It's a Man's World
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Great read, I love hearing stories of old time barbers.
That's a real straight in use in those photos!! Don't see that too often these days!! 
This is the kind of place that inspired me to be a barber.
Unfortunatly it is also a place I can never work in.
Trying to find my place will be tough but I'm happy barbers like this are still around. I love reading stories like this so thanks for sharing!
Unfortunatly it is also a place I can never work in.
Trying to find my place will be tough but I'm happy barbers like this are still around. I love reading stories like this so thanks for sharing!
Yea, great read. If I was able to i'd visit his shop and get my hair cut. Thanks for sharing.
This article reminds me of the scene in Clint Eastwood's movie Gran Torino, where Eastwood takes the teenage boy into his barber shop to show him how "men" talk to each other, taking turns insulting each other just like the barber and his cop customer in this article.
Great article, thanks for posting!!
Thanks for sharing this; very good article.
Gotta find me a good straight shave.
Great article.
Great article.
Great article. Thanks for posting that.
I go to a barber in Milwaukee that still uses a straight razor. Not many of the left I'm afraid.
I go to a barber in Milwaukee that still uses a straight razor. Not many of the left I'm afraid.
Great find.
Makes me wish there was a place like that around here.
Makes me wish there was a place like that around here.
Sounds like an ideal place aside from the prominence of porno magazines all over the place. Playboy might be okay, but even that is pushing it. I like to think that the previous generations objectified women less than we do. That's a huge component of the "gentlemanly" mindset, in my opinion.
+1. Great article.
Who would retire from a job they love that much?
Clearly you are mistaking your rose-tinted view of the previous years with the reality.
I'd hazard a guess that there are laws restricting what is legal porn, due exactly to the type of porn that was produced before those laws came to pass. So clearly objectifying women is not a new invention. It's just far more out in public than used to be the case.
I distinctly remember the barber shop my mother would take me to in the 70's - had a separate seat for the mums and kids so the kids didn't go nosing into "those magazines". The blokes would be decent enough to keep to the far end if a mother bought kids into the place. That was at a time when you had to ask the newsagent for the porn magazines and he'd take you out the back room...
Clearly you are mistaking your rose-tinted view of the previous years with the reality.
I'd hazard a guess that there are laws restricting what is legal porn, due exactly to the type of porn that was produced before those laws came to pass. So clearly objectifying women is not a new invention. It's just far more out in public than used to be the case.
I distinctly remember the barber shop my mother would take me to in the 70's - had a separate seat for the mums and kids so the kids didn't go nosing into "those magazines". The blokes would be decent enough to keep to the far end if a mother bought kids into the place. That was at a time when you had to ask the newsagent for the porn magazines and he'd take you out the back room...
Terrific read.
Thanks for this.
Thanks for this.
Thats exactly how I grew up, my dad was career Air Force and we moved alot, but everywhere we went (in the 1950s and early 60s) the shops were like that, that was one place we were treated like men, even though we were still kids, we learned to be men. Yeah, the language was tough, but we learned about compassion, having guts, doing the right thing, treating women with respect, working is a good thing, responsibility
I knew I was about grown the first time the barber lathered my neck, took out a straight razor and shaved my neck; that was something only grown men got, I was 15
thanks for the read,
ken
I knew I was about grown the first time the barber lathered my neck, took out a straight razor and shaved my neck; that was something only grown men got, I was 15
thanks for the read,
ken
This is the kind of guy I've always wished I was more like.
Me too, except Pappy was career Army . . . +100
Loved the article, and especially the picture of the shave behind the ears . . .
SWMBO does that for me every time I come home from the "barber" . . . who doesn't shave behind the ears or the back of the neck anymore!!
Great article, thanks for sharing. And, if anyone doesn't understand a man's joy surrounding an old-time barber shop . . .
when the barber stopped doing real shaving behind the neck the clippers to do the same thing at home just started looking better and better.
The last "barber" to shave my neck used a disposable blade straight. She did a damn fine job even if she did use goop from a can.
edit:
can "barber" be the right term for a woman who cuts hair? It was a barbers shop.... ?
The last "barber" to shave my neck used a disposable blade straight. She did a damn fine job even if she did use goop from a can.
edit:
can "barber" be the right term for a woman who cuts hair? It was a barbers shop.... ?
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