Updated January 27, 2005
It was back in October when we went
to visit my friend Landis, a collector of just about anything and
everything. I'd always wanted a barber chair to set in my garage
beside the woodstove and the beer tap. Landis had two and said
he'd sell me one for a good price. A week later, after I'd moved
some things around in the garage and made room for it, I called him to
make arrangements for me to pick it up. He said he'd changed his
mind and had decided to keep it. Unbeknownst to me, my dear wife
had contacted him and told him not to let me have it, she would buy if
for me for Christmas. So her brother went and got it in his
trailer. Now this thing weighs over 600 lbs, so they loaded it
with chains and a front-loader and he kept it til Christmas day and
snuck it in my garage, with the help of my son and son-in-law. I
still don't know how they managed to unload it without me seeing
it. So when I went out to the garage to get a beer, there it sat!
After a few hours of polishing, it looks almost new. According to
the serial number, it was made in 1920.