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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."
Earl Stopfer, born on March 29, 1899, in Philadelphia, PA, initially lived with his grandmother, Elaine Basert, in 1910.
27th Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to Marlton Avenue. Originally called Fulton Street before the 1899 annexation of Stockton Township, it was one of the main thoroughfares of the neighborhood and home to football star Mike Rozier.
Patrolman George F. Jefferis , 54, veteran motorcycle officer, of 114 Terrace Avenue , died Wednesday in Cooper Hospital , where he was under treatment for injuries suffered last week in a collision of his cycle and an automobile.
Camden Courier-post - February 11, 1936 Four men were arrested amid revolver shots after a Camden policeman was knocked down by a police car during a raid yesterday afternoon.
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.
Camden Courier-Post - June 5, 1933 Byron P. Cobb , 62, the "Sun Doctor," was kidnapped by three men early yesterday, beaten and robbed of $4700 before, being tossed from a moving automobile in Farnham Park.