Editorâs note: Bob Campagna was on staff at this newspaper in the 1980s. Heâs returned to his hometown and has shared this (and itâs hoped future) contributions to the Sun.
On First Street West at 122 (and ½), adjacent to historic Baumanâs, the mesh of Mount Vernonâs tonsorial history intertwines.
For years, until the early 1980s, stoic barber Art Kudart plied the hair-cutting trade in his South Side Barber Shop.
âHe cut an excellent butch and sideburns,â said long-ago customer Fred Lehman of Mount Vernon. In the olden days, Kudart was one of eight barbers in town.