Joe's Barbershop

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    The LIFE OF SHIRLEY's COFFEE
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    Looks like a coffee urn in the window.:)
     
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    Robert Williams has been shining shoes longer than most people have been alive.


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    Joe's Barbershop Chicago
     
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    The vintage barber shop
     
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    Barbershop 1950's
     
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    Note the Wildroot Hair Tonic ad in the window (1936). I forgot about Fearless Fosdick.

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    They still make that stuff! o_O:cool:
     
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    "Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy. It appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip, in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner (1934–1977)."

    "Fearless Fosdick is set in an unnamed, crime-infested American metropolis similar to Chicago. Its urban setting stands in stark contrast with Li'l Abner's rural Dogpatch. Fosdick lives in squalor at the dilapidated boarding house run by his dour, pitiless landlady, Mrs. Flintnose."
     
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    The old house, reflected in the window, could be Mrs. Flintnose's boarding house!:eek:
     
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    Traveling barber, Chelsea, Michigan, 1909

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    YIKES!:eek:

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