Barber Shops c/d?

I love barber shops. Used to go to one near me that gave straight razor shaves, which is completely classic, can't find one anymore that gives a shave though. and when your done with your cut, you get the brush to the back of the neck with:
http://www.genesbarbershop.net/shared/pinaud_talc.gif

so so classic

I've gone to three in the past five years or so.

First guy had newspapers with Titanic headlines on the walls, liked to talk about 9/11. Best haircut he gave me was when I told him I was going to my grandmother's funeral. Dropped him because he cut hair with one of those clipper things hooked to a hose and no shave. Also skeeved me a little after telling the shop about getting into some road rage, stopping "to see if I could talk sense into this guy" and having the other guy try to punch him through his open passenger window, across his daughter next to him.

Second guy I've gone to ever since. He's a devout Christian and Razorback fan, not necessarily in that order. I try to stay mum on the small talk, but it's worth it to hear him embarrass the other customers. "See that guy over there? He's a cop now, but I see him parked out front of Daylight Donuts an hour each morning." Tolerable because the haircuts are really good, he uses a real razor and trimmer, gets my eyebrows, and charges nine bucks for everything.

Third guy I went to this summer when the second guy broke his foot after falling off a ladder and then broke his elbow after choir practice when he missed the crutch he was holding. Third guy works in a downtown skyscraper, likes to talk about horse racing, name drops all the local weathermen and says my name at the beginning of nearly every sentence. Stocky guy with hairy arms, probably a Yankee, and charges me $15 without even looking at my eyebrows. Still, he's nearby and would probably take a bet on a horse if I really wanted to pursue that avenue.

my barber has some head-vibrating glove thing that he puts on his hand for quality head massage following haircut

wow. im gonna search around here for a place that still gives shaves. I asked my barber why he didn't do it and he said not enough people would get one. I think it would be quite popular.

i went to an oldtime barber shop in montana and the dude gave me a shoulder massage after the cut, it was weird

I like the process and the atmosphere, but usually don't like the results.

did "it" move a little?

the one i go to has an atmosphere like the one in coming to america. except its all white guys.

I used to go to one on Lake Street in Minneapolis. It had Playboy magazines on the side table, a big deer head up on the wall, and strangely enough, this whole room full of telemarketers behind a paneled partition.

Also, don't ever go to a place called "The Guillotine".

Telemarketers! Those were book makers.

i go to one of these faux-old-timey barbershops they have in nyc, and it makes me feel like an asshole, but the guy who cuts my hair used to work with my girlfriend and he does a killer job, all scissors, and even tho the concept & decor are irritating the barbers are all pretty good funny guy so it has a nice atmosphere.

they offer shaves and this thing called 'the hangover special' where u get like scented moist towels rubbed on your face or something. but i never get those. i have a beard.

what is it with barbershops and porn mags

mine doesn't have porn!

I've only ever seen Playboy.

yeah nothing hardcore, more "laddie mags" sorta stuff I guess - Playboy seems standard but I think I've seen Penthouse too

whew, i thought there was like "shaved" or something.

Telemarketers! Those were book makers.

― Mark Chmuras Hot Tub Crime Machine (chrisv2010), Thursday, November 18, 2010 1:28 PM Bookmark

Ha, maybe so. It did look a lot like the ''Holiday Road'' video.

There was one I used to go to up in the "old" and "fancy" part of town, that all the legislators went to. Lots of dead animals, a TV set with knobs, one guy who you really needed to get around noon since his hands shook in the morning and he was pretty drunk by afternoon. I stopped since it's now out of the way, parking was terrible, and I always felt awkward being the only one in the place who felt awkward about the older black man with the nickname who shined shoes and swept the floors in the foyer.

A man should have a barber he knows well enough to say "the usual." Here's the 2-chair shop I go to. Panelling, historic photos, custom car mags (no porn.) The building dates to the late 1800's and it has always been a barber shop.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh310/yodelagogo/petes2.jpg

http://rudysbarbershop.com/

THIS IS NOT A BARBERSHOP. THIS IS A HIPSTER RIPOFF.

http://shortysbarbershop.com/

Nor it this, fuckin hipsters taking over everything sacred.

