Comments on: Rediscovering the Barbershop http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/ Men's Interests and Lifestyle Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:54:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Read this » Blog Archive » The art of manliness http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-55678 Read this » Blog Archive » The art of manliness Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:01:41 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-55678 [...] was once again doing some online research and found this website. It is about the art of manliness and this specific page talks about a brief history of barber [...] [...] was once again doing some online research and found this website. It is about the art of manliness and this specific page talks about a brief history of barber [...]

]]> By: Justin Yahara http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-55201 Justin Yahara Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:48:58 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-55201 My name is Justin Yahara and I just opened my own barbershop in central Jersey. The name of the shop is Swagger. I have a great bunch of guy who are great barbers. Were young and energetic and look forward to servicing anyone who may come our way. We are your family/neighborhood barbershop. We support our local sports teams and the rest of our community. We do the best flatop in the land along with fades, high and tights, tape up's, and plain regular cuts. You bring the hair and we cut it! We use the straigt razor. We take care of our customers. Let us earn your business. My name is Justin Yahara and I just opened my own barbershop in central Jersey. The name of the shop is Swagger. I have a great bunch of guy who are great barbers. Were young and energetic and look forward to servicing anyone who may come our way. We are your family/neighborhood barbershop. We support our local sports teams and the rest of our community. We do the best flatop in the land along with fades, high and tights, tape up’s, and plain regular cuts. You bring the hair and we cut it! We use the straigt razor. We take care of our customers. Let us earn your business.

]]> By: uberVU - social comments http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-54855 uberVU - social comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:03:41 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-54855 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Reddit by Ishkabible: Do you know the name of this effect or the name of what causes it?... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: Lillien http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-53931 Lillien Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:17:28 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-53931 There is something nostalgic about barber shops. I think of the age on innocence and is a way to go back into the past. It is more personal There is something nostalgic about barber shops. I think of the age on innocence and is a way to go back into the past. It is more personal

]]> By: library_goon http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-52710 library_goon Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:13:48 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-52710 I used to go to a barber shop when I lived in Baltimore - (the Beatnik Barber Shop). I loved it! Not only did they serve coffee there, but they would also use a straight razor to shave your neck hair. It's one of the things I miss about living there. I used to go to a barber shop when I lived in Baltimore – (the Beatnik Barber Shop). I loved it! Not only did they serve coffee there, but they would also use a straight razor to shave your neck hair. It’s one of the things I miss about living there.

]]> By: Men's Issues Forums and Best of Art of Manliness | The Art of Manliness http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-52198 Men's Issues Forums and Best of Art of Manliness | The Art of Manliness Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:50:12 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-52198 [...] Rediscovering the Barbershop [...] [...] Rediscovering the Barbershop [...]

]]> By: Joe S http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-51427 Joe S Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:58:07 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-51427 I used to go to a barbershop like many as a child but found my local barber only had about three haircuts. When you get to be around 18, the "number 2's" don't quite cut it as far as an actual style goes. People went to Unisex places as I have now because of my point earlier, old school barbers don't evolve. If you get a bad haircut and complain, you are viewed as a queer or sissy. I would love to have a competent barber cut my hair and not take 8.5 minutes. I may search for one in town again after reading this article. I hate to see them go but not at the cost of looking like the last 20 guys that went before you... I used to go to a barbershop like many as a child but found my local barber only had about three haircuts. When you get to be around 18, the “number 2’s” don’t quite cut it as far as an actual style goes. People went to Unisex places as I have now because of my point earlier, old school barbers don’t evolve. If you get a bad haircut and complain, you are viewed as a queer or sissy. I would love to have a competent barber cut my hair and not take 8.5 minutes. I may search for one in town again after reading this article. I hate to see them go but not at the cost of looking like the last 20 guys that went before you…

]]> By: Why Do You Shave With a Straight Razor? - Straight Razor Place Forums http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-49836 Why Do You Shave With a Straight Razor? - Straight Razor Place Forums Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:22:34 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-49836 [...] Razor Place Forums Here's an awesome article: There was thread awhile back but link has gone dead Why Every Man Should Go To A Barber Shop | The Art of Manliness BTW a buddy of mine back in HS would always use "courier new" as format. That would save [...] [...] Razor Place Forums Here's an awesome article: There was thread awhile back but link has gone dead Why Every Man Should Go To A Barber Shop | The Art of Manliness BTW a buddy of mine back in HS would always use "courier new" as format. That would save [...]

