Good to the last drop: Beloved coffee shop owner hangs up her cup after 68-year career

THE JOKE AT Ranch Coffee Shop on Sunday was that owner Dorothy Clare had injured herself in a fall so she was taking “early retirement” — after only 68½ years.  

Clare, 92, slipped and broke a leg last October at The Ranch, the Mariposa Road café and south-side community nucleus she has operated since 1955. She’s on the mend, but still — 1955, okay? Eisenhower years. Campbell’s Soup, 10¢ cents a can. “Rock Around the Clock.”