I will stand staunchly in defense of Playboy at barber shops. Barber shops are part of being a man, not that you have to get your hair cut there or that if you don't, you're not a man, but. . . there's something great and truly masculine about getting your hair cut at a barber shop.

Barbershops are about the only professions I'm not interested in seeing websites for.

If it's got a pole out front, you know you've got a barbershop. Gotta try it once to know you like it or not.

I miss my old barber who had a fridge stocked with beer and sodas for his customers to have enjoy waiting.

beer!

The Christian barber I have told me about another shop in town that has a coke machine with one button that dispenses Budweiser. When I asked what the name of it was, his response was "Oh, I'm note even sure they still do that anymore." Meaning he didn't want to lose a customer…

Made me think though which would be the secret button. "Out of Order"? The one with the orange light lit? "Diet Fresca"?

Dan Peterson: where is that??

TAB

(x-post) Saint Paul, Minnesota. (I can give you more specifics if you're local!)

i am!

Fresca is already diet! Or is that the joke?

being a shaving snob as well i try to recreate the barber experience at home when i shave. I've got over $150 worth of shaving tools.

gbx,, it's 7th St. Barbers (West 7th near Randolph, just across from the old Schmidt Brewery.) My barber, Pete, cuts hair for lots of rockabillies; I followed him here when he bought into this place, because he can tame my extremely thick, wavy 'do. After YEARS of suffering through various salons, Great Clips, Cost Cutters, cosmetology schools etc., I can't recommend him highly enough.

http://artofmanliness.com/

i also read this site....for all things manly.

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/10/13/how-to-smell-like-a-barbershop/

Envious of the barber shop experience, it sounds nice. The classic shave always seemed like it would be a cool, sort of soothing experience. I used to love watching my dad shave when I was little, he had the cool lather brush and trimming scissors, and a really heavy, metal razor that he used. He used to lather up the soap and put it on my face and taught me how to 'shave' with the side of my index finger, so we'd shave together, lol.

Anyway, tell more stories!

my barber (Sario's in north beach) I have a special affection for because the dude also is a neighbor - he lives a few blocks from me, I see him walking his dogs from time to time. he does have Playboys. He has a barber pole. no wood panelling, but he has paper money from around the world lining one wall. no beer tho :(

He has a "competitor" across the street who I've always been curious about because the guy plays European folk melodies on his clarinet during lulls

my place is typically like a town meeting on saturday mornings, all ages. Coffee and good smells.

minus the old guy farts.

my place is one of those hipster type places

How often do you get your hair cut? I'm averaging just a little more than every two months. Cut with the 5/8" trimmer.

i try to go every 8 weeks but in practice its usually more like 10

yeah once every couple months

also he cuts Francis Ford Coppola's hair (what's left of it)

I'm pretty regular at 5-6 weeks. I have sideburns, which I am crap at trimming myself. By the time those are shaggy, my hair is starting to get too thick too, or get crazy wings and flips.

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTKCXjajiEmQxJMxWoT4CE0h83TqE5yHLBOV4L5t3AHW8gWz4cPoQ

i go about once every two months.

There used to be a great old barber shop in Soho - Spring Street, i think - with a towering stack of dusty Playboys in the corner and a kind of funereal old-man vibe inside. I got my hair cut there just once - as a kind of fixer-upper for a salon cut that went horribly wrong IIRC - and I asked the guy how much I owed him. He was like "well, what do you think it was worth?" I gave him five bucks. Weird way to do business.

Barber poles are made in St Paul by one small company and no other, IIRC.

I sent quite a few London ILXors to my friends Barber Chris or Barber Vic, who used to work in a tiny Clerkenwell barbers best known to the world for this record sleeve:

http://www.rockofages.uk.com/stock/34538.jpg

Barber Chris also cuts the hair of selected girls, as he used to do catwalk hairdressing and retrained in barbering because fashion's wanky. He cuts amazing graduated bobs but I've been growing my hair out for almost a year not to have one.

