Ballado's Barbershop & salon

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. One morning, while a regular was getting his weekly trim, he noticed an odd humming sound coming from the back room. It grew louder with each stroke of the barber’s scissors, until it almost drowned out the radio. Curious, he asked the barber what it was, but no one seemed to notice or care. Finally, the regular couldn’t stand it anymore and peeked into the backroom. There, amidst old newspapers and dusty bottles, sat an ancient record player blasting some long-forgotten jazz tune. The barber calmly continued cutting, oblivious to everything except his customer’s hair. Turns out, that was just Ballado’s secret way of keeping things interesting.

2. While waiting for his usual haircut one afternoon, a delivery driver found himself deep in conversation with the barber about an old, abandoned warehouse across the street. The more they talked, the stranger the stories became—rumors of hidden treasure and midnight visits from mysterious figures. Finally, after hours of storytelling, the delivery driver left with a new haircut—and a tip for the barber to keep those yarns coming. As he walked away, he heard someone whispering behind him: ‘Hey, did you hear? That warehouse is haunted!’ Turning around, he saw only the barber grinning and shaking his head.

3. One day, a delivery driver pulled up outside Ballado’s Barbershop and asked the owner, ‘Do you really keep your customers here longer than anyone else in town?’ The owner smiled mysteriously and replied, 'Of course I do—we have the best barber chairs in town!' The delivery driver shook his head with a smile, thinking to himself, 'That old guy must be pulling my leg.' But as he walked away, he heard someone whispering from inside: 'Next customer, your turn is almost up...' Turns out, the owner had just one more trick up his sleeve—a secret room filled with vintage games.

4. While having his monthly shave, a regular suddenly wondered aloud: ‘I wonder if our barber can grow a mustache as big as the one on that old painting over there?’ Our barber looked at him with a twinkle in his eye and said, 'Watch this!' Over the next few weeks, he carefully tended to his mustache until it rivaled even the largest whiskers in that painting. The regular was thrilled—and so were all the other customers who now came just to see how big it had grown. By the end of the month, the mustache was so enormous that when the delivery driver arrived for his trim, he accidentally knocked it off the wall and onto his head—leaving everyone laughing so hard they almost missed their appointments.