NEW BUSINESS OPENING ON SQUARE

[Towntalk]

 The red and white pole outside barber shops references a time when barbers were expected to perform bloodletting and other medical procedures to heal the sick; red represented blood and white represented bandages. "Barber surgeons" in Rome also performed teeth extraction, cupping, leeching, bloodletting, surgery and enemas. However, today's barber poles represent little more than being a barber shop that cuts hair and does shaves.

[AllanY2525]

SOURCE:  WikiPedia online...... I didn't realize that they came in different colors.....


A 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). The pole may be stationary or may revolve, often with the aid of an electric motor.[1][2]

A "barber's pole" with a helical stripe is a familiar sight, and is used as a secondary metaphor to describe objects in many other contexts. For example, if the shaft or tower of a lighthouse has been painted with a helical stripe as a daymark, the lighthouse could be described as having been painted in "barber's pole" colors.

[Towntalk]

Can anyone tell me what the meaning is behind the barber pole?

[joly1584]

Allan-

He does have a barber shop pole; however, it is inside the front window not outside.  You would not notice it from the street unless you were stopped at a red light.

[AllanY2525]

ahhhh...sadly, I am bald so I would not have much cause to visit the barber shop...but then I
Could always just stop by and tell them to "take a little off the sides, please..." while catching
up on local news, gossip, etc.

A nice cup of coffee and a copy of the Vindicator to read while sitting in the chair would be
Great too......hope he puts up a swirly spinning barber pole outside with the red, white and
blue stripes.

[Peggy Gurney]

I just may have to check this place out. It's time for another trim anyway.

[Towntalk]

DITTO! Especially a good Barber Shop that could rid some of those moth eaten, long haired, straggly beared guys of half of their hair    and make them look halfway civilized    if that's even possable.

[Peggy Gurney]

No one should ever object to new business opening in Youngstown...............


........... unless, of course, it is another bar!       j/k

[Towntalk]

How many "NEW"businesses that have opened on the west side got any help from the city? If this barber/beauty shop had opened on Mahoning Avenue say in the Schenley area would you have objected?

[Peggy Gurney]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jay]

Didn't this business recently receive a "water department grant" to open?

[AllanY2525]

Way to go, Jerome.....now THIS is a business that EVERYONE could
patronize. 

Even okay for the kiddies.

[Towntalk]

A GREAT BIG THANK YOU TO

Jerome Franklin

Owner

STARTING LINE UP

[Towntalk]

STARTING LINE UP

GROUND FLOOR REALTY TOWER

OPEN 8:00 AM TO 7:00 PM

7 Beauticians

6 Barbers

FULL SERVICE

[Towntalk]

AND IT'S NOT A BAR/SALOON/RESTAURANT

Will we be seeing you down there Jay?