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 […]
Angelo Speranza
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News Briefs 7.17.02
Those who frequent the Water Street Music Hall know to make a beeline for the long bar’s left side for the coldest beer, swift service, and a slice of local history. There, beneath the neon and Rattlesnake Pete’s gaze, stands Chops, Rochester’s notoriously sharp-witted, longest-running bartender. “Chops is an institution,” says Water Street owner John […]
