For hundreds of years, a trained barber used an extremely sharp blade known as a straight razor to accomplish a close shave. When the first self-contained “safety razors” became widely available, many ...

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Barber Tracy Crouch deftly wields a straight-edge razor, scraping the blade through the shaving cream to shape and trim a beard. Crouch is the barber at 19th St. Salon & Spa, 3915 S.W. 19th St., a ...

They called him Shotgun. He was a barber. He served in the military during World War II, but that's not where the nickname came from. Charles Noppert played baseball growing up. He was a pitcher, and ...

At Manatee Technical College, the next generation of barbers finds skill, confidence and a career with staying power.

Q. I was wondering if you know of a barbershop in Orange that still does an old-fashioned shave. My elderly dad has been talking about the old days of getting a shave and I thought it might be fun to ...

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