Jerry's Barber Pole: A dwindling profession

When Darrell Brenna retired from the barber business Glasgow lost a good hair cutter. 60 years cutting hair with scissors and clippers with a shoulder massage tacked on for good measure. Strangers thought he looked like Kenny Rogers. As far as I know there are no "real" barbers left in Glasgow. I recall when Saco had two barber shops.

The old-time shops with the red and white pole out front are rapidly disappearing across the Hi-Line being replaced by "styling salons" and "beauty shops." Some of these shops advertise mani's, pedi's, massages, dying, tinting, facial piercings and tattooing....