Eddie's legacy: Three generations of barbers carry on Cipriani family business
Eddie's legacy: Three generations of barbers carry on Cipriani family businessBy BRIAN DUGGAN bduggan@nevadaappeal.com As he was getting a customary massage at the end of his haircut at Cipriani's Barber Shop last week, Max Decaminada, 71, recalled the man who started the haircutting establishment 35 years ago: the late Eddie Cipriani. "(Eddie) knew everyone in Carson City, that's for sure," said Decaminada while sitting in a barber chair as Maria Cipriani, Eddie's wife, rubbed his shoulders. Since her husband's death in early 2008, Maria Cipriani, 66, has been tending to the family business on her own. But now, Cipriani is looking to pass on the barber shop to daughter Deanna Fuentes, 45, and her son Nick Fontanez, 18. Until Cipriani retires, three generations of the Carson City clan will be trimming hair and shaving chins at the barber shop on 807 N. Plaza St., a business established by Eddie Cipriani in 1974. "It's a good-old American tradition dying out in town, so I thought it would be good to get a new generation in," Fontanez said. For more than three decades