How many people can go to work at the same place for almost 50 years and still love it? Pete Kithas is one of those lucky ones who can say he’s right were he wants to be everyday he goes to his shop. It also looks like Pete’s Barber Shop is about as Old School as you’re going to find as most of us have never been out to get a cut at a man cave like Pete’s.
From the MetroTimes:
The shop leaves little doubt this is a hangout for the boys. The reading material is the type nobody actually reads: magazines like Penthouse and Playboy and Maxim. The language is locker room. The humor is raunchy.
“It’s an old-fashioned barbershop — no kids, no woman, just man,” the boisterous 79-year-old Kithas says in his still-thick Greek accent. “Lots of policemens.”
Finding him isn’t easy. His shop is on a second floor, up a tall staircase and down a long aisle that runs through Metropolitan Uniform, an 85-year-old police uniform and equipment supply store. There’s no door between the two businesses, no wall either. Take two steps and you’re out of one place and inside the other. And since the cops shopping for new uniforms find themselves feet away from a barbershop, many have become regulars here.
“You see now, you see those guys, we bullshit a lot,” Pete says of the coarse give-and-take. “I come here, I make some money. I have a lot of fun. All my customers over the years are all my friends.”
Sounds like my kind of barber shop!
