Scouted an upscale country club today. Honestly couldn’t believe they still have that jar of combs…
Look, I know these are technically three positives attributes…
…but man do they just come off as three more reminders not to use communal combs. Call me stuck up if you will!
-SCOUT
In 1958, 57 notable jazz musicians gathered for a legendary photograph entitled A Great Day in Harlem on the steps of an unassuming brownstone at 17 East 126th Street. The building hasn’t changed much since then, and of the hundreds of correct responses, I was thrilled to see how many went the distance and either…
Over the past few months, I’ve been getting letters from readers about an abandoned school in Garden City, Long Island, called St. Paul’s, on the verge of being demolished. Last Friday, I hopped the train with my bike and camera to have a look for myself. It took less than five minutes to bike to…
Today, I learned that in 1998, Ving Rhames won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Made For TV Movie – then got on stage and gave it to Jack Lemmon, who he had just beaten. Truly bad-ass. Why am I looking up Jack Lemmon? Check back in on Monday! -SCOUT
Dear Scouting NY Reader! It’s been a while! I’ve been working on something new and wanted to share it with you… On sale now is the first issue of Scout Stories, a 32-page digest-sized (5.5″ x 8.5″) full-color periodical consisting of personal stories and pictures taken from my long career as a movie location scout. …
You know you’re going to school in New York City when this is the view out one side of the building… …and this is the view out the other. -SCOUT
Note: this building is now gone. This building, at Metropolitan and Kent, always has some pretty great (and frequently changing) graffiti, but I especially love the enormous hand that showed up several months ago. It makes me laugh everytime I pass by it. There’s something so direct and obvious about it – “Here’s the door,…
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i’m all for reduce reuse recycle but really combs cost pennies a piece. barbers should just send a comb home w. you like they used to do on school picture day…
You got to love the name “Barbicide”.
Reminds me of a story I saw a while back in the Weekly World News in which eight barbers in Manila began arguing about politics and then commenced to stab each other with their scissors…
My barber shop still uses this stuff.
Barbicide ! Love it .
Brings back fond memories of getting haircuts when I was a kid, and looking at the shelf in front of the chair with a veritable candy store display of pomades, lotions, creams and gels from which to choose post-haircut.
Ewwww! Seeing this makes me appreciate being a long-hair who only gets haircuts every three or four years.
That wouldn’t happen to be the Staten Island Country Club golf course, would it? I remember having much the same reaction when I saw those jars there…
Err, Richmond County Country Club, that is.
I actually can’t think of a babershop or salon around here that DOESN’T have it… Then again, I’m in Pittsburgh, where everything is perpetually 10-20 years behind what it is everywhere else.
Actually ALL upscale clubs seem to have a jar of combs in Barbicide….along with a full range of antiquated grooming supplies: Vitalis, ‘Clubman’ talcum powder, bay rum aftershave, etc.
Four words: the wethead is dead.
it tastes good thats for sure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbicide
And it was invented in a Brooklyn bathtub.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/22/nyregion/the-smithsonian-celebrates-barbicide-a-barbershop-germ-killer-born-in-brooklyn.html
I work at an upscale Manhattan spa, and we have jars of these in the locker rooms. Also, a lot of makeup artists still use barbicide solution to clean their brushes!
If you ever get a chance; check out the Deepdale Golf Club in North Hills. It has one of those great scales in the locker room that you see at the Race Track for weighing the jockey and saddle.
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