How Has Camm's Bar Survived Since the End of Prohibition?

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..."Camm," as people call him, started serving beer at his father's North Side grocery the moment Prohibition ended at midnight on April 7, 1933. The memory is as clear to him as the strike of the library clock that signaled it was time to start opening bottles of Fort Pitt...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09232/991889-389.stm#ixzz0RVuLh2OF

I liked the one comment made by a reporter on CBS: That's 77 years of second-hand smoke.
 
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I saw that story too...so great! And he quit to take care of his wife...to whom he has been married for 71 years!
 
lisab said:
I saw that story too...so great! And he quit to take care of his wife...to whom he has been married for 71 years!

I liked the way they put it too: Seventy-one years of marriage trumps a seventy-seven year career.
 
Ivan Seeking said:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09232/991889-389.stm#ixzz0RVuLh2OF

I liked the one comment made by a reporter on CBS: That's 77 years of second-hand smoke.

Talking about smoke, can you imagine what the air was like in Pittsburgh 77 years ago?
 
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