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Article: A CUT ABOVE THE REST AFTER NEARLY 50 YEARS, RUDY EDWARDS' CUSTOMERS THINK HE'S
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- January 19, 2003
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Rudy Edwards is an endangered species.
With a comb in one hand and clippers in another, he snips the hair
from customers' heads.
He shaves them so close, it's nearly a crime.
He slathers their manes with drugstore aftershave.
And he ribs them enough that they'll still be chuckling later on.
At 79, with snowy hair and a cluster of barbershop relics, Edwards
looks like an antiquity in Central Styling Barber and Beauty Shop in
Radford.
His buzzing razor is drowned out by salon hair dryers and
gossiping stylists.
The hair business has changed since Edwards became a barber in
1946. Longer styles rule, and fewer people are going to barber
school.
Luckily, Edwards, who owned Central Styling until ...