[cripplecreek]

I have a friend who inherited his grandparents house with his grandfather’s old barbershop in the front. The barbershop closed in the late 50s and had nearly 60 years of history before that all sealed up like a museum.

I tried for years to talk my friend into handing it all over to the local museum but he would never do it and it was all lost in a fire.

There was all the barbershop equipment, old magazines, newspapers, the whole stroke. One very interesting thing were baseball scorecards from Detroit Tiger games going back to almost 1900. My friend’s grand dad used to cut hair, chat with customers while listening to the ball games on the radio and keep all the scoring while he did it.

[Stegall Tx]

Similar story in my home town. There is a hardware store that was closed up one day in the late 50s or early 60s and the owner died on the way home. His widow refuses to this day to allow anyone inside the building except to do any necessary repairs to keep it closed. A picture of the storefront is at The Mighty Ironrite about two-thirds down the page with the heading “Encased in Time”.

I've dreamed of getting inside that building some day. I can only imagine what is in the back.