[194 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, c. 1939–1941. From the NYC Municipal Archives Collections. Click for a much larger view.]
It’s Sunday morning, but this scene is not quite Edward Hopper. On or in Early Sunday Morning, the barber shop was closed. Hopper called that painting “almost a literal translation of Seventh Avenue” in Manhattan. This Sunday we’re in the Waterfront District of Brooklyn. I am imagining that it’s a noon-ish weekday (notice the shadow under the sole pedestrian), with most potential customers at work. In addition to the barber and the pedestrian, there’s someone at a window. Look closely.
Why is it the Union Park Barber Shop? No clue. There’s a Union Square Park in Manhattan. Brommer’s Union Park was was a location in the Bronx. Go figure.
Today no. 194 houses an event space, Poppy’s HQ. Things happen there.
[Click for a larger barber.]
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Sunday, November 5, 2023
A waterfront barber
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Like the window posters, hair tonic, maybe for wrestling or boxing?
I would guess “the fights,” boxing.
this barber shop has a good slogan
https://nycma.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/s/16fw4e
Click for larger to see it: “Where the promise is fulfilled.”
Thanks, reader.
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