Barber shops and salons across the country have been hit hard by the pandemic, as public health orders forced them into a cycle of opening and closing.
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Barbers, salons reopen
Indoor operations for barbershops and hair salons are allowed as of today, Aug. 31. In San Luis Obispo County, 4.2 percent of COVID-19 tests come back positive, allowing hair services to reopen indoors under new guidelines from Gov. Gavin Newsom. “We’re happy to be inside, our clients are happy to be inside as well. I […]
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Barbershops and places of worship reopen in San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo county hair salons, barbershops and places of worship can begin reopening, according to a May 26 press release from the city of San Luis Obispo. In-person religious services were granted an allowance for reopening on May 25, and hair salons and barbershops on May 26. “We’re pleased to announce that our County […]
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Clippers puts the ‘bar’ in ‘barbershop’
It’s five o’clock somewhere, and that somewhere is Clippers on Monterey Street, where you can drink a beer in the barber’s chair.
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University Barber Shop brings old-school charm and cuts
Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net Gray hairs fall to the black-and-white checkered floor. “Have you been to the gym yet today?” Eva Pierson, a barber at University Barber Shop on Foothill Boulevard, asks the man in her chair, her voice ringing out over the background hum of sports on TV. “He’s what, 90-years old? And he goes […]
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A community in the Kut: the hip-hop barbershop
Aryn Sanderson asanderson@mustangdaily.net There are seven barbershops in San Luis Obispo, a city with a population of approximately 45,000. The barbershops farthest from one another, University Barber Shop and SLO Town Barber Shop, are a mere 3 miles apart. Ray’s Barber Shop, Anderson Barber Shop, The Barber, Clippers Barber Shop and Kut to be the […]
