I really like this image from Associated Press photographer Ross Mantle of Angelo Cammarata, who is retiring after a bartending career that began in 1933. It conveys the cool and dark of a neighbourhood US bar, the sort of place that urban planning did away with in Canada for the most part over the last few decades replacing them with faux Irish places or roadhouses at strip malls.
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Brian Robertson - August 29, 2009 9:55 PM
This is always great to see that places like this still exist with people like Angelo. I hope that stay around.
Ray - September 14, 2009 11:50 PM
I attended "Last Call" at Cammarata's. A great time but of course bittersweet. My dad went there, and I was a patron for 20 years. Angelo and sons are good people who ran a nice bar and kept it respectable. I always felt welcome.
I guess all good things must come to an end.