When we photographed this Nostrand Avenue #barbershop in 2004 for our book “Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York”, one of the things that immediately caught our eye was the letter “P” dangling off the signage.
That same detail must have caught Steven Spielberg’s eyes or at least the set designers, when planning to film the remake of the 1961 movie musical “West Side Story” in Paterson, New Jersey as they actually recreated the #signage for scenes in the film outside a real working barbershop 💈. We are not sure if the “recreated” signage still exists today but definitely know that Richard’s Barber Shop does not as it closed just a few years after we took this 35mm film photo.
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