As the United States said farewell to Prohibition in 1933, a 19-year-old Pennsylvanian called Angelo Cammarata served a 10 cent bottle of beer to a customer at his father’s grocery store. Fast forward to 2009 and that boy is now a 95 year old man who is just about to hang up his bar blade on a career behind the bar that has spanned eight decades. 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 honours. Most of his time behind the bar has been spent at Cammarata’s Café in West View Pennsylvania where he has presided over births, deaths, weddings and just everyday customers for more than 70 years.

This classic two-room bar screams old America with its wood-panelled walls, nicotine stains, laminated bars, a juke box and a pool table. No mojitos here - locals enjoy it’s beers, shots, burgers and buffalo wings. He has worked there with his two sons and only decided to sell up because his son John, 59, recently had a heart attack. Last drinks will be called in a couple of weeks pending the transfer of the license to the new owners.

[Photo: Associated Press]