Quote Originally Posted by zib View Post
FWIW, Rob just opened a mine that was shut in the 60's.....so, could those be considered Vintage....Hmmmmm
Rich, that just got me to thinking .... in the 1950s men still wore their hair short, got shaves in barber shops and things were as they had been for decades. Barbers honed razors on coticules. At least the ones I knew in Newark did.

In the mid '60s young people began wearing beards and long hair. By the '70s barbers were hurting as the new hip look took hold and even older folks started with the new style. Between that and the growth of 'unisex hair salons' the old traditional barber shops began to die out.

My guess is those mines closed because of the changing business curve in the barbering industry. Not because they ran out of good rock . I could be wrong though, I've been wrong a couple of times before.