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After 52 years of cutting hair in Medford Square, John Giglio, 71, is retiring.
Giglio’s seen hair styles change, changes in the city and customers get older and bring in their own kids for haircuts.
“You get to know a lot of people and families in this business,” he said. “It’s a great business. You build relationships with people.”
“You’d be hard pressed to find anyone who’ll say anything bad about John,” said his colleague Steve DeBenedictis. “He’s walking away from friends as well as customers.”
When Giglio started out, it wasn’t a great time to be a barber, given the unkempt long hair many men wear sporting at the time in the hippie era. In the late 1970s disco years, men’s hair was still long, but customers wanted styling. That gave way to the cropped new wave style of the 1980s and the hip-hop style of the 1990s and 2000s when many customers wanted designs shaved into their even shorter h ....

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