]]> By: Samuel http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-48520 Samuel Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:34:46 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-48520 I remember my first visits to a real barber, in the sleepy town of Campbell, Ca. It was the 70's and things seemed easier and seamless, and oddly enough innocent. Of course, this perspective is of a pre-adolescent precocious boy, living in a predominately white middle class neighborhood. Though we were Sephardic Jews, and people couldn't tell if we were '"Mexican", Greek, or Iranian. We were treated with dignity for the most part, especially when we clarified that we were not "Mexican". The Sephardim: Sepharadim, are Jews who lived in Spain for hundreds of years under Islamic rule prior to the discovery of what eventually would be called America. The culture of what was to be called Andalusian Islam, helped to promote religious humanism along with peaceful ethnic interaction with (Christians, Jews and Moslem's) of which the world since has hardly known. The Andalucian Jews in particular, are recognized by scholars of that period, as being instrumental in translating works of great importance which helped in the development of European culture emerge from the dark ages. Our lingua franca, is Spanish with an admixture of Hebrew and Arabic, known as Ladino, but to the untrained ears and culturally ignorant it sounds like "Mexican". (a language class of its own) A note about the Spanish Language: The Spanish language prior to the 1950's or the mass immigration of Mexican working class families in California, was a regal language that at one time had the same status that English enjoys today. Somehow, the Spanish language fell into disgrace in North America, and it became associated with an "dirty immigrant" language by which common gardeners communicate with each other. My proud mother never let go of her heritage and her devotion to the Ladino language, much to my chagrin and embarrassment. As you can imagine, for a boy wanting to "fit in" the seventies in California, those sunny days were wrought with with a quiet prejudice associating anyone who could be considered "Mexican", by default with all those who communicated in Spanish with their families. In retrospect, I have embraced my mother tongue pridefully, and have worked out my indifference to it, a stigma no doubt I developed while growing up in sleepy, California. The local Barber shop: Although I don't remember my first haircut, a relish my first haircut in Campbell. It was a little shop located by the Winchester Hardware Store, another place that I enjoyed going to with my pop. He dropped me off at the barbers while he went shopping at the hardware store. I was left there for my first time facing what seemed to me a bear of a man, wearing what I could Identify was a "crew cut". I knew the type of haircut because I was a devoted follower of, Gomer Pyle, USMC and his haircut was just like Sgt Carter's, Gomer's arch nemesis. That type of haircut was what I desired, in my young mind it was sharp, but my parents talked me out of it, and I went with a less aggressive looking cut. In the end, years later, I won that fashion battle, as I ended up enlisting in the Marines, and I got my wish to have a very cool looking crew cut. I guess Gomer Pyle USMC made an indelible impression on my childhood. The shop itself as I remembered was decorated banally, with an amalgamation of military knick knacks, pin up girls, and licence plates. It smelled like most typical barber shops, a mixture of baby powder, cheap after shave, and before it became uncool, cigarette smoke, yet I loved it there. For one, I was allowed to read the playboy magazines, as we all know we don't really read them, and that was a rite of passage for any young precocious boy. The other treat, was the war stories that the men shared with each other. Typically the shop attracted the some young men who had fought in Vietnam, and I felt lucky sitting in on some of the conversations, that these men shared with each other. For a young boy who watched Gomer Pyle and played soldiers, it was fascinating being there listening to these stories while getting a good haircut. That was my barber shop growing up in the 70's it was a place were I was introduced to some of the puzzles of manhood, while walking out looking good. Since then, I have had a fascination with barber shops but because of my busy lifestyle and constant moving, I have not had the privileged of finding one that captures the "feel" of that one barber shop on Winchester Avenue...Although I'm still searching for one, this time not only for myself, but for my four boys. Samuel de Lemos I remember my first visits to a real barber, in the sleepy town of Campbell, Ca. It was the 70’s and things seemed easier and seamless, and oddly enough innocent. Of course, this perspective is of a pre-adolescent precocious boy, living in a predominately white middle class neighborhood. Though we were Sephardic Jews, and people couldn’t tell if we were ‘”Mexican”, Greek, or Iranian. We were treated with dignity for the most part, especially when we clarified that we were not “Mexican”.
