A dying breed

[bookerdog]

What are some of the things that you miss. The local logger hang out, The small saw shop in town, The local barber that still used a straight razor.
Im a barber that still uses a straigt razor with warm shave cream. I know Im the last around anywhere close that still does this. I feel Im a dying breed.

 

[Peacock]

What happened to the warm shaving cream? It is heavenly...

 

[cuttinscott]

My Barber still uses a straight razor and warm shaving cream.. And alot of the loggers and landscapers alike meet here at our store lol..


Scott

 

[Timberhauler]

What are some of the things that you miss. The local logger hang out, The small saw shop in town, The local barber that still used a straight razor.
Im a barber that still uses a straigt razor with warm shave cream. I know Im the last around anywhere close that still does this. I feel Im a dying breed.

Read the thread I posted a while back titled "A reminder of the past".....My barber uses a straight razor and warm shaving cream as well...I miss saws without rev limiter caps,and the old super macs...I also miss big bore two stroke dirt bikes.

 

[ropensaddle]

How about full service gas stations and ethel, drive in movies,
less crime!! Never and I mean never would I trust another wan with a
straight razor at my throat unless I had gun to his head lol.

 

[SawTroll]

.......guess I am a bit to modern then, I use the Gilettes with 3 blades, and am quite happy with them - real fast to get it off, even after a long week-end......

 

[jhellwig]

The barber I go to uses the straight blade razor and warm shaving cream. The only good thing about going to a hair salon to get you hair cut is they essentially give you a lap dance while you are there. The last one I went to looked at me funny when I told her that I didn't want any gel in my hair because I was going to put my hat back on when I walk out of here.


Around here all the local farmers loafing places are dying out as the old guys die. I dunno where anyone hangs out nowadays. The good old boys have been replaced by stoners and meth addicts.

 

[chowdozer]

What are some of the things that you miss. The local logger hang out, The small saw shop in town, The local barber that still used a straight razor.
Im a barber that still uses a straigt razor with warm shave cream. I know Im the last around anywhere close that still does this. I feel Im a dying breed.

The local hardware store. Staffed by a bunch of retired guys. When you walked in the door, they came from all directions, it was a race to see who could help you first. They reminded me of vultures but they were nice. Some had canes, some were hobbling. I always wanted things like button head stainless allen's, or some obscure piece of hardware that most places don't stock. I only stumped them once. Home Depot drove them out of business.

On the flip side, our local Lowe's has occupied a ex Eagle hardware store for the past 12 or so years. They stocked pretty much what Eagle had stocked. Then they built a new store. Moved the beginning of last month. Went there last weekend for 10-32 stainless screws. Always had them. Lowes does not stock a single 10-32 screw now at all. Nothing. Needless to say I won't be going to Lowes much anymore.

 

[BIGBORE577]

The local gun shop. Always a pot of coffee brewing, a wood stove you took turns feeding and plenty of good hunting stories to be told even if some may have been seasoned with a little BS. I learned a lot from those old gentlemen and now that I am one, I appreciate it even more. I really miss that era, the conversation was always good and the hunting/gun talk was usually a lead in to many other interesting topics/debates, including chain saws. It's an age that has passed. Now it seems that owning a firearm automatically makes you some sort of an evil wrong doer.

 

[Gologit]

The coffee shop where all the locals would gather in the winter. I heard more good stories and good ideas there than any place else.
My barber drinks. In the morning his hands shake. I get my haircut in the afternoon.

 

[GASoline71]

I retired from the Navy last July... so I haven't seen a barber in awhile...

Feels weird havin' my hair touch my ears.

Gary

 

[SRT-Tech]

the garage in the back of the single pump gas station/general store. Staffed by a grease covered mean ol sonofa****** who smoked while fueling your truck. $20 bucks and a handshake would get your truckon the lift, and you would be on your way in 15 minutes, no "upselling' of parts or labour that you did'nt need. A big huge metal lathe in the corner of the dimly lit shop, a behemoth machine that scared us younguns, but one that the owner would operate with ease, making us suppresors for our .22's, so we would'nt be heard bagging grouse off season (shh!). the rack of OpeeChee baseball card bubblegum on the wall, we used to knick a pack once in a while when he wqs'nt looking, but he always made us pay for it later, by getting us to run the block and tackle while lifting a big truck engine, or driving out with the towlorry to pull a truck off a muddy field.

good times.

 

[bookerdog]

I retired from the Navy last July... so I haven't seen a barber in awhile...

