There is no telephone at the barber shop and no appointments are taken. Shorty talks about playing cards with a man who hid the ace of spades in the palm of his paw. Shorty talks about mercury-loaded dice. He talks about old shoe-shine men named Dugga Loo and Rooster. He talks about the days when Railroad Avenue was the main drag and Boulevard was just mud.
Barber shops exist for more than just getting hair cut.
On the 300 and 400 blocks of Enterprise alone, there are three shops. Thibodeaux, who has cut hair on the street for 44 years, is friends with Mack Jones, who is on the south end of his block. Jones has been a barber on Enterprise since 1950. The new guy is Bobby Papion, who has been on the 300 block for a couple of years. When Thibodeaux's business backs up, he sometimes sends customers to Papion.