The Sephardim:
Sepharadim, are Jews who lived in Spain for hundreds of years under Islamic rule prior to the discovery of what eventually would be called America. The culture of what was to be called Andalusian Islam, helped to promote religious humanism along with peaceful ethnic interaction with (Christians, Jews and Moslem’s) of which the world since has hardly known. The Andalucian Jews in particular, are recognized by scholars of that period, as being instrumental in translating works of great importance which helped in the development of European culture emerge from the dark ages. Our lingua franca, is Spanish with an admixture of Hebrew and Arabic, known as Ladino, but to the untrained ears and culturally ignorant it sounds like “Mexican”. (a language class of its own)
A note about the Spanish Language:
The Spanish language prior to the 1950’s or the mass immigration of Mexican working class families in California, was a regal language that at one time had the same status that English enjoys today. Somehow, the Spanish language fell into disgrace in North America, and it became associated with an “dirty immigrant” language by which common gardeners communicate with each other. My proud mother never let go of her heritage and her devotion to the Ladino language, much to my chagrin and embarrassment. As you can imagine, for a boy wanting to “fit in” the seventies in California, those sunny days were wrought with with a quiet prejudice associating anyone who could be considered “Mexican”, by default with all those who communicated in Spanish with their families. In retrospect, I have embraced my mother tongue pridefully, and have worked out my indifference to it, a stigma no doubt I developed while growing up in sleepy, California.
The local Barber shop:
Although I don’t remember my first haircut, a relish my first haircut in Campbell. It was a little shop located by the Winchester Hardware Store, another place that I enjoyed going to with my pop. He dropped me off at the barbers while he went shopping at the hardware store. I was left there for my first time facing what seemed to me a bear of a man, wearing what I could Identify was a “crew cut”. I knew the type of haircut because I was a devoted follower of, Gomer Pyle, USMC and his haircut was just like Sgt Carter’s, Gomer’s arch nemesis.
That type of haircut was what I desired, in my young mind it was sharp, but my parents talked me out of it, and I went with a less aggressive looking cut. In the end, years later, I won that fashion battle, as I ended up enlisting in the Marines, and I got my wish to have a very cool looking crew cut. I guess Gomer Pyle USMC made an indelible impression on my childhood.
The shop itself as I remembered was decorated banally, with an amalgamation of military knick knacks, pin up girls, and licence plates. It smelled like most typical barber shops, a mixture of baby powder, cheap after shave, and before it became uncool, cigarette smoke, yet I loved it there. For one, I was allowed to read the playboy magazines, as we all know we don’t really read them, and that was a rite of passage for any young precocious boy. The other treat, was the war stories that the men shared with each other. Typically the shop attracted the some young men who had fought in Vietnam, and I felt lucky sitting in on some of the conversations, that these men shared with each other. For a young boy who watched Gomer Pyle and played soldiers, it was fascinating being there listening to these stories while getting a good haircut.
That was my barber shop growing up in the 70’s it was a place were I was introduced to some of the puzzles of manhood, while walking out looking good.
Since then, I have had a fascination with barber shops but because of my busy lifestyle and constant moving, I have not had the privileged of finding one that captures the “feel” of that one barber shop on Winchester Avenue…Although I’m still searching for one, this time not only for myself, but for my four boys.

