Part II - Business, a supplement to the Big Rapids Pioneer Newspaper. Used with permission.



A CUT AND A SHAVE

Those days are long gone when you could get a haircut for a quarter and a lot of free advise, as well. You can still get free advise, but the cost of a cut and/or shave will require you to reach for your wallet these days. And you will find a lot of men getting the latest fashion cuts at hair salons, as well. Percy Willmer's barbershop in the World War I era (top left) an early city shop (location unknown) whose barbers are identified as Fred Zeller, Fay Davis, and Mr. (first name unknown) Holbrook (top right) and the shop (at right) in the basement of the Citizen's State Bank when Doyle Brown got his start. Brown remembered that his father, Ford began barbering there in 1942 and that he joined his father in 1946. Pictured here in 1952 are (from left) Hedvick Larson, who worked for Hanchett's, Jim Atkin, who worked for Pure Oil, and barbered part-time F.A. Whipple, a welder with the Gas Company, Ford Brown, Wilson Scott, a cashier with Citizen's State Bank and Doyle Brown.

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