Red and white striped, sometimes with a bit of blue, a barber pole twisting next to a small storefront signifies a place where men can get a haircut, a shave and a bit of masculine bonhomie. But this was not always the case. Back in the day, the red and white we associate with go...
The shop bears the name Hujiang, a reference to one of Shanghai’s most famous salons. Back in the 1950s, the original Hujiang Barber Shop was popular among movie stars and celebrities. During the late-1980s and early-1990s, when ordinary residents could also afford such services, the bar...
At the height of the Cold War, one of us served in Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear command center, and witnessed a simulated nuclear attack on the US. Even on the primitive monitors the Air Force had back in 1986, seeing Soviet missile tracks crossing the North Pole and terminating a...
The shop bears the name Hujiang, a reference to one of Shanghai’s most famous salons. Back in the 1950s, the original Hujiang Barber Shop was popular among movie stars and celebrities. During the late-1980s and early-1990s, when ordinary residents could also afford such services, the bar...
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The present-day barber shop pole originates from this practice, with the red, white, and blue colors symbolizing bloodletting, tooth extraction, and shaving services, respectively. The most common method of bloodletting was cutting into a vein, typically at the forearm or the elbow. Cupping, ...
By the nineteenth century, however, the two professions of barbering and surgery had become completely separated. The modern barber shop industry in the United States was established in the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, two organizations — the Associated Master Barbers of America and ...
but the most unique piece of the building has to be the long-standing barber pole placed perfectly on the outside. Even though they’re no longer the norm, Rinaldo’s red, white, and blue barber shop pole is the historic decor that keeps giving, alerting all downtown State College newbie...
Walker dug the first turf of the first hole for the first pole of the above branch at Red Hill Junction, on which pole this form was then first used. On November 22, 1852, the original order for the same form in porcelain was sent to M.M. Andre, Pillivuyt, and Co., of Foecy, ...
It isn’t clear how long the laundry business lasted, but the first hint of another use came in 1928, when “W.W. Wilson, of Raleigh, has opened up a roller cover shop in the north room of the laundry building, near Randolph Mill No. 1. Mr. Wilson has had several years experience...