A cautionary, evolutionary tale of two barbers—Justin Lovato and Jake Bricks—and the retro barbershop scene

PHOTO by JEFFREY R. GOULD
It will be a month on Monday since Justin Lovato—barber and character at Hawleywood’s Barbershop—collapsed and died at 33, and no matter how loudly Bo Diddley lays down the big beat, a hush falls between songs.
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Friends and family remember the late Hawleywood’s barber
Justin Lovato’s red Naugahyde barber’s chair at Hawleywood’s Barber Shop on Fourth Street is hung with his smocks and shirts. His station is decorated with cards and flowers. And the French door into Hawleywood’s is papered from the inside with photographs of Lovato taken in happier times.
But Lovato [...]