Yesteryear

[kubedawg]

Well, this is something way off the main stream that this forum has ever seen. I directing this post to the guys, the fellows that are 50 years old and older, probably most of the men here wouldn't remember what I'm about to post. I'm 56, so I remember quite a bit of years past.

In this world rubble, buble, toil, and trouble it's nice to think back when, mostly on Friday or Saturday, to go to the Barber Shop. Not the Salon at the mall,hair stylists, etc. Just a barber shop where everyone knew each other. Just about every neighborhood had one. I was raised in the city so there were many, many barber shops all over. But it was a place you could relax, talk, hear what talk was going around...gamble. The different smells that came from the combination of after shaves combined with heat smell coming off the electric clippers, the general smell of the place, it was nice. After a hair cut you could get a shave for...$0.25 - $0.50! How compfortable it was, how much at ease you were when rose up from the chair. Too bad these younger guys, at least most of them, will never experence such pleasure. They were good times indeed....
namguy69

I am only 21 and I enjoy getting my hair cut at my local barber shop. Talk about politics, sports, and family made me feel at home most of the time. It's definately a lot different than a salon or places like Super Cuts.. Generally they make for a less decent cut at those places, and it's more of an invasive type of social interaction with the workers there, or at least in my experience. I like the fact that a newspaper is at a barber shop, and I hate the fact that that newspaper ahs been replaced by People magazine...

I prefer quality even if it costs more because that's really what it comes down to. You can definately tell the difference between a barber shop and a salon. Generally you have a successful business either way, because while salons are less friendly, they are greedy and charge more for a haircut, so they make money, and the barber shop is too packed sometimes which calls for a longer wait, however, bringing the quality factor back in, I see that the shop has been there for 30/40/50 years and has been passed down to family and or friends who all have a passion for cutting hair, not in it for the money.

Money cannot buy happiness, and that definately shows true when I compare the two.

It's the same thing with restaurants. I like an crowded place as it shows the restaurant is of good quality, but on the same ticket, I like an uncrowded location to enjoy myself more instead of having to buy a hearing aid just to hear myself think...

It's not just the food or haircut, it's the atmosphere that matters equally.

[Matt W]

Hehehe. Well. I got my hair cut today....at a barbers', run by yet another Italian. Salvo....and at the moment, he seems to be the only male in the place - all the other 'stylists' there were quite attractive women, though I believe he has a son/nephew who works there as well as one older Belgian gent who has a serious caffeine & nicoteine habit.

He knows practically all the gossip in the town, and quite a bit outside, too. And he doesn't mind if you insist on waiting for him to cut you personally.....all good.

[Nono]

Since I posted here yesterday I've been for a haircut. Only too late did it occur to me that my confident pronouncements may have been facilitating the perverse effects of Murphy's Law. And indeed the hairdresser complained while working on me of recent sleepless nights (snip-snip). But the wife reports no visible damage.

By the way, my hairdresser -- a French national -- is of Italian extraction (maiden name Cavoli). So no conundrum there.:)

[Nono]

(...) yet another Italian. Salvo.... (...)

Jeez, sounds positively menacing. Sure it ain't Salvatore? Or Silvio?

[jose]

I miss going for a wet shave with a strait razor the last time was on the street in jordan with hot towel n all

[namguy69]

I use nothing but Stephens & Clubman! Love them.
Namguy69

[namguy69]

How true, I agree with you100+%.
namguy69

[namguy69]

That's cool! Nothing wrong with that.
namguy69

[namguy69]

My wife was from Paterson, NJ & one set of grandparents lives Forked Lake (near Sea Side Heights) & the other set in Toms River. She also has realitives all over NJ.
namguy69