Drink Update » angelo cammarata http://drinkupdate.com Everything Cool in the World of Booze Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:47:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 World’s Oldest Bartender, 95, is Retiring in Pa. http://drinkupdate.com/archives/406 http://drinkupdate.com/archives/406#comments Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:46:39 +0000 Ben http://drinkupdate.com/archives/406

WEST VIEW, Pa. — Only minutes after Prohibition died in 1933, Angelo Cammarata, 19, served a 10-cent bottle of Fort Pitt beer to a customer in his father’s neighborhood grocery.

Ever since, except for a 30-month hitch during World War II, the son of Italian immigrants has been tending bar and serving drinks. Guinness World Records dubbed him the longest-serving bartender a decade ago, and he’s earned induction into Jim Beam’s Bartender Hall of Fame and numerous other honors.

Now 95, he’s calling it quits.

via the AP http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iVcWJR1bFTRvp7n_S8_eGIjiDJjwD9AC1HU00

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