The Council Room

[Richard Culleton]

Don't know which day of the week the barber visited, but remember the hairy porch of Norm Risser's cabin near the infirmary. Longer hair was popular in 1965. BMB evidently thought my hair was too long, and actually accompanied me to the barber and directed the cut. Kind of pissed me off... longer hair was the rage- oh well, don't have to worry about long hair now except the ones in the nose and ears...

[Mike Freeland]

Wow, yet another buried memory. I haven't thought of the barber's visits in years! I think it was Wednesdays, during siesta and quiet hour. And I do remember BMB's escorting kids to the guy, who as I recall, was from Fleet Street. I seem to recall someone checking us out to determine whether we "needed" a haircut. Counselors? Nurses? Brad? The feeling of relief when I didn't have to go was huge.

He had lunch at the Bentley's table, and I have these visions of everyone at the table picking little snippets of hair off their tongues as they ate.

Coming to camps for the haircuts must have been a real windfall, huh? Was that barber chair his, or did Wyanoke own it? Dave?

Come the 70s, long hair was the norm, and I think the barber's visits stopped, to BMB's annoyance I'm sure. Guys were pretty shaggy then. At first, he didn't like my beard, but seemed OK with it after he got used to it. It was an awkward moment for me when he frist saw it, because I knew how he felt about unnecessary hair and I respected him. (Yeah, I've shed all of my unnecessary hair too. And I don't know what's so damn necessary about ear and nose hair either, though one can be teased into a servicable moustache, and the other a fine comb-over).
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'73-JA1 '75-J-6

[David Bentley]

During the non-camp portion of the year, Dad used to get his hair cut EVERY week by the same barber at the same shop in Winchester. The shop was on a short side street across from the Winchester Police Station, and many dads of local teenages got their hair cut there, somewhat because the two barbers were excellent, but mostly because they always seemed to know what was going on in Town, good and bad, and this kept the dads up to speed. One day, during casual conversation, Dad mentioned that he missed his regular weekly cut during the summer, and looked forward to returning in the fall. To stretch out an already way too long story, one of those barbers mentioned that he wouldn't mind coming to Wolfeboro on his day off and he would cut Dad's hair. The conversation strengthened to include cutting the camper's hair and staff's hair, too, and the trip was formalized, the rate was set, and Dad agreed to feed the barber and let him fill up with gas on the way out of Wolfeboro. The "barber shop" was (when I first remember) located in the tutoring room off the porch of the Boyden Chapel. I quite honestly don't know too many particulars, but that is what I know of the barber. It did eventually move to the Doctor's Cabin (Mr. Risser). Finally, in Winchester, that barber shop closed and Dad switched to a 4-chair (3 brothers and a cousin) in Winchester, and the TOTAL extent of the conversation in that shop was local high school sports, and Joe Bellino, 1960 Heisman Trophy winner at Navy who was from Winchester. And, yes, Camp owned the chair.
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Pine Cone 68 - 75 (with wife,Sherry,
and daughter Tracey)
Wolfeboro - full-time since 1997

[Jim Graves]

Having grown up in Winchester I am very familiar with that Barber shop on the side street and visited it frequently. My dad was a regular for over twenty years. When I left for college I donated my comic book collection to the shop and have wondered through the years what it would be worth today if I still owned it. Oh well. I went off to college and met my future wife during the first week of school, and to make a long story short, she has been cutting my hair since the fall of 75. I blame her for going bald. I think she took me too seriously when I used to say "just a little off the top."
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74 J-? (The small cabin across road from J-2) Councilor
75 J-5 Councilor

[Jim Culleton]

Dick, I had forgotten about that experience! I bet he waited there until you were done! I wonder if Mr. Bentley would have had me take you to the barber if I was there that summer, LOL? '65 was my first summer away from Wyanoke.

I do remember Carley's (Carly?) Barber Shop on one of the side streets in Wolfeboro. I remember going there a few times, perhaps as a JC or councilor. I believe the Camp barber used just electric clippers . . . . no scissors, but not sure of that.
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