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Buy a Beer from the World's Oldest Bartender Before He Retires

Where: 1511 Centre Avenue [map], Pittsburgh, PA, United States, 15229
August 29, 2009 at 2:24 PM | by Victor Ozols | 0 Comments

All good things must come to an end, and such is the case with the bartending career of Angelo Cammarata. At 95 years young, he's the world's oldest bartender, but he plans to finally throw in the bar towel some time in the next couple of weeks. As an interesting AP story points out, Cammarata served his first drink - a bottle of Fort Pitt beer - at his father's grocery store just moments after Prohibition was repealed in 1933. He's been slinging the sauce ever since and only rarely indulges in alcohol himself, one of those secrets to a long life that we'd rather not hear on a Saturday.

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