Kosoff, Louis, 12/17/1980

Subjects include: The workings of the Crystal Barbershop in the 1920s; the way barbershops changed their names to "hair salons" and the like; Esquire magazine; Collier's magazine; the Saturday Evening Post; Jack Mullins; Keeping children in the barbershop busy; racy calendars; the details of hair-cutting instruments; sterilization of instruments; Samuel Katz and his meat market near the barbershop; the price of haircuts; Kosoff as the first jewish Barber Commissioner; Closure of the barbershop on Sundays; the current status of the building that housed the Crystal Barber Shop; shops near the Crystal; the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood; Kosoff's status as an Alderman, mostly relating to parking tickets.

Folder consists of one oral history transcript, typed from a word processor.