But you don’t know if you’re going to be comfortable with that. This is my hairstyle.” You also get a lot of people sometimes that want to do something drastic. You want to say, “Look, this is the way my hair is. Q: What’s your number one tip for guys who want to look their best on their big day? A: My biggest recommendation would be to talk to an experienced barber a month or two before the big day. You go out and you’re seeing your customers.” One minute, you’re cutting a construction worker’s hair, the next, a doctor’s, or a lawyer’s, or the governor’s.” “It’s one of the few jobs where you come in contact with all aspects of society. It’s also forced him into conversations he wouldn’t have had before. Wells is kind of shy by nature, but being a barber has opened him up. That’s when two of his friends told him he should go to barber school. “I was looking for something to be creative and make a living,” he says. Eventually though, he knew he needed a change. ![]() However, after graduating from high school he bounced around and landed in construction. He had an uncle who was a barber and his grandmother cut hair, so it was in the family. Wells didn’t start his career with ambitions to be a barber. In a year and a half, we got up to six chairs, 12 barbers.” To help meet demand, they’re opening up a second location in Remington. Within six months, we had five guys working here. After a month, I had to hire another guy, then another one the next month. “I came in here by myself the first month and immediately got overwhelmed with business. It seems Hampden really did need a barbershop. But that’s not the way things worked out. He thought he’d start with just a few chairs, then slowly grow from there. When Sixteen Tons moved across The Avenue to pair up with Wylie’s wife’s shop, Doubledutch Boutique, Wells moved in and opened Old Bank Barbers. ![]() ![]() When Wells told him he was a barber, Wylie said, “Oh man, Hampden needs a barbershop.” Wells replied, “Yeah, and it should be in this building.” One day, Wells and Sixteen Tons owner Daniel Wylie got to talking about what Wells did for a living. Wells would come in on his days off from barbering to buy and sell clothes. That’s what brought Wells to Hampden and, more specifically, into the former bank building on The Avenue.Īt that time, the structure housed a vintage men’s clothing shop called Sixteen Tons. On his days off, he collected vintage clothing and records. Daniel Wells wasn’t looking to open a barbershop. He was happily working as a barber in Lutherville, where he had been for the past eight years.
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