A Cut Above ...

“I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair

Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air

I see her tripping where the bright streams play

Happy as the daisies that dance on her way …”

          ~ “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”

             ~ 1854 parlor song by

                Stephen Foster

                   ~ 1826-1864

           ~popular song performed by

                 Barbershop Quartets

      ~ the opening line was notably used as the basis for the title of the 1960s TV series “I Dream of Jeannie”

As the oldest barber shop in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Woody’s Barber Shop is a cut above for sure! I shot this image of this mainstay in the West End of the city on an early May afternoon.

Woody’s Barber Shop has been in business for 91 years. Services include high and tights, flat tops, kids cuts, and old-fashioned regular haircuts.

 The barber’s pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft. The trade sign is, by a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, a staff or pole with a helix of colored stripes (often red and white in many countries, but usually red, white and blue in the United States).

 For more information visit https://www.woodysbarbershopatown.com/.