Aug 19, 2009 6:55 pm US/Eastern
KD Country: Last Call For Cammarata's Cafe
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ―
Cammarata's Cafe is a place where everyone really does know your name. But the most famous name is Angelo.
Angelo Cammarata has asked been working at the café for 77 years. The 95-year-old bartender served his first drink at his father's North Side grocery on April 7, 1933, the day prohibition of beer sales came to an end.
"About 10 minutes to 12, a beer truck pulled up in front of the curb on our street, pulled up alongside our sidewalk, had 500 cases of beer on there," Cammarata said.
He has been a familiar face behind the bar on Federal Steet, later West View, ever since.
On Saint Patrick's Day, they serve Guinness, which is appropriate since Angelo has a special page in the Guinness book of world records.
He adds to the record every day he works.
Bartender duties are shared by this son John and John's brother Frank, but not for much longer. Cammarata's cafe is being sold. But friendships will linger.
He watched me grow up. He watched me get in my trouble in my youth and get out of it," John Cannizzaro said.
"I'm going to miss them all, but they're local. I can call them. I have their phone numbers," Scharie Arbogast said.
Each customer, each friend is a link in a chain that will soon be broken. Will that world record also be broken some day?
"Anyone who wants to break my record, I'm in my 77th year and I don't think there's another crazy person in this world that would try that," Angelo Cammarata said.
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