
Italy’s oldest barista, who has served coffee since WWII, turns 101
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Italy’s oldest barista, who has served coffee since WWII, turns 101
In a small town in northern Italy, there’s a barista who has been brewing espressos and serving coffees for more than 80 years. She’s still going strong as she turns 101 this weekend, with no intention of retiring. John Yang reports.
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Italy’s oldest barista, who has served coffee since WWII, turns 101
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In a small town in northern Italy, there’s a barista who has been brewing espressos and serving coffees for more than 80 years. She’s still going strong as she turns 101 this weekend, with no intention of retiring. John Yang reports.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipohn: Finally tonight, Italy's oldest barista.
From 7:00 in the morning until 7:00 in the evening, Anna possi does what she's been doing for more than 80 years brewing espressos and serving coffees.
>> I have customers who are now grandparents and come in with their grandchildren saying Anna, do you remember when there was a dance floor outside, when there was a jukebox and pinball machines?
Those were different times.
Now they are only memories.
John: She first did this sort of job at the end of World War II when she went to work in her uncles' restaurants.
In 1958, possi and her husband opened bar centrale in the small town of nebbiuno on the shores of lake maggiore in northern Italy.
Since her husband died in 1974, she's been on her own.
>> It's a bit like a family here, you know, it doesn't feel like a bar to me it feels like a meeting place.
People come in, some come to run an errand, others come and ask me, do me a favor, could you get your daughter who works in the town hall to bring me my identity card?
Sure.
I'll come and get it tomorrow.
Then there's the other one who says please, if you see the doctor, get me a referral, I'll leave you the prescription.
All right.
I'm always available for everyone.
John: Possi plans to remain available.
She has no intention of retiring.
She's among the growing number of Italians who are centenarians - - the vast majority of them women.
Today is possi's 101st birthday.
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