Brenda Wallace (seated) and Lauren “Tootsie” Bullard were photographed in the Cloverleaf Barber Shop on Hixson Pike.
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The Cloverleaf Barber Shop on Hixson Pike is celebrating 50 years of operation.
Funny thing is, pomade hair product and full-face razor shaves, popular when the shop opened in the middle of the 20th century, are back in style.
So are barber shops in general, for that matter.
The unisex salons that dominated the hair business for two generations are now merely an option. More men are drifting back to the barber-pole establishments that were the norm when the Cloverleaf Barber Shop opened for business in 1966.
In the shop’s early years, the men of the nearby DuPont plant and workers building the Sequoyah nuclear complex would drift into the little strip shopping center just north of Highway 153. It was an area that by the early 1970s would be anchored by Northgate Mall.