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For the longtime Van’s employee, bartending is the only job he’s ever known.

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The eponymous East Village dive famously has only one employee—she’s tended bar there for nearly three decades.

The head bartender at Los Angeles’ iconic Musso & Frank has been serving cocktails for more than 30 years.

The Campbell’s bartender is the calm eye in a hurricane of Grand Central commuters.

The beloved Miller’s Pub bartender on what’s kept him there for 24 years.

The Hank’s Saloon bartender has been there since before it was called Hank’s.

Having worked the iconic Round Robin Bar for six administrations, the longtime barman knows when to step back and listen.

If Smith & Wollensky’s longtime barman doesn’t know your name, “you came from someplace else.”

The iconic Melody Lanes bartender on bartending’s “mathematical signature” and what he’s learned from 30 years behind the bar.

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