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From: "Charlie Hazlett" <>
Subject: RE: [OHGALLIA-L] Just talk about the town places
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 15:03:49 -0400
In-Reply-To: <CHEOIHICIJFCDPCPABHECEAODCAA.ltcasey@verizon.net>


Lew....I did not know you were on the list ! I know of your
grandmother's papers, you have sent me a few items from it.....

Good to see you here.

Correct about the axle mounting of that brush. It was mounted somehow
and he grabbed handles on either side and spun it against the head.



On 4/9/2006, "Lew & Terry" <> wrote:

>I also remember getting haircuts at this shop; and I still remember that
>huge round brush. If I remember correctly, it spun around on an axle held
>with both hands -- they don't make those instruments any more! I think the
>barber's name was "Dude" Robinson; the shop was originally owned by James E.
>Hill (11/28/1863 - 12/24/1942). I have a copy of Mr. Hill's obituary
>(somehow it wound up in my grandma's scrapbook) -- Mr. Hill was described as
>"the dean of Gallipolis barbers.
>
>Lew Casey
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charlie Hazlett [mailto:]
>Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 12:06 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: [OHGALLIA-L] Just talk about the town places
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>
>Beside Duke Cleaners is another small shotgun type building in which I
>used to get my hair cut. An old black barber, I don't even remember
>his name, but he had this huge round brush on some kind of mechanism
>that he used to massage your head........
>
>
>
>On 4/9/2006, "Henny Evans" <> wrote:
>
>>
>> Right below Gilly's was a small market that went straight back like the
>little shotgun houses. That's the 700 block of Second. Barbara and Cheryl
>Niday lived on about the 900 block of First, I think.
>> Good question...what was what is now the Movie Station? I vaguely
>remember tractors being parked out front...this is on the corner below the
>Bradbury apartments. The other three corners are the Rood Market, now empty
>from White's Paint Town, Walter Wise's Garage...now Duke Cleaners, and the
>house where Keith and Lola Mae Suiter lived and Weldon Straight lived in the
>1950's. Henny
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Across the street, at one time, was an International Harveste dealer, or
>>some kind of farm implement dealer. I forget exactly what it was, but it
>>might have been a bakery later on, say, the Bronze age ????
>>
>>This is fun.....
>>
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