Pamplin Media Group - The old-time barbershops of Sellwood and Westmoreland
Here, Historian Dana Beck reminisces about two centuries of barbershops in Inner Southeast Saturdays were often the most popular day of the week for men in the 1920s, and it wasnt just because for many it was a day off. There wasnt a week that you wouldnt find a gathering of gentlemen at the local barbershop, weekends included. Its not that men a century ago were fastidious about their looks; its just that the corner barbershop was where men gathered to banter with each other, follow their f...
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