Juma: Rest in Peace, Mi Amigo.
Raoul’s Brotherhood of Love Barber Shop in El Prado closed some time ago, due to Juma’s bout with
cancer. Despite multiple chemo and radiation treatments the brave barber continued cutting hair at his garage and listening to his customers blither. His wife, Linda, has devoted untold hours to his care as he struggled and “did not go gentle into that good night.”
But today, Oct. 7, at 2 pm Juma’s friend Willie Watkins opened the window in his bedroom and the Chicano Barber disappeared into the ether. We shall be telling stories for a long time but we won’t have anybody to tell us what they mean. We could talk to Juma about anything: sports, the sixties, the Chicano movement, music, the cops and the judges in Denver, Los Politicos everywhere, the latest anecdote from somebody’s la familia. We laughed and lamented together at Juma’s, the last cafe—the last remnant of cafe society in Taos.
Tomorrow, we shall post more about “The Disappeared Barber.”
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