After more than four decades in business, Catalena Hatters has become a destination not just locally but for those all around the state and country.
The business regularly ships out hats internationally as well and sees generations of families come in all the time, General Manager Scott Catalena said.
“It’s not out of the ordinary for five generations to be in here at once and everyone getting a hat, and making really solid memories for a family, and that’s really fun,” Catalena said.
Despite its growing presence, the business still has strong ties to the community where it came up. It remains in the same building where it started; it uses the same bank that financed it in 1983; and for Catalena, who was born in 1986, he said many who still come in remember him running around as a child.
