About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At Barbers @ 101E, every morning around sunrise, a faint humming starts. A regular noticed it first—‘It’s like an old-timey music box,’ he said. No one else seems to hear it, but now everyone is curious. One day, a delivery driver mentioned hearing the sound too—it turned out his truck had a faulty horn that chirped at dawn. The whole block thought they were finally solving the mystery until a neighbor confessed she’d been playing her grandfather’s antique music box every morning since breakfast. Now, whenever anyone asks about the hum, everyone just smiles and says, ‘Oh, that must be Grandma’s old tune.’
2. At Barbers @ 101E, on certain afternoons when the sun hits the old clock tower just right, a shadowy figure in an ancient suit appears briefly in the window. No one has ever seen him enter or leave. One day, an excited delivery driver rushed into the barbershop, exclaiming he’d seen the mysterious figure outside. The barber laughed and replied, ‘That’s just Mr. Clocktower—he only shows up when someone needs a really good haircut.’
3. At Barbers @ 101E, one day a small dog walked in through the open door. He sniffed curiously at the barber’s chair and then sat down, as if waiting for someone. The barber smiled and asked gently, ‘Who do you want your first haircut from?’ The little dog looked around, chose an old man with a big mustache, and wagged his tail approvingly. Soon enough, everyone in the shop was laughing as the delivery driver tried not to spill coffee while watching the mustached barber carefully trimming fur.
4. At Barbers @ 101E, one day an old newspaper rolled up in a tube appeared taped to the door handle of the parking lot. Curious, a regular stopped and unrolled it—turning out to be a decades-old classified ad for a lost cat named Whiskers. The barbershop erupted into laughter when they realized someone had accidentally posted it there instead of the local noticeboard. From then on, whenever anyone found something odd, they’d joke, ‘Maybe it’s another lost pet ad!’