August 20, 2009
Cheers, Angelo!
After 77 years of pouring beer and tending bar, Angelo Cammarata is quitting.
From the PostGazette here:
Angelo Cammarata, whom the Guinness Book of World Records recognized as the world’s longest-serving bartender, is coming up on last call.
At least at Cammarata’s Cafe, the West View watering hole where he’s been pouring for most of his 77 years of tending bar.
“Camm,” as people call him, started serving beer at his father’s North Side grocery the moment Prohibition ended at midnight on April 7, 1933. The memory is as clear to him as the strike of the library clock that signaled it was time to start opening bottles of Fort Pitt.
Way to go Angelo. You’ve undoubtedly made a lot of Joes very happy over the years.