The barbershop was active into the 90s, I think. It was the arrival of the methadone clinic on the other side of the alleyway that coincided, for whatever reason, with the hoarding going up on the window. (Also the departure of the optician across the street and the closure of the record store that was mid-block, around where it used to be purple.) That alleyway juncture has been in a surprising number of Hollywood films. (
eg: 2:30-2:40,
5:00-6:00,
1:55,
0:12-0:15)