When I lived up North (US) I went to go to the same barber shop for about 15 years running. It was the men-only kind of babershop that smelled like a barbershop should, featured numerous circa 1950's seats for waiting and an old black and white TV mounted on a shelf up on on wall. I'd go in, sit down, get a haircut - they always knew how to cut everyone's hair already and would just talk about various things without ever asking what you wanted done. The same guys worked there the entire time too, never anyone new and no one ever left. It used to cost $5, then slowly crept up to $8 over the years, with an additional buck or two tip of course.
Now I live in a different part of the States, so for the last 12 years I've been searching for an old style barbershop of similar character, to no avail. I get my hair cut in a unisex 'salon' located in a strip mall, and it's up to to $16 these days with a two buck tip, and I have to explain the cut ever, single, time, always to someone I have never seen there before.
If finances were more comfortable I'd go to the local membership barber shop. It's men only, and they do all the usual stuff - a little talc on the neck, vacuum the hair off my neck rather than just leaving when it falls down my collar, etc., plus you can get a straight razor shave if you like (ah, nice!), and the decor is superb - very traditional men's barbershop look inside in every small detail. But, at $25 a cut (not including tip) it's a little expensive for me right now. Still, I'm thinking of cutting the bigger luxuries out anyway and keeping the little, and more meaningful ones, like a regular visit to a real barbershop
- Randy
Now I live in a different part of the States, so for the last 12 years I've been searching for an old style barbershop of similar character, to no avail. I get my hair cut in a unisex 'salon' located in a strip mall, and it's up to to $16 these days with a two buck tip, and I have to explain the cut ever, single, time, always to someone I have never seen there before.
If finances were more comfortable I'd go to the local membership barber shop. It's men only, and they do all the usual stuff - a little talc on the neck, vacuum the hair off my neck rather than just leaving when it falls down my collar, etc., plus you can get a straight razor shave if you like (ah, nice!), and the decor is superb - very traditional men's barbershop look inside in every small detail. But, at $25 a cut (not including tip) it's a little expensive for me right now. Still, I'm thinking of cutting the bigger luxuries out anyway and keeping the little, and more meaningful ones, like a regular visit to a real barbershop
- Randy
