Ira Vendig Celebrates His 103rd New Year's Eve

This native New Yorker still plays a mean hand of bridge.

NewsObserverLogoLooking back on some of the regional newspaper reporting of 2015, without a doubt a favorite FishbowlNY item remains the one carried in late June by Berkshire Hathaway’s News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C.

The piece by Jim Wise was all about Ira Vendig, a native New Yorker who at age 103 remains an avid and skilled bridge player. Here’s how Vendig’s professional life began:

Vendig got his start in stocks at age 17, going to work as a runner for a Wall Street firm, carrying papers around the financial district
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