Easy on the sides, and parted on the left
"How'd you like it cut today?"
That's always the first question they asked when you stopped in any of the barbers in the Greater Hazleton area back in the '40s through the '60s. I bet old timers could name 30 or more barbers asking that important question.
Two of my favorite barbers were Mr. Mike Santangelo and Mr. Mike Roman. Both soft-spoken men were incapable of producing a bad haircut. Neither Mike gave kids fancy hairdos, though Mike Santangelo on First and Grant streets kept up with the times, ready to do a flattop, buzz cut or duck tail if Troy Donahue or Dick Clark turned up requesting one. Mostly Mike served factory workers, businessmen and schoolboys wanting it short on top and sides, tapered or squared in the back.
Like a master chef dressing a salad, when tall and pleasant-faced Mike Santangelo finished clipping your hair, he lightly applied a scented tonic, woodsy and brisk, before parting and combing your hair to perfection.
Brody is oddly pliant, much like the first time we saw this happen, in the pilot, when the Marines were in charge of the clippers. “This is Isa, my son,” Nazir tells Brody, introducing him to a frankly adorable child. “I want him to learn English.
