11:37 am

July 19, 2010

Hair Care, 1940s Style as I recall it.

THE BARBERS!  A pre-war child’s definition.. A shop or front parlour, where a parent (usually father)  took a boy to be  almost  scalped, and to indulge  himself in a  masochistic act of being  singed across the back of the head with a flaming  taper.  This practice went on at least once every  month, without anyone [...]