A look at the typical barbershop today and in the bygone days.A look at the typical barbershop today and in the bygone days.A look at the typical barbershop today and in the bygone days.
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John Nesbitt
- Narrator
- (voice)
Harry Barris
- Tipster in Barber Chair
- (uncredited)
Frank Darien
- Old Time Barber
- (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
- Pete Ramson
- (uncredited)
Mitchell Lewis
- Tobacco Chewer
- (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
- Banker
- (uncredited)
Pat McKee
- Barbershop Customer
- (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
- Laughing Man
- (uncredited)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
- Laughing Man
- (uncredited)
William 'Bill' Phillips
- Old Time Dude Storyteller
- (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
- Barber
- (uncredited)
Arthur Space
- Contemporary Barber at Middle Chair
- (uncredited)
Leo White
- Rival Barber
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe cuspidor (or spittoon) in the barbershop is stated as being made by Adams & Westlake. Founded in Chicago in 1857, the company made all sorts of railroad apparatus, most notably lanterns and all sorts of brass works, including cuspidors and even beds. As of 2024 the company is still in business in Elkhart, Indiana, having moved there in 1927.
- ConnectionsFeatures Main Street on the March! (1941)
- SoundtracksWhen You and I Were Young, Maggie
(uncredited)
Music by J.A. Butterfield
Performed by the studio orchestra
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The Barber Shop
John Nesbitt's Passing Parade considers the barber shop: not only of today -- if today is seventy five years ago -- but of an earlier time, where things were remarakbly the same: a place where men got together for something they had to get done, by which I mean buying cigarettes ad telling dirty stories.
I'm not quite as old as that, but I do recall fondly one of these old-fashioned places. I had just begun my business career, and I started to go to an Italian barbershop, where they had more than a dozen chairs, shoe shines, manicurists, and of course I ad my own barber. Then, one day while I was waitig for him to finish with another customer, one of those new-fangled lady barbers (gasp!) asked if I wanted her to cut my hair. I started to explai that I was waiting for my.... wait. I don't want to be sexist! Sure.
Worst haircut I ever got, until I moved out of the city and didn't get a good one for four years. I used to console myself with thoughts of that shop, and when I moved back, I headed over.... and discovered a hole in te ground. New construction.
Now that my head has left the top of my head to go elsewhere, I don't need a barbershop as much. A good thing, too, as the price goes up seemingly every time. But like Nesbitt, I mourn the old-fashioned gentility of the shops.
I'm not quite as old as that, but I do recall fondly one of these old-fashioned places. I had just begun my business career, and I started to go to an Italian barbershop, where they had more than a dozen chairs, shoe shines, manicurists, and of course I ad my own barber. Then, one day while I was waitig for him to finish with another customer, one of those new-fangled lady barbers (gasp!) asked if I wanted her to cut my hair. I started to explai that I was waiting for my.... wait. I don't want to be sexist! Sure.
Worst haircut I ever got, until I moved out of the city and didn't get a good one for four years. I used to console myself with thoughts of that shop, and when I moved back, I headed over.... and discovered a hole in te ground. New construction.
Now that my head has left the top of my head to go elsewhere, I don't need a barbershop as much. A good thing, too, as the price goes up seemingly every time. But like Nesbitt, I mourn the old-fashioned gentility of the shops.
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- Passing Parade No. 53: The Great American Mug
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- Runtime10 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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