Longtime Mall Barbers Move To New Shop

The barbershop located in the Cape Cod Mall for the past 42 years is no more. The barbers, Dick Souza, Rick Kopala, and Matt Kundel, have not closed up shop, but rather moved to a new location down the street in Hyannis.

  This past summer, the mall barbershop had celebrated 42 years in business at the same location. Barber Dick Souza opened the shop with Howie Small on August 6, 1970.  After Small retired, Rick Kopala stepped in. A few years ago, Dick and Rick added a third barber to the shop when Matt Kundel relocated to Cape Cod from New York with his wife and young family. The decision to move out of the mall and into a new location has been in the works for some time. When the barbershop’s lease with the Cape Cod Mall came up for renewal, Souza and Kopala started thinking about taking a step back and passing the torch to Kundel.  Kundel jumped at the opportunity to run the business and started scouting locations in Hyannis, where the three barbers …

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