Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

I don't think it was foolish. I've had a niee life and met
wonderful people. It's one of the greatest privilege people
have in meeting nice people. You all remember the people
that ain't nice, but if you look around you know a thousand
niee people to every bad one you know. So look at the nice
ones and just forget about the bad ones.
Harvey: O.K. . . . let me try a long shot on you: do you
remember a co-op down on 28th street - Heath, Robey & Martin
co-op. , .
Lewis: Yes, Frank Robey and Heath and Martin; they worked
in the mill together: and they opened that store as a co-op
dawn there.
Harvey: About when was that, do you know?
Lewis: I would say that was about 1920; in the era from 1919
to '22, something like that* They run it: Will Martin,
Frank Robey, and the other fellow I didn't know too well.
I didn't know Heath very well,
Harvey: Is this the same Robey that . . ,
~ewis: Frank Robey that was your Clerk of the Common Court
Pleas, Court of Common Pleas, was the man that was in on it,
yes, same man. When they closed up down there, Frank opened
the store there at 40th Street and Falls Road. Right now its
a barber shop in there. And then Frank ran it and he had
a fellow came out there worked for him. 1'11 tell you his
name in a minute . . .from Eastern Shore. He worked there
as a butcher, and when Frank opened a laundry on Hickory
avenue and had got into politics, this boy took it over.