built in 1954.
Bank Street runs from Baird Boulevard and Carman Street southwest, crossing Marlton Pike, to Admiral Wilson Boulevard. Once the center of a notorious open-air drug market in the 1980s–90s, the street was redeveloped as part of the Peter J. McGuire Gardens housing project in the early 2000s.
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
2nd Street extends north-south between Front Street and 3rd Street, running parallel to the Delaware River until Mechanic Street. In the early 1970s, several buildings were cleared on the east side of North 2nd Street below Mickle Street to make way for the Royal Court townhomes and Mickle Tower senior citizens apartment building.
Death notice for Earl Clover, 45, of 345A Boyd Street, who died June 22, 1972; services at the Carl Miller Funeral Home with interment at Mt. Peace Cemetery, Lawnside.
Birth notices from the Camden Courier-Post, November 9, 1967, including Deborah Dee Lavender born to David and Mrs. Lavender of 128 Boyd Street.
Death notice for Franklin L. Brobst, 62, of 343 Boyd Street, who died June 10, 1967; services at Epiphany Lutheran Church with interment at German Protestant Cemetery, Mahanoy City.
Lester Mead, 66, a retired railroadman of 268 Boyd Street, hanged himself in the basement while his wife was out shopping; he was pronounced dead at Cooper Hospital.
Obituary for Andrew Blair Jakway, 60, of 172 Boyd Street, who died Thursday; services at the Murray Funeral Home with burial at Bethel Memorial Park, Pennsauken.
Mrs. Agnes H. Waugh, 71, died at the home of her daughter at 420 Boyd Street; she was a Camden resident for 10 years and mother of 13 children, with Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's R. C. Church.
Three masked men robbed a grocer on Rand Street, then attempted a second holdup at 272 Boyd Street; the stolen car was used in further holdups the same night at Woodland Avenue and Ferry Avenue.
Classified ad from 270 Boyd Street: Hoffman offers painting and paperhanging at reduced prices, with 32 years of experience.
Irvin Lederman, 37, a city fireman at 35 Boyd Street and member of Hose and Chemical Co. No. 2, died Wednesday night; his funeral was held Monday with burial at Bethel Cemetery.
Unemployed men working in community gardens surrounded a vacant house at 331 Boyd Street where two alleged thieves were hiding, keeping them trapped until police arrived to arrest them.
Victim Near Home When Accident Occurs; Driver Held John A. Ashton, 36, a salesman, of 316 Boyd Street , was injured fatally last night when his automobile and a Public Service bus collided 100 feet from his home.