Tag: Leon E. Todd Sr.
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Neigh, Nay
It’s All In The Game, by A. Charles Corotis Venus. Paris was the judge and Helen of Troy the pawn. Result: the Trojan War. Somebody always gets hurt. This is all by way of explaining that when I accepted Sam Walker’s invitation to a party at Monmouth Park I was motivated solely by a desire…
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Get Thee Behind Me
It’s All In The Game, by A. Charles Corotis They swooped down on me with the horn of Ray Prideaux’s new Cadillac calling enticingly, alluringly, like the siren-song of Homer’s sea-nymphs. “Come and join us this sunny weekend in Atlantic City,” the fluted notes seemed to say. Realtor leaders from upstate, they were on their…
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Centennial Mirror 1828-1928
Centennial Mirror of the City of Camden, NJ Published in the interest of a growing city, nineteen twenty-eight. THE City Commissioners of Camden extend their Greetings to all citizens of the City, State and Nation who may visualize the Camden of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, through this volume which is dedicated to the Cause of…
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Real Estate Safeguard to Purchasers Board Proves Property Here
The Camden County Real Estate Board is an organization composed or Realtors operating in and around Camden County. Organized March 8, 1916, it was incorporated May 10, 1916, with eight charter members. Its growth has been rapid and continuing until today it numbers 100 active members, 3 junior members and 70 associates. In its short…
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Leon Todd from South Jersey: A History 1624 – 1924
LEON EDGAR TODD–Substantial reasons for Camden’s continuous growth and advancement in recent years, are furnished in the development of the real estate plans of Leon E. Todd, one of the city’s most prominent realtors and builders in South Jersey, whose extensive general brokerage business and building interests have aroused State-wide attention. A native of Camden,…
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Medford Lakes Country Club
In the late 1920s, Medford Lakes was a vacation community in the New Jersey pines, some 18 miles southeast of Camden. One of its prominent citizens, Leon Todd, believed that a golf course was needed in order to provide residents and summer visitors with a complete range of recreational and sporting opportunities. In 1929 the…
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Leon E. Todd, Sr.
Leon Edgar Todd Sr. was born in Camden NJ on November 22, 1893. He operated his real estate agency for many years in Camden at 2623 Westfield Avenue, a building designed by the Camden architectural firm of Lackey & Hettel. Besides handling real estate transactions between buyers and sellers, Leon Todd developed several neighborhoods. One…
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East Camden
Originally a part of Stockton Township, the area that is now known as East Camden was merged into Camden proper in 1899 along with the neighborhood now known as Cramer Hill. It included the villages of Wrightsville, Stockton, and Rosedale, which lay along Federal Street. The area was served by the Pavonia Railroad Station, located…
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Hotel Walt Whitman
The Walt Whitman Hotel was a venture championed by the Greater Camden Movement, a coalition of business and civic leaders that began to coalesce shortly before and during World War I. They had proven highly effective in raising county-wide funds to support the American war effort. Post-war, their ambitious vision to invigorate economic recovery and…
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Cowgill Sues Leon E. Todd for Corotis Libel Fund
Camden Courier-Post – December 22, 1957 Charges Plan to Thwart Payment State Sen. Cowgill filed a cross claim in Superior Court today seeking to collect from Leon E. Todd the full amount of a $98,000 libel judgment returned in April against Abraham C. Corotis. Cowgill’s suit charges he has been unable to collect the amount…
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Open for Inspection
Camden Courier-Post – July 5, 1941 Sunday 2 to 5 185 Carlisle Rd., Audubon This ideal 6 rm. and bath bungalow, oil heat, garage can be purchased for………..$4500 Easily Financed Leon E. Todd, Inc 2623 Westfield, Camden 8400
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Realtor Golf Meet Opens Next Thursday
Camden Courier-Post – July 4, 1941 The Camden County Real Estate Board’s annual golf tournament for the Leon E. Todd trophy will start next Tuesday, Walter Miller, chairman, announced yesterday. Competition will be on a handicap basis, Miller said. Applications must be in before play begins, he added.
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Planning Camden ‘Own Your Own Home’ Show
Camden Courier-Post – August 10, 1936 Seated, left to right: Leon E. Todd, general chairman of the show committee, past president of the Camden County Real Estate Board, which is sponsoring the effort, and past president of the New Jersey Association of Real Estate Boards, and George B. Underwood, assistant state director of the Federal…
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Realty Men Oppose County Park Loans
Camden Courier-Post – August 9, 1933 Resolution Denounces Borrowing of Funds for Projects Not Self-liquidating One of two resolutions adopted yesterday afternoon by the Taxation Committee of the Camden County Real Estate Board opposes the borrowing by Camden county or city of any funds for projects that are not self-liquidating. The resolutions were acted upon…
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Leon E. Todd Dinner Planned by Realtors
Camden Courier-Post – August 8, 1933 Leon E. Todd, Camden and Medford realtor, newly elected vice president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, will be honored at a testimonial dinner to be given here September 15, it was revealed last night. Edward J. Borden, president of the New Jersey Real Estate Commission, will…