Rochester institution and at one-time, the city’s longest running bartender Angelo “Chops” Speranza has died. Speranza, a veteran of D-Day, was also a veteran of the live music scene where shows at the Water Street Music Hall — when it was known as the Country Warehouse and later as the Horizontal Boogie Bar — went well with a cocktail or a beer from Chops.
Click here to see what I had to say about Chops back in 2002 when, thanks to Chops, I wasn’t the oldest cat in the room. RIP, pal.
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2015.
An institution, indeed. 20 years later, we still head straight to the far left end of the bar. RIP Chopsie.
Thank you Frank !! Chop’s was an institution , you went to that left corner , for him alone . IHS 86′