103-year-old WWII veteran still tends same Maryland bar after 63 years

At 103, Irvin E Koch has spent more than six decades serving drinks from the basement of his own home in Pasadena, Maryland. The World War II veteran has been behind the bar since 1963, and even now, there is no fixed time for the working day to begin.“The hours are very simple,” Koch, widely known as Irv, told The Washington Post. “When the first one gets here, that’s when it opens up,” he said. Closing time is just as flexible. The bar shuts when the customers leave or when Irv gets tired.The place is officially called Club Sunset Knoll, but it is better known as Irv’s Basement Bar. Located inside the waterfront house that Irv bought in 1963, the cash-only tavern has changed little over the decades.