Cosmo keeps on cutting after 52 years as East Side barber

Cosmo keeps on cutting after 52 years as East Side barber

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Cosmo Pecchia, 73, still works in the house he grew up in.

The longtime barber has groomed the heads of generations of Valley residents and recently celebrated 52 years cutting hair in the same location.

Homey features such as well-worn chairs, where customers wait for a haircut or sit and talk after getting a trim, fill Cosmo’s Barbershop.

Pecchia can often be found between haircuts tending the garden located behind his shop where he grows lettuce, onions and garlic.

Read the full story, complete with several photographs, Monday in The Vindicator.