Arizona Hatters: Inside Tucson’s Last Hat Shop | Two-Lane Tucson Season 3

Step inside one of Tucson’s most unusual businesses.Arizona Hatters has been shaping, repairing, and restoring hats since 1935. In a small shop filled wall-to-wall with felt and straw, hats aren’t just sold; they’re rebuilt.A hat can be taken apart, cleaned, reshaped, and put back together again. Sometimes the work brings a hat back after sixty or seventy years.In this conversation, owner Max Larkin explains how the shop survived while most hat stores disappeared, what actually goes into restoring a hat, and why people still travel from across the country, and even from Mexico, to walk through the door.We also talk about the woman who quietly kept the business alive for decades, the moment the shop nearly closed, and why a place like Arizona Hatters matters to Tucson.Because sometimes a hat isn’t just a hat.Sometimes it carries a family story.Listen to the full conversation with Max Larkin of Arizona Hatters on this episode of Two-Lane Tucson, where we share the stories of the people building Tucson’s local businesses.