mary doesn't work here anymore

 

When the Plainsman Motor Hotel opened in 1951, it boasted many amenities for the traveler -- including a barber shop in the basement. After foreclosure in 1965, the building housed a series of retirement living facilities -- evidently with the same tonsorial services for seniors.  The building is undergoing renovation for apartments but I doubt that a beauty shop is in the plans.

 

The Que

21st and Avenue Q

Lubbock, Texas

the barbershop on Avenue F

 

"The red and white pole outside barber shops references a time when barbers were expected to perform bloodletting and other medical procedures to heal the sick; red represented blood and white represented bandages."  Makes one reconsider getting a haircut at a shop with a barber pole.

the duke

 

I asked Dan, the barber, why John Wayne was on the sign.  He replied,  "It was the painter -- he drinks, you know."  So I still don't know why John Wayne is on the sign but I know the barber.

 

Dan's Village Barber Shop

Old Town Village

Midland, Texas