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Article: Last call, finally, for bartender. He's 95.(Front)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 29, 2009
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By Dan Nephin
The Associated Press
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.
Known as "Camm" or "Ang," he's presided over Cammarata's Cafe through births, ...