Feels weird havin' my hair touch my ears.

Gary

I need to try out my new german ss440 straight razor. A marine horseshoe would be a good look for the summer

 

[bookerdog]

When I was a kid we still had a old soda foutain in the phamacy. I still can remeber drinking chocolat cokes and listen to all the old guys shoot the bull.

 

[Tzed250]

Rear view mirror...

It gets hard when you get older and you look back at the good times and the really important moments in your life, realizing that they are all behind you. Hold the defining times in your life close, because they are what make you who you are. I see all of this garbage that is on a new saw and it makes me sick. Reminds me of when the EPA legislated two-stroke street bikes out of existence. Oh to have a 2007 RZ500! That is why I have my old McCullochs. It reminds me of when I was growing up and chain saws were a wonderment. There is nothing like discovering something that really puts a smile on your face. All that being said, the new saws have convenience, safety, comfort, and reliability that the saws of the past could never dream of. I still live for the future, but the past is a place I like to go once in a while to remember when things were new and possibilities seemed endless...

 

[SawTroll]

I retired from the Navy last July... so I haven't seen a barber in awhile...

Feels weird havin' my hair touch my ears.

Gary

Pictures, please.........

 

[HiOctane]

I miss the chain saw shop where loggers and others talk about their daywork,small wood,blown tires,stupid foreman,girls,bad forest roads,moose,broken chains in front of ther counter or on the pickup tailgate in front of the shop.

 

[turnkey4099]

What are some of the things that you miss. The local logger hang out, The small saw shop in town, The local barber that still used a straight razor.
Im a barber that still uses a straigt razor with warm shave cream. I know Im the last around anywhere close that still does this. I feel Im a dying breed.

Where in Washington? My local barber still does that too.

One of the biggest saw dealers in this area was John's Saw Shop in Lewiston, Id. Took care of all the professional loggers (mostly Potlach Company) in the area. I stopped in last year and was shocked. Show room was full of almost all homeowner size saws and yard type equipment (Stihl of course).

Harry K

 

[ents]

The saw dust covered floor of the butcher shop (now a days it's hard to find a butcher shop). My dad and I would go in and I always got a hot dog to chew on from the butcher. I did find a butcher shop in N.J. that had saw dust on the floors. Good shop and how it stayed in business is amazing to me.

I too miss the old dimly lit squeaky floored hardware store. If you wanted one of something or a bag full you could get it and from folks who knew what they were talking about. There is an old type, still in business hardware store in Mt. Airy. Some good ole stuff in there.

From the way folks talk about the old Macs I guess I should have hung onto the one I bought when I was in Colorado (late 70s). Don't know if that one would be old enough to qualify as a good ole mac but it would certainly be old.


I most of all miss MADE IN U.S.A. (not knocking those out of country saws, I own em).

"A reminder of the past" is a good thread.

 

[Timberhauler]

The local gun shop. Always a pot of coffee brewing, a wood stove you took turns feeding and plenty of good hunting stories to be told even if some may have been seasoned with a little BS. I learned a lot from those old gentlemen and now that I am one, I appreciate it even more. I really miss that era, the conversation was always good and the hunting/gun talk was usually a lead in to many other interesting topics/debates, including chain saws. It's an age that has passed. Now it seems that owning a firearm automatically makes you some sort of an evil wrong doer.

I love my local gun shop,and it has not changed in the 25 years I have been doing business there.I wrote a peice about in the thread about the shop employee getting fired.It is truly a place from yesterday.The guy who runs the place has taught me more about guns that I ever imagined....Me,my wife and the owner of this shop went out for a little round of target shooting one weekend.My wife was a decent shot,easily qualifying when she has to re-certify every six months...But this guy showed her a few things in particular about the Glock,helped her with her firing position a little,we then discovered she was left eye dominant...Every since that day,she has gone from being an average shot to shooting a perfect score every time she re-qualifies..This same guy taught me about reloading,and we have been hunting buddies longer than I care to remember.Although there are several places my wife can order new duty gear on-linewhether it be pepper spray,holsters,cuffs or whatever considerably cheaper than he can sell it to her,she will go no where else but to him.Every single time we go in there together,he tells her to go out and "give em' hell"...But every time,in a very sincere voice he tells her to be carefull and to come back...There aren't many like him left..I mentioned in the other thread that he's retiring and shutting his doors in three years,and it's truly gonna be a peice of my life gone.