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Baru icarrar.+st-.) 1 With respect to 724 Main during this period, Lawrence Mossoni brought in his wife's brother, Peter Zarina, to have a barber shop in the building starting in 1920. Peter Zarina (1896-1992) grew up at 824 La Farge and stated in a 1988 oral history interview (available for listening online through Boulder's Carnegie Branch Library for Local History) that he started working towards being a barber while he was still in high school. His barber shop at 724 Main was called "Pete's Place." He stated that there was a door through to the pool hall next door at 728 Main, so that he got business from "all the gamblers" as well as from "all the athletes." He also cut women's hair and stated in the oral history interview that he cut the hair of all nineteen teachers in Louisville at the time. Pete Zarina stopped being a barber in this location in about 1928. Next, barber Bob Woody started Woody's Barber Shop, at 724 Main in about 1928. His business continued to 1962, a period of thirty-four years. Bob Woody was from Georgia and attended barber college in Denver. By 1917, he was in Louisville, where he married a local girl, Helen Sirokman that year. In Woody's Barber Shop, there were two barber chairs, both located on the right side as one walked in. Bob Woody's clientele included miners and, starting in the 1950s, men who worked at Rocky Flats. Woody gave both haircuts and shaves. A shower in the back was sometimes used by miners. By the time he retired in 1962, he was cutting the hair of third and fourth generation customers. It is remembered that the shop was a local gathering place for men where a number of people got elected to public office. The other barber shop operated during this period was Tesone's. Fiori Tesone and Bob Woody, the only barbers in town, would regularly give haircuts to each other, though they were business competitors. Records show that Lawrence J. Mossoni took over the business at 728 Main from Roy Austin in the period of 1933-1935. It is believed that it was by then that the facades of the buildings were changed to the current facades. However, as no photos showing the buildings in the 1920s could be located, it is possible that the facades were changed as early as the 1920s. Until more photos and relevant information can be found, the estimate for the current facades is circa 1920-1935. It was also in 1933-1935 that Lawrence J. Mossoni started the Twin Light Tavern at 728 Main. This development may have come about due to the end of Prohibition and the apparent fact that alcohol could now be sold on Main Street, not just on Front Street. The last listing for Roy Austin's operation of 10