Samuel de Lemos

]]> By: Tom Harbold http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-45114 Tom Harbold Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:36:23 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-45114 "Allowing another man to hold a razor to your neck is a good way to remind yourself that you’re alive... When I stepped out of the shop, I felt like a new man, ready to take on the world.... When you walk out of the barber shop with a sharp haircut, you can’t help but feel a bit of manly swagger creep into your step." You're not kidding! I went to my usual barber shop – Cal Bloom's Barber Shoppe, in Westminster, MD – for a pre-new-job haircut, and having just read this and a few related articles, decided to ask Cal for a straight-razor shave: my first ever, in 43, almost 44 years of life. I walked out of there feeling good, with a definite spring in my step! This may have been my first "real" shave, but it won't be my last. “Allowing another man to hold a razor to your neck is a good way to remind yourself that you’re alive… When I stepped out of the shop, I felt like a new man, ready to take on the world…. When you walk out of the barber shop with a sharp haircut, you can’t help but feel a bit of manly swagger creep into your step.”

You’re not kidding! I went to my usual barber shop – Cal Bloom’s Barber Shoppe, in Westminster, MD – for a pre-new-job haircut, and having just read this and a few related articles, decided to ask Cal for a straight-razor shave: my first ever, in 43, almost 44 years of life. I walked out of there feeling good, with a definite spring in my step! This may have been my first “real” shave, but it won’t be my last.

]]> By: How to Pick a Barber | The Art of Manliness http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-42594 How to Pick a Barber | The Art of Manliness Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:21:46 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-42594 [...] many men today are missing out on the benefits of having a regular barber. As the barbershop tradition has faded, modern men just end up going to the closest unisex salon to get their hair cut. And each [...] [...] many men today are missing out on the benefits of having a regular barber. As the barbershop tradition has faded, modern men just end up going to the closest unisex salon to get their hair cut. And each [...]

]]> By: Brits Lay Claim To Creating Haggis—Scots Fight Back « Culture of Life News http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-39913 Brits Lay Claim To Creating Haggis—Scots Fight Back « Culture of Life News Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:23:22 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-39913 [...] King James IV was recorded as purchasing whisky from the local barber upon a visit to Dundee in 1506. That he purchased it from the barber would not have raised any [...] [...] King James IV was recorded as purchasing whisky from the local barber upon a visit to Dundee in 1506. That he purchased it from the barber would not have raised any [...]

]]> By: How I’d Fix the Hair Salon « A Very Josh Blog http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-39311 How I’d Fix the Hair Salon « A Very Josh Blog Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:26 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-39311 [...] be told, I love getting my hair cut (straight-razor shaves are great, too!).  Probably because I wait so long in-between trims that I’ll end up [...] [...] be told, I love getting my hair cut (straight-razor shaves are great, too!).  Probably because I wait so long in-between trims that I’ll end up [...]

]]> By: nextar http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-36697 nextar Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:27:47 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-36697 The barber shop is great but it’s hard to get a good haircut there anymore; its usually some middle aged or older guy who pulls out the clippers and the next thing you know you’re in the marines with a high and tight; most of the unisex salons are awful with women who seem clueless, badly trained and pissed to be dealing with a man; The barber shop is great but it’s hard to get a good haircut there anymore; its usually some middle aged or older guy who pulls out the clippers and the next thing you know you’re in the marines with a high and tight; most of the unisex salons are awful with women who seem clueless, badly trained and pissed to be dealing with a man;

]]> By: Mike http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/20/rediscovering-the-barbershop/comment-page-4/#comment-36457 Mike Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:11:49 +0000 http://artofmanliness.com/?p=241#comment-36457 When I was a kid I used to always love to get a haircut. The main reason why is because the barber's buzzers always used to tickle my neck. It used to feel good. How come they do not tickle anymore? I even bought my own timmer. When I trim my neck it hurts. I was concerned if other men may do this. I know it sounds wierd, but I have a hairy neck that when I get a haircut, after a few days when the neck hairs grow in just a little, i rub my thumb up my neck and the neck hairs tickles under my thumbnail and it actually feels good and soothing. To do this though I have to keep my thumbnails a little long to guide the neck hairs in. Does anyone else do this, or am i the only wierd one? It looks retarded at first but it feels good When I was a kid I used to always love to get a haircut. The main reason why is because the barber’s buzzers always used to tickle my neck. It used to feel good. How come they do not tickle anymore? I even bought my own timmer. When I trim my neck it hurts.

I was concerned if other men may do this. I know it sounds wierd, but I have a hairy neck that when I get a haircut, after a few days when the neck hairs grow in just a little, i rub my thumb up my neck and the neck hairs tickles under my thumbnail and it actually feels good and soothing. To do this though I have to keep my thumbnails a little long to guide the neck hairs in. Does anyone else do this, or am i the only wierd one? It looks retarded at first but it feels good

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