After returning from WW I, Horace Mann decided to attend barber school and

returned to his home town of Kapok, WI to open his own shop. He married, as

young men do, and had a son that they named Horace as well. The son grew to manhood and saw that barbering was an honerable profession, and decided, at his fathers urging to join him in the shop. Time went by and the young man follwed his fathers footsteps, married and had his own son that was chistened Horace Mann III. This young man grew up as well, and though rebelled as a teen, eventually came to work in the shop with his father and

grandfather. Like them, he eventually fell in love, married and had a son.

This was Horace Mann IV. With all the distractions of the modern world, the

boy none the less finally took up barbering. When he joined the shop, the

old man, though long retied, hired a professional photgrapher to record the

four generations before the family shop. It has become rather a well known

item. After all, who has not heard of the four Horace Manns of the Kapock

Clips?

5 minute time out for that one.

River

All of which calls to mind, how much the price of haircuts has gone up. In 1945, you probably could have gotten a haircut for under a dollar, and possibly a shave as well. In 1919, the haircut might have been lless than fifty cents. But, of course, barbers still charge a whole lit less than Dr. Kimmel does, for trimming something off their customers.

An Onymus (imported) wrote: Wed Aug 06, 2003 3:36 pm All of which calls to mind, how much the price of haircuts has gone up. In 1945, you probably could have gotten a haircut for under a dollar, and possibly a shave as well. In 1919, the haircut might have been lless than fifty cents. But, of course, barbers still charge a whole lit less than Dr. Kimmel does, for trimming something off their customers.

Walk up to a piano, and hit the keys:

F-C-C-D-C (wait a sec) E-F

You'll recognize the tune. (In the movie, "Who Killed

Roger Rabbit," someone tries to figure out where Roger

is hiding by knocking on the cabinets and walls in the

room. Roger hears the 'tap tap-tap-tap tap' and responds

back by knocking, twice: 'tap tap'. His cover is blown.)

The words to this are, "shave and a haircut - two bits!"

Andrew (imported) wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:11 pm who has not heard of the four Horace Manns of the Kapock

a Clips?

It's such a long way to go for such an obscure joke.

Bravo, bravo, bravo!!

I wonder if anyone else realized the barber shop survived war, famine, pestilence and death!!