Still on the hunt for a new place in London...my usual place is grand but for the price I reckon could find better...

When I lived in a particular suburb of M/cr I'd alternate between two places, usually favouring one because it was right next door to my flat. Both sets of barbers would be able to spot the lesser work of their rival and complain about it eg. "you've been there again? Those guys are fucking butchers, look at the fucking state of this.".

Increasing sparseness of the thatch as I plummet towards middle age means these days it's about damage limitation and getting in and out asap. There's an ok barber in the precinct near my workplace so I go there now. No real difference in quality between the three staff and they're friendly enough. Usually offer me the student discount, which I originally took as a compliment, but I think they just assume I'm a grizzled mature student. I offset this with a decent tip. Try to get in about every five weeks, before things get too Christopher Lloyd, but in practice it's more like every six or so.

when this baby hits 88 mph your going to see some serious shit

Local Garda, get yourself to Chris at the barbershop on Rosebery Avenue right by Mount Pleasant post office. He will sort you out for c. £10.

sounds good for the unemployed man!

He's cut hair for me, Tracer, Colette, charltonlido and a few others in the past and the verdict is basically 'fuck a £40 haircut, this is awesome'...

At some point in my life I want to go to a braid shop or be a braider. The culture behind those shops is just fascinating to me.

you really needed to get around noon since his hands shook in the morning and he was pretty drunk by afternoon.

This was a pretty common situation with barbers when I was a kid. My dad used to send us to a shop with all the classic signifiers: Police Gazette, Bay Rum talcum powder, three chairs but only two barbers, a chromed coat rack and lots of mirrors. The barber named Earl owned the shop and liked to bet on the ponies, while his partner barbers (who never lasted long) were usually rather gentle-mannered drunks who smelled of bourbon.

my place is one of those hipster type places

― max, Thursday, November 18, 2010 5:57 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Cue New York Times article.

btw thanks DP for the info, i'll check it out

My fave was a place in NYC's Chelsea called "The New Barber Shop", sadly now a victim of the city's real estate douchebaggery. It was run by some very funny old Cuban dudes. I remember the second time I was there for a cut I looked at the single framed photo hanging in front of my chair and noticed it was of John Cage, signed to the guys in the shop. When I mentioned how cool that was my barber said "Oh, Johnny. He came here for his haircut once every month. We loved him. We heard he was famous!"

Classic, btw. But not those Olde Tyme types like the NY Times article mentions. Those kind of places are contrived, IMHO.

Hadn't been in years but, yes, it sems my fave place is long gone: http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2008/03/death-of-block.html

Ricky Pannell, seen here giving a cut to a customer, is not a traditional barber, and doesn't charge like one. "People are so confused, because they see the place and come in, and they think you are going to give the $15 barber cut," said Mr. Pannell, who charges $100 for a man's haircut. "A true barber wants to do four cuts an hour," he said. "I don’t even own clippers."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/fashion/25COMB.html?ref=fashion

F.S.C. Barber, a barbershop within the Freemans Sporting Club clothing boutique on the Lower East Side, was the first proper hipster barbershop to open its doors back in 2006, complete with old barber chairs, hexagonal floor tiles, antique lighting fixtures, and no shortage of electric clippers.

haha this is the place i go

Man I fucking hate getting my hair cut

I’ve been cutting my own since Covid. It’s a steep learning curve but getting it just right and not having to rely on someone else is nice. Not to mention all the money you save

Man I fucking hate getting my hair cut

For most of the pandemic I would just ask my wife to run a clipper across my head about once a month, but back in November I stopped and have decided to grow it out all year. As of now it's kinda floppy/surfer-dude with a little bit of mullet flaring out in the back, but I can tell that by the summer it's gonna look all right.

Don’t go as often as I should and pandemic/omicron has only exacerbated this. Finally got over to the barber last week.