And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In my early teens my mother marched me to Joe's Barber shop in New Milford, NJ promptly every 2 weeks. Joe was an elderly Italian "legal" immigrant who I gave 75 cents +a quarter tip after the job was done. That included a cut, lite shave the back of the neck and a liberal dosing of Vitalis hair tonic.
No way. Not a bad boy. No tats. No ducktail.
ReplyDeleteBack when a kids haircut was a dollar.
DeleteFirst the barber. Then the dentist.
ReplyDeleteIs that you, C.W.?
ReplyDelete"Did you get a hair cut?"
ReplyDelete"No, I got them all cut."
Brylcreem or Butch Wax?
ReplyDeleteIn my early teens my mother marched me to Joe's Barber shop in New Milford, NJ promptly every 2 weeks. Joe was an elderly Italian "legal" immigrant who I gave 75 cents +a quarter tip after the job was done. That included a cut, lite shave the back of the neck and a liberal dosing of Vitalis hair tonic.
ReplyDeletewhere's my piece of bazooka bubblegum now? or double bubble.
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