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Article: Mustang Barber Shop
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- The Billings Gazette
- Article date:
- January 8, 2001
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The $5 haircut has gone the way of chrome bumpers and nickel cigars, but a Billings man is trying to resurrect a longtime South Side barber shop and its place as a lively center for neighborhood politics.
Walt Lesniak and his Mustang Barber Shop were fixtures at 10 S. 29th St. for nearly 50 years. After Lesniak died in 1998, his three barber chairs were given to his children and his shop closed. The shop sat idle for two years in the crumbling "Old Town" neighborhood two blocks south of the tracks.
As the shop was collecting dust, Michael Erickson was burning out at his desktop publishing business. Erickson, a trained barber, stumbled onto the shop in the spring. He knew it would be the ...