Since 1973
Not too many places to get a haircut and a shave around anymore: Men are pretty much left to do it themselves. This may explain why some men prefer beards, and why so many commercials on television are for electric razors.
Owner of the recently opened Boone Village Barber Shop, Dave Collins has been a barber for 20 years. He said, "When I was about 14 years old, I cut my friend's hair every weekend just playing around with the clippers. Then one day i had the idea to make it official.
Dave likes to serve the local community, which is in part why he chose to open his shop here in Boone Village. "I want to be able to provide a service that is kind of a dying breed these days, to an area that is without that.”
He said, "A thing of the past is definitely the straight razor face shave - hot steam towel, hot lather, lay back in the chair just like grandpa used to get. That is the stuff you see in western movies now, or something outdated. We still offer that. It is an old-fashioned procedure that we've carried on into the modern world."
We wanted to know why is that something so difficult to find anymore - why has it disappeared? "The reason it is dying off over time has been the price. It takes a long time to do a full-service straight razor shave. Many barbers feel like they don't have that time. We think it should be something that is in the barbering world, and we are going to keep it.”