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diary of a vintage barber enthusiast skip to main skip to sidebar diary of a vintage barber enthusiast wednesday december 22 2010 greetings and happy holidays to all my readers kinda crazy weather in some parts of the world heavy snow in ireland and flash floods in los angeles county so here s a treat 1940s mohawks yes a lot of folks have heard or read about us airborne troops parachuting into normandy in 44 with shaved heads and mohawks but you never see images of these guys well here goes here are some photos of pathfinders guys from the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions who parachuted in first these pictures are screen caps i took from an army air force film made on d day minus one these images are great because they are the real deal the image of the all american citizen soldier that was portrayed in the media was very different to what these warriors looked like i m pretty sure the guy above on the right has had his hair shaved with a straight razor i mean even an oster machine with a 00005 attachment wouldn t be that close what i find interesting is that this guy s hair actually looks like a modern marine recon haircut aka a horseshoe recently i was in contact with another barber enthusiast who sports this cut called musclebuzz and he told me about a los angeles barbershop run by recon wearing mohawk matt keep up the good work matt posted by dewitt albright at 4 28 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday october 13 2010 courtesy of fellow barber blogger frank reiland i came across this new clip of donny hawley talking at his shop it s beautifully shot kudos to whoever put this video together i find it very interesting that donny talks about the hardships of barbers from the 60s to the 80s this is exactly what liam finnegan veteran barber and owner of the waldorf talks about damn hippies ruined it for all of us anyway a new golden age of traditional barbering seems to be back incidentally in donny s shop there s a b w photo of his grandad motocross bikeracing in dublin back in the 50s in shelbourne park this is only a couple of miles from me i messaged donny about this but i m not sure he got it posted by dewitt albright at 3 48 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 8 2010 ok here s some vintage footage of yours truly shot on location at the waldorf barbershop in dublin spot prize for having the most interesting guess about what i was talking about posted by dewitt albright at 9 28 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 1 2010 i wanted to share this neat image i came across on the net of a victorian gentleman shaving himself it struck a cord because it reminded me of the video below of me shaving with a straight razor what strikes me as unusual in the picture or is it a painting is that the subject is shaving a mundane gentleman s task normally pictures from the period were more staged posted by dewitt albright at 4 02 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday august 1 2010 hello friends i ve been meaning to put together a shave video for a while and have finally done it shaving yourself at home with a straight razor is a different experience than shaving or getting shaved in a barbershop you need to learn the basics then figure out what works for you traditionally at a barbershop one would start from the jawline and do the neckline later i ve found that doing the neck first works best for me to keep this video as easy and practical as possible i m using a shavette which we looked at in an earlier post and i m using a cheap shaving brush and palmolive soap yes that s right just a bar of plain old soap that s why it drys in a little faster than palmolive shave paste would do posted by dewitt albright at 7 06 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 26 2010 horstator piccolo 55 here is a picture i took of a new clippers that liam at the waldorf barbershop recently acquired it s a made in germany clippers i was debating with liam about the age of this machine judging by the warranty and the instructions leaflet and the illustration on the box i d guess late 40s to mid 50s liam thinks it s more modern maybe 60s in any case it does work and do a really good job it s got a slower motor just like the oster there is a blade that is a 00005 which did give a tighter result than the oster there is a large chrome beak that juts out so it takes longer for the metal blade to heat up that s one thing that i love about the oster below is a great clip about a barbershop in the late 50s you can see that the barber is using a barrel type clippers posted by dewitt albright at 3 08 am 14 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 5 2010 on saturday i called in early to the folks at the waldorf i had left my vintage pre war straight razor in to liam for honing and was looking forward to collecting it one of the best parts of calling to the shop is the atmosphere and the people who come in you just never know who you are likely to meet especially on a saturday linda from the shop had a photographer coming in called rosco i have seen rosco s work before through mutual friends he does a lot of work for the burlesque and vintage scene rosco was kind enough to take these photos of me getting a shave and haircut from linda if you would like to contact rosco for photography work you can message him in facebook where he goes by oyster zepplin posted by dewitt albright at 9 22 am 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom ed crane i just sweep the hairs waldorf barbershop s fan box waldorf barbershop on facebook