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In the middle of the night a drink calls to you. Or else you just finished having the longest day of your life at work. Or you just got paid, and it's Friday night. Perhaps you have just gotten stood up. Or maybe you decide to meet the girls before the club. Or to meet the guys after the game. Or to just spend that twenty bucks being around other people.Los Angeles area: a few years at El Gordo’s restaurant; on to Patrick’s (now Spike’s); then McGwire’s. All before where he is now, and has been for the past eleven years, at Al’s, in San Gabriel.
With so much experience comes the hallmark of a great bartender: Tim seems to know what drink fits a certain mood, meanwhile doing it all with hands that move with no wasted effort. The bar is taken care of. After serving a million Jack and Cokes over the years, Tim’s job is endlessly rich and interesting. “Each day different,” he says with a smile. WISDOM
A Good Drink when You’re Feeling like Crap: Beer with a shot of Wild Turkey
Personal Favorite: Vodka Grapefruit (salty, w/Smirnoff Silver)
Bud light or Miller Light
Jack or Beam
A Good Drinking Song: Doors – Whiskey Bar
A Bad Drinking Song: Anything by Backstreet Boys
BAR STORY:
About the night twenty guys threw blows and overturned tables after somebody gave a wrong answer
A Good Drink for those Who Don’t Drink: Vodka/Cranberry
Pompadour or Flat-top
A Good Snack: Roasted peanuts
Sinatra or Dean
Best Wine while on a Date: Chardonnay
Best Car: ’72 Ferrari (red)
Best Boxer: Ali
Basketball: Kobe
Best thing to shoot: Jagermeister
Group: Black Sabbath
Actor: Gregory Peck
Movie: 12 o’ Clock High
Best tip: $100 from a customer he didn’t serve
BAR STORY:
About the night a guy walked out into the parking lot with a smile and what he thought was a girl
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It isn’t strange to walk into a bar on your way to or from somewhere. You sit down and ask for a drink, and if you’re lucky, it’s poured by Tim, a local boy raised in Altadena. Tim began bartending in June of 1971, at a restaurant in Pasadena that used to be called Torino’s but is now called Robin’s. After that he served drinks for seventeen years at the famous Northwoods Inn. It was after his time at Northwoods at he made the decision to go and work on the Big Island of Hawaii. Tanned, he returned to California and went to work at fine establishments in and around the
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