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Splitting Hairs At Old Barber Shop

I’m changing things up a bit re: haircuts. In the past, I’d ask for a close clip and then live with the results for 6 weeks or so before I got another haircut. Usually, I’d wait to get my hair cut at least a week longer than the length started bugging me. I’d get fairly mangy by the time I approached the clippers. I had two reasons for my reluctance to be shorn — uneven haircuts and laziness. Now that the old Best Avenue Barber shop is back in business, at 9th & Best, I’ve been getting my hair cut more frequently. Females have replaced Dick Byrd & Co. behind the clippers and changed the name to Shear Madness for Hair. The price is right — $8-10, believe it or not. And the cuts are uniformly good ones. Purple-haired Melanie Hall (pictured) was the 4th different stylist to cut my hair since I returned to the shop last December. For the first time in recent memory, I got a haircut Saturday less than a month after the last one. So here’s the question:

Question: How often do you get your hair cut? Where?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog