Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces inside its glass ...

Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.—Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces ...

It's as common a sight in business districts as street lamps or parking spaces: a revolving vertical tube that signals a destination for patrons in need of a haircut or shave. It's the barber pole, ...

WASHINGTON – The Smithsonian Institution has received a bit of red, white and blue Americana from St. Paul, Minn. – a pair of barber poles manufactured by the William Marvy Co. The Marvy company, the ...

What's red, white and blue, and has spun its way into controversy? It's the barber pole. The pole sometimes rotates outside the shops of cosmetologists or hair stylists who don't employ barbers.

Mark Twain once wrote: 'What one experiences in a barber's shop the first time he enters one is what he always experiences in barbers' shops afterwards till the end of his days'. He couldn't be ...

Sarah Lounder, the owner of Cuts on Main salon in the small town of Winchester, N.H., recently got a violation that just about made her hair stand on end. The New Hampshire Board of Barbering, ...

(CBS/AP) FRANKFORT, Ky. - Seems every time you turn around someone's taking a poll these days. In central Kentucky, thieves even took a couple of barber poles. The most recent pole was taken Wednesday ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - Patricia Sides fulfilled a dream to become a barber years ago. She purchased Kut-N-Go and, by and large, business was going well until a few nights ago. "I was in shock for ...