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Article: Hair today, gone tomorrow; 1-chair Strasburg barber shop, a slice of a bygone era, is closing
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- Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA
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- April 22, 2005
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Men have been walking into 20 W. Main St. for haircuts and
conversation since 1857. After generations there, Warren Aument is
saying goodbye.
Flat top, high in back, tight all around.
Pancake. Mushroom. Crew cut.
Landing strip, freehand fade on the sides. Short taper, close
edges, outliner.
Spike. Buzz cut. Mohawk.
D. Warren Aument has given them all, with a bow tie and chitchat,
for nearly four decades.
His one-man barber shop in Strasburg is closing, a slice of
Americana vanishing like hair on an Army recruit.
Fancy salons with computer-tracked appointments and customers
identified by phone number have nearly extinguished the smoky hubs
where men dropped by to strike business deals, ...