CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
S. LEVY COMPANY
Building Contractors
Simon Levy founded his business kin 1911. He was a carpenter who was living in New York with his wife Sarah in 1920 when their first child, Jerome was born. The Levy family returned to Camden shortly afterward, and son Sidney was born in 1924. Simon Levy founded a building and construction business, which was he originally ran from his home. By 1928 he was operating the business out of 1214 Kaighn Avenue.
Simon Levy was very busy in the late 1920s. He built a row of eight houses at 632-646 Van Hook Street late in 1927, completing them just before Christmas. He was involved in three other projects just after New Years Day, 1928, an extension to a store at 528-530 North 3rd Street, a new two story office and apartment building at 410 Kaighn Avenue, and a two story apartment house on South Eight Street near Kaighn Avenue.
In 1930 the family lived at 1248 Magnolia Avenue in Camden NJ. Sometime after 1936 Simon Levy moved his business to 320 Market Street.
The Levy family was struck by tragedy during World War II, when the eldest son, Second Lieutenant Jerome Levy, was killed in action over Germany while serving with the Army Air Force. The family next door were the Auslanders, their son Leonard Auslander was also killed while serving with the Army in Europe.
By the 1950s the business had grown to the point where it relocated once again, this time to 1498 Broadway, at Everett Street in South Camden. Listed in the October 1969 New Jersey bell Telephone Directory, the S. Levy Company was gone from Camden by the fall of 1970. However, as of 2007, the S. Levy Company remains in business, under the leadership of a descendant of Simon Levy, who also bears the name Simon Levy.
Camden Courier-Post - January 9, 1928
Camden Courier-Post January 9, 1928
Camden Courier-Post - October 14, 1936
The S. Levy Co. had just completed alterations on 1111 Haddon Avenue, then the new location of George Schatz's business, George's Auto Service.
Camden Courier-Post - February 2, 1938
When Hague Gets Through With the Law
To the Editor:
Sir-The citizens of Jersey City have got to be grateful to Mr. Hague for relieving the legitimate law makers, and interpreters of such an ,immense burden. Master Hague has condescended to take the law into his own congruity, and so benevolently to take over the law.
When Hague gets through with the written law it is even too good to use for the bedding of figs.
Hague, an advocate if plutocracy, indicates the evils of Communism.
I would be more willing to live under the most Communistic state of affairs than in Hague's Jersey City.
SIDNEY LEVY
1428 Magnolia Street
