A longtime North Scranton beer distributor has closed permanently.<\/p>\n
O.K. Beerman was to close for its last day in business Saturday, Al Trovato, who co-owns the distributor with his wife, Kim, said Friday.<\/p>\n
Its name comes from its location at the corner of Oak Street and Keyser Avenue. The business, originally called OK Beverage, dates to the 1960s, according to Times-Tribune newspaper archives. The Trovatos have co-owned it for 16 years.<\/p>\n
Al Trovato said Friday he and his wife decided to sell the business because they got a good offer on it. Millett Real Estate of Clarks Summit purchased the property in September for $1.3 million,\u00a0according to a deed filed with the county. He does not know what the buyer will do with the property.<\/p>\n
Trovato said they had great customers over the years, some of whom shopped at the distributor for 30 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s sad,\u201d he said. \u201cWe really liked it. Most of them are sad to see us go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trovato said his wife will continue working at MetLife, where she works in addition to co-owning the business, while he takes a year off to figure out how to proceed from a business standpoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime North Scranton beer distributor has closed permanently. O.K. Beerman was to close for its last day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,139,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-102449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}