Postas Barber Shop

The holidays are fast approaching, don’t forget we’re now open for both appointments and walk ins.

Good luck to the Wallkill Valley Rangers state playoff game today. Give them hell boys!!!

Don’t forget, starting Nov 1, we will be available for both walk ins and appointments.

This!

This is me walking in to a small business to pay for a service we never got!

The kids were off school last Friday, so that’s the day we made our son’s appointment at the barber. We woke up Friday morning and forgot all about the haircut. My husband was off too so he decided to take the boys out for a fun day about an hour away. Then a couple hours later my calendar notification pops up reminding me of the appointment. There was no way he could make it back in time. So I called the barber, cancelled the appointment, apologized, and told him I’d be right in to pay him. Tip included. It wasn’t his fault we forgot the appointment. He showed up and was there waiting on us. Today, we are rescheduling the appointment and we will pay for it again! Yes, we paid for a haircut we didn’t get and will pay for another one we will get. Because it was OUR FAULT! Stop cancelling and no-showing your small businesses! Imagine showing up to work and not getting paid!

Postas Barber Shop will be getting back to this! Starting November 1, the shop will be open for both walk in and appointments! Let’s bring the barbershop banter back!

Half the men on that bench weren’t waiting for a haircut. They just had nowhere better to be. 🪑♟️

Santa Cruz, 1966. The shop opened at eight, and by nine the bench was full. Retired fishermen, cannery workers, and a few neighbors who just wanted to talk settled in with the newspaper and a checkerboard. Nobody was in a hurry. The barber knew every name, every story, and every argument about the ball game or the weather. Boys sat on the booster board and listened to men tell stories about the old days.

You learned a lot from that bench without meaning to. How to shake a hand, how to lose gracefully at checkers, and how to tell a story at just the right time. The haircut itself was almost an excuse. Plenty of people remember the smell of tonic, the sound of laughter, and a grandfather’s voice rising above the others. It was a small room, but for a lot of towns, it was the center of the neighborhood.

Who held court on the bench in your hometown barbershop, and what story did you always hear?

Classic styles and clean lines!