After 87 Years, Haircuts the Same; Now Fewer Leeches

[Augusto86]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/ny.../16barber.html

Mr. Mancinelli has certainly had many such customers. He started cutting hair when Calvin Coolidge was in the White House. He was 12. The people at the Guinness Book of World Records who concern themselves with such things have proclaimed Mr. Mancinelli, who turns 99 on March 2, the world’s oldest barber. “When I started, a haircut and shave cost you two bits — a quarter,” Mr. Mancinelli told Mr. Jaffe, who has been a customer for 25 years. “A while later, it was 25 cents for a haircut and 15 cents extra for a shave.”

“I used to have a bottle of leeches on my counter, and I would put them on people’s skin to drain blood,” he said, not noticing that half a dozen men waiting for him and three other barbers were hanging on his every word. “In those days, while giving a haircut, I would put a leech over a black eye to bring down the swelling, or on the arm of someone who had high blood pressure because the thinking was their pressure might drop.”

Neat human interest story about a 98-year old barber. I hope I'm still doing what I'm good at when I'm 98...

 

[RJman]

Originally Posted by Dear Boy

Neat human interest story about a 98-year old barber. I hope I'm still doing what I'm good at when I'm 98...

Arguing on teh internetz with montecristo#4?

 

[West24]

Originally Posted by Augusto86

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/ny.../16barber.html





Neat human interest story about a 98-year old barber. I hope I'm still doing what I'm good at when I'm 98...

sucking cack?

 

[Baron]

The leeches remind of me of my late great-uncle, who had his tonsils removed by a baber. With no anesthetic. Wild west style, when men were men.

 

[lee_44106]

Cool story.

 

[Augusto86]

Originally Posted by RJman

Arguing on teh internetz with montecristo#4?

If I'm doing that @ 28 I'm going to kill myself.