Searching for light in the darkness ( Part 2 )

Continuation,  Part 1

Rephrasing Confucius,   the hardest thing of all is to photograph a black cat in a dark room ... Exercise often results in a black rectangle, or, - if you're lucky enough  to shoot with a Hasselblad, - "Black Square". (All images are clickable )

Light & shadows,  New Orleans LA

Hoosier Park's The Winner's Circle Pub, Indianapolis, IN

St. Charles Streetcar Line, New Orleans LA

Steet lantern light,  New Orleans

Indiana Theatre, Indianapolis IN

Street and car lights, Mermaid Ave Brooklyn NY

Market District,  New Orleans LA

Le Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans LA

The First Bank and Trust Tower, New Orleans LA

They say, sun never sets on British Empire.  Is there saying for moon and Marriott?

Bourbon Street Distillery,  Indianapolis IN

Verrazano Bridge, Brooklyn NY

Disco lights, Burbon Street New Orleans LA

New Year is creeping closer...

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Christmas decorations. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Christmas decorations. Provincetown,  Cape Cod

Christmas lights. Monument Circle, Indianapolis

Christmas lights. Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans

Christmas windows. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Christmas windows. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Marilyn Monroe. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Santa. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Santa's leftovers. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Inside Trump Tower. NYC

Tropical Isle on Bourbon Street. French Quarter,  New Orleans

Christmas tree. Mississippi River, Memphis

Crescent moon over Mississippi River. Memphis

Stop on Red

- Haircut or shave?
- [laconically] Yeah.
- I beg your pardon, isn't your name Flugg?
- Yeah.
- I thought so. I didn't recognize your face when you first came in.
- [deadpan] No, it's all healed up since I was in here last.

                        

                        (“The Barber Shop”, 1933)

 

   Back in days visiting a barber shop regularly was a habit.

Men stopped in for a hot shave or a haircut, in ancient days - for dentistry or surgery. 

   Actually, it was kind of a hangout: “a barber gives you a quick shave if you don't have time to listen to a haircut”. Some featured bars, like Boston’s famous Joe & Nemo, allowing them to keep up with saloons.

Paul Sample, Barber Shop, 1934. Cleveland Museum of Art collection

    Since long hair became unisex, getting hair done every couple of weeks became optional. Modern times shaved beards from men's faces with the safety razors. Overnight stubble quickly goes away with a help of an electric shaver, usually tucked into the car's glove compartment. Long beards and free time go hand in hand. Man drinks, eats, shaves in the car, sometimes fearless of road signals.

Give it a break - stop on red, stop shaving in the car, stop in for a shave.

 

Barber shops are still around, but, we bet, not like the one we “discovered” around New Year Eve in Indianapolis. We literally stopped on “Red’s”.

Red's Window

Shop's Door

Gentleman's Accessories

Window Poster

Step inside, make yourself comfortable in one of original Koken's and risk it all for a hot lather shave.

Barber at Work

Koken Barber Chair

Let your shoes speak for you:

Shoe Shine Bench & Stands

He works here, he is from Savannah and he knows it all. All you have to do is to ask ... just ask about the place and just listen to a shoe shine:

Interested ? Visit Red's in the Red's album or at their site.