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Article: New Poca barber shop offers old-fashioned atmosphere
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 23, 2005
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Gene Nelson has time to talk, he says.
He leans back in his barber chair while Poca's afternoon traffic
whizzes back and forth along Main Street.
Talk has been part of the stock and trade at the old-fashioned
barber shop.
That's what Nelson wants to re-create - the kind of barber shop
where the magazines were dog-eared and the discussions opinionated.
As for Nelson's opinion, he believes that "real barbering is
becoming a lost art."
"I want this shop to be the kind of place where you can come in
and have a cup of coffee," he said.
Nelson has the coffee, all right, and cookies, too, sitting on a
small table about four feet from the checkerboard.
Nelson, who has ...