Neighborhood Barbershop

[Pappy]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[treeguy64]

Caption for the above: "When they said service is slow at this place, I had no idea - - - -"

 

[Meanderer]

Good caption, treeguy! You win the shaving mug!

 

[Meanderer]

Radish Rose said "That was a long coffee break"! .....and wins second prize, a coffee mug!

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

"Barber Getting Haircut," January 26, 1946 - Stevan Dohanos

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[NancyNGA]

 

[Big Horn]

¾ cent for a hair cut is a great price. I'd get ¼ cent worth of hair tonic to round it.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Big Horn]

This is still made. In fact, I just ordered a bottle on Amazon.—

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Pappy]

 

[Big Horn]

This is interesting.

http://www.nationalbarbermuseum.org/index.php

 

[NancyNGA]

Three shops in a row: Brother-in-Law, New Deal, and Savoy barbershops, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936

 

[Aunt Bea]

Great photo!

Three prosperous barber shops all in a row makes me think that something else must be going on.

If the picture was a few years older I would assume it had to do with prohibition.

 

[NancyNGA]

Great photo!

Three prosperous barber shops all in a row makes me think that something else must be going on.

If the picture was a few years older I would assume it had to do with prohibition.

This is one I wish were in color (only briefly). The siding on the Brother-in-Law shop looks like it might be painted red and white.

 

[Meanderer]

Here's a Close up of The New Deal Barbershop! (and Savoy)

"March 1936. Vicksburg, Mississippi. "Vicksburg *****es and shop front." A close-up of the New Deal barbershop seen in the previous post. Nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration".

 

[NancyNGA]

I like the line painted down the middle of the building. It makes me curious what kind of establishment that building was prior to "subdivision".

 

[Aunt Bea]

This is one I wish were in color (only briefly). The siding on the Brother-in-Law shop looks like it might be painted red and white.

Inside the first door above the man's knee you can see a movie poster.

I'm not positive but it looks like Irene Dunne in Roberta.

 

[Meanderer]

Inside the first door above the man's knee you can see a movie poster.

I'm not positive but it looks like Irene Dunne in Roberta.

 

[Meanderer]

Not the same poster, but the same movie 1935