By: Hae-Ok Miller and Nick Bellizzi

H. John’s Clothiers, a family-owned business in Oakland, CA, became another casualty of the recession. It closed its doors October 31 after 76 years in business. Youth Radio takes an intimate look into a shop that’s lasted three generations, the people who kept it going, and the reasons it can’t survive the times-- even while the neighborhood around it seems to thrive.