5/28/2023 0 Comments In Over Her Head by Elsie Russell![]() ![]() Over time, I became fast friends with Bob, his wife Elsie and their children Robert, Joseph and Lisa. Bob’s father Leon Lucas, Donkey himself, had passed by then but his wife Alice was still with us. I was immediately introduced to the iconic Donkey’s cheesesteak by my new neighbor, Bob Lucas. Q: What made you decide to write the Donkey’s Place book? Did you grow up eating the iconic cheesesteaks?Ī: I moved next door to the Lucas family in 1985. That book was created and written jointly with Parker’s grandson, Andrew Sahol. The second is a biography on Parker, a Mount Holly resident, who investigated the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Parker – America’s Sherlock Holmes." The first is a fictional novel based on the real-life Detective Ellis H. ![]() Parker Mystery Story” and “Detective Ellis H. Lloyd has previously written “The Boxer: A Detective Ellis H. Leon earned the nickname ‘Donkey’ because his punch was compared to being kicked by a Donkey…Leon invented a cheesesteak sandwich that is still made today exactly as it has been for the last 79 years in the same building.” ![]() Leon was a boxer who (competed) in the 1928 Olympics. “The iconic business was founded by Leon Lucas in 1943. “This book was written for the Lucas family and the fans of ‘Donkey’s Place’ in Camden, NJ,” the back cover of the book states. ![]()
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