The story
Same door, same chairs, since the Johnson administration.
The shop opened in 1968 in the Village Court strip on the corner of El Camino Real and San Antonio Road — back when the chairs were already considered classic. They still are. Brown leather Belmonts with the metal footrests, antique gold-framed oval mirrors lining the wall, fake-stone hacienda walls from the day the place was framed in.
Two small yellow biplanes hang from the ceiling on fishing line. Folded dollar bills are pinned around the mirror frames. The price board on the counter is hand-painted. The "we only accept cash or check" sign has been there longer than most of the customers' grandkids.
The team has been doing this — together — for more than two hundred years of combined experience. Tina works the chair on the right; the regulars know which one. Walk in and you'll see exactly what a 1968 men's barbershop looked like, because nothing has been "reimagined" yet.
“Been coming here since ’74. They give a good-looking haircut for a reasonable price, and the place has not changed a bit. That’s the whole point.”
