(Adnkronos) - Ottantotto anni, di cui quasi 65 a bordo del suo taxi. Giuseppe Finamore, il tassista più vecchio di Roma, racconta all'Adnkronos una vita passata sul suo "tassì" tra la città che cambia e passeggeri eccellenti, da Sordi a Draghi. (Qui l'articolo completo)
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00:00First of all, I would like to say hello to the whole category, all the taxi drivers.
00:13I am 59 years old. I am almost 65 years old.
00:21Let's say I am of Molisano origin. I came to Rome in the late 48s.
00:28At the time, there was talk of the Campidoglio patent.
00:35I got this patent because I wanted to be a taxi driver.
00:39But I worked as an employee for almost 23 years.
00:45At that time, if you worked as a taxi driver,
00:49you took 200 lire a day and 30% on the deposit.
00:55I brought from the first to the last actor.
00:58From Albertone to Alberto Sordini.
01:01I brought everyone, from Gasma to Lobrigida.
01:06I brought everyone.
01:08This is the Parisian Cafe that I used to say.
01:10You see, it's closed.
01:12It was a good time.
01:14Because then you started to see a little movement,
01:19a little more money,
01:21and it turned a little more here than there.
01:24I am in the district of Piazza Enrico Fermi.
01:29The first taxi I parked there was this 1875.
01:35To drive, thanking God,
01:39still the health that accompanies me.
01:41I am 88 years old and I have remained the oldest.
01:46Now I should give up this license.
01:49I also brought the former president of the council,
01:54Mario Gratico, the lady.
01:57I brought from Barioli to Quirinale.
02:00I also brought Renzi more than once,
02:03but it happened.
02:05I brought a lot of characters.
02:07The best, in my opinion,
02:10then died in the municipality of Rome,
02:13was Pietroselli.
02:15We started to get some preferential training,
02:20some things, a little bit of ease of the category.
02:24Some friends were called by nicknames.
02:29Then there was the friend of the cellar,
02:32the pomata, because he was a gentleman,
02:36limped, always with hair,
02:39with the headband attached.
02:43He died of sleep, because he went,
02:46the client was this,
02:48and he was going to work,
02:50he had to go.
02:52They called me Peppinello and Roscetto.
02:56The oldest taxi driver,
02:58I give a greeting to the whole category.