“That fan ain’t even on,” he said pointing to the turning blades. “He wouldn’t let me pay a dime for it.” A ceiling fan above the fireplace spun gently. “My uncle built that fireplace for me,” Chuck said. We sat at a table near the kitchen as a fire crackled in a massive fireplace that reached up and beyond the vaulted living room ceiling. His home, a remodeled church, was warm and comfortable, especially coming in from the cold during the year’s first snowfall. “Where the hell are you coming from? Alice’s Wonderland?” he asked, sounding serious but wearing a friendly smirk. That means Chuck has been cutting hair in the same building for 52 years.Ĭhuck invited me into his home and called me a son of a bitch before I could even sit down. Although he took ownership of the shop in 1972, he cut hair there as an associate starting in 1967. Meet Chuck SeniorĬhuck Senior was the owner and operator of the Beechmont Barber Shop in Mount Washington from 1972 to February of this year.
Thanks to a tip on my Beechmont Stories Facebook page, I now know who kept those horses. Every time our family would go to Withrow Nature Preserve or down to Kellogg for whatever reason, my daughter Savannah would always point out the grazing horses there.
I always wondered who lived on that property where Five Mile bends west, south of 275, and appears to dead end into Markley.
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