Legacy
From Joe’s Barbershop to HPHS
The 1927 origin, the Hyde Park Theatre building, and how a shop changes its name without changing its work.
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Stories
Writing from the shop.
The history, the neighbourhood, the trade, and the conversations. Written slowly, published when it is right rather than on a schedule.
Behind the Chair
The Hyde Park Chair
What forty-five minutes in a barber’s chair is actually for, and why people keep coming back to the same one.
Barbers
Generations of Craft
How the trade passes from one barber to the next, and what gets taught that no school teaches.
Community
Barbershop Conversations
On politics, sport, family and everything else that gets settled between the cape and the mirror.
Chicago
Hyde Park Through the Years
The neighbourhood around the shop — the university, the lakefront, and the blocks in between.
Culture
A Visitor’s Guide to Hyde Park
What to do with the hours either side of your appointment, from people who work on the block.
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Photographs, records, or a memory of a haircut from forty years ago. We are collecting all of it before it disappears.
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