Always make friends with your bartenders

Ive always said “make friends with your bartender, no matter what”. Meet Bob, the 83 year old bartender at the oldest bar in Fullerton. I went into the bar for the second time in my life to find maybe one or two other people minding their own business, made my way to the bar was greeted by what seemed like a very subdued slow old gentleman who didn’t seem to want to talk or be a part of much of anything at first. All that changed as soon as I ordered my whiskey and started asking him questions about life, alcohol , the town my grandparents, parents , and partially I grew up in. He proceeded to tell me about his time as a GI stationed in London, bartending at famous Hollywood bars with A list celebrity’s, when he worked at the the now demolished Sands casino in Vegas way back in 1960 while they filmed the original oceans 11 and he served and hung out with all the stars, how he uses “Uver” every night because he can’t see enough to drive at night any more, all the way to bartending here the last 20 years. We need more people like Bob. Cheers to you Bob , and cheers to everyone else

@ the Continental Room in Fullerton CA