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‘Right Place …
RIGHT TIME’
R.S. Stern began in 1870 when
22-year-old Robert Samuel
Stern opened a meat stall in
Baltimore’s Lexington Market.
As the Port of Baltimore
grew in those post-Civil War
years, Stern began supplying
ship captains with meat and
vegetables. In 1929, Stern’s
sons opened a warehouse on
Conway Street, near what is
now the infield at Oriole Park
at Camden Yards. Lou Crystal,
Alan Kotz’s grandfather,
owned a slaughterhouse and
knew the Sterns. In 1966, he
purchased the company from
them, and Kotz came on board
after graduating from Indiana
University in 1972.
“I majored in business, but
they didn’t teach me a lot about
ships out there in Indiana,” he
said with a laugh.
Kotz learned quickly,
explaining, “Anybody can
supply apples and oranges,
but it’s the way you do it — it’s
being at the right place at the
right time, knowing the docks
— that’s what makes a real
ship supplier.”
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