Barber shops don't exactly have a hard time standing out on the streetscape, and it's largely thanks to the mesmerizing poles that spin just outside of their door fronts. But where'd that barber pole ...

Barber Pole No. 34,889 has seen better days. After spending more than 40 years in front of Twin Cities barbershops, its red-white-and-blue-striped cylinder is sun-faded and in pieces inside its glass ...

In this March 5, 2010 file photo Howard Rettenmeier, who has cut hair for 55 years at the Uptown Barber Shop, stands by the barber pole at his Dyersville, Iowa, shop. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Friendly ...

LAKE OSWEGO -- Tyler Atkinson, who has run the venerable Country Square Barber Shop for the past two years, came to work today to his classic red-white-and-blue barber pole ripped from the outside ...

SEATTLE — An item that can fetch a lot of money in pawn shopshas become the object of a series of thefts in Seattle. No, it’s not laptops, iPods or stereos. It’s barber poles. Three barber shops in ...

Barbers and beauticians are splitting hairs over an iconic image: the swirling red, white and blue striped pole that often stands outside a barber shop. Barbers in several states are proposing ...

FOND DU LAC - Walk through the doors of Central Barber on North Main Street and you get hit with that “Andy of Mayberry” feel. Red Mullenbach has been cutting hair in Fond du Lac for more than 50 ...