For generations, people around Montgomery County, Maryland, have been getting their haircuts at the Walnut Hill Barber Shop in Gaithersburg.

On Saturday, clients headed to the Walnut Hill Shopping Center to get one last haircut — and one last hug — before the nearly 60-year-old barbershop turned the lights off for the last time.

WTOP was on the scene as people like longtime Magruder High School basketball coach Dan Harwood stopped by to give his thanks.

Harwood said he has been getting his hair cut at this barbershop for 38 years, only pausing during the pandemic when he had to cut his own hair at home.

“When I first started coming here, my older son — who’s now 39 — was one,” said Harwood. “I brought him here for his first haircut.”

Another customer who stopped by was Frank Jenkins.

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