After decades of stitching, hemming, and altering 바카라 게임 웹사이트� Custom tailor Frank Stavale, 93, is retiring his needle and thread.If you바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve ever walked down East Court Street in downtown Cincinnati, you바카라 게임 웹사이트�ve likely passed the quaint shop where he바카라 게임 웹사이트�s quietly and meticulously crafted garments for some of Cincinnati's most prominent community members including Carl Lindner Jr., Harry Garrison and numerous CEO's, doctors, lawyers and judges since 1972."To my loyal customers, I will be retiring on March 1st, after 53 years of tailoring on Court Street," a sign on the glass door of 25 East Court Street reads. "I want to thank you all for placing your trust in me, it has been my sincerest pleasure serving you."Stavale has lived more than nine decades, still, the Singer model 31-15 sewing machine he바카라 게임 웹사이트�s used virtually his entire career is even older, it was built in 1910. Piles of cloth and an empty mannequin lined the front of a business that was woven into the fabric of the community for decades."I want to say thank you to all of my customers," Stavale said, as he reflected on his 75-year career in tailoring. He was born Francesco Stavale in 1931 바카라 게임 웹사이트� In a small coastal village in Southern Italy called Fuscaldo. His father Nicola was a cobbler who doubled as the town's police chief, his mother Teresa cared for eight children.Between 1880 and 1940, thousands of young stone masons, cabinet makers and tailors left the town in search of opportunity, many settling in the Queen City. An estimated 13.5 million Italians immigrated to the United States during that period."We knew Cincinnati better than New York or Los Angeles," Stavale said. "Because the people came here."Stavale began his apprenticeship to become a tailor when he was about 13 years old. By 1950, he crossed the Atlantic by boat in search of work and opportunity.A 20-year-old Stavale first landed in South America, where he would spend the next seven years working as a tailor in São Paulo, Brazil 바카라 게임 웹사이트� but his sights were always set on the United States."I couldn't come here because the quotas," Stavale said. After a massive wave of immigration from Europe near the turn of the 20th century, the U.S. Immigration Act of 1924 limited the number of immigrants entering the U.S. by nationality. On Christmas Day in 1957, Stavale's dream finally came true. He embarked on the S.S. Argentina from Rio de Janeiro to New York City before eventually settling in Cincinnati. Over the next 15 years, Stavale would work in several tailor shops across Cincinnati. In 1967, Stavale traveled back to Italy where he met a young Maria Perrotta, and they later married. The couple spent 48 years together until Maria lost a 16-year battle with kidney disease and passed away in 2016. They have three sons: Nicolino, Giuseppe "Joe" and Franco. Their son Joe served in the U.S. Marine Corp for 31 years before retiring as a Lt. Colonel, Franco works in the medical technology field. In 1972, a tailor retiring at a small shop downtown offered to sell, and Stavale accepted, sewing an inseam along Court Street that lasted more than five decades. "He fulfilled his dream by coming to America by working hard," said Nicolino Stavale, a long-time Cincinnati police officer who knows Frank simply as "Papa.""Dad has an excellent skill that he learned, and he was able to make use of it and prosper from it," the younger Stavale said. Stavale said he's proud of what he has accomplished and even though he's retiring, he might just still do a few hems and alterations with all the spare time he'll have in retirement.