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"Q- Where was the first home you remembered? "A- The first home that I can remember was at 12th, that I really remember, was on 12th and Penn streets in Camden. "Q- How old were you then? "A - I don't know, 3 or 4 years old.
Roy R. Stewart was born in Quakake, PA, a small mining town, in 1887. During his youth, he worked as a breaker boy in the mines.
The Grand Theater was located at 207 Broadway , just south of Mickle Street and adjacent to one-time Camden Mayor Roy R. Stewart 's men's wear store. The 1911 Camden City Directory shows Abram Greenberg operating a theater at this address.
Mickle Street, also known as Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a major east-west road in Camden, named for John W. Mickle, a Federal Street Ferry organizer with a large stake in the Camden and Amboy Railroad.
Camden Morning Post, October 13, 1933: Mayor Roy R. Stewart aided in capturing a 17-year-old burglar who broke into the Grand Theatre, next door to his home.
Stanley Company of America theater advertisements from the Camden Courier-Post of January 24, 1928, for the Stanley at Broadway and Market, the Towers at Broadway and Pine, and the Grand at Broadway and Mickle.