Sunoverbeach wrote:I vaguely remember barber shops. I think late Nov was my last visit. Prolly hit it up again in the spring.
Morning, Friday peoples. You may commence with the thanking of God now
When I had hair I'd go to the local barbershops for a cut.
In my little town, for some reason has a lot of hair places. We have 2 old school barber shops plus some chain hair stylist places like Rob Roy and Super Cuts on top of some local chick hairstylist and nail stuff.
One of the old school barbershops was almost a casualty of COVID. It's been around for 3 generations and a staple in the town with sponsoring little league and T-ball teams, soccer teams, cub scouts, and all that jazz. The old man (probably like 80 yrs old) had one barber chair, his son (probably like 60 yrs old) had one chair and the grandson had the third chair. No reservations, first come first serve. On the weekend it was usually an hour wait. No biggie, local newspaper and fishing magazines, car & driver, consumer reports, Sports Illustrated... to read and listen to banter about local sports and politics.
They shut down during the COVID lockdown and looked like they were all done. Old man called it quits, his son retired and the store front was up for sale. The youngest (grandson) of the family reopened it to keep the tradition alive.
One other family owned barber shop that I've used for me and my son also has been around forever (two generations?). They were able to ride out the COVID thigy too. Cool place. Similar stuff to that given above but this place has old school free video games like Pacman, DigDug and Space Invaders while you wait for your turn in the barber's chair.
Both places: about $12 for a standard hair cut. I'd just round it up to a even $20, keep the change.
Since I'm folically challenged, I have no need for a barber anymore but it's nice to see that old school barbers are still trudging along.